OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 140 *********************************************************************** 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 140 Today's Topics: #1 MacLucas ["Clark" ] #2 Taverns on Natl Rd - Stories of OR [MMacmurph@aol.com] #3 A School Tragedy - Guernsey Co. [MMacmurph@aol.com] #4 Fw: BIO - Darke Co. ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001001bfad4c$1712efe0$895d44cf@computer> Subject: MacLucas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Looking for a Naomi Jill MacLucas that went to school at Dayton University in Dayton, Ohio. She was born around 1933 in Northampton, England. Went to school to be a Pharmacist or Chemist. She is my Mother. If any one has any information please contact me. Thank-you, Jo Clark ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:09:24 EDT From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Taverns on Natl Rd - Stories of ORR and HAYS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio by William G. Wolfe Published by the Author Cambridge, Ohio 1943 Copyright, 1943, by William G. Wolfe Typography, Printing and Binding in the USA by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. According to On-Line Database of all the on-line library card catalogs anywhere in the world (OCLC): Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Ohio: the author, 1943. Work has lapsed into the public domain. Transcribed and/or paraphrased and submitted by: Marilyn Murphy, Ft. Worth, TX, 2000 MMacMurph@aol.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Page 952: "Bridgewater, of which there is now little more than a name, was platted on the National Road, a half mile east of Middlebourne, by William ORR, March 24, 1834. ORR erected a brick tavern (still standing)" [1943] "which enjoyed a liberal patronage in the old Pike days. At Bridgewater was located one of the four Guernsey County toll gates." Pg 741 In Middlebourne on the National Road stands the oldest tavern in Guernsey County. It dates back to 1828, the year the National Road was completed through this section. Of the many taverns--log, stone and brick-- that sprang up in the state immediately after the federal highway was built, this one is amongst the very few that yet remain. Built by Thomas HAYS - For much information concerning this old tavern we are indebted to Mrs. J.L. DOUGLAS, of Quaker City, who is the only surviving grandchild of Thomas Hays, its builder. Mrs. Douglas was born several years after her grandfather's death, but when she was a girl she heard many stories told about the old tavern, by the older members of the family. Early in the last century Thomas Hays came into the newly opened Military district in Ohio, and settled on Zane's Trace a short distance south of the present site of Middlebourne. With him came his wife, Ann Bay Hays, four sons and four daughters. Nelson Hays, one of the sons, became the father of Mrs. Douglas. Thomas Hays brought several negroes with him, not as slaves, but as hired laborers on the farm and servants in the home. Believing Zane's Trace would become the main permanent thoroughfare through Ohio, he erected a substantial dwelling and began making improvements on his land. In 1827 the National Road was surveyed through Oxford township, north of the Thomas Hays home. This meant that Zane's Trace would soon be abandoned. Benjamin MASTERS who, with his wife and eighteen children, had entered land two miles north of that owned by Hays, was delighted to learn that the new road would pass through his farm. He platted a town which he named Middletown (now called Middlebourne), [1943] because it was midway between Wheeling and Zanesville. When the Masters town was opened for settlement (1827), Hays decided to build and operate a tavern within its boundaries. Description of the tavern - The tavern at first was larger than it is today. A section of the rear was torn away long ago. Stones for the foundation were quarried on the Hays farm south of town by the negroes and dragged through the woods to the National Road by oxen. Brick for the walls were burned near the site of the building. Within the tavern were twenty rooms made large to accommodate several beds in each. In the center was a wide hall from which the stairs ascended. On each side of the hall, in front, was a large room. In each room was an immense stone fireplace for burning wood. The east room was the barroom where drinks were retailed at three cents each. In the early days of the National Road there was much travel, and the rooms were often filled with guests. At such times the wagoners, drovers, and perhaps others, would spread their blankets or robes on the floor of the barroom and sleep before the open fire. The big room west of the hall was reserved for ladies and such guests as did not care to mingle with the group that frequented the barroom. In long-distance traveling many stage-coach passengers staid (sic) here over night, some of whom were persons of high rank in those early days. One of the large stage companies that operated on the National Road made this tavern a division point for changing horses. William NULL, an employee of the company, was stationed here permanently to care for the horses and have fresh teams ready upon the arrival of the stages. The sound of the horns heralding the arrival of stage would arouse to action every servant about the place. Connected with the tavern were a wagon-lot and a drove-stand. Great conestoga wagons drawn by six horses, loaded with farm products for the east or merchandise for the west, would pull into the yards for the night. Droves of cattle, sheep, or hogs would be driven into the drove-lots to be fed. In good weather many drovers detoured on the old Wheeling road, because the loose stone of the federal highway injured the feet of the stock. Henry Clay a guest - In traveling between Washington Cir\ty and his home in Kentucky, Henry Clay occasionally staid at the Hays tavern for a meal or lodging. Tacy Hays, a maiden sister of Thomas Hays, made her home at the tavern. Cultured and witty, as well as pleasing in appearance, she attracted the attention of Mr. Clay who came to regard her as a friend of his own rank. On at least one later trip east he rode past the Hays tavern to the one (still standing) kept by Colonel Orr at Bridgewater. Here he changed his traveling clothing to formal dress and drove back to the Hays tavern, not as a patron but as a friend of the family. As a Kentucky gentleman, Mr. Clay adhered strictly to the rules of etiquette. Had he staid at the tavern as a guest for his own entertainment, he could not have shown the family the respect he desired. By Mr. Clay's act of courtesy the tavern lost a valued patron. Now a "Home for Tourists" - In the early days of the National Road the Hays tavern was considered one of the best between Wheeling and Zanesville. As long as he lived Thomas Hays was the proprietor. After his death it changed hands a number of times. One of it's later owners was a man named DRAKE, and it has frequently been referred to as the Drake tavern. With the coming of the railroad, travel on the National Road became less. No more were the rooms full of guests, the wagon-lots full of teams and the drove-lots full of stock. The tavern was kept open, though, for an occasional guest. The automobile came and the National Road sprang into life again. The Hays tavern and a few others that had survived the century awakened and tried to attract the attention of the speeding motorist. But they could not regain their old-time glory. Sentiment or curiosity will prompt an occasional traveler to stop at one of them for a meal or lodging. As a rule he looks upon the old tavern as only another "Home for Tourists." Pg 950 Three years after [Middlebourne] was founded (1830) it had a population of 126. In 1846 the village was incorporated. By 1850 the population had reached 267. William HAYS had opened a tavern of twenty rooms. Here Henry Clay occasionally lodged when traveling from his Kentucky home to Washington. Its barroom, barns for wagoners and lots for drovers stock, together with its bountiful meals and hospitality, made it one of the best known hostelries on the National Road. The greater part of the old tavern still stands, known as Locust Lodge. [1943] ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:09:34 EDT From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <32.4099ac0.2634b27e@aol.com> Subject: A School Tragedy - Guernsey Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio by William G. Wolfe Published by the Author Cambridge, Ohio 1943 Copyright, 1943, by William G. Wolfe Typography, Printing and Binding in the USA by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. According to On-Line Database of all the on-line library card catalogs anywhere in the world (OCLC): Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Ohio: the author, 1943. Work has lapsed into the public domain. Submitted, transcribed and/or paraphrased by: Marilyn Murphy, Ft. Worth, TX, 2000 MMacMurph@aol.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pg 992 "A School Tragedy - William C. FRAZIER, twenty-two years of age, son of Mrs. Mary FRAZIER, New Concord, Ohio, was employed as a teacher of the Miller school near Cumberland for the term 1882-83. Two boys -- John HAYS, aged twenty, and Charles LUSE, aged eighteen--were inrolled there as pupils. FRAZIER requested the boys to join a class in English grammar, that he had formed, but neither cared to do so. On Monday, December 11, 1882, he insisted that they join the class. They refused, whereupon FRAZIER ordered them to stand upon the floor for disobeying orders. The boys, who were seated together, arose and stared forward as if to comply with the order, but in passing FRAZIER, LUSE struck him a forcible blow in the face. When FRAZIER returned the blow, Hays joined in the fight, and the two boys forced the teacher upon or between the seats. FRAZIER drew a dirk knife having a blade six inches long, it is said, and stabbed HAYS in the left breast and LUSE in the side. HAYS started towards the door, daring the teacher to follow, but as soon as he reached the outside he fell and almost immediately expired. FRAZIER rushed to his side, and with the assistance of LUSE and a brother of HAYS started to carry him to the HAYS home a short distance away. Weakened from the loss of blood, LUSE fell by the wayside before the HAYS home was reached. Two days later he died. From the Hays home FRAZIER went to Cumberland and surrendered to a constable. He was immediately brought to Cambridge and lodged in the county jail. His uncle, Judge W.H. FRAZIER, of this common pleas court district, was notified, and Attorneys J.W. WHITE and J.W. CAMPBELL were employed as counsel for the prisoner. On Wednesday he was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. When it was reported that LUSE was dead, FRAZIER was rearrested and again bound over to the court in the additional sum of $5,000. On the first bond were Judge FRAZIER, Mrs. Mary FRAZIER, (William's mother), Thomas FOY and S.L. GRIMSLEY; on the second were William STRANATHAN, Bennett ROSEMAN, George SMITH, and several persons living in New Concord. At the session of the grand jury in February, FRAZIER was indicted for carrying concealed weapons. He pleaded guilty to this offense and was fined $100 and costs. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:36:47 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01d301bfad75$ab533880$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BIO - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy J. Baker To: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 1:52 PM From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Franklin County -- EDWARD H. PARAMORE, clerk of the Fourth Judicial District Court. Was born in Darke County, Ohio, August 20, 1849, and came with his father, Dr. J. I. Paramore to Ottawa, Kansas, in May, 1866. He began business life at this place two years later. Was employed as bookkeeper, etc., in newspaper office, bank, and mercantile business. He was elected to his present position in November, 1880. Mr. Paramore has also been Clerk of the city of Ottawa for about eight years. He was married in Ottawa May 4, 1873, to Miss Fannie Pennock. DR. JESSE I. PARAMORE, was born in Falmouth County, Ky., May 24, 1820, and studied medicine in Dearborn County, Ind., with Drs. Bowers and LeRoy for several years, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1859. The doctor began the practice of his profession in 1848 at Castine, Ohio, removing to Arcanum, Ohio, in 1853. In 1862 he entered the employ of the United States Government, and did duty as a post surgeon. Two years later he went to Greenville, Ohio, practicing there until 1866, when he came to Ottawa and has since practiced his profession at this place. The doctor is chief surgeon of the K. C. L. & S. K. R. R. Co., local surgeon of the M. P. R. R. Co., and examining surgeon for United States Pensions. He is the oldest practicing physician in the city. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:34:08 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01d001bfad75$aa609b20$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BIOS - Miami Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy J. Baker To: Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 5:02 PM From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Coffey County -- DR. D. O. HOPKINS, was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1835, and lived in his native State until he came to Kansas in 1873, and located in Burlington, and engaged in the practice of medicine. Dr. Hopkins retired from the practice in 1880, and has since been engaged in loaning money. He was married in Ohio in September, 1858, to Miss Amy Cross, a native of Ohio. They have one child by his first wife -- Laura A. He lost his wife in 1866, and was married in Kansas in March, 1872, to Miss Mary E. Stoutemyer, a native of Ohio. Dr. Hopkins was educated in medicine at Starling College, Columbus, Ohio, and in the Cincinnati Surgical College, and was engaged in the practice of his profession from 1858 to 1880. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. DR. WILLIAM MANSON, was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1830, and lived in his native State about twenty years and moved to White County, Ind., and lived in that State about seven years and came to Kansas in 1857, and located at Burlington, and engaged in the practice of his profession. Dr. Manson was educated at Rush Medical College at Chicago, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1855. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine for twenty-eight years in the States of Indiana and Kansas. He was married in Burlington, in 1858, to Miss G. H. Kinzie, a native of Chicago, Ill.; have four children -- Kate, Robert, David and Carrie. Dr. Manson has been County Treasurer for Coffey County, Coroner and Pension Examiner for the Government; is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. D. V. MOTT, County Treasurer, was recently installed in the position. Mr. Mott came to Kansas in November, 1869, and located in Burlington, and has lived there since. He was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1848, and lived in his native State twenty-one years, and came to Kansas and located where he now lives. Mr. Mott was married in Coffey County in June, 1871, to Miss Alice Holmes, a native of Wisconsin, and had four children, two of whom are living -- Arthur J. and Letta. Mr. Mott held the office of Deputy Treasurer for four years. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is a good business man and a highly respected citizen of his town and county. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:39:06 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01d701bfad75$acac11c0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BIOS - BITLER - Auglaise Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy J. Baker To: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:29 PM From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Greenwood County -- W. S. BITLER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 16, P. O. Madison, was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, in 1846, and is a son of Mr. Daniel Bitler, of Lyon County, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. He came to Kansas with his father in 1866, and located in this county in March, 1880. Of his farm of 240 acres, ninety are under cultivation, with an average corn yield of fifty bushels to the acre, which is used principally for feeding stock. He, in partnership with his father, Daniel Bitler, of Lyon County, usually carries from 300 to 700 head of cattle, and sixty to seventy-five hogs. His shipments of the former average twenty to twenty-five carloads annually. His residence, a handsome two-story stone building, occupies a commanding position upon rising ground, and is insured against fire in the sum of $1,600; his barns, etc., for $500 whilst both farm buildings and residence are insured against the danger of a tornado in the sum of $1,000 more. In 1874, Mr. Bitler married Miss Arminda Keith, and of their five children but two survive -- Ina, born November 22, 1879, and Ella, born December 22, 1881. Mr. Bitler is School Director for his district, and takes a warm interest in the welfare of his adopted State and county. GILBERT BITLER, farmer, Section 24, Salem Township, P. O. Eureka, whose name is familiar to the readers of this, is a native of Ohio, but for the past six years has resided in this State, where he has recently taken for a wife the daughter of one of the oldest residents of this township- O. E. Ladd. Me. B. is engaged in the cattle business, and has but recently removed here from Lyon County. Although but a young man he has proven himself one of the most successful cattle men of the West. Lyon County -- DANIEL BITLER, farmer and stock dealer, Section 3, Township 21, P. O. Bitlertown was born in Schuylkill County, Pa,. September 24, 1820, where he remained on a farm until about twelve years of age, when he removed with his parents to Franklin County, Ohio, and, after a residence there of about two years, removed to Allen County. His father, Daniel Bitler, was one of the founders of the town of St. Johns, in Allen County, in 1835. The subject of this sketch continued to reside here with his father, assisting him in the operation of his general store, until he was twenty years of age. In 1840, he began business for himself, conducting a general mercantile business, and at times, also engaged in farming and stock dealing. In 1834, he was elected to the office of County Treasurer of Auglaize County. He was also Postmaster at St. Johns, Ohio, in 1839, again in 1844 and 1856 and was Justice of the Peace three terms, nine years at St. Johns, Ohio, and removed to the county seat, Wapakoneta, where he resided for two years; returning then to St. Johns, he resumed his business operations. Three years later he sold out his business at St. Johns and engaged in general merchandising at Wapakoneta, dealing largely also in stock and grain, where he remained until he came to Kansas, in 1866. In April, of that year, he located in Lyon County, on Eagle Creek, in Center Township, where he purchased a farm of 174 acres, which he has improved by the erection of a commodious dwelling, barns, granaries and corn-cribs capable of holding about 15,000 bushels. He has since purchased about 300 acres on the Verdigris River, in Greenwood County, which he has given to his sons; about 340 acres near Eureka, Greenwood County, and 480 acres in Center Township, about four miles southwest of his original farm, and a farm of forty acres about one mile east of his home place, also 320 acres adjoining his home place, make it now 494 acres. His principal crop is corn; he raises many cattle and hogs, and deals largely in stock, buying and shipping cattle and hogs. He was elected a director of the Emporia National Bank in 1873, and re-elected annually ever since. He has held the office of Township Trustee ten or eleven years since he came to the State, and served as a Justice of the Peace one term here. He married Miss Sarah J. Van Tress, of Allen County, Ohio, May 10, 1840, by whom he had nine children, of whom Sylvester V., William S., Susanna, Hannah, and Martha are living. She died September 18, 1856, and he married June 14, 1857, Miss Elizabeth Waggoner, of Auglaize County, Ohio, by whom he has had seven children, of whom Charles L., Clara J., Cora B., Daniel F., Maggie M. and Rhoda Kate are living. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:37:34 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01d501bfad75$abea4860$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BIO - SAYERS - Miami Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy J. Baker To: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 3:45 PM >From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Franklin County -- EZRA V. SAYERS, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Ottawa, was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1838, and reared on a farm. He taught school in the Southern States for several years, and in August, 1861, went to Macomb, Ill., where he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-eighth Illinois Infantry, serving three years. After the war he read law at Troy, Ohio, for three years, and during two years of that period held the office of Deputy Clerk of District Court. In July, 1868, he came to Franklin County, and has since followed agricultural pursuits. Since September, 1879 he has resided in Ottawa. He has about 365 acres of land in Lincoln and Ottawa Townships, on which there are three residences. He cultivates 250 acres of his land and raises considerable live stock. Mr. Sayers is a successful farmer, and is considered one of the enterprising men of the county. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:37:12 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01d401bfad75$ab9f83c0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BIO - HARPOLE - Clark Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy J. Baker To: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 3:27 PM >From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Franklin County -- ENOCH HARPOLE, attorney, was born in Clark County, Ohio, in May, 1850, and came with his father, William Harpole, to Kansas in the spring of 1857, residing with them in Chase County. In 1860, he returned with them to Williamsville, Sangamon Co., Ill. The subject of this sketch studied law at Springfield with Gov. S. M. Cullom and also at the Iowa State University, where he graduated in 1873 and was admitted to practice at the bar before the Supreme Court of Illinois in January, 1874, after which he practiced his profession in Springfield, that State. In 1878 he returned to Chase County, Kansas, practicing there until he came to Ottawa in 1880, at which time he opened a law office at this place. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #140 *******************************************