OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 235 *********************************************************************** 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 235 Today's Topics: #1 Re: OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 #234 ["paul b. toberg jr." To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <00db01bffbe0$f982acc0$cc804c0c@oemcomputer> Subject: Re: OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 #234 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit unscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:00 AM Subject: OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 #234 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:24:44 -0500 From: "Netti S. Nau" To: Message-ID: Subject: Cemetery_St Mary_Temperanceville, OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by blizzard.columbus.rr.com id BAA29537 St. Mary=92s Cemetery, Temperanceville, Belmont Co., OH This is a partial listing of persons buried in the cemetery as transcribe= d on July 30, 2000 by Netti Nau. The list was done to aide in my genealogy search; and due to time constraint many surnames were not read including: Armbruster, Brown, Butler, Carpenter, DeLong, Doyle, Jefferis, McCort, Poulton, and Yonley. In order to have consistent format on this recording, dates w= ere not always transcribed in the format written on the tombstone. Unfortunately there are numerous tombstones that are in need of families re-doing them before they are like others that are unreadable. Netti Nau: Netti@thepentagon.com Gallagher Austin 27 Mar 1842 =96 25 Jan 1903 and Barbara 1845 =96 1920 Carrie 1879 - 1918 Christopher 1848 - 1922 and Jen= nie C 1858 - 1926 Christopher 1802 - 1881 and Mar= y DeLong 1806 - 1889 Clara L. 1917 - 1918 Daniel J. 1883 =96 1957 and = Eva Pffeffer 1894 - 1982 Donald Lyle 9 Jun 1939 - 9 Sept 1918 Emma B. wife of ??? unable to read dates Francis 17 Nov 1861 - 25 Sept 1899 George Nicholas 1912 =96 1981 and Clara Genevieve 1921 - ___ George W. 1882 - 1969 and Mary= B 1885 - 1969 James O. 1913 - 1982 and Rit= a C. 1918 - ___ John 10 Apr 1801 - 5 Feb 1867 and Mary Ann 24 Feb 1811 =96 30 Jan 1897 John 1880 - 1956 and Anna L. 1878 - 1964 John J. 1840 - 1911 Joseph 1872 - 1953 Michael 1914 - 1977 and Ma= ry E. 1911 - 1973 Priscilla (Creighton) Gallagher - cannot read it - ?? 19 Dec 1828 ?? =96= 3 Mar 1907 Richard R. 1929 - 1975 and Mel= ba L 1930 - ___ Wilfrid J. 19 Apr 1927 - 28 Dec 1955 William A. 1909 - 1968 ?? William B difficult to read: Mar 10 ? 18__ ?? 1887 34 years ? There is one stone that states erected by Nicholas & Charlotte Gallagher = for their children: Albert V d. 2 Oct 1878 ?23 yrs Annette d. 11 Nov 1878 ?19 yrs + 5 mos Charles d. 5 Dec 1869 ?6 mos Charles B d. 12 Apr 1864 18 yrs Lena Foster d. 4 Feb 1863 21 yrs Burkhart Anna 1890 - 1941 and Catherine 1887 - ___ ? nothing Andy 1883 - 1962 and R= ose 1883 - 1965 Arthur 1932 - 1987 John & Mary M. Burkhart Richard J. 1 July 1938 - 22 Aug 1998 and Shelley L. 19 Oct 1943 - ___ Robert L. 31 Jul 1936 - 30 Aug 1984 and William D. 2 Feb 1940 - 25 Feb 1991 Sherry Lee 8 Jul 1961 - 22 July 1979 Butler George 1864 - 1940 Jennie 1867 - 1941 Creighton Michael, Sr. d. 14 Dec 1882 (85 yrs) and Mary Rachall w/o Mich= ael d. 7 Jul 1874 Higgins Virginia Lucy 22 Mar 1903 - 28 Oct 1922 Hughes James d 21 Feb 1906 (66yo) and Elizab= eth 27 Apr 1847 =96 17 May 1900 Frank Charles 1910 - 1981 and Elean= or L. 1916 - ___ Kronebitter Charles P. 1883 - 1970 Mary O 1884 - 1959 John 1851 - 1932 Jane 1846 - 1934 McCort Patrick 1892 - 1977 and Bertha 1894 - 1972 McLaughlin Charles 1858 - 1936 and M. Louise 1871 - 1937 Fred 26 Feb 1903 =96 12 Jun 1986 and Ursula 17 Apr 1915 =96 28 May 1998 Herman 1901 - 1977 and Gertrude 1906 - 1990 Jane w/o Charles born in Co Derry, Ireland d. 12 May 1883 age 62 y= rs + 2 mos Charles born in Ireland d. 14 Sep 1889 age 79 Mary C w/o Charles McLauglin 16 Dec 1857 - Jan 1888 Miller John J. 1916 - 1969 and Marie P. 1919 - ____ Pfeffer Carl 1916 - 1944 Ernest J. 1887 - 1963 and A= my 1889 - 1966 Gervase J. 1906 - 1972 and Gwendolyn G 1908 - 1991 Gleason C. 1908 - 1994 and Sar= ah Louise 1911 - 1988 Joseph 1849 - 1920 and Kunigunde 1846 - 1908 Kate 1851 - 1931 William A. 1880 - 1923 and Jeanette 1882 - 1952 Poulton Robert M. 3 Mar 1930 - 11 Sep 1994 and Eunice 6 Feb 1930 - ___ Reischman Lawrence Leo 1917 - 1971 and Carolin= e K 1925 - 1999 Infant son 15 Dec 1951 States Lawrence PFC HO CO 2 BN 1 Infantry WWII Vogt John A. 1863 - 1946 Margaret 1874 - 1956 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:45:26 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000731202111.00955100@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Logan County, Ohio Deaths 1869 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO DEATH RECORDS 1869 FOR PERSONS 50 YEARS AND OLDER. (following the name will be the month/day of death; age; place of death/residence; marital status; place of birth. Boyd, Robert; February 5; 76 years; Richland Township; married; Ireland Black, Jane; March 5; 68 years; McArthur Township; widow; Pennsylvania Blair, Mary E.; March 28; 67 years; Richland Township; widow; Pennsylvania Francher, Jane; February 25; 65 years; Liberty Township; widow; Pennsylvania Harmon, Mary; January 18; 65 years; Rush Creek Township; widow; Greene Co., OH Nichols, Solomon C.; March 16; 54 years; Pleasant Township; married; Champaign Co., OH Pool, Thomas A.; not listed; 51 years, 2 months; 24 days; Miami Township; married; Champaign Co., OH Strayer, DAniel; March 27; 84 years; Miami Township; widow; Miami (?) Grover, Jonathan; May 26; 65 years; Perry Township; married; Virginia Morrison, Wm. V.; April 15; 65 years; Lake Township; married; Pennsylvania Artis, Jane; December 5; 63 years; 10 months, 22 days; Monroe Township; married; North Carolina Barkman, Elizabeth; October 12; 63 years, 20 days; Stokes Township; married; not known Bushong, Nancy L.; November 21; 75 years, 11 months, 23 days; Bokes Creek Township; widow. South Carolina Buckwater, Henry; August 25; 67 years, 7 days; Harrison Township; married; Lancaster Co., PA Buckwater, Susannah; October 24; 61 years, 3 days; Harrison Township; widow; Lancaster Co., PA Cowgill, Mary; April 20; 93 years, 1 month; Zane Township; widow; New Jersey Dow, Ann; January 4; 65 years; Harrison Township; married; Greene Co., OH Elliott, Martha; November 7; 73 years, 3 months, 27 days; Perry Township; widow; Pennsylvania Gurner, Martha; July 28; 76 years; Degraff; widow; Kentucky Gabby, Robert; November 26; 73 years, 6 months; Richland Township; not known; Logan Co., (?) Grover, Jonathan; May 22; 68 years; Perry Township; married; Virginia Hanks, Rachel; December 5; 69 years, 9 months, 13 days; Pleasant Township; married; Logan Co. Harriman, David; July 11; 62 years, 1 month, 21 days; Perry Township; married; Washington Co., PA Heath, Hannah; September 19; 79 years, 3 months; Perry Township; married; not known Heath, John; September 21; 86 years, 8 months; Perry Township; married; not known Henry, Nancy; April 5; 73 years; 10 months; 15 days; Monroe Township; married; Kentucky Harple, Conrod; July 27; 72 years, 6 months, 10 days; Jefferson Township; married; Pennsylvania Irwin, Nathaniel; June 10; 90 years, 10 months; Harrison Township; married; Ireland Knox, John; November 26; 82 years; Bellefontaine; married; Scotland Knight, John; September 11; 78 years, 2 months; Zanesfield; married; Virginia Lemon, John A; April 6; 58 years, 8 months, 11 days; Union Township; married; Champaign Co., OH Martin, Catherine; June ?; 62 years; Harrison Township; widow; not known Milroy, Catharine; November 14; 53 years, 10 months; McArthur Township; widow; Ireland Moore, Sarah; October 24; 85 years, 7 months, 13 days; Zane Township; widow; New Jersey Newsom, Benjamin; September 2; 89 years; Pickrelltown; widow; North Carolina Norton, Jonathan; October 1; 78 years, 5 months, 17 days; Union Township; married; New York Pickrell, Temperance; September 5; 63 years, 2 months, 28 days; Monroe Township; widow; Virginia Rhodes, William; September 13; 79 years, 3 days; Harrison Township; married; England Sidesinger, Leonard; December 22; 82 years, 6 months, 6 days; Monroe Township; widow; Pennsylvania Sharp, Isaac; September 23; 70 years, 13 days; Zane Township; married; Virginia Tallman, Woodmince; September 7; 80 years, 1 month, 17 days; Zane Township; married; New Jersey Whitehill, John; October 20; 56 years, 8 months; 20 days; Jefferson Township; married; Pennsylvania Wall, Susan; December 7; 64 years, 4 months; Harrison Township; married; Virginia Warren, Joshua; February 5; 51 years, 7 months, 10 days; Stokes Township; married; New York Wright, James; September 29; 76 years; Richland Township; married; Pennsylvania ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:51:42 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000731223432.00968a80@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Ashland County - part 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 ASHLAND COUNTY, Part 3, by Henry Howe, 1898 The exact location of the Indian village Helltown is not known,but it was supposed to be on the south line of what is now Green township, on the banks of the Clear fork of the Mohican. It probably derived its name from a Pennsylvania captive who spoke the German language, in which "Hell" signifies clear or transparent, so called the stream on which it was situated. When Col. Crawford in the spring of 1782 invaded the Indian settlements of the upper Sandusky the Helltown Indians fled thither for safety. The village was the home of a number of well-known Delaware chiefs, among others Thomas Armstrong; also the occasional residence of the noted Capt. Pipe, one of Col. Crawford's executioners. In 1783 Thomas Armstrong, with the original inhabitants of Helltown (that village having been abandoned) and a few Mingoes and Mohawks, established the village of Greentown, some three miles west of the present village of Perrysville, It was on a bluff extending to the north banks of Black fork or "Armstrong's" creek, almost entirely surrounded by alder marshes, and a very strong position. The huts, numbering about 150, were constructed of poles covered with bark, and irregularly placed around a knoll, with a playground in the centre, at the west side of which was built the council house and cemetery in a grove. Up to 1795 it was a station on the route for captives on the way to Detroit and other points in the Indian Territory. Two tragedies in the autumn of 1812 were enacted by the Indians not far from the old Indian village of Greentown. These were the murder of Martin Ruffner, Frederic Zimmer (or in English Frederic Seymour) and family, on the Black fork of the Mohican, and the tragedy at the cabin of Mr. James Copus. Hill's "History of Ashland County" gives very full details. We here first take the briefer history as published on pages 429-30 in the first edition of this work. In a note there we stated that our informant for the first tragedy was Mr. Henry Nail, from whose lips, now just forty-two years ago, we derived it; and for the second, we said: "We have three different accounts of this affair: one from Wyatt Hutchinson, of Guernsey, then a lieutenant in the Guernsey militia; one from Henry Nail, who was with some 0of the wounded men the night following; and the last from a gentleman living in Mansfield at the time. Each differs in some essential particulars. Much experience has taught us that it is almost impossible to get perfectly accurate verbal narratives of events that have taken place years since, and which live only in memory." And to this remark of ours made in that long ago we here add the additional reason for conflicting testimony, viz., the rarity of perfect accuracy of observation and strength of memory, combined with the faculty of clearness in statement: THE MASSACRE OF THE RUFFNER FAMILY - There was living at this time - said Mr. Nail - on the Black Fork of the Mohican, about half a mile west of where Petersburgh now is (now Mifflin), a Mr. Martin Ruffner. Having removed his family for safety, no person was with him in his cabin, excepting a bound boy. About two miles southeast stood the cabin of the Seymours. This family consisted of the parents -both very old people -a maiden daughter Catharine, and her brother Philip, who was a bachelor. One evening Mr. Ruffner sent out the lad to the creek bottom to bring home the cows, when he discovered four Indians and ran. They called to him, saying that they would not harm him, but wished to speak to him. Having ascertained from him that the Seymours were at home, they left, and he hurried back and told Ruffner of the circumstance; upon which he took down his rifle and started for Seymour's. He arrived there, and was advising young Seymour to go the cabin of a Mr. Copus, and get old Mr. Copus and his son to come up and help take the Indians prisoners, when the latter were seen approaching. Upon this young Seymour passed out of the back door and hurried to Copus's while the Indians entered the front door, with their rifles in hand. The Seymours received them with an apparent cordiality, and the daughter spread the table for them. The Indians, however, did not appear to be inclined to eat, but soon arose and commenced the attack. Ruffner, who was a powerful man, made a desperate resistance. He clubbed his rifle, and broke the stock to pieces; but he fell before superior numbers, and was afterwards found dead and scalped in the yard with two rifle balls through him, and several fingers cut off by a tomahawk. The old people and daughter were found tomahawked and scalped in the house. In an hour or so after dark, young Seymour returned with Mr. Copus and son, making a hickory bark torch. Approaching the cabin, they found all dark and silent within. Young Seymour attempted to open the door, when it flew back. Reaching forward, he touched the corpse of the old man, and exclaimed in tones of anguish, "here is the blood of my poor father!" Before they reached the place, they heard the Indians whistling on their powder chargers, upon which they put out the light and were not molested. These murders, supposed to have been committed by some of the Greentown Indians, spread terror among the settlers, who immediately fortified their cabins and erected several block-houses. Among the block-houses erected was Nails', on the Clear fork of the Mohican; Beams', on the Rocky fork; one on the site of Ganges, and a picketed house on the Black Fork, owned by Thomas Coulter. THE COPUS TRAGEDY. -Shortly after this, a party of twelve or fourteen militia from Guernsey county, who were out on a scout, without any authority brunt the Indian village of Greentown, at this time deserted. At night they stopped they stopped at the cabin of Mr. Copus, on the Black Fork, about nine miles from Mansfield. The next morning, as four of them were at a spring washing, a few rods from the cabin, they were fired upon by a party of Indians in ambush. They all ran for the house, except Warnock, who retreated in another direction, and was afterward found dead in the woods, about half a mile distant. His body was resting against a tree, with his handkerchief stuffed in a wound in his bowels. Two of the others, George Shipley and John Tedrick were killed and scalped between the spring and the house. the fourth man, Robert Dye, in passing between the shed and cabin, suddenly met a warrior with his uplifted tomahawk. He dodged and escaped into the house, carrying with him a bullet in his thigh. Mr. Copus at the first alarm had opened the door, and was mortally wounded by a rifle ball in his breast. He was laid on the bed,and the Indians shortly attacked the cabin. "Fight and save my family," exclaimed he, "for I am a dead man." The attack was fiercely made, and several balls came through the door, upon which they pulled up the puncheons from the floor and placed them against the loft for safety, and the last was slightly wounded in the thigh, from a ball fired from a neighboring hill. One of the soldiers, George Launtz, was in the act of removing a chunk of wood to fire through, when a ball entered the hole and broke his arm. After this, he watched and saw an Indian put his head from behind a stump. He fired, and the fellow's brains were scattered over it. After about an hour the Indians, having suffered severe loss, retreated. Had they first attacked the house, it is probable and easy victory would have been gained by them. We now give the incidents of these tragedies, and in an abridged form, as told in the "County History:" Martin Ruffner and brother-in-law Richard Hughes erected cabins near each other in the spring of 1812, about half a mile northwest of the present site of Mifflin. Mr. Frederick Zimmer, Sr., put up a cabin two and a half miles southeast of Mr. Martin Ruffner and occupied it with his wife, daughter Catherine. Zimmer's son Philip Zimmer, aged 19, and Michael Ruffner, brother of Martin, whom he hired to assist him. Martin Ruffner and a bound boy, Levi Berkinhizer, occupied the Ruffner cabin. One day in September Michael Ruffner met two well-armed Indians near the Zimmer cabin, and being suspicious of their intentions he mounted a fleet horse and rode rapidly to Zimmer's and put them on their guard, and Philip Zimmer was despatched to inform James Copus, who lived two miles further south. Having warned Copus he proceeded to inform John Lambright, who returned with him and was joined by Mr. Copus; proceeding to the Zimmer cabin, which they reached early in the evening. Finding no light in the cabin Copus crept cautiously up to it; the door was ajar, but with some obstruction against it; cautiously feeling his way, he placed his hand in a pool of blood. Returning to his companions he informed them of his discovery, and further investigation proved that Frederick Zimmer, wife and daughter, and Martin Ruffner had been murdered. Ruffner had made a desperate resistance; he had fought his way from the cabin into the yard, his gun being bent nearly double from clubbing it; several of his fingers had been chopped off by a tomahawk and he was shot twice through the body. The fiends had scalped their victims, who had been treacherously set upon while furnishing them refreshment, as was indicated by the table being nigh spread. It is supposed eight or ten Indians were engaged in the slaughter, whose enmity Mr. Zimmer had incurred by tying clap-boards to their ponies tails to frighten them away from the corn field; any injury to an Indian's dog or pony being a cause for enduring resentment. Martin Ruffner and the Zimmers were buried in one large grave on a knoll near the scene of the tragedy. The cabins of Martin Zimmer and Richard Hughes near the Zimmers were not disturbed, young Berhinhizer having slept alone in that of Ruffner the night of the tragedy, Ruffner having been very friendly with the Indians, although perfectly fearless in his dealings with them. After his discovery of the murder of the Zimmers Mr. Copus and Mr. Lambright returned to their cabins for their families, and removed them to the block-house at Jacob Beams. After several days int he block-house Mr. Copus, believing the Indians owed him no ill will, insisted on returning with his family to his cabin on the Black Fork. Capt. Martin protested against it but as Copus persisted in going he sent nine soldiers with him as an escort. They reached the cabin in safety and retired for the night, the soldiers occupying the barn. In the night the dogs kept up a continuous barking and Mr. Copus got up toward daylight and invited the soldiers into the cabin. In the morning the soldiers leaning their guns against the cabin (although cautioned to keep possession of them by Mr. Copus) passed out to the spring at the base of a hill near the sixth cabin for the purpose of washing. They had reached the spring, when some Indians from their concealment in a corn field near by rushed out, cut off their retreat and began hooting and tomahawking them. Mr. Copus seizing his gun rushed for the cabin door; just as he opened it, he met an Indian; both fired at the same instant and both were mortally wounded. The ball from the Indian's gun passed through the leather strap sustaining Mr. Copus's powder horn (which is now in the possession of Mr. Wesely Copus) and into his breast; he staggered to his bed and died in a short time, begging the soldiers to defend and save his family. Two of the soldiers fled toward the forest, but were soon overtaken killed and scalped; another Mr. Warnock, succeeded in escaping his pursuers, but was shot through the bowels and foot; his body was afterward found seated leaning against a tree with his handkerchief stuffed into the wound in his bowels. Mr. Geo. Dye, another soldier, was shot through the thigh just as he was entering the cabin. -continued in part 4 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #235 *******************************************