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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 426 Today's Topics: #1 BRINKHAVEN CEMETERY - KNOX COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 29 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:33:36, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: BRINKHAVEN CEMETERY - KNOX COUNTY OHIO The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1964 Vol. V No. II KNOX COUNTY, OHIO BRINKHAVEN CEMETERY Located a short distance from Route 62, on hill overlooking the Mohican River. BLACK, Ellen 1891 age 63 BRIDE, William 1856 age 4 son of ? & E. BLACK, Robert 1848-1903 Civil war Almira Strouse 1849-1924 BICKLE, Samuel T. 1841-1903 Eva Emrich 1852-1896 BIDDLE, Frederick 1855-1917 Mary 1848-1936 BURKLEW, John 1848-1919 Fannie? 1856-1920 CALHOUN, David 1846 age 33 Robert 1846 age 11m son of D. & M. CONDON, Christie 1835- DAVIDSON, James 1853 age 28 flag on grave Emily 1868 age 47 Matthew War of 1812 Hannah 12-29-1795 - 1869 DEWITT, John Civil war marker DAY, 1867 age 22 daughter of Stephen & Mary Stephen 1892 age 77 Mary 1895 age 77 Elias E 1837-1906 Druzilla 1840-1915 EASTERDAY, Mary 1852 age? ENGLEHART, Jacob 1885 age 73 Margareta 1893 age 76 FOUCH, James 1884 age 56 Mary 1886 age 54 FARQUHAR, Emma 1873 age 23 FENDRICK, Jacob 1848-1919 Mary 1848-1936 GANN, Jacob 1832-1910 Myrtilla Maxfield 1837-1918 Mariah 1852-1954? George 1877 age 67 Ann Lore 1814-1901 GREER, Mark 1871 age 53? GARDNER, Alanzo 1876 age 67 wife Mary 1876 age 41 wife Eliza 1846 age 36 HIBBETS, Charles 1851-1934 Frances M 1848-1911 Sarah 1822-1907 child of T? & S 1846 age 15 days John 1853 age 38 John 1844 age 73 (these 2 stones fenced in) child of John & Susan 1827 or 1837 age 3 days son Charles of John and Susan 1813 age 1 John 11-24-?? very old Norma 1838 age ? daughter of James and Eliza John 1859 age 60 Amelia 1835 age 33 HIBBETS, Henry 1832-1902 Martha 1838-1924 HAMMEL, Hannah 1858 age ? wife of John ________ base only ________ base only HINKLE, John 1856 age 62 HOGLEAN, Mary 1853 age 41 wife of John HOAGLAND, Henry 1835 - ? Wilhelmina 1822 ? Charles 1857 age 25 Nelly 1883 age 91 George 1864 age 73 or 78 Priscilla 1881 age 40 wife of J ? HARTZ, Margaretha 1854-1885 HESS, Child 1866 age ? child of J.H. & S.E. Hess John 1902 age 68 Susan 1894 age 57 Samuel Civil war marker Mary 1876 age 64 wife of David HOFFMAN, Peter 1888 age 70 Anna 1889 age 22? HORTON, Henry Civil war marker HOAGLAND, Solomon Civil war marker Caroline 1844-1926 HORTON, Edward 1856-1940 Emma 1858-1937 HOUSE, Jonathan 1833-1913 Mary 1838-1910 HOUSE, Wm. Marquis 1892 age 32 Sarah 1862-1934 Catherine Davis 1831-1922 JOHNSON, Henry 1857 age 55 Sarah 1878 age 88 LORE, Philip 1841-1904 Civil war Almira 1845-1927 MAXFIELD, William 1880 age 79 Rhoda 1881 age 80 father and mother McCLUCAGE?, Joseph 1828-1909 Ellen 1833-1909 PUTNAM, Dr. Robert 1852-1933 Hannah Fouch 1850-1914 Dr. Isaac 1873 age 48 Sarah 1878 age 52 son Wm. Henry 1849-1865 REED, John 1841-1891 Civil war Sarah 1849-1935 ROSENBERG, John 1859 age 41 Isabel 1874 age 65 RAY, William 1849 age 3 son of S & M Ray STROUSE, Catherine 1865-1887 wife of Dr. J.P. SHUEE, Susanna 1848 age 38 wife of John John 1848 age 3 mo. son of J & S SLUSSER, George 1852 age 55 SMALL, Sarah 1865 age 44 SIMMERMAN, Hannah 1837-1911 Jacob 1861-1899 Francis 1868- SAPP, Charles 1855 age 1 son of Thomas and Eliza child 1838 or 1858 child of S & H W.C. 1843-1910 Civil war Margaret 1888 age 51 Henry 1837-1921 Ellen Bailey 1913 age 72 Adam 1899 age 58 Rebecca 1892 age 47 Robert 1885 age 71 Ann Lore 1814-1901 H.T. 1848-1929 Rosela 1846-1914 SPARLIN, Nancy 1849 age 62 SNOW, child 1855 age 1 child of F & M SHUMAN, Eve 1869 age 40 wife of Jacob Shuman SNYDER, Frank 1839-1889 SHARP, Burgess N 1849-1915 THOMAS, Drusilla 1846 age 36 UTTERBACH, Analiza 1884 age 29 wife of Robert WORTHINGTON, Sarah 1850 age ? WORKMAN, George Civil war marker Mary 1857 age 23 Samuel 1838 age 39 WHITE, Robert 5-12-1808 - 1897 Sopronia 8-16-1815 - 1887 WOLF, Adam 1841-1933 Frances 1851-1929 or 1908 William 1803-1882 Sarah 1810-1887 WILSON, Jerusha 1863 age 18 James 1855 age 2 son of Robert Gilbert 1862 age 20 son of R & A Ebenezer 1864 age 24 WORKMAN, A. P. 1890 age 20 wife of William WARD, William C. 1881 age 46 or 16 Nancy 1889 age 48 wife of George Ward WESTLAKE, George 7-3-1819 age 79 Louisa 1813? Robert Sp. Amer. War John 1848-1887 WORKMAN, Zachariah 1808 age 73 Mary 1890 age 51 WHITE, George W. 1855 - Huldah 1868-1927 ZIMMERMAN, Levi Civil war marker Florence 1858-1935 This cemetery is in Union township and is very well cared for. The Sapps came to this county from Maryland in 1806, four brothers George, Daniel, Wm. and Joseph. George and Daniel War of 1812 soldiers. Joseph Workman came from Allegheny Co., Md. 1814. John Hoglan born in this county 1814, married mary Snow as first wife, 2nd Mary Sherley. Jacob Gann born in Penna. 1832, to this county 1835. George Gann, his father born Lycoming Co., Pa. 1810, married Sarah Bridgen 1831, here 1834. The Wards came early from Rutland Co., Vt. Stephen Day born N.J. 1815. The Hibbits here before 1815 (From the History of Knox County by Graham). ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:33:46, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 29 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY - part 9 THE JAIL RIOT OF 1848. The most disastrous jail riot preceding that above related by Mr. Millar, in the history of the city, occurred in the summer of 1848, the details of which are given in the Reminiscences of Judge Carter, who is alluded to in the preceding article. Two returned volunteers (Germans) from the Mexican war, who were boarding in a German family consisting of a man and wife and daughter of eleven years of age, were arrested by the parents on the charge of having committed a horrible outrage upon their child. At the examination at the old court-house, the bed-clothes and under-garments of the little girls were shown covered with blood, which, with her testimony and that of the parents, so frenzied the spectators that it was with difficulty, that the sheriff, Thomas J. Weaver, could lodge them in the jail, and then had to call in the service of the Cincinnati Grays and Citizens' Guards to protect it from the mob. That night the mob made an attack upon the jail. The sheriff first tried expostulation but his was useless. Then he ordered the military to fire with blank cartridges, which only the more enraged them. Finally he repeated the order to fire, with ball, when eleven persons fell dead, some of them innocent bystanders, and the mob dispersed. "But," writes the judge, "the sequel. I was the prosecuting attorney at the time, and know of what I speak. At the next term of court a bill of indictment against these poor volunteer soldiers, was unanimously ignored on the plain an simple ground of their entire innocence. They had served their adopted country, and were hard-working, industrious, honest men. They had been the victims of these Germans, who, because they could not induce them to give up their land warrants entitling them each for honorable service to 160 acres of land, had conspired with their little daughter to get up and maintain this awful charge. After their discharge there was a hunt after their guilty prosecutors to lynch them, when it was found that father, mother and daughter had disappeared and were never heard of after." THE PIONEER CELEBRATION AT CINCINNATI Columbia, included in the city limits, and in its first ward, since 1873, was, on the 4th of July, 1889, the scene of an eventful celebration. This was the celebration of the centennial of the 4th of July since the first boatload of prisoners landed there in November, 1789. On this occasion a monument was dedicated to their memory; and the first monument that has been erected over the graves of pioneers in the Northwest. It stand on the beautiful knoll whereon stood the old Baptist church, the first Protestant church organized in the Northwest. This knoll contains two acres of ground, deeded in 1804, by Benj. Stites, to the Baptists of Columbia township. The gravestone slabs of the pioneers whiten the spot, and noble old elms, bending over give it a pensive charm. The monument is just five miles from Fountain Square, with a grand outlook up and down the Ohio valley, and up that of the Little Miami; just at that point where the railroad trains, whisking around a curve, bid farewell to the former and go up the varied windings of a stream, whose ever changing vistas bring forth admiring exclamations from hosts of travellers, who, though they should keep on to the uttermost parts of the earth, would never find a valley more sweet. The monument was erected by the Columbia Monumental Association, George E. Stevens, President; consisting of fifteen delegates from five Baptist churches now in the original bounds of Columbia township. The present title of this body is the Mount Lookout Duck Creek Baptist church. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On one side of the freestone pedestal is engraved, "To the Pioneers Landing near this spot November, 18, 1788." On the obverse side - "To the first boat-load of pioneers, landing near this spot - Major Benj. Stites, Mrs. Benj. Stites, Ben. Stites, Jr., Rachel Stites, Ann W. Stites, Greenbright Bailey, Mrs. Greenbright Bailey, Jas. F. Bailey, Reasom Bailey, Abel Cook, Jacob Mills, Jonathan Stites, Ephraim Kibby, John S. Gano, Mrs. Mary S. Gano, Thos. C.Wade, Hezekiah Stites, Elijah Stites, Edmund Buxton, Daniel Shoemaker, ____ Hemstead, Evan Shelby, Allen Woodruff, Hampton Woodruff, Joseph Cox, Benjamin Cox." On the third side is - "The Baptists of Columbia Township in 1889 erected this pillar to commemorate the heroism and piety of the first Baptist pioneers of 1788-90. The first church in the Northwest Territory was the Columbia Baptist Church, organized January 20, 1790. Constituent members, Benj. Davis, Mary Davis, John Ferris, Elizabeth Ferris, Isaac Ferris (deacon), Joseph Reynolds, Army REynolds, John S. Gano, Thos. C. Wade." On the fourth side - "The Columbia Baptist Church erected its first house of worship on this spot in 1792. The lot contains two acres of ground purchased of Benj. Stites, was deeded to the Baptists of Columbia Township." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The celebration consisted of a procession headed by the Newport Band, prayer, reading the Declaration of Independence, singing "America," firing of cannon, and speaking under a huge tent, Rev. G.W. Lasher, presiding. Rev. Dr. Galusha Anderson, President of Dennison University, opened with a history and eulogy of the Baptist Church, wherein he proclaims the Baptists had ever been peculiar friends of religious liberty. But he did not allude to their early persecutions; did not speak of Roger Williams in Puritan New England, nor to their treatment in Episcopal Virginia, where, 140 years ago, over thirty Baptist ministers were thrown into dungeons, and outrageous mobs broke up their meetings; in one case tossing a snake and a hornets' nest into their midst. Gen. Sam'l F. Cary occupied an hour and a half with a rousing good speech, consisting of pioneer reminiscences, with humorous allusions and anecdotes. After him, Judge Joseph Cox spoke instructively upon the Mound Builders and their works. Henry Howe, who was supposed to know something about Ohio, having been present by invitation, was called upon to make a few remarks. He did not speak of Ohio at all, but alluded to a historical tour he made over New Jersey 47 years before, and of the excellent qualities of Jerseymen, which especially fitted them to make the best kind of pioneers: and it was well that Columbia got such, and as was proved a superior quality of Jerseymen. The thought of one of the speakers of the occasion is a sad memory to all who knew him. That is Surgeon-General A.F. Jones, of Walnut Hills, who a few months later was murdered by his negro servant. It was that old historian of this region and patriotic man who inaugurated the planting of trees in Eden Park to the memory of the pioneers, now know as "Pioneer Grove." And to him does this very monument owe its origin for years before he had suggested its building and made efforts in that direction. The subject of "Progress" ended the exercises in the form of a carefully written paper upon that topic read by Dr. M.C. Lockwood. The monument is a Corinthian pillar of Ohio freestone, with pedestal and base of granite; it is 43 feet in height and eventually is to be surmounted by the statue of a pioneer. Oliver M. Spencer, then a boy, was at Columbia as early as 1790. He was in 1792 taken prisoner by Indians. In his "Reminiscences" he has left his description of the life of the first settlers: It is, perhaps, unknown to many, that the broad and extensive plain stretching along the Ohio from the Crawfish, to the mouth, and for three miles up the Little Miami, and now divided into farms, highly cultivated, was the ancient site of Columbia, a town laid out by Major Benjamin Stites, its original proprietor; and by him and others once expected to become a large city, the great capital of the West. From Crawfish, the small creek forming its northwestern boundary, more than one mile up the Ohio, and extending back about three-fourths of a mile, and half way up the high hill which formed a part of its eastern and northern limits, the ground was laid off into blocks, containing each eight lots of half an acre, bounded by streets intersected at right angles. The residue of the plain was divided into lots of four and five acres, for the accommodation of the town. Over this plain, on our arrival, we found scattered about fifty cabins, flanked by a small stockade nearly half a mile below the mouth of the Miami, together with a few block-houses for the protection of the inhabitants, at suitable distances along the bank of the Ohio. Fresh in my remembrance is the rude log-house, the first humble sanctuary of the first settlers of Columbia, standing amidst the tall forest trees, on the beautiful knoll, where now (1834) is a grave-yard, and the ruins of a Baptist meeting-house of later years. There, on the holy Sabbath, we were wont to assemble to hear the word of life; but our fathers met with their muskets and rifles, prepared for action and ready to repel any attack of the enemy. And while the watchman on the walls of Zion was uttering his faithful and pathetic warning, the sentinels without, at a few rods distance, with measured step, were now pacing their walks, and now standing and with strained eyes endeavoring to pierce through the distance, carefully scanning every object that seemed to have life or motion. The first clergyman I there heard preach was Mr. Gano, father of the late Gen. Gano, of this city, then a captain, and one of the earliest settlers of Columbia. Never shall I forget that holy and venerable man, with looks white with years, as with a voice tremulous with age, he ably expounded the word of truth. I well recollect, that in 1791, so scarce and dear was flour, that the little that could be afforded in families was laid by to be used only in sickness, or for the entertainment of friends, and although corn was then abundant, there was but one mill (Wickerham's) a floating mill, on the Little Miami, near where Turpin's now (1834) stands; it was built in a small flat boat tied to the bank, its wheel turning slowly with the natural current running between the flat and a small pirogue anchored in the stream, and on which one end of its shaft rested; and having only one pair of small stones, it was at best barely sufficient to supply meal for the inhabitants of Columbia and the neighboring families; and sometimes from low water and other unfavorable circumstances, it was of little use, so that we were obliged to supply the deficiency from hand-mills, a most laborious mode of grinding. -continued in part 30 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #426 *******************************************