OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 346 *********************************************************************** 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 346 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: OBIT: VAN LEUVAN, 1900, Ashtab ["MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <017501c04f9f$443cbf00$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: VAN LEUVAN, 1900, Ashtabula Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- Sharyl ferrall@mtaonline.net Aug 26 2000 Transcribed from an original "Geneva Times". Vol. XXXIV No. 34. Geneva, Ashtabula Co. Ohio, August 22, 1900. Mr. A.G. Van Leuvan, who died at Ellis Junction, Wis., July 24, 1900, after three days' illness, was born at Portland, N.Y., November 11, 1841. He was one of a family of five children. Two brothers and an aged mother survive him. He spent his boyhood days on the farm and lived a very quiet uneventful life until 1861 when he enlisted, September 2nd, in Co. A, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was discharged September 4, 1864, at Philadelphia. He was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville and suffered the loss of his left arm. The shell which took off his arm killed and wounded nine other persons. The Captain of his company wrote to his father informing him of the great sorrow that had come into his life. In closing the captain spoke of him as "a good boy and a brave soldier." While he lay sick and wounded on his cot in the hospital and while thinking of home and friends far away, he asked God to give him patience and strength to bear the loss of his arm, and never afterwards was heard to complain but would often point with pride to the empty sleeve. In 1864 he entered Bryant and Straton's Mercantile College of Buffalo, where he graduated two years later. Warren P. Spencer was one of the teachers in the college at that time. He was married to Miss Maria J. White, at Westfield, N.Y. March , 1877, with whom he lived happily until the day of her death. They united with the West Portland Baptist Church of New York, some seventeen years ago; five years later they came to Geneva to live and joined the First Baptist Church of this place. He was also a valued and honored member of Bowers Post, No. 28, G.A.R., of Geneva. The circumstances of his death were particularly sad as he died among strangers and far away from home, within ten miles of his brothers home where he expected to spend many happy hours. When told that death was near he met the disappointment like a brave soldier and said "It is all right." The One in whom he had trusted for many years was with him as he fought the last battle of life and yielded a victim to death. The funeral occurred Sunday, July 29th, at his late home, Vine Street. The pastor of his church, the Rev. George Lord, who conducted the funeral services, spoke of the deceased as "aman who, although crippled somewhat through life and accustomed to struggles and disappointments had been true to self, and thus echoed in thehearts of the many veteran comrades who stood about the door of his pleasant home during the ceremony. The body was lid to rest in the old cemetery by the side of that of his wife. A soldier's life is ended, His spirit rests with God. His work on earthis o'er, His form is beneath the sod. But memory still will linger In the hearts of those who grieve, And think with loving kindness Of one with the empty sleeve. --- There was a photo of Mr. Van Leuvan with this obit. in the paper.. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:29:26 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <017801c04f9f$44bb64e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: KELLY, Helen, Muskingum Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- --- Joe Stone, Jr JOECS@PRODIGY.NET Oct 10 2000 KELLY, Helen Obituary Transcript Prepared by; Joe Stone - JOECS@prodigy.net Source: Muskingum County Library Genealogy Department, Ohio, USA Kelly, Helen Pa. 6-6-78 Mrs. Helen Kelly, 77 of Washington, Pa., died saturday in a Washington Pa. hospital. Born at Moxahala, Mrs. Kelly was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ross. Surviving are nine children, 13 grandchildren, 16 nieces and nephews among whom is Mrs. Raymond (Gay) Douglas of 818 Western Ave.; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Ross of 1065 Lindsay Ave. Burial will be this afternoon in Washington, Pa.. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:28:24 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <017701c04f9f$4490ab60$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: GETZ, Ross, Muskingum Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- Joe Stone, Jr JOECS@PRODIGY.NET Oct 10 2000 GETZ, Nellie Ross Obituary Transcript Prepared by; Joe Stone - JOECS@prodigy.net Source: Muskingum County Library Genealogy Department, Ohio, USA Getz, Nelly Ross 1-19-76 Mrs. Nelly Ross Getz, 76, of Columbus, formerly of Zanesville, died at 4 p.m. Sunday in a Columbus hospital. She had been in failing health for the past year. She had visited here frequently at the home of Mrs. Sarah Ross of Lindsay avenue. Arrangements are incomplete. ~also~ Muskingum County Library, Ohio, USA Greenlawn Cem. Columbus Getz Services for Mrs. Mildred (Millie) Ross Getz, 76, of 1827 Sullivan avenue, Columbus, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Schroyer Funeral Home on West Broad street in Columbus. Burial will be in the Greenlawn Cemetary, Columbus. A native of Zanesville, she died about 4 p.m. Sunday in Grant Hospital, Columbus after a illness. Surviving are two sons, Victor McClatchey of Columbus and Gwynn McClatchey, with whom she made her home; two daughters, Mrs. Gloria Burton and Mrs. Pauline Adams, both of Columbus; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Mary Ann Ross of Route 8 and Mrs. Sarah Ross of Lindsay avenue.. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:32:02 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <020e01c04fa1$65b0fa00$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: ROSS, Harry, Muskingum Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- --- Joe Stone, Jr JOECS@PRODIGY.NET Oct 10 2000 ROSS, Harry Obituary Transcript Prepared by; Joe Stone - JOECS@prodigy.net Source: Muskingum County Library Genealogy Department, Ohio, USA Harry Ross Jan 1944 Funeral services for Harry Ross, 71, of Crooksville, brother of Charles Ross of this city, who died thursday morning at his home, will be held at 1 o'clock this afternoon at the Pilgrim Holiness church in McLuney. Rev. R. P. Baumgardner will officiate. Burial wil be in the Crooksville cemetery in charge of the Canon & Canon funeral home. He is survived by one son, Willis, of New Lexington; three daughters, Mrs. James Johnson of Crooksville, Mrs. Erma Cochran of Clare, Mich., and Mrs. M. R. Rice of Columbus; one brother, Charles Ross of Zanesville; one sister, Mrs. Anna German of South Zanesville; 11 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildern.. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:33:09 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <020f01c04fa1$65d28bc0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: ROSS, Sarah L., Muskingum Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- --- Joe Stone, Jr JOECS@PRODIGY.NET Oct 10 2000 ROSS, Sarah L. Obituary Transcript Prepared by; Joe Stone - JOECS@prodigy.net Source: Muskingum County Library Genealogy Department, Ohio, USA 27 Aug., 1988 Sarah L. Ross, 73, 1326 Central Ave., died 5:10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, 1988, at Cedar Hill Care Center following a three-year illness. She was a member of Central Trinity United Methodust Church and the Zanesville Senior Citizens. She retired from Bethesda Hospital and had also been employed by Hazel-Atlas Co. Mrs. Ross was born Sept. 2, 1914, in Zanesville, to James and Ella Rummer Hyson. Her husband, Charles J. Ross, died in 1969. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Sherman (Andrea) Dunn, ; one sister, Mary Pletcher, Zanesville; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was proceded in death by one brother, George Rummer Hyson, and one sister, Ella Weiner. Memorial services will be 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Central Trinity United Methodist Church with Rev. Raymond Merz officiating.. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:35:12 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <021001c04fa1$65f296e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: WILL: Elizabeth Scott [Aspinwall] VAN BEUREN [widow of John], 1879, Muskingum Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- --- Lin Van Buren veeb@getfreeinternet.co.uk Oct 18 2000 Recorded 29 September 1879 in Muskingum Co OH Will Book 4 pages 409-412 Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Scott Van Beuren I, Elizabeth Scott Van Beuren of the State of Ohio, being of sound mind and in full possession of all my faculties, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, to dispose of and hereby disposing of all the property and effects I now have or may acquire hereafter and be the owner of at the time of my decease. I. It is my will and I hereby order and I direct that all my funeral expenses and just debts be paid as soon as practicable after my decease. II. I give unto my three living daughters (or to those living at my decease) to wit - CATHERINE STANBERY, SARAH SCARBOROUGH, and ELIZABETH WILKES - all the wearing apparel, jewelry, books, papers and effects, appertaining to my person and for my personal use or convenience & which I may be in possession of at the time of my decease. III. It is my will and I hereby order and direct that all my remaing [sic] property whether real or personal be converted into money as soon after my decease as is practicable, and without other delay whatsoever - and when so converted into money to be by my executors divided into five (5) equal shares, and each of said five shares to be by them distributed in manner following - to wit: 1st. One equal fifth part, or share, I order and direct shall be by them paid to KATHERINE wife of HOWARD STANBERY, now of Zanesville, Ohio, and in case of her death prior to my decease, to her surviving children, such surviving children to share equally the mother's portion hereby devised to her. 2nd. One equal fifth part or share I hereby order and direct shall be by them (the executors) paid over to SARAH SCARBOROUGH wife of WILLIAM SCARBOROUGH of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in case of her death prior to mine, to her children who may survive her such surviving children to share said fifth part in equal amounts between them. 3rd. One equal fifth part or share, I hereby order and direct my Executors to pay over to ELIZABETH, wife of EDMUND WILKES, now living in Salt Lake City Territory of Utah, and in case of her death prior to mine, the said fifth part they the executors are to pay share and share alike to the children of said Elizabeth Wilkes who may survive her. 4th. One equal fifth part or share I hereby order and direct my Executors, hereinafter named, to pay over share and share alike unto such of the children of my deceased daughter ALICE late wife of HORACE H. KEARNY, also deceased, of Zanesville, Ohio, as shall survive me at my decease. 5th. One equal fifth part or share, I hereby order and direct Executors to pay over share and share alike, unto such of the children of my deceased daughter REBECCA, late wife of DANIEL CAMDEN CONVERS of Zanesville, Ohio who shall survive me at the time of my decease. IV. I hereby constitute and apppoint HOWARD STANBERY of Zanesville, Ohio, WILLIAM W. SCARBOROUGH of Cincinnati O. and HUGH SMYTHE now residing in New York City, Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and it is my will and order and direction that my said Executors shall not nor be required to give any bond of indemnity nor security whatsoever as such executors, and for their faithful performance of their duties under this my Will and Testament imposed upon them, and I hereby authorize and empower and direct them for the purpose of converting my estate into money as provided for in this my will and Article III thereof, to sell any Real Estate, Stocks, Bonds, Evidences of indebtedness or property of whatsoever kind I may die possessed of, saving and excepting articles of my personal used [sic], devised [sic] in Article II of this my will, aforesaid, either by private sale or public auction, as in their judgement and discretion may seem to be most for the interest of my ! estate to do. V. I hereby revoke and cancel all my previously made wills and devises of my property of whatsoever kind. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses, and affixed my Seal and also subscribed my name on each page of this my Will, my last Will, my last will and testament in the City of New York, where I am temporarily sojourning, this the tenth day of January, A. D. 1877. The words "and appoint" on 3d page written before signing, also word "as" erased from page 1. Elizabeth S. Van Beuren {Seal} Witnesses: ISADORE H. TOWLE, HUGH SMYTHE. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:46:08 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <00f401c04fbb$129f91e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Logan County Bio: WILLIAMS, Christie (1892) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeanne Johnson Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:18 PM Subject: Logan County Bio Submission Christie Williams Christie Williams, Auditor of Logan County, is at present classed among the prominent residents of Bellefontaine. He was born in this country March 31, 1833, and is a son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Green) Williams, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky. The father of our subject was brought to the State by his parents when four years of age, in 1805. His father, who bore the name of John, was a native of North Carolina and was a Quaker in religion. He was born in Guilford County and remembered the battle between Green and Cornwallis, at which time many of the wounded were carried into his home. After coming to this State, the grandfather of our subject located in Highland County, and later took up his abode in Champaign County. During the War of 1812, he came to what is now Logan County, where he resided until his decease, which occurred in 1856. His family included seven sons and two daughters. The maternal grandfather of our subject, George Green, was born in England, emigrating to America when twenty years of age. He settled in Maryland, where he was married, and then moved to what is now Fleming County, Ky., where his family were all born except his eldest child. He later took up his residence in this county, where his death occurred in 1832. He had a large family of seven sons and two daughters. Mathias WILLIAMS was a farmer by occupation, in which calling he was more than ordinarily successful. He departed this life December 28, 1865, being preceded to the better land by his good wife by four weeks, she having died November 27. Our subject, who is the only survivor of the family, had two sisters. He was reared to farm pursuits and received his early education in the public schools. He later attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and the Southwest Normal School at Lebanon. After completing his education, Mr. Williams taught school for several years during the winter months, and worked on the farm during the summer. In February, 1865, the original of this sketch enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-second Ohio Infantry, and saw much hard service in the Shenandoah Valley. Having had a very serious attack of measles, he was confined for a time in the general hospital at Baltimore, Md., from which he received his honorable discharge. Returning home, our subject resumed the peaceful pursuit of farming, and continued thus employed until 1881, when, his health failing, he removed to Bellefontaine, with whose interests he has since been identified. In this city he embarked in the mercantile business, but was only thus employed for a short time when he again taught school, filling the position of a teacher until he was elected to his present office, in 1886. So worthily and satisfactorily did he perform all the duties imposed upon him, that the following term he was re-elected. April 12, 1860, Christie Williams and Miss Phila A. Chesher were united in marriage, and to them have been born one son and one daughter. The wife and mother departed this life September 8, 1889, firm in the faith of the Christian Church, of which body her husband also belongs, and such times officiates in the pulpit as minister. In social matters, Mr. Williams is a Grand Army __ [copy unreadable] is to-day well known throughout the county, and is respected as his industrious and upright life deserves. Source: Portrait and biographical record of Auglaize, Logan and Shelby counties, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens .-- Chicago : Chapman Bros., 1892. Contributed by: Jeanne Chesher Johnson, jj@tampabay.rr.com, October 29, 2000 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:44:32 -0500 From: "MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <00f301c04fbb$12765f00$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BIO: MILLER, Charles S., Clark Co. (1886) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy J. Baker Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 9:37 PM Subject: Clark Co. Bio Info From History of Knox and Daviess Counties, IN, 1886, Goodspeed publisher. - Charles S. MILLER. Among the leading young business men of Vincennes may be mentioned our subject, who is a dealer in choice drugs, medicines, paints, oils, etc. He was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1859, and is a son of John G. and Matilda (STOUT) MILLER. The Millers are of English descent, the father being born in England in 1810, and the mother in Clark County, Ohio in 1817. The family came to Knox County in 1863, where they have since lived. Our subject was educated in the Vincennes public schools, and later attended the Vincennes University during the Centennial year. He enterd the employ of the drug firm of Moon and Harris, and with them remained until 1883. During his service with this firm he read medicine under the direction of Dr. Moon. In 1883 he engaged in the drug business for himself, purchasing the store of Davenport and Company. He has been and is doing a successful business beyond his expectations. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a member of the Presbyterian church. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #346 *******************************************