OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 79 *********************************************************************** 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 79 Today's Topics: #1 Will do look-ups [Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000226210951.0095e100@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Will do look-ups Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I will do look ups in the 4 volume set, TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923 by The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923. All I ask is that you e-mail directly at GReasoner@prodigy.net and put look up in the subject line. If a bio is listed I will post it to the list so Maggie can put it in the archives. It may take a while for me to get back to you because there is no master index, each book has it's own index so I will have to check 4 books for each name. Gina ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:56:22 EST From: Matboyd@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <9a.19cbdec.25eb6806@aol.com> Subject: Scott's Hist. of Fairfield Co, OH, STEMEN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Statement of Nicholas STEMEN Henry STEMEN came from Virginia, and settled on Raccoon, in 1808. His wife was Mary BEERY, sister of the late George BEERY. Nicholas STEMEN ws one year old at the time his father came to Fairfield County. He continued to reside in Fairfield until he was about 30 years old, and then moved across the line into Perry County, where he still resides. Mr STEMEN stated that his father helped to clear off some of the first ground where Lancaster now stands. Below is his statement of the BEERY FAMILY, Who came into the Raccoon neighborhood a little before the STEMENs. Nicholas BEERY was the father of eight sons and seven daughters, viz: John, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Henry, George, Joseph and Christian; Barbara, Magdalene, Elizabeth, Mary, Susanna, Fanny and Rebecca. Most of his large family settled in the east part of Fairfield County, and became thrifty and useful farmers and citizens. Most of them are buried in the county. THE HUFFORDS Casper HUFFORD settled on the Raccoon at a very early day. He built the first mill, on the site where LOBENTHALL's and since, Mike MOYER's mill stands. It was a small Raccoon Burr Mill, of the capacity of eight or ten bushels of corn a day. Mr. HUFFORD's sons were: Solomon, Abraham, Daniel, Jacob and John. These all settled on the Raccoon. Catharine HUFFORD, daughter of Caspar, married John FRIEZNER; and Susan marrid David BEERY, son of John BEERY, and grandson of Nicholas BEERY. David BEERY built the brick house in which Solomon BEERY, son of George, now lives, on the Bremen road. Mr. NELSON built a mill on the Raccoon in 1805, on the land now owned by James DRIVER. Mr STEMEN remembers that, when a mill-boy, about 1812, he saw the miller carrying the ground wheat in ahalf-bushel up the steps, and turning it into the hopper of the bolting-chest, while the owner of the grist stood turning the bolting-cloth by means of a crank. (The writer has witnessed the same operation many times about the same era.) William JOHNSON built a mill on Rush Creek, a little below Rushville, during the year 1812,or about that time. JOHNSON's mill is well remembered. Jacob RHODES built a still-house on Rush Creek at a very early day. Mr. HARMON, father of Fred. HARMON, erected a distillery in Pleasant Township. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #79 ******************************************