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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 234 Today's Topics: #1 Hiram College Seniors, 1927 [Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000731142630.0096c7d0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Hiram College Seniors, 1927 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed HIRAM COLLEGE SENIOR CLASS OF 1927, HIRAM, OHIO (hometown following names) Sarah Barron, Angola, IN Lillian M. Brewster, Saugerties, NY Nellie Budd, Astabula, OH Russell Caldwell, Sharon, PA Mona May Corlett, Cleveland Heights, OH Esther Cowgill, Dayton, OH Milder Crawford, Williamsfiled, OH Raymond M. Crawford, Cortland, OH Ruth Crockett, Lakewood, OH Carlos Faulkner, Kenton, OH Maurice Fox, Burton, OH Mary Kathern Griffith, East Cleveland, OH Paul Hansen, Lakewood, OH Martha Harper, Hiram, OH Earl L. Heasley, Newton Falls, OH Marvel Ella Hibler, Hubbard, OH Sarah Margaret Hoagland, East McKeesport, PA Odessa La Denia Howard, Hawkins, TX Zella Maude Howard, Hawkins, TX Geraldine Hudson, Kenmore, OH Harmon R. Hughes, Warren, OH Kathleen Humphries, Cincinnati, OH Edgar L. Hurd, Hiram, OH Ray Kelley, Altoona, PA Elbert Kilpatrick, Warren, OH Myrtle Ardith Lecky, Orrville, OH Katharine Martin, Marion, OH C. Mae McAdow, Peebles, OH Jeanne McCaughtry, Niles, OH Thelma McCorkle, Warren, OH Albert McCully, Welshfield, OH Ruth Meng, Youngstown, OH Ruth G. Minglin, Hubbard, OH Marguerite Miller, Altoona, PA Helen E. Myers, Leipsic, OH Spencer W. Myers, Indianapolis, IN Clara Lindsay Nessell, Hiram, OH Josephine Parker, South Bend, IN Emma Marie Pratt, Youngstown, OH Helen M. Reed, Hiram, OH John W. Rose, Angola, IN Henry W. Schaedel, East Orange, NJ Elizabeth M. Schwed, Bellville, OH Ethel May Shaw, Cleveland, OH Susannah M. Stiling, Hiram, OH Dorothy Viola Stroud, Charleroi, PA Margaret Swan, Clear Lake, IA Clinton Tilden, Hiram, OH Lawrence Cyris Underwood, Bellefontaine, OH Lois Venable, Aurora, NY Althea Walker, Hiram, OH Byronna Allison, Angola, IN Carl Baldwin, Atwater, OH Donald Barbe, Bristolville, OH Lillian Weingartner, Cleveland, OH Wilford Bixler, Cuyahoga Falls, OH Grace Elien Wineman, Sharon, PA Carl Bauder, New York City, NY Edith Lynn, Canfield, OH Alfred E. Herman, Akron, OH Dale Munn Jenkins, Macedonia, OH Harold Short, Ravenna, OH Arnott Richards, Cleveland, OH William Kendall, Hiram, OH THE FOLLOWING WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR WORK AT OTHER SCHOOLS WILL RECEIVE DEGREES FROM HIRAM Clyde barnes, Macedonia Evelyn Bishop, East Cleveland, OH Shannon Jones, Girard, OH Forrest Wolverton, Sandusky, OH FACULTY Arthur J. Culler George Henry Colton Margaret Rand Edwin Lester Hall Jessie Maria Jerome John Samuel Kenyon James Jesse Turner Ralph Hinsdale Goodale Lee Edwin Cannon Elbert Howard Clarke Joseph Earl Smith Emma Olive Ryder Paul H. Fall Ernest G. Walker J. Harold DuBois Irma B. Cannon Russell G. Bunn Allie M. Taylor Harriette V. Krick Neill R. Currie Jessie J. Smith Elias Arnold Bredin Claudia Page Smith Ruth G. Anderson Kathryn Guarnieri George H. Pritchard Herbert C. Matthews Harry Clark Hurd Marion Hiller Dunsmore Harriet C. Horn Louise H. Padou Fred E. Nessell Florence M. Bromelmeier Mary Syfers McBride Edith A. Spalt Albert C. Young ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:03:42 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000731100546.009533c0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Ashland County part 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ASHLAND COUNTY, part 2 by Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 Upon a high, commanding site upon the outskirts of the town stand the somewhat imposing structures of the Ashland Preparatory College, W.C. Perry, principal. This institution is under the auspices of the Society of Dunkards, or German Baptists, of whom there are many in this county. The following account of these peculiar and excellent people is from the "County History." The quiet simplicity and earnestness of their lives is on a par with that of the members of the Society of Friends. The German Baptists or, as they are commonly called by outsiders "Dunkers or Dunkards (the name being derived from the German word to dip), had their first organization, in Germany about the year 1708, in a portion of country where Baptists are said to have been unknown; the original organization consisted of eight persons, seven of whom were bred Presbyterians, and one in the Lutheran faith; they agreed to "obey from the heart that form of doctrine once delivered unto the saints." Consequently, in the year 1708, they repaired to the river Eder, near Schwarzenau, and were buried with Christ in baptism. They were baptized by trine immersion and, organizing a church chose Alexander Mack their first minister. He was not, however, the originator of their faith or practice, the church never having recognized any person as such. Meeting with opposition and persecution, they emigrated to America and settled in the year 1719, near Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania. And from that little band of eight persons have sprung all the Dunkers in America. As the church, has no statistics, its numbers can only be estimated. The estimate is about 100,000 souls, mostly in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. They are mostly farmers, some mechanics and a few professional men, but such a thing as a Dunkard lawyer is unknown. Their religion inculcates industry and frugality, abstaining from extravagance and worldly display. They are very desirable citizens in any community, as by their industry and freedom from excesses of all kinds, they create and develop the wealth of a country blessed with their presence, and by their example exert a healthy influence upon the morals of those associated with them. They regard the New Testament as the only rule of their faith and practice; believe in the Trinity and contend for the literal interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, as works of Divine inspiration. All idiots, infants and those who die before knowing food from evil will be saved without obedience, having been sufficiently atoned for by the death of Christ. None, however, are recognized as members of the church until after baptism, which must be entire immersion, the applicant kneeling and being dipped forward three times, one for each person of the Godhead. Feet-washing is their next ordinance, the authority for which is narrated in John 13. It is observed as a preparation for the love-feast and communion. The brethren wash the feet of brethren only, and sisters of sisters: the sexes never washing the feet of each other, as has been sometimes stated. Those who perform this are n0ot chosen, but any person of the same sex may voluntarily perform it. The love-feast is a real meal, the quality or kind of food being unlimited. Christ's supper being the authority for it. After this, immediately preceding the communion, is the salutation of the kiss as observed by the apostles and Christian churches following them. In this ordinance the sexes do not interchange salutation. At communion, the next ordinance, the sisters with heads uncovered give thanks for bread and wine. The minister breaks bread to the brethren and they each to each other; he also breaks bread tot he sisters, but they do not break bread to each other; it is the same in passing the wine. The communion is always observed at night, the hour of its institution by Christ; usually once or twice a year in every church. There are also the ordinances of laying on of hands and anointing the sick with oil, founded on James 5:14, 15. The church government is republican in form, matters of difference and questions of doubt being first submitted to the council of each church, and then not settled they are carried to the district council composed of one delegate each from twenty churches, sometimes less. If still unsettled it is carried to the national conference if a matter of general interest; but no local matter can be referred to that body. In the lower councils all matters are decided by vote of brethren and sisters; but the sisters do not participate in the official deliberations of the national conference. Their mode of worship does not materially differ from that of other denominations, save that the Lord's prayer is repeated after every prayer, and the service closed without benediction; the minister simply says: "We are dismissed in the name of the Lord," or some similar phrase. During the service the sisters keep their heads covered with a plain covering, in compliance with Paul, who says: "IT is a shame for a woman to worship or prophesy with her head uncovered." The Dickey Church (so named after Elias Dickey, one of its leading speakers), the pioneer Dunkers' church of Ashland county, was erected about 1860 in Montgomery township, but a new and larger edifice was erected in 1877. It owes its institution to the efforts of the late Jos. Roop, who about 1839-40 invited Mr. Tracy to address a few people at his house, and the meetings were continued until the present organization was formed. The Maple Grove or Beighly church was erected four or five years before the Dickey building, but the latter was the earliest church organization. Their speakers receive no salary, but if one should be a poor man devoting his time and talents to the spreading of their faith, they regard it as incumbent upon them to reward him by gifts. JEROMEVILLE is a small village eight miles southeast of Ashland, on Jerome fork of Mohican, which has one Presbyterian, one Methodist, and one Disciples church, and in 1880 had 314 inhabitants. In that vicinity, about the year 1762, Mohican John, a noted chief of Connecticut Mohegans, to the umber of about 200 it is supposed, emigrated to Ohio, and established a villlage upon the west side of Jerome fork, on the site of the farms of Rev. Elijah Yocum and Judge Edmund Ingmand. In the war of 1812 it was about the only settlement within the present limits of the county, and consisted of a few families, who erected pickets for their safety. There was at that time a Frenchman, named John Baptiste Jerome, who had taken a squaw for a w3ife. The people of that nation always became more easily domesticated among the aborigines than the English. From very early times it was the policy of the French government not to allow their soldiers to take wives with them into the wilderness. Hence the soldiers and traders frequently married among the Indians, and were enabled to sustain themselves with far less difficulty. In 1812, when the Indians were removed, his wife went with them, and later he married a German woman. He removed to the mouth of Huron river, and died there. He began trading with the Indians when seventeen years of age, and was with them in Wayne's campaign. The Indian village consisted of about thirty bark huts or wigwams. the names of the heads of the families were Aweepasah, Opetete, Catotawa, Newsohawa, Buckandohee, Shias, Ground Squirrel, Buckwheat,. Philip Canonicut, Billy Montour, and Thomas Jelloway. Hill, in the "County History," says that Jerome was a brave and kindly man, small, wiry, and vivacious. Having been with the Indians at the battle of the "Fallen Timbers," he often related anecdotes of that battle, describing the amazement of the Indians at the rapidity and violence of the movements of Wayne's army, the Indians comparing him to a huge "black snake," and ascribing almost supernatural powers to him. He came like a huge anaconda, inclosed and crushed them in such a frightful manner that they abandoned all hope of resistance, and were glad to make peace. He asserted that for a very long time the very name of "Mad Anthony" sent a chill or horror through the body of an Indian. The Delaware Indians had a settlement at or near Jeromeville, which they left at the beginning of the war of 1812. Their chief was old Capt. Pipe, who resided near the road to Mansfield, one mile south of Jeromeville, When young he was a great warrior, and the implacable foe of the whites. He was in St. Clair's defeat, where, according to his own account, he distinguished himself, and slaughtered white men until his arm was weary with the work. He had a daughter of great beauty. A young chief, of noble mien, became in love with her, and on his suit being rejected mortally poisoned himself with the May apple. A Capt. Pipe, whose Indian name was Tauhangecaupouye, removed to the small Delaware reserve, in the upper part of Marion county, and when his tribe sold out their Ohio possessions accompanied them to Kansas. Helltown and Greentown were two Indian villages in the southern part of this county. Greentown was so named after Thomas Green, a Connecticut Tory, who, sympathizing with the British and Indians in the destruction of the valley of the Wyoming, fled to Ohio and joined the Delawares, acquiring great influence among them. Among the Greentown Indians was a very aged, full-blooded, ugly-looking savage, who was known to the early settlers as tom Lyons. He was born in New Jersey, and was one of the friendly Delawares with the whites at the massacres of Wyoming in 1778. On a few occasions he related his achievements. He had been in many battles on the border, and taken many scalps. He related some of his acts of extreme cruelty, and a few of his barbarities inflicted upon the wives and children of the border settlers. He was with the other Greentown and Jerometown Indians in the battle of the Fallen Timbers, and, as related in Hill's "History of Ashland County", gave this graphic account. It was in reply to a question of Allen Oliver, who asked him what he thought of Wayne as a white chief: "Wayne be great chief. He be one devil to fight. Me hear his dinner horn way over there go toot, toot; then over here it go toot, toot; then way over side it go toot, toot; Then his soldiers run forward -shout, shout; then run among logs and brush. Indians have got to get out and run. Then come Long Knives with pistols and shoot, shoot. Indians run; no stop; Old Tom see too much fight to be trap -he run into woods -he run like devil -he keep run till he clear out of danger. Wayne great fight -brave white chief. He be on devil." While going through the description of the fight, "Old Tom" gesticulated and grinned, as much as if in the midst of the battle. Terror was evinced in the whole of the mimic battle he was then fighting over, and being about the ugliest-looking Indian the settlers had ever seen, the effect of his speech, was to the highest degree expressive. -continued in part 3 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:12:15 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000731145106.00966e20@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Logan County, Ohio deaths 1868 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Logan County, Ohio Deaths 1868 for persons 50 years of age or older. (following the name will be month/date of death; age; place of death/residence; marital status; and place of birth) Gray, Mrs.; February 29; 65 years; Richland Township; married; Ireland Good, Jacob; March 24; 74 years;; Harrison Township; widow; Virginia Johnston, Stanton; February 26; 56 years; Richland Township; married; Ohio Monroe, John; February 7; 78 years; Bellefontaine; married; Virginia Mohr, Frederick; March 5; 77 years; Union Township; married; Germany Petty, Elam; March 4; 58 years; Pleasant Township; married; Virginia Roberts, Thomas; February 21; 78 years; Bokes Creek Township; married; Pennsylvania Reed, Allen; February 4; 69 years; Logan Co.; married; Logan Co. Stiles, E.D.; March 28; 60 years; Pleasant Township; married; Logan Co. Secrist, Henry; January 20; 85 years; Union Township; widow; Virginia Brown, Isabell; April 8; 60 years; Liberty Township; single; Ireland Blair, James; June 15; 70 years; Richland Township; married; Pennsylvania Davis, Elizabeth C.; May 7; 61 years 6 months; Logan Co.; widow; Ohio Hall, Benjamin F.; April 12; 72 years; Bellefontaine; widow; Cincinnati Krikwood, Nancy; May 9; 74 years, 2 months 10 days; Liberty Township; married; not known Reymer, Rachel; June 20; 70 years; Perry Township; widow; New Jersey Smith, Isaac; June 4; 50 years; Degraff; married; Virginia Zeibler, Jacob; April 29; 65 years; West Liberty; married; Logan Co. Ashbaugh, Andrew; July 6; 63 years; Richland Township; married; not known Auston, Rebecca; September 28; 64 years; Perry Township; married; Virginia Brown, Elizabeth; September 19; 69 years, 11 months, 8 days; West Liberty; married; Virginia Ballinger, John; August 14; 72 years; Logan Co.; married; New Jersey Chambers, Absalom; September 21; 75 years; Quincy; married; Virginia Cochran, Phebe; September 22; 86 years; W. Middleburg; widow; Long Island Hildebrand, Emely; August 27; 85 years; West Liberty; widow; not known Hillengs, Margaret; September 23; 88 years; W. Middlebury; widow; Pennsylvania Murdock, Fanny; September 23; 78 years; Bokes Creek Township; widow; Virginia McLaughlen, Robert J; August 10; 80 years; Bellefontaine; married; Ireland Newell, Joseph; September 12; 61 years; Bellefontaine; married; Logan Co. Pennock, Thomas; August 17; 68 years; Zanesfield; married; Pennsylvania Polloch, John; August 7; 58 years; Logan Co.; married; Pennsylvania Rea, David; September 10; 76 years; Perry Township; married; Ohio Donnels, Susan; December 13; 81 years; Monroe Township; single; not known Davis, Elizabeth; November 7; 54 years, 3 months, 10 days; Logan Co.; widow; Logan Co. Fry, Mary; October 21; 75 years; Jefferson Township; married; not known Hays, Alfred; November 15; 62 years, 7 months 3 days; Bellefontaine; widow; Clark Co., Ohio Hays, Jemima; November 22; 72 years, 3 days; Bellefontaine; widow; Morgan Co. VA Kitchen, Ann; December 10; 58 years, 1month, 22 days; Logan Co.; married; Lebanon, OH Marmon, Zylpha; December 17; 70 years; Logan Co.; married; North Carolina McMichael, Eliza; October 24; 57 years; Logan Co.; married; Logan Co. Richards, John N.; October 25; 72 years; Logan Co.; married; Logan Co. Thompson, James; October 3; 73 years; Logan Co.; married; Logan Co. Taylor, Mahlon K.; October 10; 60 years; Lake Township; married; Virginia ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:58:52 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000731152208.0096c8d0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: Preble County, OH Newspaper 1839-1841 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ITEMS FROM THE PREBLE COUNTY, OHIO NEWSPAPER FROM 1839-1841 March 14, 1839 - Died at her father's residence in this vicinity on the 22nd February Ult., Miss Eliza Jane DAY eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel DAY, in the 17 the year of her age. May 16, 1839 - Married Thursday 9th inst. by Alexander Mack, Esq., Mr. Aaron UNGER late of Pennsylvania to Miss Julia Ann HARVY daughter of Mr. James HARVY late of Virginia. June 27, 1839 - Died on the 21st inst., Elizabeth Ann BROWER daughter of Christopher and Mary BROWER of this place, aged 4 years, 7 months and 18 days. July 25, 1839 - Died on Sunday morning last at her husband's residence in this vicinity, Mrs. FLORA consort of Mr. Jonathan FLORA, aged 82 years and four months. August 15, 1839 - Died on the 7th of August 1839, Mrs. Elizabeth SELLER, aged 86 years. Member of the Presbyterian Church. August 29, 1839 - Died on the 7th inst. at New Paris in this county, Mr. Eli ADAMS in the 43d year of his age. December 5, 1839 - Married on the 30th ult., by Rev. Mr. Monfort, Mr. John M'CLELLEN of Preble County to Miss Martha Ann GOAR of Shelby County, IA. December 19, 1839 - Died in this place, on the 17th inst., Elizabeth Mary CLINE daughter of Jacob and Margaret CLINE aged 17 years and 2 months. January 9, 1840 - Died on the 2d inst. Miss Sarah SHIDELER daughter of Jacob and Letitia SHIDELER of Preble County, in the 21st year of her age. January 16, 1840 - Another Revolutionary Solder Gone - Died in Darke County, Ohio, on the 3d inst., Mr. James WOOD, in the 79th year of his age. Mr. Wood was a poor, honest man whose only support during many of the last years of his eventful life, was a small pension from the government. March 5, 1840 - Married on the 15th ult. by Mr. Andrew, Mr. Larken GREEN to Miss Elizabeth BASWELL in the middle of the road, near Mrs. Bomer's house. March 12, 1840 - Died on the 7th inst., at his father's residence near Eaton, William Reeder ARRASMITH youngest son of William and Susanna ARRASMITH, aged 3 years and 9 days. April 9, 1840 - Died on the 2d inst., Mrs. Elizabeth JACKSON of this place. She was in the 32d year of her age. April 9, 1840 - Died in Eaton on the 3d inst., Julia Ann M'CABE, a sister of Levin T.M'CABE, aged 21 years. May 21, 1840 - Married in Dixon Township on Thursday last by Rev. John Deem, Mr. James TAIT of Connersville, Indiana to Miss Lorinda LARSH of the former place. May 28, 1840 - Died at her father's residence near Camden, Preble County on the 13th inst., Janette ADAMS wife of Moore ADAMS of Oxford, Butler County, and daughter of Jacob and Nancy WEBB, in the 21st year of her age. Married a few days short of one year. June 4, 1840 - Died in the vicinity of Eaton on 30th ult., Jane R. BRUCE wife of Hardon BRUCE, aged 35 years. July 9, 1840 - Westward Ho! Cornelius V. BANTA respectfully informs those who are indebted to him, either by note or book account, that he has determined to remove to the far west. July 16, 1840 - Ran away from the subscriber living in Eaton, Preble County, on the 13th inst., an apprentice to the carding business, named Joshua McCOY aged about 16 years. He is heavily made, has black eyes and is somewhat freckled. Henry ENOCH. July 23, 1840 - Accident. On Tuesday the 7th inst., a lad about 13 years, Andrew son of James PURVIANCE, Sen. of Jefferson township was killed. His father had removed to St. Joseph County. He was the oldest child and leaves a grandfather in the county. July 23, 1840 - Died at his father's residence in Gasper township on the 7th inst., Gasper, son of Jacob POTTERF, in the 17th year of his age. September 10., 1840 - Died on Thursday last, Mrs. Elizabeth CLEVENGER consort of Burzillar CLEVENGER, in the 20th year of her age. Left husband and two small children. October 8, 1840 - Married Thursday the 24th ult. by Rev. J. Hill, Mr. James TIZZARD to Miss Mary Ann MADDEN. all of Rush County, IN October 29, 1840 - Died on the 7th inst. at her late residence in Camden, Mrs. Hetty MARSH, widow of Squier MARSH, deceased, in the 53d year of her age. Member of the Presbyterian Church. October 29, 1840 - Died in this place on the 19th inst., David E. PLACE in the 19th year of his age. November 5, 1840 - Died in New Paris on the 29th ult., Catherine MONFORT daughter of H. MONFORT of this place, in her 21st year. November 19, 1840 - Died in Eaton on the 11th November inst., John Vickery NATION of Joel Nation, aged 17 years and 11 months. December 17, 1840 - Died in Eaton on Sunday morning last, Mrs. Rosannah HENDRICKS, at an advanced age. February 4, 1841 - Married on Tuesday evening last by Rev. D. WINTERS, Mr. John P. WINTERS of Evansport, Williams County to Miss Sarah ALEXANDER of West Alexander. February 25, 1841 - Died at the residence of her son in Lanier Township on the 9th inst., Mrs. GREER, in the 96th year of her age. Member of the Presbyterian Church. March 4, 1841 - Died in this place at the residence of her son, Judge John ACTON, Mrs. Esther BANNING aged upwards of eighty years. March 25, 1841 - Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone. Died at his residence on the 18th of February last, in Jackson township, Preble County, Ohio, Mr. William WILLIAMS, who was in the eighty-first year of his age. Mr. Williams served his country for several years as a common soldier during that long, ardent struggle with Great Britian, to establish the equality of man. Mr. Williams was a regular minister of the Baptist Church for upwards of thirty years previous to his death. May 13, 1841 - Died on the 10th inst., Sarah Frances infant daughter of Nancy H. WILSON of this place, aged 4 months. May 13, 1841 - Died on 9th inst., William H.H. infant son of David and Martha Ann WILLIAMS of this place, aged 6 months and 24 days. June 24, 1841 - Died in this place on Monday last the 21st inst., Moses C. DOUGHTY, in the 38th year of his age. June 24, 1841 - Died on Tuesday the 22d inst., Louisa daughter of John and Mary DEGROOT, in the 16th year of her age. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #234 *******************************************