OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 13 *********************************************************************** 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 01 : Issue 13 From: Aschefamily@aol.com Subject: Oituary Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:23:40 EST The Following Obituary is from the Hillsboro Press Gazette, September 24, 1897 Note: Davis A. McConnaughy and his wives are buried in the New Market Baptist Church Cemetery. The village of New Market, Ohio Davis A. McConnaughy was born February 12, 1828 near Uniontown, Fayette county, Penn. Died Septerber 11, 1897, aged 69 years, 6 months, and 29 days. At the age of 7 years he emigrated with his parents, Andrew and Mary McConnaughey to Ohio in the year 1835. Of his father’s family he was the oldest of eight children who grew tho man and womanhood, four of whom have preceded him in death. His early life was spent on the farm. The spirit of enthusiasm led hid him into greater fields of activity then merely a tiller of the soil, and at the age of eightteen he entered the merchantile business in partnership with his father in the purchase and exportation of a large proportion of the farm products of the Southern part of Highland county. This he continues doe almost six years when he went into the live stock business in which he continued for more that forty years, handling stock from breeders and raisers to feeders in Fayette, Madison and Clinton counties, and to consumers at Cincinnati. And it has been truly said that Davis McConnaughey has riddend many times more miles and endured more untold hardships and deprivations of nautral rest than it seemed possible for man to endure. He served in many positions of sectarian and public trust, one of the most responsible, that of County Commissioner, during which time many needed reforms concerning the care and improvement of the public highways were brounght about through his personal efforts. He was twice married, first to Sarah Ellen Conn in the year 1852. To this union was born a daughter, who soon followed her mother in death. In 1857 he was again married to Sarah C. Hibbs. To this union were born six sons and three daughters. One son and one daughter preceeded him in death, the wife and five sons and two daughters remain to mourn their loss. He requested before his death that Rev. D. Triehler, of Locust Grove, speak the last words over his lifeless clay, which he responed to from “Revelation 21-3,” after which the body was borne to the silent city of the dead, there to await the resurrection to arise in the newness of life. T.R. Vance The family wish to express their thanks to their neighbors and friends who have helped them take care of husband and father in the past two years. S.C. McConnaughey and Family -------------------------------- From: Aschefamily@aol.com Subject: Newpaper Article on Leesburg, Ohio Church Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:26:51 EST From the Hillsboro Press Gazette Sept. 24, 1897 Hillsboro, Ohio Quite a number of Hillsboro people went to Leesburg Thursday to attend the dedication of the new M.E. Church in that enterprising little city. The edifice is one of which the society and the town may well feel proud. The history of the M.E. Church at Leesburg is practically a history of the town, the earliest settlers in the vicinity having been Methodist and Quakers. The former built a meeting house at Pleasant Hill, north of the present town, the Quakers on the south, at Fairview. It was in 1805 that Rev. Isaac Pavey came from Kentucky, and in 1806 he located on the present Wesley roads farm, soon after organizing a “class,” containing George Long and wife, Geo. Hays and wife, John Rains and wife, Lavinia Haines, Nancy Morris and others. After the manner of the pioneer preachers, Rev. Pavey’s first church was his own house. In 1808 he was authorized by court to solemnize marriages, being the first Methodist minister in the county to hold that authority. The records of the society for some years afterward have been lost, but Pleasant Hill was one of the appointment of Hillsboro Circuit in 1827. The first church was built there in 1823. C.G. Starn organized the first Sunday School. The last revival in the old meeting house was held in 1867, under the leadership of Rev. Wm. Hough and Charles Vanpelt. In 1852 the society purchased a building erected eleven years earlier by the Disciples, but in 1869 another and larger place of worship was erected, the committee in charge of the work being E.P. Johnson, W.W. Matthews and Wm. S. Hough. Hines & Lupton formed the contracting firm, and the building, which was of brick and considered quite pretentious. On News Years day 1870, this house was dedicated, Elder Samuel D. Clayton presiding. The late Eli P. Johnson was on of the leading spirits in promoting the welfare of the society and the erection of the new building. At the time Leesburg was one of the appointments comprising Lexington Circuit. In 1875 the circuit was divided, was and Leesburg was made headquarters with a resident minister. At the present time the charge includes only Olive Chapel and East Monroe. Since then the society has steadily grown, and two years ago the first steps were taken toward the erection of a yet larger edifice. It was at first intended to enlarge the old building, but this idea was abandoned as impratciable. A subscription paper circulated by the pastor Rev. H.C. Middleton, was so well received that a building committee was appointed, the members being M. Redkey, S.R. Ousley, C.P. Keen, G. A. Pavey and T.B. Evans. The excavating, masonry, carpenter work, plastering and painting were let to C.T. Custer of Hillsboro. The furnaces were put in by Lotze, Sons & Co., Cincinnati. The pews were built by the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co., and the art glass for the windows was furnished by Marehall & Bros., Allegheny, Pa. There are four beautiful memorial windows. One is contributed by Miss Sarah Pavey of Colorado Springs, Col., in memory of her father. Mrs. Minnie Sanders and Mrs. Fannie Hodson donted one in memory of their mother, Mrs. Angelin Johnson. Mrs. M.E. Johnson gives one in memory of her husband, the late Eli P. Johnson and the other is the gift of the children of the late Rev. Wm. S. Hough in his memory. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V01 Issue #13 ******************************************