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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 651 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: HECK, 1815-1849, Medina Count [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #2 OBIT: ROCKWELL, 1830s, Medina Coun [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #3 BIO: Thomas ROCKWELL [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #4 LEROY ALEXANDER MANCHESTER -MAHONI [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 MAHONING COUNTY PART 1 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:19:39 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <199909011522_MC2-8325-3862@compuserve.com> Subject: BIO: HECK, 1815-1849, Medina County Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Medina Co. Oh Biographies A new message, "BIO: JOHN HECK, 1815-1849, MEDINA CO., OH," was posted by janis d. townsend on Wed, 01 Sep 1999 Surname: HECK, ROCKWELL --- NAME: janis d. townsend EMAIL: jdtown@erols.com DATE: Sep 01 1999 URL: http:// QRYTEXT: JOHN HECK was born in @1815 in Wuerttemberg, Germany. When a young boy he moved with his family to America. On February 25, 1841 JOHN, a farmer, married SARAH ANN ROCKWELL b May 7, 1820 in PA (daughter of THOMAS & ELIZABETH ROCKWELL)in Medina Co., OH. 849 JOHN HECK and his family along with his father-in-law, THOMAS ROCKWELL (age 66), moved to Chester Twp., Wabash Co., IN. SARAH ANN died June 7, 1903 (age 83) in Wabash Co. JOHN had died sometime before leaving her a widow. The death informant was JOHN A. HECK, presumed to be her grandson who lived in North Manchester, IN. janis jdtown@erols.com Children: FRANCES, MARY, EVALINE, EMMET, THOMAS MADISON, and MILLARD HECK. This is an automatically-generated notice. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:19:37 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <199909011522_MC2-8325-3861@compuserve.com> Subject: OBIT: ROCKWELL, 1830s, Medina County Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Medina Co. Oh Obituaries A new message, "OBIT: ELIZABETH "BOSTON" ROCKWELL," was posted by janis d. townsend on Wed, 01 Sep 1999 Surname: ROCKWELL, BOSTON --- NAME: janis d. townsend EMAIL: jdtown@erols.com DATE: Sep 01 1999 QRYTEXT: ELIZABETH "BOSTON" ROCKWELL was born @1786 in PA. She married THOMAS ROCKWELL @1806-1815. ELIZABETH moved with THOMAS and their family in 1827 to Guilford Twp., Medina Co., OH. She is shown in the 1830 OH federal census, but is absent from the 1840 OH federal census. It is believed she died during one of the epidemics of that period. No grave or death records have been found for ELIZABETH. janis jdtown@erols.com. This is an automatically-generated notice. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:19:36 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <199909011522_MC2-8325-3860@compuserve.com> Subject: BIO: Thomas ROCKWELL Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline - ---------------------------------------------------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 1-Sep-99 11:29 Subject: New Medina Co. Oh Queries Post - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Medina Co. Oh Queries A new message, "BIO: THOMAS ROCKWELL, 1827-1849-MEDINA CO., OH," was posted by janis d. townsend on Wed, 01 Sep 1999 Surname: ROCKWELL, BOSTON, HECK --- NAME: janis d. townsend EMAIL: jdtown@erols.com DATE: Sep 01 1999 QRYTEXT: THOMAS ROCKWELL born @1784 in MA or PA moved his family from PA and settled 1827 in Guilford Twp., Medina Co., OH. He is found in the 1830 and 1840 Ohio federal census. He and his wife, ELIZABETH BOSTON, had several children. ELIZABETH died sometime between 1830-1840 in Medina Co. THOMAS and some of the children remained there until @1849 when he moved with his daughter, SARAH ANN HECK (wife of JOHN HECK) to Wabash Co., IN. The 1850 Indiana federal census shows THOMAS, 66 years old, living with JOHN and SARAH HECK. THOMAS is believed to have died sometime between 1850-1860 in Wabash Co. GEORGE ROCKWELL (believed to be a younger son of THOMAS & ELIZABETH) appears in the 1850 Wabash Co., IN census married to Sibba Hornaday. janis jdtown@erols.com Children: SARAH ANN, JOHN, THOMAS, GEORGE (See Darke, Mercer, and Clark Co., OH for bios) . This is an automatically-generated notice. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 23:13:37, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909020313.XAA11988@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: LEROY ALEXANDER MANCHESTER -MAHONING CO. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 35, 36 with photo LEROY ALEXANDER MANCHESTER. No family name has been more significant of integrity, high character and sound ability in Mahoning County that that of Manchester. Leroy Alexander Manchester represents the modern generation, and is a prominent Youngstown attorney. Two of his brothers have likewise earned worthy reputations in the law. He is a descendant of Thomas Manchester, who came from England in 1638 and was with the colony that made the first settlement on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. John Manchester, a great-grandson of Thomas Manchester, was an American soldier in the war for independence. Isaac Manchester, his son, at the age of fifteen, was captured by the British and forced to haul wood for the English soldiers' camps. Benjamin Manchester, a son of Isaac, settled in what is now Mahoning County, Ohio, about 1804, coming from Washington County, Pennsylvania. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife was Nancy Doddridge, who died in 1813. Their son, Isaac Manchester, was born in Mahoning County, December 20, 1810, and spent practically all his life in that locality. He married Ellen Wilson. Hugh Alexander Manchester, son of Isaac and Ellen (Wilson) Manchester, was born in Canfield Township, Mahoning county, March 5, 1837. At the age of eighteen he began teaching, and had a long and successful experience in the the public schools. For more than twenty years he was a member of the Board of County School Examiners, and was a trustee of the Northeastern Ohio Normal College. He organized and served as cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Canfield twenty years, from 1887 until 1907. He was elected to the legislature in 1899, and in 1902 became mayor of Canfield. He was one of the original trustees and the first chairman of the board of the Glenwood Children's Home, was prominent in the Presbyterian Church, and was a Knight Templar Mason and Odd Fellow. He died at Canfield October 24, 1919. On November 8, 1859, Hugh A. Manchester married Rose A. Squier, a daughter of Asher Squier. She died April 16, 1918, after they had been married upwards of sixty years. Their children were: Mary E., who died in 1880; Laura E., wife of E.P. Tanner, of Canfield; Fannie C., wife of C.E. Bowman, of Ellsworth, Ohio; Isaac Asher, who operates the old homestead; William Charles, a lawyer at Detroit; Curtis A., a prominent Youngstown attorney; and Leroy Alexander. Leroy Alexander Manchester was born May 6, 1883, and spent the first eighteen years of his life on the old homestead farm at Canfield. He attended the district schools, graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the Northeastern Ohio Normal College in 1902, and studied law in the University of Michigan, where he took his degree in 1905. For about a year he practiced in Detroit in association with his brother William C., and in June, 1906, located at Youngstown. On September 1, 1907, he became a member of the firm Hine, Kennedy, Robinson & Manchester, which with subsequent changes became Kennedy, Manchester, Conroy & Ford. Mr. Manchester is still a member of this firm, but since December 1, 1917, has given his legal talents exclusively to his work as general counsel for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Mr. Manchester has been a prominent participant in many phases of Youngstown's modern progress. He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce during 1918-1919, and was made a vice president of the community corporation when it was established to take over general supervision of the charitable and social welfare organizations of the city. He was one of the incorporators of the Mahoning County Bar Association, is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, a director of the First National and Dollar Bank of Youngstown, belongs to the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Ohio Society of New York, the Rotary Club, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is a republican, belongs to the Youngstown Club and the Youngstown County Club, having served as trustee of both the latter organizations, and is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Youngstown. On August 4, 1909, Mr. Manchester married Miss Josephine Schaaf, daughter of Rev. J.C. and Flora (Straub) Schaaf, of Canfield. They have two children, Flora Rosana, born October 19, 1919; and Josephine, born September 5, 1920. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 23:13:33, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909020313.XAA14268@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MAHONING COUNTY PART 1 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 MAHONING COUNTY PART 1 MAHONING COUNTY was formed from Trumbull and Columbia, March 1, 1846. It derived its name from Mahoning River. The name Mahoning is, according to Heckwelder, derived from either the Indian word Mahoni, signifying "a lick", or Mahonink, "at the lick." The surface is rolling and the soil finely adapted to wheat and corn. Large quantities of the finer qualities of wool are raised. The valley of the Mahoning abounds in excellent bituminous coal, which is well adapted to the smelting of iron ore. There are fifteen townships in the county; the five southernmost, viz., Smith, Goshen, Green, Beaver and Springfield, originally formed part of Columbiana, and the others the southern part of Trumbull, the last of which are within the Western Reserve. Area about 420 square miles. In 1887 the acres cultivated were 105,207; in pasture, 70,454; woodland, 33,881; lying waste, 2,076; produced in wheat, 181,007 bushels; rye, 3,359; buckwheat, 995; oats, 501,949; barley, 1,489; corn, 469,747; broom corn, 300 lbs. brush; meadow hay, 36,623 tons; clover hay, 9,610; flax, 51,600 lbs fibre; potatoes, 95,773 bushels; tobacco, 100 lbs.; butter, 695,277; cheese, 79,450; sorghum, 637 gallons; maple syrup, 33,942; honey, 19,649 lbs.; eggs, 371,039 dozen; grapes, 20,265 lbs.; wine, 267 gallons; apples, 188,271 bushels; peaches 16,413; pears, 3,335; wool, 251,921 lbs.; milch cows owned, 7,521. -Ohio State Report, 1888. Coal mined in this county, 231,035 tons, employing 496 miners and 71 outside employees; iron ore, 13,779; fire clay, 400 tons; limestone, 53,627 tons burned for fluxing, 14,000 cubic feet of dimension stone. -Ohio Mining Statistics, 1888. School census, 1888, 16,908; teachers, 336; miles of railroad track, 168. CENSUS TOWNSHIPS 1840 1880 Austintown 1,245 2,502 Beaver 1,973 2,150 Berlin 1,284 862 Boardman 933 906 Canfield 1,280 1,528 Coitsville 1,016 1,231 Ellsworth 988 715 Goshen 1,397 1,445 Green 3,212 1,794 Jackson 1,124 948 Milton 1,277 688 Poland 1,561 2,512 Smith 2,029 1,941 Springfield 1,994 2,474 Youngstown 999 15,435 Population of Mahoning in 1840, 21,712; 1860, 25,894; 1880, 42,871; of whom 6,672 were born in Ohio; 5,418, Pennsylvania; 593, New York; 311, Virginia; 93, Indiana; 56, Kentucky; 3,280 England and Wales; 2,494, Ireland; 1,471, German Empire; 705, Scotland; 280, British America; 65, France, and 90 in Sweden and Norway. Census, 1890, 55,979. In our original edition we said, "The following sketch from a resident of the county not only describes interesting incidents in the life of one of the first settlers on the Reserve, but gives facts of importance connected with the history of this region." COL. JAMES HILLMAN, of Youngstown, was one of the pioneers of the West, and rendered essential service to the early settlers of the Western Reserve. He is still living, and at the age of eighty-four enjoys good health and spirits, and walks with as much elasticity of step as most men thirty years younger. He was born in Northampton, Pa., and in 1784 was a soldier under General Harmar, and was discharged at Fort McIntosh, at Beaver town, on the Ohio in August, 1785, after the treaty with the Indians. His acquaintance with the country now known as the Western Reserve commenced in the spring of 1786, at which time he entered into the service of Duncan & Wilson, of Pittsburg. They were engaged in forwarding goods and provisions upon pack-horses across the country to the mouth of the Cuyahoga (now Cleveland), thence to be shipped on the schooner Mackinaw to Detroit. During the summer of 1786 he made six trips -the caravan consisting of ten men and ninety horses. They usually crossed the Big Beaver, four miles below the mouth of the Shenango, thence up the left bank of the Mahoning, crossing it about three miles above the village of Youngstown, thence by way of the Salt Springs, in the township of Weathersfield, through Milton and Ravenna, crossing the Cuyahoga at the mouth of Breakneck, and again at the mouth of Tinker's creek, in Bedford, and thence down the river to its mouth, where they erected a log, but for the safe-keeping of their goods, which was the first house built in Cleveland. At the mouth of Tinker's creek were a few houses built by the Moravian missionaries. They were then vacant, the Indians having occupied them one year only, previous to their removal to the Tuscarawas river. These and three or four cabins at the Salt Springs were the only buildings erected by the whites between the Ohio river and Lake Erie. Those at the Salt Springs were erected for the accommodation of persons sent there to make salt, and the tenants were dispossessed during the summer of 1785, by order of General Harmar. During this year, 1786, Kribs, who was left in one of the cabins to take care of goods belonging to Duncan & Wilson, was murdered by the Indians, and his body was found by Hillman's party, shockingly mangled by the wolves. During the same season James Morrow and Sam Simerson, returning from Sandusky, were killed by the Indians at Eagle creek, west of Cleveland. Mr. Hillman was married in 1786, and in 1788 settled at Beaver town, where Duncan & Wilson had a store for the purpose of trading with the Indians. From 1788 to 1796 Mr. Hillman, resided in Pittsburg, and traded with the Indians in Ohio, principally on the Reserve, bringing his goods in canoes up the Mahoning. His intercourse with the Indians during these eight years, and before, afforded him the opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of their language and gaining their confidence, both of which he obtained, and by means of which he was enabled afterwards to be of great service to the early settlers of the Reserve. In 1796, when returning from one of his trading expeditions alone in his canoe, down the Mahoning river, he discovered a smoke on the bank near the present site of the village of Youngstown, and on proceeding to the spot he found Mr. Young (the proprietor of the township), who, with Mr. Wolcott, had just arrived to make a survey of his lands. The cargo of Mr. Hillman was not entirely disposed of, there remaining among other things some whisky, the price of which was to the Indians one dollar a quart in the currency of the country -a deerskin being a legal tender for one dollar and a doeskin half a dollar. Mr Young proposed purchasing a quart, and having a frolic on its contents during the evening, and insisted upon paying Hillman his customary price for it. Hillman urged that inasmuch as they were strangers in the country, and just arrived upon his territory, civility required him to furnish the means of the entertainment. He, however, yielded to Mr. Young, who immediately took the deerskin he had spread for his bed (the only one he had), and paid for his quart of whisky. His descendants in the State of New York, in relating the hardships of their ancestors, have not forgotten that Judge Young exchanged his bed for a quart of whisky. Mr. Hillman remained with them a few days, when they accompanied him to Beaver town, to celebrate the Fourth of July, and Mr. H. was induced to return and commence the settlement of the town by building a house. This was about the first settlement made on the Western Reserve. In the fall of 1797 Mr. Brown and another person came on. It was during this season that Uriah Homes of Litchfield county, Conn., and Titus Hayes arrived in Youngstown the same day, both having started from Connecticut on the same day, the one taking the route through the State of New York, via Buffalo, and the other through Pennsylvania. The settlement of the country proceeded prosperously until the murder of the two Indians, Captain George and Spotted John, at the Salt Springs, by McMahon and Story. This affair had nearly proved fatal to the settlements, and probably would but for the efforts of Mr. Hillman. The next day after the murder, for such it undoubtedly was, Colonel Hillman, with Mr. Young and the late Judge Pease, of Warren, who had just arrived, went to the Salt Springs with a view of pacifying the Indians; but they had gone, not however without having buried the bodies of their murdered companions. Colonel Hillman and others expected trouble, and in order to show the Indians that the whites did not sanction the act, judged it advisable to take McMahon and Story prisoners; which they accordingly did the same day at Warren. Colonel H. had McMahon in custody, but Story, who was guarded by John Lane, escaped during the night. On the next day McMahon was brought to Youngstown, the settlers resolving to send him to Pittsburgh, to be kept in confinement until he could be tried. The affairs of the settlement were at that time in a critical and alarming state, so much so that all of the inhabitants, both of Youngstown and Warren, packed up their goods and were upon the point of removing from the country, as they had every reason to apprehend that the Indians would take speedy vengeance. It was at this juncture that the firmness and good sense of Colonel Hillman was the means of saving the infant settlement from destruction. He advised sending a deputation to the Indians then encamped on the Mahoning, near where Judge Price's mills now stand, and endeavor to avert the threatened danger. It was an undertaking imminently hazardous. Few men would have dared to go, and it is quite certain no other man in the settlement would have had any chance of success. He was acquainted with their language, and knew their principal men, and was aware that in his trading intercourse with them he had acquired their confidence, and therefore felt no fear. Although urged to do so, he would not take any weapon of defence, but, accompanied by one Randall, started very early the next morning on his hazardous enterprise, and came in sight of the Indians before sunrise. The Indians, seventeen in number, were asleep, each with his gun and powder-horn resting upon a forked stick at his head. Being in advance of Randall he came within three rods of them before he was discovered. A squaw was the only one awake. She immediately gave the alarm, which started every warrior to his feet with gun in hand. But seeing Colonel H. and his companion riding into their encampment without arms, and unsuspicious of treachery or harm, they dropped their guns and immediately gathered around their visitors. Onondaigua George, the principal man or chief, knew Hillman, and the late murder became the subject of a very earnest conversation; the chief exhibiting much feeling while talking about it. Hillman told him frankly the object of his visit, and talked freely of the affair, condemning McMahon and assuring him that McMahon was then on his way to Pittsburg, and should stand a trial for the murder he had committed. Nothing could be done, however, until Capt. Peters should arrive with his braves. They were then encamped farther up the river, near the present site of Deerfield, and were expected to arrive that day, a message having been sent for that purpose. -continued in Part 2 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #651 *******************************************