OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 683 Today's Topics: #1 Pioneer Marriages in Allen County- ["ldjdd" ] #2 1883 Allen County Obituary ["ldjdd" ] #3 SAMUEL I. WATSON - MAHONING COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 JAMES HARRIS McEWEN - MAHONING COU [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 FRANK G. SILVER - MAHONING COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 MILTON EMERSON HAYES, M.D. -MAHONI [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #7 CHARLES E. TAYLOR - MAHONING COUNT [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #8 Submission for Williams Co. Ohio a ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000201bf04fd$cd4d5ea0$1646443f@Linda> Subject: Pioneer Marriages in Allen County- 1844 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taken from Lima Democratic News July 1844 By Edward Hartshorn JP, Edward SHINABERRY to Hannah FAUROT By same, Hiram PROTMAN to Margaret ELLIOTT By James McFarland JP, Edward VANNORTWICK to Rebecca VAN NAGLE By S.M.Cowan JP< Beverly SHARD to Mary JACOBS By Rev. Samuel Wilson, William PRIDDY to Elizabeth BOWYER By Burgess Dickey JP, George COON to Susannah RIGHT Aug 1844 By Edward Hartshorn JP, Alexander CRAWFORD to Caroline WALDON By same, William WOLF to Elizabeth STRUCKMEYERS By S.M.Colson JP,Simon DRESHER to Margaret WISEMAN By Rev. George Spangler, Paul BIRK to Polly VANBLARICOM By Benj. Vance JP, Daniel BRENTLINGER to Rebecca CARTER By James McFarland JP, John JULIEN to Mary A. COOK By Rev. Wm. Chaffee, John WINFIELD to Jane TERRY Sept 1844 By Benj. Vance JP, George GREGORY to Catharine MILLER By Rev Geo. Spangler, Philip KLOPTENSTEIN to Christiana ZORN By Rev. David Crall, Andrew EDMISTON to Mary B. WINROTT By Rev. S.S. Yourtree, Barton A. HOLLAND to Lydia OSMON By Rev. Samuel Wilson, William C. KEITH to Amanda DONNELLS By Rev. Wm. Robst, George SCHEMMEL to Maria FLEITZ By same, Michael HUMMERT to Anna BOBB By D.P.Darling JP, Samuel PILLARS to Narcissa CUTLER By same, Wm. S. BROOKS to Lucy CHAMBERLAND By Samuel Yourtree, Samuel CUSTARD to Elizabeth JACOBS By Wm. Reece JP, Wilam B. WEYER to Lucretia NASH Submitted by Linda Dietz Sep 22,1999 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:36:04 -0400 From: "ldjdd" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000101bf04ff$6d3dc700$1646443f@Linda> Subject: 1883 Allen County Obituary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taken from Lima Democratic News November 1883 Mrs. Olivia COFFIN died at the residence of Robert LAWLER, in this city,on Thursday, Nov.1,1883,aged seventy-one years. Mrs COFFIN was born in the State of MAINE in the year 1813,and with her parents moved to KENTUCKY three years later.After residing in KENTUCKY until 1829,the family removed to OHIO.She married Mr. Joseph COFFIN at SPRINGFIELD,O.,on the 19th of MARCH 1835.Five years later they removed to SIDNEY,where they resided until 1873, when Mrs. COFFIN came to LIMA,making her home with Mrs. Robert LAWLER,where she resided until her death last week.She was the mother of 8 children,3 of who preceded her to the other world. Submitted by Linda Dietz Sep 22,1999 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:28:08, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909221628.MAA09438@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: SAMUEL I. WATSON - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 195 SAMUEL I. WATSON is a Youngstown business man, and nearly all his commercial experience since early manhood has been with the mattress manufacturing industry. He is an ex-service man. He was born at Allen in Copiah County, Mississippi, December 19, 1887, son of John M. and Willie (Osborne) Watson, his father a native of Copiah County and his mother of Jefferson County, Mississippi. Both parents are now deceased. Samuel I. Watson grew up in his native state, completing grammar and high schools, and completed a course in a business university at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Beginning in August, 1910, he was employed six years in clerical work at Holden, West Virginia, and then at Huntington, West Virginia, became bookkeeper for the Specialty Mattress Company. In 1918 the company sent him to Wheeling, West Virginia, as branch manager. In May, 1918, he enlisted and was put in training at Camp Logan, Texas, from there being transferred in December, 1918, to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in April, 1919, was honorably discharged at Camp Sherman, Ohio. He then resumed work for his former company as bookkeeper at Detroit, Michigan, but in November, 1919, came to Youngstown as manager of the Sanitary Mattress Company, a branch of the Specialty Mattress Company. Mr. Watson married, February 8, 1921, Mildred M. Zimmerman, a native of Youngstown. He is a Methodist, a republican in politics, has filled the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Mangham, Louisiana, also belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Mangham, is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Youngstown Automobile Club. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:28:12, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909221628.MAA06382@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JAMES HARRIS McEWEN - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 197 JAMES HARRIS McEWEN, dean of Youngstown bankers, and one of the most prominent men of Mahoning County, has devoted his life to finance, and is now a member of the directorate of the Mahoning National Bank, successor to the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company. He was born at Youngstown, October 13, 1842, a son of James and Elizabeth (Fitch) McEwen, the former born on a farm near Elkton, Indiana, and the latter born in New York City. About 1835 James McEwen came to Youngstown, having been attracted here during his work as an engineer on the canal. In 1839 he was married and took up his residence in this city, and following the completion of the canal, served as its superintendent, and still later was president of the company. When he died, in 1872, at the age of seventy-three years, he was holding that office. His wife died in 1869, aged fifty-seven years. After a boyhood and youth spent at Youngstown, James Harris McEwen went, at the age of twenty years, into the Mahoning County Bank as a clerk, and continued with that old institution until 1868, during that period laying the foundation for the knowledge of banking which later was to make him such an authority on finance. In 1868 he entered the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company as treasurer, and during the turbulent reconstruction period following the termination of the war, with its numerous problems, a number of the leading citizens of Youngstown, among whom was Mr. McEwen, whose names have since been linked with the great industries of the state, realizing the need for greater banking facilities, organized the Mahoning National bank in 1877, as the successor to the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company, with which they had already been connected. With the opening of the doors of the new institution Mr. McEwen assumed the duties of cashier, and ably discharged them until January 14, 1908, at which time he was elected president of the bank, and he served as such for nearly two years, retiring from the office and from business generally, January 11, 1910. Although more than ten years over the three score years and ten of psalmist, he retains his place on the Board of Directors of the bank, and his wealth of experience, gained through almost sixty years of constant service, is freely given and gladly availed by the active officers of the bank. In spite of his age, Mr. McEwen is very active and visits the bank almost daily. He was an intimate friend of the late Robert McCurdy, and when the latter died in 1904, Mr. McEwen was named as executor of his estate, and this, with his personal affairs, he still successfully administers. On February 22, 1883, Mr. McEwen married Miss Florence Rayen, who was born at Champion, Trumbull County, Ohio, and was a teacher in the Rayen High School prior to her marriage. This school was named in honor of her uncle, William Rayen, one of the prominent men of earlier Youngstown. Her father, John Rayen, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio. Mr. McEwen is residing at 534 Bryson Street, Youngstown, Mrs. McEwen having died in 1912, leaving no children. For many years Mr. McEwen was vice president of the McMillan Library, and he has otherwise been of great service to his community. One of the old-line republicans, he has followed his party's fortunes almost from its beginnings, and has met and known intimately some of its greatest lights. He still enjoys meeting his old friends at the Youngstown Club. During his long and varied life Mr. McEwen has witnessed many changes, and has seen most marvelous development in and about Youngstown, in whose history he is so deeply concerned. The stainless record of this honorable gentleman proves that a man may achieve prestige and wealth, and yet never swerve in so doing from the path of strictest probity. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:28:01, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909221628.MAA13478@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: FRANK G. SILVER - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 194 FRANK G. SILVER, a public accountant, with offices in the Mahoning Bank Building at Youngstown, has built up an important clientage in his profession. His qualifications are based upon an unusually wide range of individual experience in many lines of business both in Ohio and in the eastern cities. Mr. Silver represents an old family of the Mahoning Valley, and was born in Berlin Township, Mahoning County, February 5, 1861, son of Allen and Julia (Gee) Silver, who were born in the same locality. His grandparents, Adna Bradway and Lydia (Allen) Silver, were natives of New Jersey, where the former was born in 1800. They were married there about 1820, and their honeymoon was through the western wilderness to Mahoning County, Ohio. Adna B. walking and driving the team all the way. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in the early days made axes, which he marketed at Salem. He acquired considerable property. He and his wife were Quakers. The maternal grandparents of Frank G. Silver were Peter and Elmira (Day) Gee, the former a native of Ellsworth Township, Mahoning county, and the latter, of Connecticut, but was brought as a child by her parents to Deerfield Township. The father of Peter was a Methodist minister and one of the early representatives of that church in Mahoning County. Allen Silver became a farmer in Berlin Township, and for some years was in the flour and feed business at Alliance, Ohio, where his wife died in 1892, at the age of fifty-six. He then returned to Mahoning County, and he died at Berlin in 1910. Of his two children his daughter, May, is now Mrs. William H. Kirkbride, of Cleveland, Ohio. Frank G. Silver was educated in district schools, in the Canfield Union School, and at the age of seventeen took a commercial course at Mount Green College. His first experience was as a bookkeeper at the Globe Foundry and Machine Company, at Niles, Ohio. He married in February, 1883, Miss Julia Crowley, who was born in Youngstown, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Crowley. By this marriage there were two children: Warren U., of Cleveland, and Blossom, who is Mrs. Robert G. Lafferty, of Cleveland. Mr. Silver's second wife was Mary Morgan, a native of Youngstown, and she became the mother of one daughter, Virginia, of Hammond, Indiana. After his marriage Mr. Silver remained at Niles as bookkeeper, spent three years as bookkeeper for the Girard Iron Company of Girard, Ohio, and in Youngstown for twenty-one years he had charge of the offices of the Briar Hill Iron and Coal Company. Resigning, he went to New York City and engaged in the hotel business for several years, was a broker in Philadelphia for nine years, and in 1915 located in Cleveland, where he became a traveling salesman. Returning to Youngstown in 1916, he has since conducted business as a public accountant, handling audits and doing other special work for a number of corporations and firms. He is a republican and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the United Commercial Travelers. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:28:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909221628.MAA09406@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MILTON EMERSON HAYES, M.D. -MAHONING CO. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 194 MILTON EMERSON HAYES, M.D. Numbered among the experienced and skillful physicians and surgeons of Mahoning County, Dr. Milton Emerson Hayes enjoys a high professional and personal standing in his community, and is an active force in civic matters. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in September, 1867, a son of George Washington and Margaret E. (Glasgow) Hayes, natives of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents, William and Eliza (Williamson) Hayes, were natives of Butler County and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, respectively, and came of Revolutionary stock. Eliza Williamson's father served under Admiral Perry in the battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. On the maternal side Doctor Hayes' grandparents were John and Mary Glasgow, of Irish descent. For many years George Washington Hayes was a carpenter contractor at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he died in that city, in September, 1922, aged eighty-six years. The mother survives at the age of seventy-nine years, and is living at Youngstown. After leaving the grade and high schools Doctor Hayes was a student of Smart Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then, entering Western University of that city, took his medical training. Following the securing of his degree Doctor Hayes began practicing his profession at Pittsburgh, and remained there until 1899, but in that year left that city for Youngstown, where he has since resided, and for a quarter of century has been one of the active practitioners of Mahoning County. Of recent years he has specialized in urinary dermatology. His offices are at 306 Home Savings and Loan Building. In November, 1920, he was elected coroner of Mahoning County, and is the nominee of the republican party for the same office. During the late war he served on draft Board Number 2 of Mahoning County, and otherwise made himself useful in local war work. Professionally he maintains membership with the county and state medical societies. He is unmarried. Since 1889 Doctor Hayes has been a spiritualist, and for a number of years was librarian of the First Church Spiritualist of Pittsburgh, which was organized in 1878, Doctor Hayes' parents being among the organizers. Very high in Masonry, Doctor Hayes has been the recipient of honors in the different bodies of his order, and is past master of the Blue Lodge, past high priest of the Chapter, and he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He also belongs to the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, the Lions Club and the Shrine Club. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:28:07, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909221628.MAA13526@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: CHARLES E. TAYLOR - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 196-197 CHARLES E. TAYLOR. Supply and demand control business development in a large measure. Whenever the supply of any article is less than the demand for it, naturally it becomes more difficult to secure an adequate amount and some means must be devised to make up the shortage. The period of warfare, with the withdrawal of so many able-bodied men for the army and for allied industries, caused a falling off in building, and this shortage was not confined to any one community, or country, for that matter, but existed all over the civilized world. In fact, this housing shortage has not yet been overcome, and therefore the abilities of some of the most energetic men of the age have been called into play to remedy the conditions, and so arrange as to throw open to tenants quarters in which they may live and rear their families. Therefore, in every community are to be found a number of alert and progressive men whose attention is given to real-estate matters. One of these representative men at Youngstown is Charles E. Taylor, who has built up an excellent business and established his reputation for fair dealing and honorable practices. Charles E. Taylor was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia, May 26, 1887, a son of J.W. and Catherine (Shoemaker) Taylor, farming people. Growing up in a rural neighborhood, Charles E. Taylor alternated attendance at the district schools with farm work until he reached his majority, at which time he began farming for himself. In 1914 he abandoned agriculture for real estate, and coming to Youngstown, opened his present line of business, and has since then been operating in real estate. In 1916, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Florence Wheeland, born at Youngstown, and they have one daughter, Helen. Mr. Taylor is independent in his political belief. Both he and his wife have many friends at Youngstown and in Mahoning county, by whom they are held in the highest esteem. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:01:58 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001501bf0524$9088a8e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Submission for Williams Co. Ohio and Toledo, Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 5:51 AM Subject: Submission for Williams Co. Ohio and Toledo, Ohio Obituary- A. J. Hubbell. (Mr.) A.J. Hubbell was born April 21, 1869, in York township, Steuben Co. Indiana, and departed this life Oct. 24th at 919 Elm St. Toledo, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Angola, Indiana, in April 1883, attending the Normal School till March, 1885. He was then married to Miss Lizzie Merril, she having died in February, 1894, leaving him with twin boys, one having died in October of the same year. The spring of 1893 he moved to Chicago, Ill., and was fireman on the Lake Shore till February 2, 1903, he was promoted to engineer. The fall of 1903, he was taken with the dread disease of consumption. He then left the road. He was married to Mrs. Mary Rafty of Toledo in November, 1893. He leaves to mourn their loss a wife, one son, one step-son, one step daughter, father, two brothers and two sisters: C. M. Hubbell and Mrs. Levi Cole, of Angola, Indiana, Mrs. R. Williamson of Montpelier, Ohio, and William Hubbell of near Camden, Mich. He was laid to rest in the Forest Cem. In Toledo, Monday, March 25, 1907. (a note on the side of this says that Claude Hubbell was the twin that lived.) ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:53:21 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <004101bf052b$bdecab40$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Huron Co. Ohio Archives submission Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 6:24 AM Subject: Huron Co. Ohio Archives submission from Judy Wright Wills of John Tillotson and Moses Kimball Huron Co. Ohio Will Bk. (#?) p. 66 - 67 John TILLOTSON 's Will Be it remembered that at the May Term of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Huron Ohio came Abigail Tillotson and Jerry ROOT and presented the last Will and Testament of John Tillotson late of Huron County deceased for proof and approval which will is as follows towit: I John Tillotson of the county of Huron in the State of Ohio, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say - First it is my will that my funeral expenses and all my sickness expenses and all my just debts be fully paid - Second I give devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Abigail in lieu of her dower the farm on which we now reside situated in the county of Huron State of Ohio containing fifty six 1/4 acres during her natural or if sold and invested as hereafter by me pointed out, and all my personal property by all my live stock by me now owned also all the household furniture and other items not particularly named during her natural life as aforesaid, and at the death of my said wife all the property hereby devised or bequeathed to her as aforesaid or so much thereof as may then remain unexpended other avail of the sales of any of the same to my four children Phineas Tillotson, George Tillotson, Mary Jane Tillotson, and Nancy Tillotson and their heirs and assigns forever Equally in every respect in the division of all my real and personal estate that my wife shall die seized of arising from any of my estate that I shall have at my decease. Thirdly it being my last will that whereas I have had converse with Peter LATTIMER of Norwalk to exchange the farm I now live on and I agreed to take land of said Lattimer lying in the state of Indiana which my wife understands, and its my will that if the said exchange of Land can be made that it may be done and if so that the said land to be kept until my present children become of age and that it be divided equally in shares among my four children mentioned in this instrument. Lastly for the purpose of enabling my wife Abigail to complete the contract with said Latimer if he should be willing on his part I do hereby constitute and appoint my said wife Abigail and Jerry Root to be the executors of this my last will and testament the agreement is that the said Lattimer is to make me a deed of one hundred and sixty acres of Land in the State of Indiana and two hundred Dollars in Cash and I agreed to quit claim the farm I now live on and now its my last will that my wife may complete the said contract and if completed its my sill that my wife shall have the full use of the said land during her natural life and then to be equally divided between my four children. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal this 14th day of April 1837. John Tillotson Witnesses John Smith and John Knapp a|.will was written by John Smith at the request and pursuant to the instruction of said Tillotson and after the same had been read and heard by said Tillotson he approved of the same and signed his name to the said will in the presence of this affiant and in the presence of John Smitha|.bears date 14th day of April 1837 and was executed on the day the same bears date John KNAPP which said affidavits were sworn in open courta|. p. 67 Bottom Moses KIMBALL's will Recorded in Court of Common Pleas Oct. 3, 1837 came Betsey KIMBALL and presented the last will and testament of Moses KIMBALL late of Norwalk in the said Co. (Huron) In the name of God, Amen. I , Moses Kimball feeling the uncertainty of life but of sound and disposing mind and memory for which thanks be to almighty God do ordain and publish the following as my last will and test. .... my beloved wife Betsey Kimball... at the time of her death it is my desire and will that it should be equally divided amongst my children whom I commend to the care of my said wife.... I request my Brother in Law George W. CHOATE to aid and assist my said wife in carrying into effect the objects of my last will and testament. Moses Kimball -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #683 *******************************************