OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 347 *********************************************************************** 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 347 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: Muskingum history, pg 96-97 ["MaggieOhio" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <00f201c04fbb$12440460$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Muskingum history, pg 96-97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Peppler Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:06 PM Subject: Muskingum history Hi, This is from the History of Muskingum County, page 96-97. There are a number of people mentioned. I would like to say I transcribed this because my ancestor, Charles Bowen, and wife are mentioned as having died in the sinking of the Belle Zane. Hoping to hear from other researchers of the Bowen line: jpeppler@acpub.duke.edu The first steamboats in the regular trade on the Muskingum river were built at Zanesville before the completion of the improvement, and some of them were engaged in the trade to Dresden. The canal boats from Cleveland with their cargoes were brought to Zanesville, towed by the small steamers in that trade. Large quantities of flour and salt were shipped on canal boats for the trade along the canal, and much of the flour was sent to New York. "The Hope," built by Capt. Reeves, is represented as the first steamboat built at Zanesville. It was a small craft not equal to some of the small pleasure boats that were on the river a few years ago. The "Tuscarawas," Capt. Billy Scales commander, made a trip to Coshocton, during high water. Joseph Howland was engineer. The "Muskingum Valley," another of Capt. Scales' boats, was in the Dresden trade. There were also other boats engaged in this trade, the names of the best known being "The Ohio," McIntire," "Zanesville packet," "Muskingum," "Moxahala" and "Relief." The last named boat was built for the Dresden trade, commanded by Capt. Thompson. It also made a few trips to Pittsburg. The "Philip Doddridge," of Wellsburg, Va., was also early in the Muskingum trade. Capt. Robert Hazlett was one of the owners of the "Muskingum," "Moxahala" and the "Relief," and he was a commander on the "Muskingum" and "Moxahala." The "Putnam" was built by Capt. Blue on the canal bank near Second street. It went to New Orleans, and there was engaged in the Lake Pontchartrain trade. The "Del Norte" left the Muskingum for the Rio Grande river, crossing the Gulf of Mexico. It was commanded by Capt. William Bowen, who had commanded the steamer "Muskingum" in the Pittsburg trade. Capt. Bowen was a partner of Mr. L. H. Dugan in building the large flouring-mill at Duncan's Falls, now owned by Mr. John Miller. He was a brother of Mr. Charles Bowen, who was lost when the "Belle Zane" sunk, on the Mississippi river. Capt. Bowen engaged in trade in Mexico, and was killed by the Mexicans before the war with the United States. There appear to have been a great many boats carrying the first steam whistle on the Ohio. Mr. W. W. Little, of Little, Ky., writes that it was on the Mingo Chief in 1844. A veteran river man of Cincinnati is certain that it was on a boat called the "Revenue," owned by Capt. A. Bartlett, of Wheeling; she received the whistle the year following the great Pittsburg fire, in 1844 or 1845. The "Mingo Chief" was in the Pittsburg and Zanesville trade. The steamer "Julia Dean" was the pioneer in having the first steam horn. It excited the people more than the first whistle. The "Belle Zane" was built at the California boat yard on the Monongahela river. The boat was owned at Zanesville and it was a regular packet in the Zanesville and Pittsburg trade, capacity 300 tons. It made a few trips to Cincinnati and to St. Louis. The "Belle Zane" was a fine model and one of the fastest boats at that time. In December, 1845, the boat was loaded at Zanesville with a miscellaneous cargo, consisting of flour, empty molasses barrels to be filled on the Louisiana coast with molasses for the Zanesville wholesale trade. At Marietta there were taken aboard 700 turkeys and a large number of chickens for the New Orleans market. About thirty cattle and 600 bushels of corn were added to the load at Madrid, Mo. The cabin was well filled with passengers and the boat had all the load it could carry. The rivers were very low and there was slow traveling on account of the low stage of water. John Brazure, of Cincinnati, was commander, and the other officers were Zanesville men, viz." Clerk, Edward Matthews; mate, Monroe Ayers; engineers, David Hahn and Joseph Howland. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowen and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Wyncoop and son, were passengers from Zanesville. Mr. Bowen was a prominent citizen then engaged in the grocery trade. He had represented the county in the Ohio legislature. Mr. Wyncoop was also a well-known citizen. Many friends were at the landing when the boat lines were handed in and a large crowd were at the lock and remained waiting until the boat passed around the bend below Moxahala. On the 17th, four sunken boats were seen that had been snagged. The night of the 18th and morning of the 19th of December the weather was very cold, the thermometer was near zero, and ice was rapidly forming. At two o'clock in the morning, soon after the first watch had left their places, there came a crash, a heavy shock, and the boat turned on its side; the boilers rolled into the river. A snag was struck, and the boat was sinking. The roof floated off, with Victor Fell, of Zanesville, on it. He was saved. David Hahn, Monroe Ayers and another man made a raft of the gang-plank and went ashore, and ran down the shore a distance and found a yawl, which they took and made for the boat, and commenced rescuing the passengers. When the snag was struck and the boat careened, there were a number drowned, and among their number were Mr. and Mrs. Bowen and their son. The crew of the boat worked like heroes. The cabin broke loose from the hull, and floated down the river several miles, with human beings clinging on the wreck. Mrs. Wyncoop and her son were rescued about two miles from the place of the disaster. Others were taken off as rapidly as the men in the yawl could relieve them. Robert Burns, of Cincinnati, a steamboat engineer, froze to death. Miss Jane Conner was without shoes when taken off the wreck. One of the engineers pulled off his and gave them to her. There were no other Zanesville people lost except the Bowen family. Their bodies were never found. The passengers and crew that escaped found shelter in the negro huts on the shore. The cabin floated as far as Island 74, where it struck the ground; the people yet clinging to it were saved. Mr. Wyncoop was rescued at this place. From all obtainable information, eighteen or twenty passengers were lost, but all the crew escaped. The citizens of Napoleon, which town has itself been washed away by the "Father of Waters," had a social, and raised many things for the unfortunate victims of the wreck. Some of them went to New Orleans, others took passage for home. Mr. and Mrs. Wyncoop and son went to Vicksburg. -- Mappamundi: "More-or-less traditional music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium" http://www.mappamundi.com/ ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:49:20 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.6.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: ARNOLD, Philip - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ******************************************************************** Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ******************************************************************** PHILIP ARNOLD Philip Arnold was born in Le-high County, Pa. He removed to Plain town- ship in 1812, and settled upon what was known as the Gillis farm. Ater his arrival he purchased 320 acres of land from the Eagles, who had entered it. He had eleven children. For months they had no bread in the house, and were compelled to live on venison, honey and potatoes. His son, Thomas Arnold, a native of the same county, was born in 1802, and came West with his father. He was married in his twenty-fifth year to Sarah Hines. He cast his first vote in what was called "Blue school-house." ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:47:41 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.4.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: HARMON, Jacob - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ******************************************************************* Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ******************************************************************* JACOB HARMON Jacob Harmon was born in Montgomery County, Pa., December 31, 1791. His father, Conrad, was a shoemaker, with whom Jacob worked for many years, never having but two months English schooling in his life. He came to Wooster township in the spring of 1818, then a single man. He was married to Catharine Hoff, October 10, 1820, and has had ten children. She died April 27, 1872. When he came to the county, he says, there were Indians to be seen, and he remembers seeing Simon Rice, accompanied by his brother William, spear and kill a bear near the farm of ex-Judge John K. McBride. He is now eighty-seven years of age, and is a member of the Lutheran church. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:51:03 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.7.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio: LOCKHART, Moses Sr. - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ****************************************************************** Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ****************************************************************** MOSES LOCKHART, SR. Moses Lockhart, Sr. was born near Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1788. He was married in Virginia to Phoebe Morgan, daughter of Hugh Morgan, of Wayne County, in 1812. He came to Ohio in 1813, settling in Franklin Township, on the farm where his son Moses now lives, where he entered 400 acres of land, all in woods and prairie bottoms of Killbuck. The cabin was built near the site of the present house, the latter built in 1820. Here Moses Lockhart lived until his death in March, 1839. He had six children, four of whom survived him--three daughters and Moses Lockhart, Jr., the bachelor, now residing on the old farm. Elizabeth, the wife of James Moore, of Clinton Township, is one of the surviving daughters. Moses Lockhart, Jr., was born April 14, 1821. His grandfather, William Lockhart, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, participated in the battle of Brandywine, etc., and died in Warren County, Ohio. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:42:44 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.0.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: BLACHLEY, Willaim B. - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ***************************************************************** Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ***************************************************************** WILLIAM B. BLACHLEY, M.D. William B. Blachley, M.D., was born in New Jersey, from which State he re- moved to Washington County, Pa., where he remained twenty years, when he emigrated to Plain Township in 1816. He was twice married, and was the father of nineteen children. He practiced medicine in Blachleyville nineteen years, when he removed Valparaiso, Indiana, where he died at the age of seventy-four years. He was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of the Baptist church. His son, William Blachley, M.D., was born in Washington County Pa., November 27, 1799, and came to Plain township with his father, with whom he read medicine and began practice. He was married in his twenty- fourth year, to Abigail Wells, a native of New England, and had twelve children, ten of whom are dead--two daughters only remaining. The eldest daughter, Abigail, is married to Dr. Hunt, of Shreve, and the youngest to Captain Benjamin, son of Constant Lake, of Wooster. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:49:00 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.5.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: HUGHES, John - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ******************************************************************* Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ******************************************************************* JOHN HUGHES John Hughes was born in Fayette County, Pa., March 13, 1785, where he lived with his father and followed the occupation of a farmer. He married Jane Fleniken, of Greene County, Pa., from which marriage resulted the following children: Minerva, James F., William, John, Cephas, Robert, Cyrus, Alford, Jane and Helen. His wife died July 23, 1835, and he was married again in June, 1836 to Jane Boyd, of Greene County, Pa. The following were the children of his second marriage: Samuel B., Mary Ann, Sarah A., Nancy, Lucretta, Josephus and Ellen. Mr. Hughes was among the first settlers. He came to Wayne County in the fall of 1816, and entered two quarters of land, the same now owned by his son Alford Hughes, in Franklin Township. He also bought a quarter second-handed, the one now owned by his heirs, and now occupied by his son Samuel. In the year did some clearing and built his cabin, 18x25 feet, then returned to Jefferson County, Pa., and in April of 1817 he brought his family to Franklin Township, where he continued to reside until his death, April 18, 1861. Mr. Hughes was in many respects a more than ordinarily valuable citizen, and was possessed of considerable enterprise. He was one of the early settlers of Franklin Township, serving as Justice of the Peace for many years. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:44:05 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.1.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio: BUTLER, Thomas - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher *********************************************************************** Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) *********************************************************************** THOMAS BUTLER Thomas Butler was born in Monongahela County, Virginia, but in what is now Preston County, West Virginia, August 10, 1783, and came to Franklin Township in 1808, settling on the farm now owned by John and Elizabeth Butler and Isaac Munson. He entered 160 acres of land, the second land entered in the township, and being a single man boarded with James Morgan, and on April 12, 1809, married Rebecca, daughter of Mr. Morgan (first marriage in the county). He built a cabin and moved therein, but which was fired and destroyed when he was at Mr. Morgan's, by the Indians. Mr. Morgan had eight children, to wit: Sarah, Jane, Elizabeth, Morgan, Jonathan, Isaac, John and Andrew. Truly indeed was the county a wilderness when Butler and Morgan entered it. The bottoms of the Killbuck then abounded in plum tickets, cherry and sycamore trees and considerable walnut. For years Mr. Butler kept his wheat in the trunks of sycamore trees. Bears were plentiful and wolves numerous, Mr. Butler on one occasion killing one within half a mile of his house. Mr. Butler was a great talker, a pioneer of the true type; and performed a brave part in the early settlement of the county. Jonathan Butler, his brother, was a native of Virginia, and emigrated to Holmes then, but Wayne County now, as early as 1818, and was the builder of the famous Butler mill. He died in Indiana. His father, Thomas Butler, Sr., an early settler likewise, died at Jonathan's. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:45:21 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.2.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio:DOWTY, Thomas - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ********************************************************************** Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ********************************************************************** THOMAS DOWTY Thomas Dowty, the father of Thomas Dowty, was a South Carolinian, born about 1785. His grandfather, David Dowty, was a farmer and dealer in blooded horses, and removed to Kentucky, and thence to Athens County, Ohio, where he died. His son, Thomas Dowty, emigrated to Wayne County in 1811, settling on a farm east of Wooster, on the State road. Here he entered eighty acres of land and remained a few years, when he went to Franklin Township in 1814, where he entered 160 acres of land, now owned by the heirs of Adam Weiker. He settled in the woods, built a cabin, lived in it without a floor, etc., and staid to 1830, when he removed to the farm now owned by his son, Thomas Dowty, and here his death occurred in 1842. He was married to Rosa Sowards, a Kentucky lady, and raised six children. He was re-married to Hannah Young, of Holmes County. Thomas Dowty, his son, was born November 27, 1806, in Athens County, Ohio, and was married October 20, 1836, to Sarah Ann Cavenee, of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. David Dowty, we were informed by Thomas, who was his cousin, was the first white boy born in Wayne County, that event transpiring in Wooster, his father's name being Daniel Dowty. The farm upon which Thomas Dowty now lives is said to be the first one entered in Franklin Township, and by old James Morgan. Upon his premises, and near his house, in 1874, he constructed a beautiful fish pond, supplied from a strong spring, in which are many varieties of fish. He is a generous and warm-hearted man, charac- terized by a true Southern hospitality, sociableness and friendliness of feeling. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:46:36 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.115105.-206029.3.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio: GOODFELLOW, William - Wayne county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Ohio Biographies Project "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher ************************************************************************ *** Data Entry Volunteer: Brenda Blackburn (bkb3758@email.com) ************************************************************************ *** WILLIAM GOODFELLOW William Goodfellow was born in the county of Caven, Ireland, and at the age of ten years he immigrated to America with his parents, two sisters and two brothers; and the family settled in Center County, Pennsylvania. Thence he removed in 1816 to Wayne County, Ohio, and opened a farm in Plain Township, where he resided for nearly fifty years. He served as Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1824 for a term of seven years, receiving his commission from Governor Jeremiah Morrow. His house, situated on the Ashland road, was widely known for its hospitality. In politics and on moral reforms Judge Goodfellow had the fortitude or the fortune generally to work with minorities, as he became early an old line Whig, and was from the first a radical anti-slavery and anti-liquor man. He had the honor of organizing and being President of the first temperance society in Wayne County, and lived to sell all of his long debated principles inaugurated in State or National administration or enactments. For more than half a century he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, most of the time filling various of its laical offices, and in its communion he died in 1864. Miss Jane Allison, three years his junior, became his wife in February, 1809, and survived him two years. She was a beautiful character, a sincere Christian, an unobtrusive, discreet and saintly woman. Their children were: Matthew Allison, married Drusilla Culbertson in 1833; Jane, married Rev. Jesse Warner 1830, died 1843; Louisa Catherine, married Andrew Glenn 1835, died 1836; Narcissa, married James W. Boyd, 1841; Amelia, married William Anderson 1840, died 1844; William, married Mary E. Dempster 1851; Juliette, married Rev. L. Dorland, 1846; Isaiah R., married Susan A. Deming 1854; Maria Louisa, married C.W. Beer, 1868, Mr. Beer dying at Sandusky, October 4, 1871. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! 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