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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gina Reasoner GReasoner@prodigy.net March 2, 2000 *********************************************************************** 1931 ORVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ORVILLE, OHIO Allen, Geneva Amstutz, Mardell Arnold, Elmer Bachman, Howard Bader, Mary Baer, Agnes Becker, Frances Berkey, Roger Beyer, Betty Bray, Agnes Bricker, Jack Brown, Hazel Coffey, Lois Comstock, Frances Conrad, Ethel Crownover, Robert Deetz, Russel Diller, Lester Eshelman, Homer Falb, Milton Falk, Ruth Fair, Kenneth Faul, Marguerite Fisher, Ruth Fleming, Marjorie Frost, Richard Gaddis, Georgia Geiger, Edgar Geiser, Marie Gerhart, Elwood Gilbert, Don Haas, Esther Hatfield, Elizabeth Horst, Ross Hoyer, Arabella Huntsberger, Raymond Kropf, Margaret Lacy, Riley Leighty, LaVonne A. Leighty, Ruth Matter, Gladys Matty, Raymond McAfee, Russell mcCullough, Anna Miller, Adrian Miller, Vivian Misere, Edna Moser, Melvin Neman, Michael Nichols, Keaton Nolt, Darline Peters, Frederick Poetter, Helen Ramsey, Elizabeth Rhinesmith, Rex Robert, Emma Robinson, Catherine Saurer, Henry Schantz, Bruce Schnell, Frances Seckel, Lorraine Shonk, Owen Shultzman, Paul Simon, Kathryn Smith, Margaret Smicker, Ira Staley, Flossie Staley, Jay Stewart, Ellen Studer, Mary Swinehart, Viola Thomas, Carl VanNest, Juanita Watters, Ivan Welty, Etta Mae Yoder, Mary Zimmerman, Bessie Zimmerman, Earl Zimmerman, Harold Huffman, Clifford JUNIORS Nolt, Gloine Hartzler, Pauline Marks, Elizabeth McNutt, Mary Buss, Marguerite Hilty, Glendine McKinnis, Lenore Lindsey, Georgia Alleman, Beatrice Mast, Leland Fawcett, Raymond Smith, Wilmer Shoup, Ethel Alsip, Vivian Gillam, Eanor Horst, Ruth Studer, Ila Michner, Faye Dodds, Roderick Gift, Dnae Tschantz, Carl Manson, Richard Weaver, Adrian Klopfenstein, Virginia Abel, Reda Bechtel, June Amstutz, Viola Hartzzler, Velma Morgan, Elizabeth Allbright, Donna May Breneman, Helen Herman, Charles Starn, Dorothy Snyder, Douglas Williams, Lester Zieber, Maxine Doyle, Margaret Morris, Nellie VanNest, Juanita Graber, Grace Sweeley, Helen Bowers, Pauline Shultzman, LaMont Wilford, Theron Begert, Florence Lautenschlager, Ruth Gift, Lucille Elliott, Alberta Shadel, Virginia Dye, Dorothy Kropf, Mae Kail, Helen Himmelsbaugh, Glenn Allison, Harold Brown, George Kraft, Edward Steiner, Lloyd Herbert, Ralph Hetrick, George Gardner, Paul Suttle, Dale Erwin, Richard Demlow, Charles Wolf, Gale Vandeven, John Morgan, William Kimber, Robert Miller, Glenn Huntsberger, Raymond Murphy, Richard Baker, Richard Kinney, Walter Wells, Roy SOPHOMORES Deitz, Sterling Webb, Grace Royer, Elizabeth Eberly, Ruth Frangosie, Susie Steiner, Esther Zimmerman, Ruth Lance, Ruth Chilcote, Floyd Eyman, Jack Huntsberger, Samuel Shie, Richard Metzger, Homer Cunningham, Albert Grosjean, Frank Tilton, Mae Wirth, Evvva Zimmerly, Marjorie Studer, Freda Horst, Esther Ressler, Jane Koehl, Phyllis Steiner, Virginia Welsh, Evelyn Misere, Helen Lucius, Arvilla Herman, Nellie Eicher, Paul Vaughn, Ruth Imhoff, Ruth Everly, Bertha Lang, Ruth Deitz, Dorothy Bricker, Jane Airhart, Mary Louise Bowers, Helen Bader, Dorothy Sanderson, Mae Peters, Martha Elliott, Wilma McMurray, Angella Horst, Luella Yoder, Heber Rudy, Doyle Brubaker, Louise Hauter, Mary Fisher, June Smucker, Marcella Mullet, Grace Douglas, Ruth Gillam, Doris Welty, Barbara Holloway, Esther Deneke, Robert Amstutz, Dwight Geitgey, Marion Hoover, Roy Cline, Mildred Schmid, Grace Amstutz, Balnche Hauter, Martha Geiser, Ellen Wade, Nora Bishop, Esther Smucker, Jay Geiser, Howard Murray, Loren Curtis, Stephen Bricker, John Clark, Richard Gadfield, Harry Swinehart, Arlo Hall, Wynette Lowthers, Eastman Ehrhart, Max Drage, Harry Weber, Joseph Wenger, Fred Fulton, Philip Buss, Wayne Frey, Harry Smucker, Vernon Denman, Willard Grill, Harold Tredway, Homer Hooker, Paul Pontius, James Horst, Ralph Hawks, Raymond FRESHMEN Fetzer, Donald Harlan, Ethel Mae Lehman, Florence Berkey, Mildred Yoder, Paul Kistler, Chalmer Klopfenstein, Wayne Dye, Earl Ulrich, Robert Forrer, Donald Young, Ross Smith, Willis Gerhart, Virginia Tuttle, Earl Yoder, Glenn Alsip, Georgia Allen, Roy Frey, Junior McAfee, Dean Hofer, Sidney Comstock, Allen Troyer, Arlene Yoder, Dorothy Nolt, Delight Leopold, Robert Rohrer, Joy Brown, Irene Frey, Evelyn Coffey, Marian Heebsh, Billy Turner, Kenneth Steiner, Wilson Forrer, Dorothy George, Victoria Myers, Verla Mae Muxworthy, Pauline Vandeven, Marguerite Kail, Dorothy Geiger, Lois Miller, Pauline Miller, Mary Elizabeth Schantz, Virginia Wolfe, Kathleen Chapman, Mary Jane Brown, Herman Hoover, Russell Kilduff, Margaret Amstutz, Arlene Teisher, Kathleen Studer, Helen Heller, Jane Cagle, John Bachman, Gladys Springer, Vera Shumaker, Dorothy Tredway, Grace Zollers, Bonnie Watts, Crystal Simon, Ruth Horn, Martha Stucky, George Miller, Werden Forrer, Geneva Bucy, James Falb, Irene King, Rosemarie Fair, Ruth Forester, Clara Hutchison, Hilda Dye, Marjorie Curtis, Regina Bishop, Mildred Webb, Arlene Irvin, Richard Homan, Mildred Curtis, Regina Bishop, Mildred Webb, Arlene Irvin, Richard Homan, Mildred Baughman, Mabel Kilduff, Catherine Middleton, Ruth Markley, Ruth Good, Elmer Palm, Charles Martin, Roy Cate, Paul Reed, Naomi VanNostern, Marjorie Schnell, Myrtle Fries, Dolores Baughman, Kathleen Hawks, Mildred Lucy, Donald Baer, Billy Hopsin, Howard Fair, Paul Eshelmen, Myron King, Miles Mishler, Thurman Royer, Junior Martin, Daniel Gochnauer, Ruth Starn, Billy Keefer, Karl King, Robert Brown, Ralph Shoup, Arthur Finzer, Vinton Hill, Raymond Walton, George Dreher, Clarence Jenkins, Walter Green, Roy Mower, Omar Warner, Kent THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1930 AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING Airhart, Eva Mae - Canton Actual Business College Bluemlein, Homer - University of Cincinnati Bowers, Olive - College of Wooster Bucy, Margaret -White Cross Hospital, Cleveland Baughman, Ruth - Massilon City Hospital Bonham, Miriam - College of Wooster Bricker, Ross - Working in Orrville Burkey, Glenn - National Bank Clark, Walter - Working in Orville Crummel, Dana Mae - Business College, Akron Forrer, Mabel - At home Cunningham, Irene - Mercy Hospital Cover, Elizabeth - At home Dietz, Evelyn - Canton Actual Business College Erhart, Robert - Ohio Wood Preserver Frost, Gale - Condensery Garver, Jay - At home Griffith, Edna - Bucknell College, Pennsylvania Hauter, Ellen - At home Immel, George - At home Grady, Raymond - Ohio State University Grosjean, Mildred - Akron Business College Hostetler, Mildred - At home Irvin, Ruth - College of Wooster Jones, Mary Jane - Post Graduate Course, Orrville Heller, Robert - At home Kropf, Marie - At home McNutt, Martha - At home Keefer, Ethel - At home Kieffer, Howard -Fenn College, Cleveland Kropf, Mildred - St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland Mast, Ralph - Preparatory School to University of S. California Miller, Helen - Massilon City Hospital Moore, Kathryn - Working in Akron Moser, Leonard - At home Musser, Ethel - At home Mills, Althea - Columbus Moser, Alton - Schantz Organ Factory Murray, Allen - Dennison University Musser, Ferne - Canton Actual Business College Neman, Virginia - Working in Orville Oelker, Betty - Akron Business College Reider, Helen - At home Schrock, Carroll - Blufton College Null, Larid - Nuroy Roofing Co. Reed, Paul - Galion Iron Works Rehm, Blanche - At home Shoup, Ira - At home Shoup, Irvin - At home Simpkins, Lloyd - At home Smith, Raymond - Working in Orville Snyder, Fern - Working in Orville Stuckey, Ruth - At home Shultz, Marjorie - Akron Business College Snyder, Beatrice - Canton Actual Business College Starn, Ernest - Working in Orville Starn, Forrest - Working in Orville Stutzman, Kathryn - Office Training School, Columbus Trew, Ethel - Akron University Ulrich, Wilbur - Western Reserve University Weaver, Hoyt, Cottage Creamery Weygandt, Ralph - At home Tschantz, Margaret - Working in Orville Villard, Pauline - Working in Orville West, Clara - Working in Orville Wingert, Lucille - Dennison University Youngblood, Martha - At home Zimmerman, Ethel - At home Zarle, Ford - Smith's Dairy ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gina Reasoner GReasoner@prodigy.net March 2, 2000 *********************************************************************** TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923 The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923 Volume II, page 463-464 W.P. JACKSON - Prominent in the real estate circles of Columbia is W. P. Jackson, who was born in Marshall county, on the 18th of January, 1890, a son of John W. and Ida (Hayes) Jackson. His father was one of the pioneer settlers of Marshall county and his mother has the distinction of being the first woman in that county to be appointed county superintendent of schools. Extended mention of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson may be found on another page of this work. W.P. Jackson was taken by his parents to Maury county in 1891, when they took up residence in Columbia. He attended the public schools of this city and spent the year 1906 as a pupil in the Columbia Military Academy. From 1907 until 1910 he was in the employ of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as telegraph operator and during that time continued his education, attending the Maury County high school. He was graduated in 1910 and then took a postgraduate course in the same institution. In 1912 he was promoted to the position of manager of the Postal Telegraph Company, where he was serving when he put all personal interests aside and enlisted in the United States army for service in the World war. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant, First Class Signal Corps, and in December, 1917, he took the examination for master signal electrician and passed successfully, leading his class. there were two hundred and seventy-four applicants for the position and out of this number but two hundred and seventy-four applicants for the position and out this number but two passed the examination. In September, 1918, he was sent to the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Meade, Maryland, but before his training was concluded the armistice was signed, closing hostilities. He is now an officer in the reserve corps. After his honorable discharge from the army Mr. Jackson went to Gulfport Military Academy. Subsequently he severed his connections with the telegraph company and the academy and returned to Tennessee. He has since resided in Columbia, where he is prominently identified with the real estate business. He is thoroughly familiar with land values throughout the county and has won an enviable reputation as a most reliable real estate man. He is enjoying an extensive and ever-increasing patronage. Politically Mr. Jackson is a stanch supporter of the republican party and the principles for which it stands. Although he has never sought nor desired public preferment he is active in party affairs and is now chairman of the Maury county republican primary board. His religious faith is that of the Christian church and fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gina Reasoner GReasoner@prodigy.net March 2, 2000 *********************************************************************** TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923 S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. Volume II, page 290 DR. WINTON LEE THOMPSON, member of the dental profession in Chattanooga, was born in Pikeville, Tennessee, in 1890, his parents being William S. and Musa (Gilbert) Thompson. His father and his grandfather were born on the same place and engaged in farming there, the great-grandfather having taken up his abode on the old family homestead in pioneer times. The Gilberts were also among the earliest settlers of Tennessee, living at Spencer, where representatives of the name followed farming and merchandising. Winton Lee Thompson was a pupil in the schools of his native city and afterward attended Peoples College before entering the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated with the D.D.S. degree in 1912. He then located for practice in that city, where he remained for seven years. Returning to Tennesse, he remained for a brief period at Pikeville, but in 1919 he came to Chattanooga, where he has become established in his chosen profession. On the 21st of March, 1915, at Pikeville, Dr. Thompson was united in marriage to Miss Cora Ruth Tollett, a daughter of William Tollett, a prosperous and popular farmer and one of the old-time residents of Pikeville, the family having settled there as pioneers. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson have one child, Winton Lee, Jr. In his political views Dr. Thompson is an independent republican and while at Pikeville filled the views Dr. Thompson is an independent republican and while at Pikeville filled the office of recorder. He belongs to the Dental Society of Ohio and fraternally he is a Mason, who has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of York Rite. Something of the nature of his recreation and diversion is indicated in the fact that he is a member of the Wright's Mineral Springs Fishing Club. ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gina Reasoner GReasoner@prodigy.net March 2, 2000 *********************************************************************** TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923 The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923 Volume II, page 160 HOWELL E. JACKSON, a native of Henry County, Tennessee, was born in Paris, Tennessee, April 8th, 1832, the son of Alexander and Mary W. Jackson. He was a man of classical education, having graduated from West Tennessee college in 1848, and afterwards he took a course of two years in the University of Virginia. He studied law in a lawyer's office in Jackson, and entered the Lebanon law school from which he graduated in the year 1853. He served on several occasions on the Supreme Bench by appointment, and was a prominent candidate for Supreme Judge before the Democratic Nominating Convention. He was elected to the State legislature in 1880 on the State credit platform, and while a member of the Legislature was elected to the United States Senate in 1886 to become Circuit Judge of the Sixth Circuit of the United States to succeed John Baxter. He was an appointee of President Cleveland. During the administration of President Harrison he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court and held that position until he died at Nashville on August 8, 1895. The Legislature which elected Jackson to the Senate was very closely divided between the Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans supported the Hon. Horace Maynard and the Democratic vote was divided between Gen. Bate and several other candidates. Maynard was one vote short of an election, and the Republicans finally gave up all hope of electing him, and at the suggestion of Senator R.R. Butler, Jackson was brought forward as a candidate by the State credit wing of the Democratic party, and in the balloting was supported by the Republicans and this elected him. In the Forty-ninth Congress the Senators were Howell E. Jackson and Isham G. Harris and Washington C. Whitthorne, elected in place for Howell E. Jackson. ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gina Reasoner GReasoner@prodigy.net March 2, 2000 *********************************************************************** TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923 The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923 Volume II, page 468-469 JOHN W. JACKSON is one of the most prominent agriculturists in Maury county. He was born in Marshall county, on the 10th of June, 1862, a descendant of an old and honored American family. His father, W. Alexander Jackson, was a cousin of Stonewall Jackson and a son of Colonel James J. Jackson. He came to Tennessee at the age of eighteen years and for the greater part of his life was engaged in the mercantile business, achieving gratifying success in that connection. John W. Jackson received his education in the public schools of his native county and in 1890 moved to Columbia, Maury county, where he was connected with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for some two years. Subsequently he was elected chief of police of Columbia and was active in that capacity until about 1893, at which time he became assistant postmaster at that place. In 1906 he was appointed postmaster of Columbia and he was active in that office nine years, satisfactorily discharging the many duties devolving upon him. Upon the expiration of his term of service in that office he engaged in farming and he is one of the most successful and progressive agriculturists in Maury county. On the 18th of May, 1887, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Jackson to Miss Ida Hayes of Marshall county. They are the parents of six children, as follows: Jimmie, wife of J.W. Lane of Columbia; Waverly Hayes, of Columbia, who married Alleen Overton; Willoughby Pfifer, who married Willie A. McBride; Thomas Jefferson, who was captain in the World war, member of the Army of Occupation, and Russian Relief, and now in the army and stationed at Fort Slocum, New York, married Miss Raymond Vercouter of Tours, France; Riggs Lee of Columbia, married Helen Shelton; and John Blair, unmarried, lives on the home place. Since age conferred upon Mr. Jackson the right of franchise he has given his allegiance to the republican party, having firm belief in the principles of that party as factors in good government. He was a delegate of the National Republican convention in 1900 and for about twenty years has been chairman of the Maury County Republican Executive committee. Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his religious faith is that of the Christian church, to the support of which he is a generous contributor. He is a public-spirited citizen and he has contributed in a marked degree to the upbuilding of the county, his influence being ever on the side of advancement and improvement. ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Maggie Stewart maggieohio@columbus.rr.com March 3, 2000 *********************************************************************** --- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 7:56 PM Subject: [OHERIE-L] Elihu Parker Dear Dave, I finally came across something for you in Aldrich's 1889 History of Erie County, Ohio on page 613: "Parker, James C., Groton, Sandy Hill P.O., a merchant and farmer of Groton, was born in Margaretta, February 14, 1841, and was a son of Elihu and Eliza (Walker) Parker, who were married in March, 1820. Mr. Parker was born in Genesee County, N.Y., in 1794, and died January 22, 1887. His wife, Eliza, died in 1853,leaving a family of ten children, five of whom are now living: Henry, Ira, Phoebe, James C. and Elihu, Jr. Elihu Parker married a second and third time; both wives died, leaving no children. Mr. Parker settled in Margaretta Township after the close of the War of 1812, in which he served, on a farm of 200 acres, which he purchased on settlement here. James C. Parker was married December 30, 1867, to Mary Puckrin. They have two children now living: George W., born in 1871, and Lucretia Estella, born in 1881. Mary was a daughter of Thomas and Martha Puckrin, and sister of Hon. Joseph Puckrin. James C. Parker enlisted in Company I, 145th O.V.I., in 1864, and was discharged at Columbus, O. He now owns a farm of 140 acres. He erected his present store and dwelling, and became engaged in the mercantile business." Hope this helps! Shelly Clipson-Shock Ann Arbor, Michigan ______________________________ ------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Felicia Bridges felicia_bridges@mindspring.com March 3, 2000 *********************************************************************** (This was published in a newspaper whose mast included the word Democrat or Democracy. On another page was the Probate court listing : "The last will and testament of Richard F. Williams, late of Range Township, was filed in the probate court on Saturday, and an application to admit the same to probate will be heard at 10 o'clock, a.m., July 27.") Williams 1914 Richard F. Williams was born in Wales, May 27, 1833, and departed this life July 15, 1914, aged 81 years, one month and 18 days. When a boy of seven years of age he came with his parents, who emigrated to the United States, and settled in Delaware county Pennsylvania. Two years later they came to Ohio, settling at Radnor in Delaware county. When a young man of eighteen he went to Columbus, where he became a master mechanic, helping to build railroad engines, largely by hand work. In the capitol city of Ohio Brother Williams found his first wife and on June 9, 1957 he was married to Miss Sarah Sells. To this happy union were born three children - two boys, Frank and Charles, both deceased, and one girl whom he named, Margaret, who afterwards became Mrs. W.D. Yates, and is now living in Missouri. On May 10th 1861, he was bereft of his devoted wife and companion. About this time the Civil War began and on October 1, 1964 he enlisted for one year, or till the close of the war; but fortunately the war was brought to a close the following year and on July 1, 1965 he was honorably discharged from the duties of war. Since the closing of the war Brother Williams has been a respected and honorable citizen of the town of Sedelia, the village blacksmith for many years, always ready to serve his patrons with the best kind of workmanship of which he was capable. His domestic inclinations led him to again seek the companionship of a woman and in due time, April 15, 1866, Miss Adline Straley became his second wife, and the mother of his four children, all of whom survive him, save the wife and his son, Morgan. The surviving children of his second marriage are George [my great grandfather], and Mrs. Louella Weller of Sedalia and Mrs. Gertrude Sheets of Missouri. Brother Williams' parents were Presbyterians, but he and his wife joined the Sedelia Methodist Episcopal church under the pastorate of the Rev. S.M. Bright, who also officiated at their wedding, making them husband and wife. On April 20, 1906, the dark shadow of death came over his home again and tore from his bosom the companion of his heart, and transferred her to the home above. By a sad accident in September of the same summer in which he lost his wife, he was deprived of the sight of one of his eyes and in March following, 1907, he became blind in the other eye which left him in total darkness and so disqualified him for further toil at the forge and the sound of his anvil was heard no more, after a period of nearly fifty years of faithful jingling. He was a good citizen upright and true and his many friends rise up and call him a man among men. As a husband, father and grandfather he endeavored to be sincere, lovable and a lover of all. He belonged to the Masonic Fraternity of Midway, being the first man raised from the horizontal level to a perpendicular height after the Lodge was instituted. As a church man, he was ever faithful and true to the vows he had taken, a prayer-meeting man and the Sunday school superintendent for about twenty-one years and with the aid of his daughter he tried to teach a Sunday school class for a year after he became blind. how true it seems to be that the longest life is short after it is past: He has been in declining health for sometime past and his end was very peaceful. The funeral services were conducted by his pastor N.C. Patterson in the Methodist church, Friday morning at 9 o'clock, July 17th assisted by Rev. George F. Creamer of Good Hope, and the body was laid to rest between the remains of his two wives in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, where he surely awaits the resurrection of the just, and the redeemed of God. Card of Thanks We desire to express our sincere thanks to those who were so kind to us during the illness and at the time of death of our beloved father. 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