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JOHN T. CHENOWETH - DARKE COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 14:49:01 EDT From: Corpmiz@aol.com Subject: Obituary-Fulton Co., Mizer-Champion-Harmon, Martha 1923 OBITUARY Martha Melissa Harmon, daughter of Jacob and Delilah Mizer, was born in Pike township Fulton Co. O, Oct. 13, 1874 and departed this life Feb. 27, 1923 aged 48 yrs 4 mo, and 14 days. On Nov, 15, 1896 she was united in marriage to William Harmon and for many years has resided in Delta. She was thoroughly devoted to her home and her Lord, and was held in high esteem by all who knew her. She leaves to mourn, a husband, one son by a former marriage, Lloyd Champion of Genoa, O., three daughters, Mrs. R. N. Harris of Delta, Mary and Estell Harmon at home, one stepson Frank Harmon of Delta, four grandchildren, her mother, two brothers, two sisters and many others relatives and friends. We desire to thank our friends for the many acts of kindness extended. The family. ---------------------- Note: Martha was first married to and then divorced from Llewellyn Earl Champion (1874-1921). ---------- Submitted by: Charles Paul Keller, Corpmiz@aol.com Researching Surnames: BREITER, BITTIKOFER, BOEHM, ELLIS, FINLEY, GARDINIER, HARRINGTON, HOCHSTETLER, KELLER, KLINK, LEININGER, MCCONNELL, MIZER, ODEN, SCHROCK, SHIBLER, SNYDER, TITLOW, WIGGINS ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 14:49:54 EDT From: Corpmiz@aol.com Subject: Obituary-Fulton Co.-Johnson-Paskan, Hilda 1980 Hilda Paskan Delta, O. - Mrs. Hilda L. Paskan, 73, the widow of Andrew Paskan (1813-1962). Surviving are sons, Heral and Neil Whitmer and Michael Paskan, daughter, Mrs. Sally Taulbee, brother, Neil Johnson, and sisters, Mrs. Donna Nauquin, of Toledo, and Mrs. Pat Cole. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Penrod-Miller Mortuary. The family requests that any tributes be in the form of contributions to Delta Rescue Squad or to the Fourth Floor of the Fulton County Health Center, Wauseon, O. *************** Hilda was first married to Charles E. Whitmer (1904-1939). Hilda (1907-1980) was a daughter of Clarence Johnson & Caddie Gardinier. She was a granddaughter of Watson Gardinier (186-1943) & Alice Snyder (1857-1945) and a Granddaughter of William Johnson (1853-1940) & Emma Dunbar (1860-1932). ------------------ Submitted by: Charles Paul Keller, Corpmiz@aol.com Researching Surnames: BREITER, BITTIKOFER, BOEHM, ELLIS, FINLEY, GARDINIER, HARRINGTON, HOCHSTETLER, KELLER, KLINK, LEININGER, MCCONNELL, MIZER, ODEN, SCHROCK, SHIBLER, SNYDER, TITLOW, WIGGINS ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 14:52:53 EDT From: Corpmiz@aol.com Subject: Obituary-Fulton Co.-Ohlinger-Darling, Mildred 1985 Mildred Darling Mrs. Mildred M. Darling, 67, of Berdan Avenue, died yesterday in Toledo Hospital. She was the widow of Loren L. Darling (d. May 21, 1980). Surviving are her son, Kenneth; sisters, Mrs.Maxine Harsh and Mrs. Philis Mohler, and brother, Donald Ohlinger. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Neville Mortuary, Airport Highway where the body will be after 2 p.m. tomorrow. The family requests that any contributions be to a charity of the donors choice. ******************* Note: This was a newspaper clipping, probably TheToledo Blade, Dec, 1985. Mildred May Ohlinger Darling (Dec. 7, 1918-Dec. 11, 1985) was the daughter of Clarence Ohlinger & Lelia Mizer Butler. She was a granddaughter of Jacob Mizer & Delilah Shrock of Fulton County, Ohio. --------- Submitted by: Charles Paul Keller, Corpmiz@aol.com Researching Surnames: BREITER, BITTIKOFER, BOEHM, ELLIS, FINLEY, GARDINIER, HARRINGTON, HOCHSTETLER, KELLER, KLINK, LEININGER, MCCONNELL, MIZER, ODEN, SCHROCK, SHIBLER, SNYDER, TITLOW, WIGGINS ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:38:25, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: MICHAEL McGRIFF - DARKE COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 374-375 MICHAEL McGRIFF, sheriff of Adams County, Indiana, was born in Darke County, Ohio, November 14, 1848, a son of John and Martha (Bannois) McGriff, also natives of Darke County, the father of Irish and the mother of English parentage. John McGriff is a twin brother of Richard McGriff, of Randolph County, Indiana. He was engaged in farming and stock-dealing in his native county until 1871, when he came to Adams County, Indiana, and now lives with his son Michael. He is a Democrat in political faith, casting his first vote for Andrew Jackson. His wife died in Darke County in 1850, aged thirty years. They had two sons -Michael, and Simon, a dealer in live-stock at Selma, Ohio. Michael McGriff was reared on a farm, remaining there until eighteen years of age, when he began teaching school, which he followed two years. In 1868 he went to Fort Recovery, Ohio, and with his brother dealt in live-stock until 1871, when he came to Adams County, and first located at Geneva, where he was engaged in the grocery business until 1880. In 1882 Mr. McGriff was elected sheriff of Adams County, and was re-elected in 1884. March 5, 1875, he married Mrs. Lizzie (Darr) Wall, a native of Jay County, Indiana. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:38:23, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN A. NEWBAUER - DARKE COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company 1887 - Page 785-786 JOHN A. NEWBAUER, proprietor of the city meat market and a prominent business man of Hartford City, was born in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, October 17, 1847, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Newbauer. He was reared on a farm until he was twenty-one years of age, and then learned his present trade, which he worked at for two years. In 1870 he engaged in contracting at Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, where he was very successful, remaining there two years. In 1870 he engaged in contracting at Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, where he was very successful, remaining there two years. In 1873 he came to Hartford City and established his present business, being the pioneer meat market of the place. He keeps on hand both fresh and salted meats of the best quality, which he serves to his customers in good style, and everything about the place is clean and neat. By his strict attention to the wants of his customers, accommodating manners and reasonable prices he has established a good business, his annual sales amounting to about $12,000. He also deals largely in lime and stucco, making a specialty of Huntington lime and all kinds of building material. He is the leading ice dealer in Hartford City, selling 300 tons per annum, the ice being procured from a pond of pure spring water. Besides his business Mr. Newbauer owns three houses and lots in Hartford City and a tract of very valuable land adjoining the town. He was married December 23, 1875, to Miss Elizabeth Bolner, of Blackford County, and they are the parents of three children, whose names are -Altha, George and Robert. Politically Mr. Newbauer is a Democrat. He has served as a member of the city council. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, belonging to Hartford City Lodge No. 262, of Hartford City. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:38:21, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN BAIRD - DARKE COUNTY A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND. A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894 - Page 820-821 JOHN BAIRD, one of the progressive and up-with-the-times farmers of White River township, was born near New Madison, Darke county, Ohio, November 21, 1824. His father, John Baird, a native of Pennsylvania, was born July 28, 1775. He was first married in Pennsylvania to Mrs. Sarah Lee, a widow, and three children were born to them. Sarah, James, and Elizabeth. After the decease of this wife he moved to Ohio and settled near Columbus, was married to Miss Jane Ballard, and immediately moved to Darke county and entered a quarter section of government land, where he lived, died and was buried. His profession was that of a wagon-maker, and in all kinds of wood work was a skillful mechanic for those early days. His mother, Mrs. Martha Baird, came with him from Pennsylvania; his grandfather, John Baird, died in that state, and the grandmother died in Ohio at the advanced age of eighty-five years. The father of the second John Baird, Jr., in his day used to make wooden mold boards for ploughs and truckle wagons. By his second wife he had four children, Indiana, Fanny, Rebecca and John -John, the youngest, and of whom we shall write, being the only one remaining of the children of the first and second wives. His father died August 7, 1833, aged fifty-seven years. He died of cancer in the nose. The son remembers the father well, although but nine years old at the time of his decease. The father was a great hunter and had many thrilling narratives to relate of his adventures. He was a stanch Presbyterian, and once whipped his namesake for whistling on Sunday. He was justice of the peace twelve years previous to his death. He was a prominent man in his county for that early day and in good circumstances. John Baird, Jr., remained in the old home until he was twenty-one years of age, attending school in the winter months. Arriving at his majority, he left home to learn the brick laying trade with Jason Downing, who married Rebecca, his youngest sister, September 21, 1848; he was married to Sarah Ann Woodbury, daughter of Nathan P. and Susannah (Jennings) Woodbury, all natives of Ohio. His wife was born February 7, 1829, and in this marriage thirteen children were born; the oldest died in infancy: Nathan James, born June 14, 1851; Lindzy, born August 16, 1852; Charles, born July 10, 1854; David F., born April 22, 1855; Michael, born October 6, 1856; William, born October 26, 1857; Fanny, born December 19, 1858, Susannah, born February 13, 1860; Elizabeth J., born June 14, 1861; John Baird Jr., born July 23, 1863; Melinda, born January 11, 1866, and of this number seven now are living. Mr. Baird worked at brick laying at intervals for eighteen years in connection with farming. By purchase and inheritance he became the possessor of forty-two acres of the old home place, where he lived until August 30, 1870, at which date, with his family, he came to Randolph county, where he has since remained engaged in farming. He has been administrator of numerous estates in Ohio and this county, but has never aspired to any office, being too busy with the affairs at home. In politics he is a straightforward republican, but before the Pierce administration voted the democratic ticket, but the Missouri compromise disgusted him. It is interesting to hear Mr. Baird relate his adventures with wild animals in early pioneer days -especially with wolves -and the winter firesides are made more pleasant by these tales of the times that tried men's souls. ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:38:29, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: BIO of DR. JOHN T. CHENOWETH, DARKE COUNTY A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND. A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894 - Page 857-858 DR. JOHN T. CHENOWETH, one of the most experienced as well as one of the most popular physicians and surgeons of Winchester, Randolph county, Ind., was born near Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, on the 16th of November, 1833. His father, Thomas F. Chenoweth, was a native of Ross county, Ohio, and removed with his parents to Darke county, Ohio, when about six years of age. He grew to manhood there and was married to Miss Christina Thomas, in Preble county, Ohio. He was always a prominent and highly respected citizen of this county, and was called upon to occupy local offices at various times. He served continuously for thirty years as justice of the peace, retiring finally on account of his age. His son John was reared on the home farm, and at an early age learned to perform his share of labor incident to farm life. During the winter he attended school, and at the age of eighteen years he adopted the vocation of school teaching, which he continued for about seven years. When twenty years of age he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Z.M. Lansdown, at Greenville, remaining under his instruction for two years. Subsequently he went to Cincinnati, Ohio and continued his studies with Dr. C.H. Cleveland. He first graduated in medicine from the Eclectic Medical institute, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and afterward from the Medical college of Ohio, in the same city. He began the practice of his profession in March, 1860, at Huntsville, Randolph county, Ind., remaining there for a period of three and a half years. At the end of that time he removed to Williamsburg, Wayne county, Ind., where he enjoyed a successful practice extending over a period of twelve years. In 1875 he located at Winchester, and has been one of the successful practitioners of this town ever since. He is a member of the State Medical society, and was one of the organizers of the Delaware District Medical society, and the Randolph County Medical society, and is now an active member of both. He has been actively identified with many of the public improvements of this county, and has contributed liberally to enterprises inaugura ted for the advancement of the county's interests. In politics he has affiliated with the republican party since the early days of his existence. He voted for John C. Fremont for president in 1856, and has since been an active worker for the success of his party. But his attention to his profession has prevented his acceptance of numerous public positions that have been tendered him from time to time. He was made a Mason in Acacia lodge, No. 242, at Washington, Wayne county, Ind., in December, 1867, and on the 5th day of February, 1868, received the master Mason's degree in the same lodge. In January, 1873, he withdrew from that lodge to take part in the organization in the lodge at Williamsburg, and in 1875 transferred his membership to Winchester lodge, No. 56, of which he is still an active member. He is also a member of the I.O.O.F., and has received the degrees of the subordinate lodge. On the 4th of January, 1857, Dr. Chenoweth was united in marriage with Miss Hannah V., daughter of Josiah Miller, Esq., a prominent and highly respected citizen of Darke county, Ohio. By this union they are the parents of three children, named respectively Forest A., Ethel May and Martha, all of whom are now living. In the period of his residence in this county Dr. Chenoweth has established an enviable reputation as a physician, and has gained the confidence of the public and medical fraternity alike. In social and private life he is esteemed for his uniform courtesy and kindness, and his honorable and upright character. He has steadily risen in his profession and enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #278 *******************************************