OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 348 *********************************************************************** 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 348 Today's Topics: #1 Bio: HENRY, Stephen M. - Wayne cou [christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120649.-206029.14.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: HENRY, Stephen M. - 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) ******************************************************************** STEPHEN M. HENRY Stephen M. Henry, son of John and grandson of Stephen Henry, was born in Wayne County, September 8, 1825. He has been twice married; first, March 7, 1850, to Delilah Burnett, and second, to Catharine Burnett, half-sister of his first wife, and has lived in Franklin Township since April 1, 1858. Mr. Henry is an energetic man, with positive and pronounced opinions, and a Democrat of the old Jacksonian type. He is a public-spirited, influential citizen, has served nine years as Justice of the Peace, and six years as Commissioner of Wayne County, in all of which positions he acquitted himself with honor. ________________________________________________________________ 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: #2 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:54:00 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120648.-206029.10.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio:MORGAN, James - 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) ********************************************************************* JAMES MORGAN James Morgan was of Welsh descent though a native of Virginia, and his wife was an English lady named Cox. They removed to Ohio in 1806, and settled in Franklin Township in the spring of 1808, raising a crop of corn that year. He had a family of ten children, to wit: Jesse, Isaac, John, James, Joseph, William, Jonathan, Sarah, Rebecca, and Hannah, not one of whom is living in Wayne County. He died of dropsy in 1822, and is buried in the graveyard on the Jacob Bucher farm. In the early days "Priest" Jones used to preach at Morgan's. Jesse, his oldest son, perished in a snowstorm near the present site of Indianapolis; he was on horseback, the drifts overwhelmed him, he got into a swamp, became lost and died. ________________________________________________________________ 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 11:56:45 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120648.-206029.13.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: SIDLE, 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 SIDLE William Sidle, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Cumberland County, 1789, and removed to the residence of his son, John Sidle, in 1828. He was married to Mary Brandt. He went to California in the spring of 1849 by the overland route, taking a company of twelve men with him, seventeen yoke of attle, three wagons, one horse and two cows. He left home April 5, and reached his destination in August. He died on the Yuba river in the spring of 1850. He was a man of indomitable energy and courage. John Sidle, his son, was born August 11, 1816, in York County, Pa., and removed to Plain township in 1828. He was married March 30, 1843, to Joanna Carson, of Plain Township, and has seven children living, to wit: Mary E., William Henry, James, Lucinda, Lucertus, Clara and John C. Mr. Sidle is a farmer and stock-raiser, one of the largest real estate owners of the county, and a popular and excellent citizen. ________________________________________________________________ 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 11:52:22 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120648.-206029.8.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: MELLINGER, Benedict 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) ******************************************************************** BENEDICT MELLINGER, SR. Benedict Mellinger, Sr., was born in Germany, over one hundred years ago, and removed to America when but two years of age, landing at Baltimore. His mother died on the ocean, his father immediately removing to Lancaster County, Pa., where he followed the occupation of a weaver. After marriage he worked at weaving twelve years, and removed to Plain township, Wayne county, Ohio, in 1816, locating where Christian Mellinger now lives. He had eleven children--seven daughters and four sons--the names of the latter being David, John, Benedict, and Christian. He died twenty years ago, at the age of eighty. David Mellinger was born in Lancaster County, Pa., and married Mary Felger, of Wayne County, Ohio. He died in December, 1862, in Plain township. His wife survives him. John Mellinger ws born in Columbiana County, Ohio, and married Hannah Casebeer. He died in Plain township, in October, 1872. Benedict Mellinger was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, and married Sallie Casebeer, of Wayne County. They have four children living. Christian Mellinger was born where he now lives, in Plain township, and married Elizabeth Showalter. They have four children, viz: Willia, Daniel, Belinda and Franklin. William Mellinger married Samantha Buck- walter, of Paint township, October 26, 1869. He is at present one of the Justices of Plain township, and a capable and popular teacher. His father is a first-class citizen and an old Jacksonian Democrat. ________________________________________________________________ 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 11:55:49 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120648.-206029.12.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: PAUL, Jacob S. - 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 S. PAUL Jacob S. Paul, a native of Cumberland county, Pa., was born May 22, 1820. The self-reliant and resolute disposition of Mr. Paul developed itself quite prematurely, as at the age of twelve years he entered upon a clerkship in the store of Robert Sturgeon, of Churchtown, in his native county. With him he remained for seven years, when a change of firm took place, Mr. Paul, however, remaining a similar period under the new management, meantime obtaining an interest in the same. At the end of two years he disposed of his share in the establishment, and sought a wider sphere for the exercise of his commercial genius. Having some acquaintances in Smithville, in 1848 he removed there, soon thereafter mbarking in business with John Zimmerman, remaining with him three years, when for three years he gave his attention to farming. For a period, he was variously engaged, but in 1862, resumed his mercantile pursuits in Smithville, where he continues in business. Mr. Paul has imparted to Smithville its reputation as a vital business center. By fair dealing he has won the respect and confidence, and hence the patronage of the surrounding country. In 1873 the business of his firm amounted to an excess of $115,000. In 1873, he established a branch house at Shreve, under the style of Paul, Bricker & Co., which suddenly sprang into a deserved popularity. His education was limited, receiving most of it from Jacob, son of Joseph Riner, at one time Governor of Pennsylvania. He is an earnest, wideawake man, possessed of sagacity, shrewdness of calculation, business fidelity and stubborn adhesion to business honor. He is of retiring disposition and covets no undue notoriety. Thrown upon the world at an early age, he acquired habits of industry and self-dependence, which invariably insure success. He has remarkable organizing and executive ability, and this, combined with his discretion and sound judgment makes him a successful business man. He was married December 26, 1846, to Amanda C. Bricker, of Cumberland, Pa. ________________________________________________________________ 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 11:54:52 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120648.-206029.11.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: MUNSON family - 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) ********************************************************************* THE MUNSON FAMILY Isaac Munson, Sr., removed with his family from Connecticut to New York, where his wife Eleanor Andrews Munson died in August, 1815. Soon after her death he, with his son Henry, started for the west, passing the winter of 1815 in Holmes County. In the spring of 1816 they came to Wayne County, settling on the farm now owned by Henry Munson, buying the farm of 160 acres secondhand. Here Isaac Munson continued to live until death, July 10, 1830. He was a soldier under Washington in the Revolutionary War, entering the service as a volunteer at the age of fifteen, for which he drew a pension, getting it paid at Chillicothe. Until 1821 Isaac Munson and his son Henry kept bachelor hall, when Henry, on November 15, married Mary Cutler, of Holmes County now, but Wayne County then. From the time Henry came to this farm he lived on it until 1861, when he removed to Shreve, remaining there five years, then returned to the old homestead, where he made his home with his son Henry until the period of his death, which occurred December 1, 1867. His wife died May 4, 1872. They had seven children, four sons and three daughters, viz: Ezra, Isaac, Samuel, Eleanor, Mary, Elizabeth, and Henry. All the daughters are dead. Isaac Munson was born September 19, 1823, and was married to Eliza A. Lowe, from which union there were three children, Mary, Phoebe and Jacob. His wife dying, he re- married in the fall of 1856 to Miss Susan Thomas, and by this marriage has a son, Charles. Henry Munson, Jr., was born in Franklin Township, February 12, 1837. He was married to Miss Rebecca Jones, daughter of John Jones and granddaughter of Isaiah Jones, February 15, 1861, and by this marriage had five children, viz: John Henry, E. N., James K., William B., and one that died in infancy. His wife Rebecca died September 28, 1874, and on November 30, 1876, he was re-married to Martha McCarney. Eleanor, the oldest daughter of Henry Munson, Sr., married Jared Barker, of Summit County, and died September 9, 1856. Mary married Isaiah Jones, of Holmes County, and died in 1862. Elizabeth died, unmarried, October 12, 1856. Samuel C. Munson, son of Henry Munson, lives in Medina County, and is married to Jane Hughes, daughter of John Hughes, of Franklin Township. Ezra Munson resides in Caldwell County, Missouri, and was married to Ann Eliza Wycoff, of Franklin Township. The Munson family are noted throughout for their sterling character, their industry, hospitality, courtesy and general good qualities as neghbors and citizens. Henry Munson, Sr. in 1816 or 1817, opened up and burned the first lime, and had the first kiln in Wayne County, burning the first lime in a log heap to test its quality. People for fifty miles around came to him for it. He furnished the lime used in building the old Wiler House, in Mansfield, hauling it there by oxen at about fifty cents per bushel, at nights sleeping under the wagon, and turning the oxen out to graze. ________________________________________________________________ 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 11:53:11 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120648.-206029.9.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: MITCHEL, Samuel - Wayne 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) ********************************************************************* SAMUEL MITCHEL Samuel Mitchel was born near Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., June 5, 1776. His father was a farmer, and with him Samuel remained until he was twenty-one years of age, the family having removed to Washington County, Pa., where the subject of this sketch remained a few years with his parents. In the spring of 1812 Samuel Mitchel emigrated to Wayne County, settling in Franklin Township, on the farm now owned by his son, Samuel Mitchel. On his arrival, he entered 160 acres of land, and soon thereafter purchased a quarter section more. He immediately put up a cabin in which to find shelter, and set himself to the task of clearing spaces for cultivation. In this rough diminutive cabin, built in haste and true primitive rudeness, the family lived for eight years, when he erected a more comfortable frame dwelling, in which they resided for twenty years, when in the same yard he built a still more commodious brick. He was married January 6, 1808, in Washington County, Pa., to Mary McGugen, by which marriage he had four children, Jesse, Ann, Maria M. and Samuel. Jesse was a merchant in Fredericksburg, where he died February 7, 1839. Ann, the oldest daughter, died at the age of nine years, September 3, 1818. Maria M., the second daughter, married John McClellan, and lives in Wooster. He died on his farm in Franklin Township, March 18, 1864. Mr. Mitchel was identified with the interests of Franklin Township for over half a century, and saw its transformation from a howling waste to pleasing and productive fields. He and Jacob Nixon were the two first Justices elected after the organization of the township, June 7, 1820. He was elected Commissioner of Wayne County, in 1814, or two years after he came to the county. He was drafted in the war of 1812, but hired a substitute in the person of Caleb Bundy, whom he paid $100. Few of the backwoodsmen had more varied experience than he, but whether dealing with the treacherous Indians or fighting the bears and wolves that carried away his pigs and lambs, he ever managed to escape without serious harm. His home was in the deep and solitary woods; there were no roads or avenues of travel; no near neighbors to come in case of danger; no markets and no money, Wooster existing but in name, with its few and scattered houses. It required the soldier's courage to encounter the situation. Among the desperate inhabitants of the forest whom he met was Simon Girty (Girty was the son of an Irishman, and for twenty years the Raw-head-and-bloody-bones of the border, produced when nature was in hell and disciplining herself to her worst mischief. He was a besotted human devil, a grog-burnt fiend, whose wife could no longer endure him, and who was killed by his paramour), "the white savage," "Whose vengeance shamed the Indian's thirst for blood; Whose hellish arts surpassed the Red Man's fear; Whose hate enkindled many a border war." On one occasion, he came to Mr. Mitchel's house and made inquiry for horses, which was the source of indescribable dread and terror to the family. Mr. Mitchel was originally a Presbyterian but when he came to Wayne County he united with the old Seceder church at Wooster, then under the pastorate of Rev. Samuel Irvine. He subsequently united with the Associate Reformed body, under Rev. James Peacock, and when, in after years, the two churches united and consolidated into what is now known as the United Presby- terian Church, he became a member of it. Samuel Mitchel, his youngest child, was born in Franklin Township, September 28, 1820. His occupation until within several years has been that of a farmer. He remained with his father on the old homestead, which he now owns, until his death, continuing thereafter upon it until 1868, when he removed to Wooster. He was married May 24, 1849, to Mary A. McClellan, sister of John McClellan. He has been a hardworking, industrious, frugal man, and by the exercise of economony and care has acquired a competency which enables him to live in comfort and retirement. He is a quiet, unassuming, upright citizen and honest man. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1859, since which time he has been a member. ________________________________________________________________ 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 11:58:32 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001116.120649.-206029.15.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: WARNER, Joshua - 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) ******************************************************************** JOSHUA WARNER Joshua Warner, son of Nathan, was born in Northampton Co., Pa., July 29, 1798. When but two years of age he removed with his father to Tuscarawas, and thence to Wayne county in 1811. He remained with his father on the farm until his death. His father and boys cut out the State road the length of their land, the Killbuck bottom being almost impossible to cross, they fording the stream slightly north of the bridge at Joseph Eichar's The family helped to build the present road across the bottom, which is almost wholly underlaid with logs. Bears, panthers, wolves, deer and rattlesnakes were in abundance. A portion of Beall's troops encamped at the spring at his late residence. He distinctly remembered Captain Anderson and Capital Blackburn. Blackburn was a splendid man, and staid with his men on his premises for two weeks. A portion of the soldiers encamped upon the residence of Benjamin Mycrantz, husband of Sophia Silvers. Mr. Warner was of opinion that an artillery company moved in conjunction with Beall's army, and that it passed south of Wooster, crossing the farms occupied by William Wallace and James Lusk, etc. A soldier named Ezekiel Bascomb died at his house, and in his last hours was waited on by a Mr. Coon. He was buried upon a knoll at the forks of the road, south of Hugh Culbertson's. The blockhouse in which for two weeks the neighbors gathered at night and slept, was 24x30; it still remains, and is occupied by the family of the deceased, though it has been handsomely repaired and converted into a comfortable residence. The first school house built in Plain township was south of the house of the late Daniel Silvers, at the curve of, and north of the road, on an open lot, and the first teacher was Judge William Goodfellow. The Methodists organized a society at his father's house as early as 1812, and in 1814 Rev. John Chord and William Odell were circuit preachers, and it was likewise the first Methodist organization in Wayne county. Quarterly meetings were also held there by distinguished divines like Adam Poe, Bigelow, Christie, Finley, and others. His house was the nucleus of ministers and pious men; he entertained everybody that came; hung the big kettles on the crane; cooked for all of them, and when the beds were full, spread coverings on the floor for his guests. Amasa Warner was married to Miss L. Foreman, and she and her child were the first persons buried in the Warner graveyard. The father of Joshua Warner deeded these grounds for interment, first for the family burial, but subsequently for the public. Ebenezer Warner and his son Nathan are buried in the old graveyard on the old Benjamin Jones farm; the son, but fifteen years of age, was killed by skids falling upon him at the Jones barn. Sacrilegious vandals for the last several years have been growing wheat and corn over the bones of these honored pioneers. Mr. Warner was twice married--first, to Maragaret Smith, April 24, 1828, who died about six years thereafter; second, to Roseanna Edmonds, April 12, 1842. He left nine children and three grandchildren. His family are all members of the Methodist church. After a lingering and painful sickness, he died Tuesday morning, December 18, 1877, in his eightieth year. The life of Joshua Warner was a sermon of itself, uttered in simplicity and truth. It was characterized by lowliness of spirit and purity of heart and way, devoid of all pretense and distinctly pious and pure. In early life he became a Christian--not a pro-fessor--and fastening on to the truths and promises of the Scriptures was carried on to the final triumph. His religious convictions were powerful and solemn; and the thought of life and its deceiving joys, of death and its unseen but sure realities, were ever present with him. He realized the absolute dependecy of the soul upon its Giver. He lived in an atmosphere of prayer--"the soul's sincere desire." With him what was right was eternally right. He took no backward steps in the cause and work of the Great Teacher, but daily advanced in the better life, until when spoken to by his Master he passed to the reward. He was a man of great evenness of way; of signal earnestness in all things, and most kind and gentle disposition. ________________________________________________________________ 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. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #348 *******************************************