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[4] Continued from Part 3 Brother next older, brother to John, came to Clinton county, Ohio prior to 1810., took charge of the land that Brother John had bargained for. He had only a little property consisting of two cows in the milk at the time. Mr. Draper moved from Redstone to Clinton county, Ohio, and brother Aiken made his home with him and worked and accumulated property and finally married Dolly Sharp of Kentucky. He procured land for himself, perhaps 60 or 70 acres, made a farm and by industry and economy became well situated in life. He was a steady, judicious man, well respected by all that knew him. He the church founded by Abel M. Sargent of Kentucky, called the Halczon church and became a preacher of that order. He had a large family of children , 10 in all. He was not permitted to live to see his family raised. He met his death by a melancholy accident at the age of 40 or past. On returning from the mill with a sled, a tree by the road side, having lost its top, leaning at height, a stub fell across the sled and crushed him, killing him instantly. The horses broke and ran, leaving him in the road with a portion of the sled, where he was found shortly after by two of his neighbors. The news came to the family and caused much grief and sorrow, but his poor wife did not survive him long for some 18 months after she was taken down with the measles, together with her son some 10 to 12 years old, neither recovered. They were both buried in the same grave. The children which remained except such as were married made their home with Adam Grove, a son-in-law who afterward bought the home place. My brother William came to Ohio with brother Thomas. They bought a few head of stock and worked about to get means. His stepfather Mr. Babb promised to give him a fine horse , but afterwards refused to do so and kept back the horse. The horse met with a accident and died. Brother William said it was a judgment sent on his stepfather for wronging him out of his horse. Brother William, a quite well disposed young man, was respected by all that knew him. At the age of 21 or 22 years old he was married to Sarah Sharp, a sister to brother Aiden's wife Mary. They settled in Clinton county, Ohio, had a family of 7 children by his first wife. Sometime after his wife Sarah died he married Ellen McCoy of Clinton county, Ohio and had 4 children by her. He then moved to the state of Indiana, Delaware county and settled on the White river and remained there til his death. Thomas moved from Tennessee to Ohio after he married Rachel Fry, a widow with 3 children. He had 7 children living. Brother Tommy was one of those kind of men who was not anxious to get rich yet he had plenty at all times to make him comfortable. He delighted to fish and hunt bees and spent most of his time in those pursuits. He was a member of the Quaker church, called Friends. He brought his children in that way. He changed his location a number of times and finally moved to Jasper county, Indiana and died at the old age of seventy five years. His wife died soon after he died. My brother Robert , at the request of my mother and stepfather , remained at home and worked on the farm until he was married to Jestina Leeks of Tennessee. He built a house in the yard close to his stepfather's and remained there until he had three children. My stepfather had a good farm and gave it to two of his sons, retaining a lease on it for life, for him and my mother, who were to have to have peacefully possession while they lived. Continued in Part 5 ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:41:24 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: Mary ANTRIM ROBERTS, Clinton Co. [5] They were bourn under penalty of one thousand dollars to grant the said possession. The younger of those sons was a man given to intemperance and often would abuse the old folks and intimated that he would turn the old folks out. The other son was a very religious man after the Methodist order and would never disturb the old folks, yet he was not the most liberal of the two when the former wasn't sober. My stepfather lived to a great age, some over 80 years old. He became in a manner helpless and was afflicted which caused my mother a great deal of trouble at times. When he died I was 17 years old and still remained with my mother and brother Robert. After my stepfathers death the younger son above mentioned would come to the house in a drunken flurry and abuse my mother and make her feel very unpleasant and annoyed. Brother Robert very much also made their situation very uncomfortable. Two years after my stepfather's death, in the month of June, A.D. 1814 I was married. After I left home my mother felt lonely and desired to emigrate to the state of Ohio where my brothers had settled and brother Robert also wished to go to Ohio. My mother sold her lease on the farm for two hundred dollars and made her home with Robert. I was married to a man by the name of James Roberts, the particulars of which I will give you hereafter. My husband and I accompanied brother Robert to the state of Ohio. I will now give you an account of our outfit and journey. The number of persons was nine in all. Myself and Husband, mother, Robert and wife, with three children, Henry Leeka, Roberts brother-in-law. We had four horse wagon a team of four horses. One was called the saddle horse. He worked on the near side, next to the tung of the wagon. We had three riding horses, two belonged to my husband and one loose horse that was lame, belonging to Henry Leeka, five head of cows. We loaded the wagon with household goods and clothing, two spinning wheels. Henry Leeka mounted saddle horse, whip in hand, and single line on this near leader. I saddled our sorrel mare and my husband saddled the other, took his gun on his shoulder and walked and rode alternately. Jestina got on horseback and we took up our line of march making in direction of Clinch Mountains. The first day we arrived at Christian Leeka's, a distance of 16 miles from where we started, and put in for the night. During the night one of our cows had calf. Continued in Part 6 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #187 *******************************************