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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 534 Today's Topics: #1 BROOKS/HERRON FAMILY RECORDS [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 50 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:37:30, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907240237.WAA13938@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: BROOKS/HERRON FAMILY RECORDS Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families October-December 1964 Vol. V No. IV Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT SOME ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HOWARD BROOKS and BRONTA EVELYN HERRON This compilation covers all known ancestors and their descendants down to the present time. It includes the following various lines: BROOKS, JAMES born c 1735 in County Tyrone, Ireland. He was the father of Henry Brooks who died at sea enroute to America in 1819 with wife Jane and seven of their children. He was born c 1761, County Fermanagh, Ireland and had son Henry born in same county on March 17, 1794; m. Dorinda Fawcett; d. October 29, 1884, Union Twp., Carroll County, Ohio. He had son Thomas F., 1826-1908 who m. Elizabeth Crozier, and d. in Carroll County. Thomas F. had son John Henry, 1854-1913 who m. Eliza Lindsey. John and Eliza had son Thomas Howard, 1876-1924 who m. Bronta Evelyn Herron. FAWCETT, JOHN b. in N. Ireland ca 1763, d. 1838, Union Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio, m. Letitia Armstrong b. N. Ireland. They had daughter Lorinda b. Dec. 20, 1796, Fermanagh Co., Ireland who m. Henry Brooks. They came to Carroll Co., Ohio in 1816 from Northern Ireland. CROZIER, ROBERT b. ca 1750 in N. Ireland and d. there. He m. Elizabeth ____? who d. in Carroll Co., Ohio March 10, 1840; b. in Ireland. They had son John b. May 1, 1790 in N. Ireland who m. Jane Ann Ginn. John d. December 15, 1867, Carroll Co., Ohio. They had daughter Elizabeth b. November 29, 1826, Cadiz, Ohio m. Thomas F. Brooks. She d. August 29, 1884, Carroll County. RUTLEDGE, WILLIAM b. N. Ireland, County Donegal, ca 1795, d. there 1825, m. Jane Crozier b. N. Ireland ca 1795, d. Union Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio. They had daughter Mary b. in Ireland m. John Lindsey, d. in Carroll Co. 1858. John and Mary had daughter Eliza Lindsey who m. John H. Brooks. ROACH, EBENEZER b. Harrisburg, Va. February 15, 1795, d. Harrison Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio March 22, 1869, m. Mary A. Roberts b. In Pennsylvania March 11, 1798. She d. Alliance, Ohio January 20, 1880. They had daughter Margaret Jane b. June 16, 1828, Waynesburg, Ohio d. Carroll Co., Ohio September 24, 1912 who m. John Foster and had Nora E. Foster b. August 25, 1864, Carroll Co., d. November 19, 1841 who m. thomas L. Herron 1861-1946 and had Bronta. Evelyn b. March 2, 1884 Carroll Co., Ohio who m. Thomas H. Brooks and had Foster Lindsey Brooks b. Union Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio. FOSTER, WILLIAM SR. b. September 1, 1764, d. August 30, 1838, m. Mary Cazier b. September 13, 1775. They had son John b. May 8, 1814, d. July 26, 1874 Rose Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio m. Margaret Roach and daughter Nora. HERRON, WILLIAM b. ca 1760, d. Baltimore, MD, had son Mark b. ca 1790 in MD, d. Roxford, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio ca 1868 m. Rachel Page. Had John 1829-1875 who m. Hannah Dutton and had Thomas L. 1861-1946. (John Belch possibly grandfather of Hannah Button.) LINDSEY (LINDSAY) JOHN b. Larne, Co., Antrim, N. Ireland October 14, 1800, d. Sumner Co., Kansas october 14, 1885 m. Mary Rutledge b. Ireland. Had Eliza b. 1853. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:37:57, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907240237.WAA13538@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 50 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 VILLAGES AND LOCALITIES AVONDALE is on the hills, three miles north of Fountain Square, and was incorporated as a municipality in 1854. It is one of the most important and beautiful of the suburbs; practically is but a continuation of the city. It adjoins the city north of WALNUT HILLS, while the latter, formerly a village with a slight population, is now a part of the city, with about 40,000 inhabitants. The Hills come up close to the Ohio valley in places quite abrupt and about 400 feet above it. In calm summer nights, standing on the hill verge, the voices of the people below, on the narrow marge between the foot of the hill and river, often rise to the hearing. The views up the river are here very grand, and from its most elevated points one can see highlands south in Kentucky, twenty-five miles away, and alike far north in Ohio. The long-noted Lane Seminary is on Walnut Hills, with some fine new buildings, with their backs turned to the old, which yet stand humbly behind them. Walnut Hills, for grandeur of scenery, untied with beauty of its homes, with lawns and gardens more or less in undulating dimpling spots, has scarcely an equal within our knowledge. It has such a surprising variety of domestic architecture, palatial and especially cottage odd and ornate, apparently the creations of architects on a strife to outdo each other in novel blending of materials, in contrast of colors, in proportions, pinnacles and points, that one might define it as a locality where domestic architecture was out of a frolic. From these the inhabitants daily rapidly go whisking down in cable and electric cars to their business in the basin below, to provide the means to continue to dwell in their beautiful homes above. One of these lines -a horse-car line it is -goes through Eden Park to the spot, Mount Adams, where, forty years ago, astronomer Mitchel had his observatory, and looked through his big telescope at Jupiter and his family of moons. Then the car, with its occupants, horses and all go down from the platform, and pursue their journey into the house-lined streets. MOUNT AUBURN, also now a part of the city, lies west of Walnut Hills, being separated from the last by the valley of Deer creek. It also abounds in elegant residences. CLIFTON lies west of Avondale and north of Burnet Woods Park, and was incorporated as a town in 1849. It derives its name from the Clifton Farm, comprises about 1,200 inhabitants. In its precincts it has neither shop, factory, saloon nor division fences. It has seventeen miles of avenues, lined with fine shade trees, of which thousands have been planted; also some magnificent residences. The town hall contains the school-room, and its main hall is elegantly frescoed. The ladies of the Sacred Heart have also a school for girls, with spacious and beautiful grounds. PRICE'S HILL is west of the city plain, some 400 feet above it, and is in the city limits. It is reached by an inclined plane and the Warsaw Pike, It commands extensive view of river, city and country, and has elegant residences, convents and colleges. CUMMINSVILLE, a part of Cincinnati by annexation, is five miles north of the business centre of the city. The place was named after David Cummins, owner of a tannery, whose extensive property and that of another family named Hutchison, comprised nearly the entire site of the present town. The early settlement was known as LUDLOW STATION, established, in 1790, by Israel Ludlow, Daniel Bates, Thomas Goudy (said to have been the first Cincinnati lawyer), John N. Cummins, Uriah Hadesty and others. This station is noted as being the place where Gen. St. Clair organized his army in 1791. It was deserted and reoccupied by turns until peace was established with the Indians in 1795. Newspapers: Transcript, Independent, A.E. Weatherby, editor. Churches: 1 Protestant Episcopal, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Christian, 2 Catholic, and 1 Colored Methodist Episcopal. HARRISON, on the Indiana State line, is twenty-five miles northwest of Cincinnati, on the C.I., St. L. & C.R.R. Newspaper: News, Independent, Walter Hartpence, editor and proprietor. Churches: 1 Christian, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, 1 German Lutheran, 1 Catholic and 1 German Protestant. Industries: Furniture factories, 2 distilleries, 3 flouring mills, etc. Banks: Citizens' (Frank Bowles), Frank Bowles, cashier; J.A. Graft, James A. Graft, cashier. Population in 1880, 1,850. School census in 1886, 588. R. Maxwell Boggs, superintendent. This village is noted as the point where John Morgan on his raid entered Ohio. It was a thorough surprise. About one o'clock, in the afternoon of July 13, 1863, the advance of the command was seen streaming down the hill, on the west side of the valley, and the alarm was at once given. Citizens hurried to secrete valuables and run off horses; but in a very few minutes the enemy were swarming all over the town. The raiders generally behaved well; no women nor other person was harmed, and no house robbed. They entered the stores, and in the aggregate a large amount of goods was taken. They were eccentric in their robbing. A druggist was despoiled of nothing but his soap and perfumery. They stayed a few hours, carried off some horses, and that night, going east, were abreast of Cincinnati, and the next day out of the county, after a tremendous midsummer march of thirty hours. MT. WASHINGTON is five miles east of Cincinnati, on the C.G. & P.R.R. Newspaper: Cincinnati Public School Journal, Educational. Churches: 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Methodist Protestant and 1 Baptist. Industries: Colter Packing Co., fruit canning, 100 employees. Population in 1880, 393. School census in 1886, 160. D.G. Drake, superintendent. LOCKLAND is twelve miles north of Cincinnati, on the C.C.C. & I, and C.H. & D.R.R., and on the Miami and Erie Canal. It has four churches and, in 1880, 1,884 inhabitants. Water-power is supplied to the establishments here by four locks in the canal, which have unitedly forty-eight feet fall and give name to the place. Industries and Employees. -The Stearns & Foster Co., cotton batting, etc. 98 hands; The Lockland Lumber Co., builders wood-work, etc., 85; The Friend & Fox Paper Co., 75; George H. Friend Paper Co., 25; J.H. Tangeman, paper making, 15; The Holdeman Paper Co., 34; The Holdeman Paper Co., 30; The George Fox Starch Co., starch, 107. -State Report, 1888. READING lies just east of Lockland and had, in 1880, a population of 2,680. Diehl's long-noted fireworks are here manufactured; 60 hands are employed. WYOMING lies west of Lockland, on the other side of the C.H. & D.R.R.; it had, in 1880, 840 inhabitants. MADISONVILLE is seven and a half miles from Cincinnati, on the C.W. & B.R.R., has churches, Baptist, Methodist, Christian, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal and Catholic. Population in 1880, 1,247. NORWOOD is on the same railroad, six miles from Cincinnati, and has about 800 inhabitants. CARTHAGE is on the C.H. & D. and C.C.C. & I.R.R. and Miami Canal, ten miles from Cincinnati. It has four churches, the County Infirmary and Longview Insane Asylum. Population in 1880, 1,007. The Erkenbecker Starch Factory is here, which employs 120 hands; the clothing-making industry is also carried on here. HARTWELL lies a little northeast of Carthage, on the opposite side of Mill creek, and on the C.H. & D. and Short Line Railroads. Population in 1880, 892. ELMWOOD adjoins Carthage on the south. While others of these treesy-named villages, as Maplewood and Woodlawn, are not afar; also Park Place and Arlington. Then there is Addyston, which, increasing the number to be mentioned, has a suggestion in its name of the arithmetical. Outside of the city limits, on the line of Mill creek, which is threaded by the C.H. and Bee Line Railroads for sixteen miles north, there are nineteen flourishing towns, many of them running into each other. ST. BERNARD is an extensive suburb, just south of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, seven miles north of the city, and is largely inhabited by Germans, who have here the St. Clement's Catholic church. Population in 1880, 1,073. BOND HILL is near it, on the line of the M. & C. R.R. GLENDALE is on the C.H. & D. Railroad, fifteen miles north of Cincinnati, and is one of the most beautiful of the suburban villages. The Glendale Female College is located here. It has three parks, and a pretty lake of four acres from natural springs. It was laid out in 1852 for suburban homes by wealthy Cincinnatians, and has been noted as the residence of some eminent characters, as Stanley Matthews, Robert Clarke, R.M. Shoemaker, Crafts J. Wright, etc.; also for the literary tastes of its population, which has been noted for its quality rather than its numbers. Population in 1880, 1,403. COLLEGE HILL is about eight miles from the city and is reached by a narrow gauge railway. It is especially noted as the seat of Farmer's College and of a Female College. Two miles north of it is Mount Pleasant, post-office name Mount Healthy, which many years ago was noted for holding conventions of the Anti-Slavery or Liberty Party. IVORYDALE lies seven miles north of Cincinnati, on the C.H. & D., C. W. & B. and C.C.C. & I. Railroads. Here Proctor & Gamble have about 500 employees in the manufacture of their famed "ivory soap," who labor on the cooperative plan, sharing profits with the owners. The Emery Lard and Candle Manufacturing Company is also here, post-office Ludlow Grove. The following are the names of villages and localities in the county, with their populations in 1880: Home City, 422; Riverside, 1,268 (now in the Cincinnati limits, post-office Sedamsville), where, in 1887, the Cincinnati Cooperage Company employed 5,665 hands; Westwood, 852; Cleves, 836; North Bend, 412; Linwood, 723; and Springdale, 284. In the northwestern corner of the county is the village of Whitewater, where, since 1824, there has been a small settlement of Shakers. The grave of Adam Poe, the renowned Indian fighter, who had the noted fight with Big Foot, is in the Shaker burying-ground. CENSUS OF 1890 OF VILLAGES Madison, 2,242; Norwood, 1,390; Oakley, 1,266; Pleasant Ridge, 1,027; Home City, 797; Riverside, part of 1,171; Delhi, 531; Harrison, part of in Ohio 1,090; Avondale, 4,473; Bond Hill, 1,000; Carthage, 2,059; Clifton, 1,575; College Hill, 1,346; Elmwood, 1,980; Saint Bernard, 2,158; West Norwood, 612; Linwood, 1,276; Glendale, 1,444; Hartwell, 1,507; Lockland, 2,474; Wyoming, 1,454; Mount Healthy, 1,295; Hazelwood, 502; Montgomery, 797; Reading, 3,103; Sharon, 730; Camp Dennison, 584. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #534 *******************************************