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MENDENHALL - COLUMBIANA CO [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:21:35, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOSEPH P. NIXON - COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 323 JOSEPH P. NIXON is one of the leading citizens of Jefferson Township and a representative of one of its pioneer families. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 18, 1833, a son of John and Hannah (Pennock) Nixon, natives also of Ohio, his grandfather, William Nixon, being a pioneer of Columbiana County, coming from Loudoun County, Virginia. The parents of our subject came to Jay County in 1835, and settled on section 15, Jefferson Township, and commenced to make a home in the dense forest. The father still lives within 200 yards of the spot where his rude cabin was erected. The mother died in 1866, after living to rear her family. They had a family of twelve children -Joseph P.; Sarah Jane became the wife of T.M.C. Lutes, and died in 1857; Rebecca Ann, deceased, was the wife of L.M. Doddridge; William, of Jefferson Township; Ruth, wife of L.M. Doddridge, of Michigan; Emanuel; Lucette, wife of Cyrus M. Stratton, and Matilda, wife of B.F. Van Skyock, of Jefferson Township; Eliza, deceased; Charlotte, wife of George Taylor, of Michigan; Lucinda, and John, a physician at Farmland, Randolph County. Joseph P. Nixon was in his third year when his parents moved to Jay County, and with the exception of the year 1857, spent in Missouri, has since lived in the county. His education was obtained in the old log school house at Mount Pleasant. He made his home with his father until 1861, working the few years preceding in different neighborhoods at the carpenter's trade. He was married in August, 1861, to Emeline Hite, a native of Jefferson Township, where her parents, William and Sarah Hite, settled in the spring of 1835. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon commenced housekeeping on their present homestead, and the fine building improvements have all been erected by him. The homestead contains 280 acres of sections 10, 15 and 16, about 200 acres of which are under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon have had eight children. Their first-born, Cyrus, died, aged a little more than two years. Those living are -James G., of Como; Millard, Anna, Walter, Elmer, Jesse and Ida May. In politics Mr. Nixon is a Democrat. In 1874 he was elected Treasurer of Jay County and served two years. He has served twelve years as trustee and one term as assessor of his township. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:21:40, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: COLUMBIANA CO. CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS OHIO The cross road of our nation - Records & Pioneer Families October-December 1962 Vol. III NO.IV Published by Esther Weygandt Powell (No copyrite) COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO --CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS Jordanville Cemetery-Lisbon, Ohio This cemetery is located in Lisbon south of the Hyde Spring & Wire Company and is abandoned. Contributed by Constance Whitacre, 2678 North Avenue, Niagara Falls, New York. ARTER, John 1768-1809 Elizabeth 1808 ae 7 dau. of John & Catherine ALLISON, Abner-W.1812 1769-1827 BURBICK, Susannah 1786-1815 wife of Arthur Burbick BREWER, Harriet C. 1835 ae19 wife of A L Brewer BOYLE, Henry C-son H.M. 1818 ae9 Mary 1825 ae39 Eliza 1823-1823 dau. of Henry & Mary BEGGS, Margaret Ann 1823 ae39 dau. of David & Ann son Jas. of David & Ann d. 1825 BLEAKLEY, Geo. F.L. son of Matthew & Elizabeth CLARK, Mary - first born ? CLO????, Elizabeth 1787-1815 b. June 27, 1787 CLAPSADDLE, Daniel 1756-1812 B. Feb. 20, 1756 ERICK, Katherine 1807-1823 dau. of George & Mary FRASER, John 3/6/1808-1858 Anna age 6 1815-1821 GILES, George 1848 ae20 HAMILTON, Jona.Spence 1831 ae16 HESSIN, John 1830 ae52 wife Mary Jane 1846 ae66 HAYES, James Jr 1830 ae9wks James d. 3/21/1838 ae34 wife Clarinda 1831 ae28 JOHNSON, Marg. & Smarta 1831 ae? daus. of Robert & Smarta KURTZ, Thomas 1816-1817 son of Nicholas & Margaret KENNEY, John (Kenney?) 1829 ae28 KEPNER, Isaac 1/26/1798-1821 son of Barnard & Catherine KINNEY, Elizabeth 1803-181? possibly 9 KING, William 10/4/1738-1813 WIFE iSABELLA 3/12/1745-1821 LEPPER, Chas Florentine 1805-1809 son of Wm. D. & Esther LODGE, Joseph 11/16/1791-1823 Jonathan 11/8/1768-1844 wf. Elizabeth 2/28/1767-1844 MIDDLETON, Eliza 1841 ae? wife of John McKENZIE, Elizabeth V. 1852 ae16 MEARS, Emily 1858 ae 15mo. McCOOK, Mary 12/26/1763-1833 wife of George Sr. McMAHON, Arah (Sarah?) 1841 ae58 broken slab on ground McKAIG, Patrick 8/19/1762-1831 PEEPLES, Elizabeth 1851 ae71 SPRINGER, David 1802 ae10 son of Joseph Maria 10/8/1739-1822 wife of Joseph E.? 1735-1814? Henry 5/7/1795-1817 Anny 1808 ae69 Anny? 1751-1820? SAVACOLL, John 18-- ae81 wife Mary 1873 ae75 dau. Sarah 1817-1838 STOUGHTON, Oliver Jr. 1836 ae28 Dr. George 1827 ae? Son of Oliver and Native of Coun. (Conn.?) SHWAKE, Dorothy 11/9/1762-1818 wife of Jacob Shwake SCOTT, David 1794-1809 SKINNER, Eliz. Wilson 1840 ae13mo. THOMPSON, John 1850 ae 52 WATSON, John 2/14/1770-1815 WILSON, Elizabeth WILLIAMS, Ellen T. 1835 ae8da. POSSIBLY THESE ADDITIONS: BRICKER, Rebecca 1851 ae39 wife of John child of Andrew & ? Henry 1852 ae72 ?, Agnes wf of Joel?? CRONER, Elizabeth 1850 ae56 STEWART, Hannah 1852 ae21 wife of Samuel E. SECHRIST, Michael 1853 ae57 WEST UNION CHURCH CEMETERY Off Rt 164, beyond Monroeville, near Columbiana -Jefferson County line. ALLEMAN, Bernard P. 1886 ae70 wife Elizabeth 1815-1894 DENNIS, John - C-War 1827-1919 wife Rebecca Hart 1830-1871 wife Elizabeth 1838-1906 dau. Catherine 1848-1863 dau. Sarah M. 1858-1863 dau. Mary E 1856-1863 dau. Martha J 1851-1863 son Christian 1850-1863 Baby 1863-1863 John 186?(3)-1863 Baby 1871 (above children of John & Rebecca died Nov.-Sept. '63) Christian 1828 or 1823-1913 DUNBAR, John W. -C.War 1846-1915 wife Elizabeth 1844-1916 G.T. ? ? wife of G.T. ae31 BARNHILL, Willimason 1852 ae3 MAKINSON, James 1866 ae80 wife Lucretia 1866 ae81 McNELLEY, Thomas 1850 ae71? MORROW, Annie 1875 ae3 dau. of J & C L MILLER, Thomas W. 1875 ae69 wife mary J 1812-1894 PETERSON, John 1817-1884 wife Hannah 1815-1880 2 ch of J & H 1852-1856 Harrison 1876 ae8? son of W & E James 1838-1905 wife Annie 1832- Samuel 1873 ae29 ROBY, Daniel 1892 ae29 Nancy 1914 ae80 TERRY, Loudema H 1878 ae34 wife of Dr. J.H. ALLMON, John 1880 ae34 4 ch. of B.P. & E. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:21:30, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: COLUMBIANA COUNTY - PART 3 HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 NEW LISBON IN 1846. -New Lisbon, the county-seat, is in the township of Centre, 155 miles northeast of Columbus, 35 from Steubenville and 56 from Pittsburg. It is on the line of the Sand and Beaver canal, on the middle fork of Little Beaver, and is surrounded by a populous and well-cultivated country. The town is remarkably compact and substantially built; many of its streets are paved, and it has the appearance of a small city. The view was taken from the southeastern part of the public square, and shows, on the left, the county buildings, and on the right, the market. New Lisbon was laid out in 1802 by the Rev. Lewis Kinney, of the Baptist denomination, and proprietor of the soil; a year or two after, it was made the county-seat. It contains 1 Friends' meeting house, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Episcopal and 1 Reformed Methodist, 1 Disciples, 1 Dutch Reformed and 1 Seceder church, 3 newspaper printing offices, 2 woolen manufactories, 2 foundries, 2 flouring mills, 14 mercantile stores, and about 1,800 inhabitants. Carriage making and tanning are extensively carried on in this village. -Old Edition. New Lisbon is on the north bank of Middle Beaver creek and Niles, and New Lisbon railroad. County officers in 1888: Auditor, Norman B. Garrigues; Clerk, Richardson Arter; Commissioners, Elwood Miller, Hugh McFall, George D. Flugan; Coroner, Samuel Badger; Prosecuting Attorney, P.M. Smith; Probate Judge, James G. Moore; Recorder, Abram Moore; Sheriff, John W. Wyman; Surveyors, Isaac P. Farmer, Treasurer, Jess Kepner. Newspapers: Ohio Patriot, Democratic, Wilson Shannon Potts, editor; Buckeye State, Republican, Ed. F. Moore, editor; The Journal, Republican, George B. Corbett, editor. Churches are Friends, Presbyterian, United Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, German Reformed, Lutheran, Disciples, and Methodists. Banks: First National, J.F. Benner, president, R.B. Pritchard, cashier; Firestone Bros., Daniel W. Firestone, cashier; Lodge & Small. Principal industries are carriage-making, quarrying of building-stone, sewer-pipe, fire-brick, and iron-ore mining. Population in 1880, 2,028. School census 1886, 684; Superintendent, William H. Van Fossan. The Ohio Patriot, now published in New Lisbon, is one of the oldest newspapers in Ohio, and, with the exception of the Scioto (Chillicothe) Gazette, is the oldest Lepper, who brought the materials from Pittsburg. It was printed in a log-house on Beaver street. There were at that time only four newspapers published in the State, viz., one each at Chillicothe, Steubenville, Cincinnati, and at Marietta. The paper was only about the size of an 8 x 10 pane of window-glass, and the first year was printed in German, under the title of Der Patriot am Ohio. Until 1818 there was no newspaper printed in Cleveland, and the legal advertisements as well as the job-printing for Cuyahoga county were done in the office of the Ohio Patriot. About half a mile west of the fine large court-house in New Lisbon, which has succeeded the structure shown in the old view, is the Vallandigham homestead. Here Clement Laird Vallandigham first appeared July 29, 1820, then an infant, who was destined to act a prominent part in the history of the Nation's terrible struggle for existence; to become "the bold leader of the Ohio Democracy in the turbulent times of 1863." It was with singular emotions in remembrance of his history that we stood in front of the place with the photographer, Mr. Moore, and selected the spot from whence we wished him to take the view which appears on these pages. The mansion is on the Canton road, on the margin of the town, on a knoll well elevated from the street. We felt as we looked that it was one of the most quaint old-style home-like appearing spots we had seen for many a day. The grounds, ample with the surroundings that seem vital to the culmination of the happiest sort of life, garden orchard, shrubbery, forest trees and grassy lawn, with a grand outlook upon not far distant bold-wooden hills. Personally we should prefer living in such a spot than in a regal city mansion, with its adjuncts of house and stone-walled, prison-like streets, and rattling, deafening vehicles, and tides of surging, worrying, care-laden, conflicting and never-to-be-satisfied, ever-complaining humanity. In these rural homes it is that nature woos the spirit with her gentle influence of trembling, dancing leaves and opening flowers and care-free animal life; where, too, morning comes on in smiling beauty and evening gently closes the scene for calm repose. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:21:33, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JESS W. MENDENHALL - COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 346-347 JESSE W. MENDENHALL, one of the active and enterprising agriculturists of Jefferson Township, residing on section 22, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 27, 1833, a son of Pennell and Maria (West) Mendenhall. His parents were born and reared in the State of Pennsylvania, and shortly after their marriage settled in Ohio. With their four children, Jesse then being a babe of three months, they left Columbiana County for Randolph County, Indiana, in June, 1839, settling in the woods of Franklin Township, where they built a good home, and lived many years to enjoy the fruits of their own industry. The father died September 16, 1871, aged sixty years, his widow surviving until October 11, 1880, dying at the age of sixty-nine years. Of eleven children born to them ten grew to maturity -Jesse W., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Sarah Campbell of Wayne Township; Joseph, was a member of the Fifty-sixth Indiana Infantry, and died during the siege of Vicksburg; James resides in Jefferson Township; Mrs. Lydia Mills, living in Saunders County, Nebraska; Mrs. Susan Betts, of Randolph County, Indiana; Daniel, of Cass County, Nebraska; Mrs. Margaret Waltz, also living in Cass County; Mrs. Eliza Betts, living in Randolph County; and William, of Saunders County, Nebraska. One child, Elizabeth, died in infancy. James, the third son, served three years in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting September 28, 1861, in Company F. Fortieth Ohio Infantry, and was in the campaign against rebel General Humphrey under the late President Garfield. While home on a furlough he was married, May 19, 1864, to Miss Delilah Odle. Jesse W. Mendenhall, whose name heads this sketch, remained with his parents until his marriage, November 6, 1856, to Miss Phoebe Badgley. She was born in Darke County, Ohio, December 12, 1839, and when she was five years of age her parents. William and Elizabeth (Wilson) Badgley, settled in Randolph County, they being among the early settlers of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall are the parents of twelve children -Mrs. Maria E. Morical, of Jay County; William P., of Olmstead County, Minnesota; Thomas B., at home; James E., of Jay County; John A., of Olmstead County, Minnesota; Mrs. Sarah E. Philips, of Jay County; Mary J., Rosetta I., Jesse F., Nellie J., Anna L. and Melissa A., the last six living at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall commenced married life on their farm in Franklin Township, Randolph County, but in 1865 Mr. Mendenhall sold that property (eighty acres), and in September of that year bought the homestead in Jefferson Township, which he and his family have seen occupied. The home farm contains seventy-three acres of well improved land, having 545 rods of tile drainage. Beside this property he owns a fine farm of 120 acres on section 23 of the same township, one mile east of his residence, which he bought in 1876. The farm buildings on that property are at present rented out to a tenant. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at New Mount Pleasant. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #171 *******************************************