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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:46:47 EDT From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Madison Twp, Guernsey Co., OH (pt1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio by William G. Wolfe Published by the Author Cambridge, Ohio 1943, Copyright, 1943, by William G. Wolfe Typography, Printing and Binding in the USA by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. --------------------------- According to On-line Database of all the on-line library card catalogs anywhere in the world (OCLC): Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Ohio: the author, 1943., work has lapsed into the public domain. -------------------------- Transcribed and/or paraphrased and submitted by: Marilyn M. Murphy, Ft. Worth, TX, 2000; MMacMurph@aol.com -------------------------- CHAPTER XXIX Madison Township AT THE first meeting of the Guernsey county commissioners, April 23, 1810, the county was divided into five townships whose total population was 3,051. Following the War of 1812 there was a flood of immigration, and by 1820 the number of people in the county had reached 9,292, an increase of two hundred per cent in a decade. For local convenience this necessitated smaller political units, and petitions for new townships were presented. At least a dozen new townships were formed in the ten years following the organization of the county. Among the first of these was Madison. It is now five miles square, but was much larger when set apart by the commissioners. On July 28, 1810, a meeting was called to elect officers for the new township. This was held at the house of Absalom Martin who later served as a captain in the War of 1812. Pioneers of the Township.-James Bratton, who established a home on the present site of Winterset, in 1805, was the first settler in Madison town-ship. The Huffman family came from Pennsylvania in 1809. Among the other early settlers were the Stockdales, of Irish origin; Michael Adair, Robert Campbell, John Saviers, John Hanna, the English family, the McBrides, the Carlisles and the Harfords-all from Pennsylvania; the Weyers, Scotts, Bonnells and Yeos, from Maryland; and Daniel Tetrick from New Jersey. The Cunningham family settled north of Antrim in 1820. They en-tered a part of a thousand-acre tract from which not a stick of timber had been cut. Hogs, having the range of the woods, multiplied rapidly, grew wild, and became fiercer and more dangerous than the native wild beasts. On one occasion a wild boar emerged from the forest and attacked the hogs which Mr. Cunningham was feeding, ripping them open with its tusks. Mr. Cunningham saved his own life by climbing a tree. Old Folks of 1876.-On the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence a census of Guernsey county old people was taken by The Jeffersonian. Madison township had the following residents over seventy-six years of age: Mrs. Sanderson, Benjamin Berry, Elias Burdett, James Cope. land, Mrs. E. Cramer, Mrs. Anne Ferrell, Mrs. Grizelle, Wesley Gill, Mrs. (con't pg 886) 884 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:46:58 EDT From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <63.cad8e1b.27230662@aol.com> Subject: Madison Twp, Guernsey Co., OH (pt3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by blizzard.columbus.rr.com id NAA23296 Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio by William G. Wolfe Published by the Author Cambridge, Ohio 1943, Copyright, 1943, by William G. Wolfe Typography, Printing and Binding in the USA by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. --------------------------- According to On-line Database of all the on-line library card catalogs anywhere in the world (OCLC): Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Ohio: the author, 1943., work has lapsed into the public domain. -------------------------- Transcribed and/or paraphrased and submitted by: Marilyn M. Murphy, Ft. Worth, TX, 2000; MMacMurph@aol.com -------------------------- MADISON TOWNSHIP 887 In 1870 H. H. Bowers, Albaugh and Boyd, and Bickham and Hutchison kept general stores there; D. W.=20 Brumbaugh and W. Harding were black-smiths; Richard Beem was a wagon-maker; C. C. Tolle kept a tavern; and J.H. Crumbacker was the village doctor. For the story of Madison College which was located in Antrim see the chapter, Schools and Education. An Antrim war story may be found in the chapter, Morgans Raid. On August 18, 1836, when Antrim was six years old, Isaac Bonnell laid out a town which he called Winchester. It is on the Steubenville road, three miles southwest of Antrim. Bonnell was born in Frederick, Maryland, and, when twelve years of age, came with his father to Madison township. His town is now called Winterset. There is a Winchester in Adams county. For many years the postal authorities would not permit the postoffice in Madison township to be called by the name of the platted village. It was named Brown after its long-time postmaster, Simeon Brown. To avoid confusion the names of both town and postoffice were changed to Winterset. Like Antrim, Winchester never grew as its founder may have expected. Its=20 population in 1850 was 147; in 1860, 197; and in 1870, 179. Among the=20 business and professional men of the village in 1870 were the following: B.Borton, jeweler; Adam Linn, drygoods and groceries; William C. Scott,=20 groceries; Elias Tetrick, nursery;=20 Hiram Stiles, saw and grist mill; R. Burson, proprietor of tavern; and J.= B.=20 Kirk, physician. Some Historical Facts.-Historically, that which was first possesses some=20 distinction. Like other places Madison=20 township had its pioneers in the various lines of activity. George Linn b= uilt=20 the first mill on Salt Fork, but it was=20 in that part of Madison, that afterwards became Jefferson township. Brind= le=20 Wickham was the first justice of the=20 peace. George Wines opened the first store in Winchester, and Alexander=20 Alexander the first in Antrim. John=20 Keepers kept the first tavern in Winchester. William Risk was the first=20 blacksmith in Antrim. Rev. Riddle, of the Associate Reformed church, came into the township in = 1820=20 as the first preacher. The=20 Methodists built the first church in Winchester. First Slander Case in County.-Before the National Road was built there wa= s=20 much travel on the Steubenville road which was considered a better highwa= y=20 east from Cambridge than was either Zane=E2=80=99s Trace or its successor= , the=20 Wheeling road. Emigrant wagons westward bound, droves of cattle and hogs = on=20 their way to eastern markets, and wagon-loads of farm products or merchan= dise=20 passed daily through Madison township. For the entertainment of the trave= lers=20 many of the settlers kept taverns. Two of the tavern keepers in the=20 Winchester neighborhood were James Bratton and Absalom Martin. The first slander suit in Guernsey county grew out of a controversy (con'= t pg=20 889) ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:46:53 EDT From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4f.25d8e57.2723065d@aol.com> Subject: Madison Twp, Guernsey Co., OH (pt2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by blizzard.columbus.rr.com id NAA23296 Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio by William G. Wolfe Published by the Author Cambridge, Ohio 1943, Copyright, 1943, by William G. Wolfe Typography, Printing and Binding in the USA by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. --------------------------- According to On-line Database of all the on-line library card catalogs anywhere in the world (OCLC): Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Ohio: the author, 1943., work has lapsed into the public domain. -------------------------- Transcribed and/or paraphrased and submitted by: Marilyn M. Murphy, Ft. Worth, TX, 2000; MMacMurph@aol.com -------------------------- 886 STORIES OF GUERNSEY COUNTY R. Harris, F. L. Harford, Bennet Harding, William M. Jenkins, Mrs. Mary Johnson, John Jones, Mrs. C. Lenfesty, Samuel Lindsey, Mrs. M. Lindsey, Andrew F. Linn, George McCormick, J. W. Mills, Henry Nichols, Mrs. E. Pritchard, Mrs. S. Nichols, Mrs. F. Parker, Isaac Ricker, Mrs. Amy Ricker, Mrs. Mary Shaw, Mrs. E. Shuman, John Smith, Mrs. Mary Smith, John Sheridan, John Stockdale, Mrs. M. Stockdale, William Scott, James Stockdale, John Saviers, Samuel Tannehill, Mrs. F. Tetrick, James Weyer and Mrs. Wyrick. Population.-1820, 643; 1830, 846; 1840, 1,569; 1850, 1,519; 1860, 1,702; 1870, 1,170; 1880, 1,170; 1890, 1,038; 1900, 883; 1910, 755; 1920, 618; 1930, 550. Antrim was laid out by Alexander Alexander, March 1, 1830. Sections No. 1, No. 2, No. 9 and No. 10, situated in the northeastern corner of the township, were reserved by the state and set apart for school purposes when Guernsey county was formed. As were other school lands, they were to be leased and the income used for school purposes. By authority of a legislative act these lands were sold when the term of the lease expired. Alexander bought the northwest quarter of section No. 10, platted twenty-four lots, twelve on each side of the Steubenville road which passed through his quarter section, and named his town Antrim, honoring the Irish ancestral home of certain Madison township people. The Ohio Gazetteer, published by Warren Jenkins in 1837, describes Antrim as follows: Antrim, a small post town laid out in 1830, by A. Alexander, the present postmaster, in Guernsey county, 91 miles east of Columbus, 40 miles east of Zanesville, 41 miles northwest of the Ohio River at Bridgeport, 16 miles south-east of the Ohio Canal, 25 miles from Cadiz, 16 miles from Cambridge. It is on the state road leading from Steubenville to Cambridge, and directly on the pro-posed route of the "Adamized road between the two last named places. It contains about 30 buildings, three stores, two taverns, and sundry mechanics" shops, three churches, one academy, etc., etc. The seminary is called the Philomathean Literary Institute, and is in a flourishing condition. The languages and sciences generally are here taught, and the situation being healthy and pleasant, much exertion will be made by the Trustees to render the Institute worthy of extended patronage." Alexander's town never became large. In 1850 it had a population of 252; in 1860, 242; and in 1870, 160. In 1854 general stores were kept by A.Sankey, J.and S. W. Stockdale, and Clark and Company; M. Smith was the tanner and currier; J. R. Moss was the bookseller and stationer; J. Harrison and Brothers, and G. Lytle were fashionable tailors; John Reed was the wagon-maker; Hugh Bowers was the blacksmith; J. Harper was the boot and shoemaker; T. C. Clark and R. G. Stephenson were the village doctors; William C. Dobbins and J. M. Patterson were saddle and harness makers; Metcalf's tavern afforded accommodations for the traveling public. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:47:02 EDT From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <9e.b1e1558.27230666@aol.com> Subject: Madison Twp, Guernsey Co., OH (pt4) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by blizzard.columbus.rr.com id NAA23296 Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio by William G. Wolfe Published by the Author Cambridge, Ohio 1943, Copyright, 1943, by William G. Wolfe Typography, Printing and Binding in the USA by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. --------------------------- According to On-line Database of all the on-line library card catalogs anywhere in the world (OCLC): Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Ohio: the author, 1943., work has lapsed into the public domain. -------------------------- Transcribed and/or paraphrased and submitted by: Marilyn M. Murphy, Ft. Worth, TX, 2000; MMacMurph@aol.com -------------------------- MADISON TOWNSHIP 889 relative to the respective merits of the Bratton and Martin taverns. It was brought in 1811, the year after the county was organized. This is the record: Absalom Martin vs. James Bratton, slander. Let a jury be called. The following good and Ia wful men came, to wit: James C Zoyd, Frederick Dickerson, John Chapman, Lloyd Frizzle, John Moffit, William Talbert, John Hanna, Wilham Launtz, John Frame, Joseph Cook, John Carlow and Andrew Moore. After hearing the evidence, arguments of counsel and charge of the court, (the jury) retired to consult together, and returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff of $22 damages. Motion made by defendants counsel for appeal to supreme court." We do not know the outcome of the case when, or if, taken to the higher court. Absalom Martin, the plaintiff, was prominent in ~the early history of the county. He was a member of the first board of county commissioners, serving as such when the case was brought against him. The following year he raised a company of Guernsey county men to fight in the Second War with Great Britain, and John Bratton, son of James Bratton, was one of his sergeants. Notwithstanding his prominence as a citizen, Absalom Martin, it is said, never owned any real estate in Guernsey county. The "Buckwheat Line." As early as the year 1830 stages ran every other day during the summer months, between Cambridge and Steubenville. They were unlike the highly decorated coaches lined with silk plush that ran on the National Road; they were ordinary spring wagons with covers for protection against rain and the hot sun. They carried both passengers and goods. A farmer near Antrim contracted with the manager of one of the stage lines to haul buckwheat to Moore=E2=80=99s mill at Cambridge to be ground and to return the flour to him. On many trips passengers and buckwheat were mixed indiscriminately in the stages. This gave rise to the name, the "Buck-wheat Line." (con't pg 890) -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #309 *******************************************