OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 74 *********************************************************************** 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 74 Today's Topics: #1 Lucas County, Ohio, Probate Record ["Bakers" ] #2 Lucas County, Ohio, Probate Record ["Bakers" ] #3 Hester Genealogy by M. Hester, 175 ["Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <008101c0d3e4$d6030420$8302bfc3@iu5k3> Subject: Lucas County, Ohio, Probate Records, Deaths, some F surnames, 1933-1936 (1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These deaths are from 1933-36. If you would like a scan of the original please let me know. Kathy Baker Fiedeler, Bernard Henry, 2-1-33 Fingerhut, Abe, 2-17-33 Fields, Mar?, 2-25-33 Fields, Mary E., 3-19-33 Fisher, Hattie, 3-18-33 Fisher, Charlotte M., 4-11-33 Fischer, Elizabeth, 4-16-33 Fishburn, Mary Jane, 4-17-33 Filley, Mary Suzanna, 5-12-33 Fish, Mary, 5-15-33 Fiander, Thomas W., 5-30-33 Fisher, Emma, 5-19-33 Figinak, Chester, 6-23-33 Finch, Mary, 7-10-33 Fiedler, Clarence L., 7-22-33 Field, Mollie B., 8-3-33 Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth, 8-20-33 Finley, Albert, 9-4-33 Fitzgerald, James, 9-15-33 Firemik, Joseph, 12-13-33 Fisher, John, 12-16-33 Fildes, Sarah Ann, 1-3-34 Fisher, Eugene, 1-30-34 Findlay, Bertha M., 1-28-34 Fitzjohn, Joseph Edwards, 1-25-34 Firmin, John C., 3-20-34 Fisher, Nettie, 4-11-34 Fitch, Mary J., 4-25-34 Finkenbiner, Anna, 5-9-34 Finnegan, John, 5-10-34 Fisher, Clara, 5-27-34 Fisher, Katherine, 6-4-34 Fields, Grace, 6-6-34 Fink, Frank A or H., 6-5-34 Fiala, Frances, 7-5-34 Fitzgerald, Edward J., 6-10-34 Finnegan, James T., 10-2-34 Fisher, Harriet J., 10-7-34 Fix, Walter Joseph, 11-19-34 Fisher, Sarah Elizabeth, 12-1-34 Fisher, Anna, 12-6-34 Fields, Otis g., 12-6-34 Fisher, Louise, 12-11-34 Fisher, George, 1-9-35 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:32:24 +0200 From: "Bakers" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <00a001c0d3e6$413e13a0$8302bfc3@iu5k3> Subject: Lucas County, Ohio, Probate Records, Deaths, some F surnames, 1933-1936 (2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is the second half of the sheet. These deaths are from 1935-36. If you'd like a scan of the original please let me know. Kathy Baker Finch, John W., 3-29-35 Finn, John J., 4-28-35 Fisher, Henry John, 5-1-35 Finley, Nellie, 5-18-35 Fisher, Mary Louise, 5-20-35 Fischel, Ella, 5-18-35 Fitzjohn, Arthur, 5-24-35 Finn, Mike, 6-15-35 Fineff, Henry A., 6-14-35 Fischer, Adelia, 6-14-35 Fisher, Helen, 6-17-35 Fisher, Lora E., 8-1-35 Fifer, Preston Harry, 8-7-35 Fiedler, Robert, 10-5-35 Fisher, Charles E., 10-19-35 Fischer, Marcus, 10-25-35 Fields, August, 10-24-35 Finlay, Mary Dean, 10-24-35 Fifer, Etta Mae, 11-3-35 Fisher, Margaret Leslie, 11-8-35 Fields, Fannie, 9-6-35 Fill, Leonard G., 11-30-35 Fisher, Wm. T., 11-17-35 Finnegan, John Fredk., 12-29-35 Fitzgerald, Margaret C., 12-22-35 Fine, Robert, 1-13-36 Fields, Stanley Herb., 1-24-36 Firmwalt, Charles Grason, 1-21-36 Fitsko, Dale Steven, 1-30-36 Fisher, Maude C., 2-1-36 Fisher, Minnie, 3-2-36 Fisher, Henry, 2-29-36 Fischbach, John, 3-19-36 Fitkin, Lee Robert, 3-19-36 Fitzgerald, Michael, 3-25-36 Fields, Aaron Munday, 3-29-36 Fitzpatrick, Beata, 3-29-36 Fischer, Herman J., 3-31-36 Fields, Ardelia H., 4-8-36 Fijalkowski, Ksawery (Casper), 4-18-36 Finch, Charles Hewitt, 5-12-36 Fischer, Herman Otto, 5-3-36 Fitzsimmons, Marie R., 5-20-36 Fisher, Harriett C., 6-9-36 Fisher, Jerome, 7-3-36 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 03:12:14 -0000 From: "Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Hester Genealogy by M. Hester, 1752-1905, pp 73-85. Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Pages (73) through (85). "HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDENTS OF JOHN LAWRENCE HESTER AND GODFREY STOUGH. 1752 - 1905." Compiled by Martin M. Hester in 1905 at Norwalk, Ohio. **************** No. 47. (Photograph of Samuel Hester.) Samuel Hester, second son of Martin and Mary (Stough) Hester, was born in Columbiana county, O., August 23, 1813, and removed later to Ashland and Huron counties. A man of unusual physical strength and endurance. He improved well his meager opportunities for schooling and became well informed on many subjects. At the proper age he learned the mason trade, at which he worked with great success for many years. Later in life he became a successful farmer. Reared a fine family of four sons and three daughters. Was for more than fifty years a devoted and earnest member of the Methodist Church. He died in Chicago, Ill., December 29, 1893. Buried at North Fairfield, O., beside his wife. Descendants of Samuel and Emily L. (Barnum) Hester, being the fifth, sixth and seventh generations, are: Page (73). ************************* 212. MARTHA, b. February 3, 1840; m. Thomas Banks, February, 1862. He d. Children were: 213. EFFIE, b. October 19, 1863; m. Harry Wright, February 22, 1888. Child is: 214. LAWRENCE EARL, b. February 13, 1889. 215. GEORGE LESTER, b. May 2, 1865; unm. 216. CORA CORDELIA, b. September 29, 1867; m. --- Muse, December 4, 1888; have three children. 217. LUCY LORETTA, b. September 30, 1870; m. Delmer Dewitt, July 30, 1901. 218. WILLIAM WALTER, b. November 1, 1873, m. ---; has four children. 219. MYRON, b. January 29, 1842; m. Anna Kate Quackenbush, 1863. She was b. 1840; d. May 10, 1891. He d. June 27, 1901. Children are: 220. DELLA M., b. 1867; m. Peter B. Schravesend, 1896. Child is: 221. HESTER, b. 1897. 222. CARL S., b. 1869; m. Belle S. Scranton, 1891. Children are: 223. MARGARET CATHERINE, B. 1892. 224. FRANK, b. 1902. 225. CORA B., b. 1872; m. Frank F. Matthewson, 1896. Child is: 226. EDWARD ALEXANDER, b. 1901; d. 1902. 227. MARY, b. May 25, 1844; m. Wm. Treadwell, June 3, 1862. He d. Second m. to Jay Stough, May 27, 1866. She d. March 22, 1870. 228. JAMES M., b. August 28, 1846; m. Irene E. Brink, April 6, 1868. She was b. May 11, 1847; d. June 12, 1902. Children are: 229. WM. B., b. July 24, 1874; d. June 27, 1883. 230. MARY EMILY, b. March 11, 1879; d. May 11, 1883. 231. HERBERT SHELDON, b. June 19, 1885; lives at Ingersoll, Okla. Territory. 232. BARNUM S., b. March 19, 1848; d. December 6, 1848. Page (74). ************************ 233. EMMA JANE, b. October 24, 1849; m. Will H. Cherry, September 26, 1871; lives in Cleveland, O. Children are: 234. ALICE, b. November 19, 1872; m. Sherman Noble, August 20, 1893. Children are: 235. PAUL, b. January 20, 1895. 236. NONA C., b. December 3, 1897. 237. THELMA, b. December 3, 1898. 238. PAULINE, b. May 13, 1874; m. Elmer Andrews, September 20, 1894. 239. ROSE, b. April 19, 1877; m. Percy Ensminger, November 29, 1899; live at Cleveland, O. Child is: 240. HESTER MAORIA, b. September 7, 1904. (Photograph of Albert Weston Hester, Sr.) Page (75). ****************************** 241. ALBERT WESTON, b. November 4, 1852; m. Alice Josephine Dickson, December 13, 1876; live in Chicago, Ill. Children are: 242. H.C. KENDALL, b. August 16, 1878; lives in New York City. Is manager of bond department in Henry Clews & Co. Banking House. Is very successful in business. Member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. 243. MARION SYBYL, b. June 24, 1889. 244. ALBERT WESTON, JR., b. June 13, 1892. (Photograph of Frank S. Hester.) Page (76). ************************ (Photograph of Mrs. Frank S. Hester.) 245. FRANK S., b. July 31, 1855; m. Dora B. Funk, May 4, 1875. She was b. October 29, 1856, at Dayton, O. They live at Lawrence, Kan. Child is: 246. NINA, b. December 16, 1886; adopted. No. 48. Matthias Hester, third son of Martin and Mary (Stough) Hester, was born in Ashland county, O., December 24, 1815. Was a well-to-do and successful farmer of Bronson township, Huron county, O. He was very skillful in the use of tools, not Page (77). ************************** only in stone but in wood, iron and steel.. He was for sixty years a faithful and official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died October 18, 1903, and was buried in Bronson cemetery. Descendants of Matthias and Leucia (Kiser) Hester, being the fifth and sixth generations, are: 247. WALLACE W., b. June 18, 1844; m. Mary H. Day, December 18, 1873. He d. March 9, 1874. 248. GEORGE M., b. December 22, 1846; d. November 6, 1849. 249. JOHN K., b. September 10, 1850; m. Celia Atwater, March 4, 1877. 250. JAV M., b. January 12, 1855; m. Helen M. Smith, October 23, 1878. Child is: 251. HARRY W., b. March, 1887. Page (78). ************************* No. 49. (Photograph of Martin M. Hester.) Page (79). ************************* (Photograph of Mary F. Hester.) Page (80). ************************* The following sketch was furnished by his son-in-law, Rev. E.J.V. Booth: Martin Mason Hester, the fourth and youngest son of Martin and Mary (Stough) Hester was born September 23, 1822, near Orange, Ashland county, O. When a lad of five years, he removed with his parents to Bronson, Huron county, O., where he still lives, being on the same farm for seventy-eight years. He has been a thriving and well to do farmer. Besides the advantages that could be found in the common schools of the day, he for a time attended the Norwalk Seminary, while the late Bishop Thompson had charge of the school, and he taught common schools several terms. At twenty-three years of age he built a loom for weaving wire screenery (making the loom and all the necessary reeds and harness) and wove thousands of yards of first class screenery, supplying some large manufactories of Clover hullers, besides the general market. On May 21, 1850, he was married to Miss Mary Finlay; of Coshocton county, O., who has been a helper indeed for fifty-five years, not only temporally but spiritually. She was born in the north of Ireland, October 2, 1824, and has been a faithful, earnest, devoted and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for sixty-eight years; and all these years a most successful teacher in the Sunday school. Mr. Hester has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty-eight years. He has served for fifty-six years as secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees. He was chairman of the building committee to build two churches. For fifty-six successive years he has held the office of recording steward of a large circuit originally embracing seventeen preaching places. Only twice, and that on account of illness, during his whole term of service, and not once, for forty-eight years, has he failed to be present at the quarterly meeting and quarterly conference. During his entire membership in the church the class of which he was a member never failed to be on hand on Saturday with the full amount of quarterage due from the class. Page (81). ****************************** For fifty years he served as class leader; twenty years as Sunday School superintendent; forty years as Sunday School teacher; twenty years as secretary of the district stewards' meetings. He was often lay delegate to the Lay Electoral Conference, and once, in 1892, a lay delegate to the General Conference held in Omaha, Neb. His wife attended with him. For fifty years he acted in the capacity of sexton of the church and for forty years he furnished the sacramental wine for the communion service for the entire circuit, without any compensation for either service. He has been in attendance at thirty sessions of the North Ohio Conference, including the first session. He has been a subcriber to the Western Christian Advocate for fifty-nine years and a reader for ten years previous and a subscriber to the Ladies' Repository and the National Magazine during their entire existence, both of which he has in neatly and permanently bound volumes, as well as all the minutes of the North Ohio Conference. As an evidence of the confidence in which he is held by his fellow citizens it may be stated that he has held the office of justice of the peace for his township continuously for thirty-three years, and at the eleventh time he was elected he received the highest number of votes of any candidate on the ticket. At the election of November 7, 1905, he was elected for the twelfth time, receiving the entire vote, there being no opposing candidate. During these years he has succeeded in having more "settlements than trials." When over eighty years of age, he undertook the task of writing the family records of the "Hester" and "Stough" families for publication. This work, besides its own local interest, will doubtless aid in supplying important historical data to the descendants. Some consider this an opportunity to get something they prize more than dollars and cents. Here is a brief record of an earnest and useful life, without doubt leaving the world brighter and better for its living. Descendants of Martin M. and Mary (Finlay) Hester, being the fifth and sixth generations, are: 252. WM. J., b. July 6, 1851; m. Anna E. Ijams, May 21, 1882. She was b. February 25, 1854. He d. April 25, 1897, a. 46. Page (82). ********************** (Photograph of William J. Hester.) William J. Hester began his school life in the district school when six years of age. Later he attended school in Norwalk, graduating from the High School in 1870. For some time he was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O. In the summer of 1875 he graduated from Mount Union College. Later he spent one summer in Europe. Some time was spent in teaching, first in the country district schools, then in the Rayen School at Youngstown, O., and finally in the Norwalk High School. Engineering was selected as a life vocation; first as civil engineer locating railroads, then as mining engineer in southeastern Ohio. He was at one time elected surveyor of Guernsey county, O., which office he acceptably filled. While yet a mere lad of fourteen years, he was converted and connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ever after this crisis in his life he was deeply devoted to the Church of Christ, feeling and manifesting a special interest in the Sabbath School, in which department he became a useful and faithful worker. Page (83). *************************** In his work he showed a high degree of capability and efficiency. His ideal in life was exulted, and such were the sterling qualities exhibited in character and life that he commanded the respect, admiration and love of those with whom he came in contact. An accident sustained in his early school days was a lifelong affliction and led to a comparatively early death. The end came April 25, 1897. Children of Wm. J. and Anna E. (Ijams) Hester, being the sixth generation, are: 253. JOHN M., b. August 14, 1885; d. July 25, 1886. 254. MARY ANNA, b. August 15, 1887. 255. ELIZA, b. June 1, 1890. 256. SARAH MARGARITE, b. February 23, 1893; live at Cambridge, O. 257. CATHERINE ELIZA, b. January 3, 1854; m. Rev. E. J. V. Booth, February 17, 1880. Eli J. V., second child of Jacob and Barbara R. Booth, was born in Marion, O., May 6, 1851. Most of his early years were spent in the town of his birth, but for a few years he lived on a farm about two miles to the northeast. His education was received in the public schools of Marion, the district school two miles north, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., from which institution he graduated in June, 1875. Before his tenth year he presented himself at the altar as a seeker of religion, and at once was enrolled as a probationer in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was licensed as an exhorter and later as preacher. In the fall of 1875 he entered the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the present date he is an effective member of this conference and pastor of Grace Church, Delaware, O." The education of Catherine E. Hester was received in the home district schools, Baldwin University, Berea, O., and the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, Delaware, O., graduating from the latter institution in June, 1873. She was converted early in life, uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of eleven years. Page (84). ***************************** After graduating she taught in the public schools of Bronson and Peru townships, Huron county, O. For twenty-five years she has shared the toils and joys with her husband in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Children of E. J. V. and Catherine E. Booth, are: 258. JOHN HAMLINE, b. August 24, 1883; m. Mary Catharine Purkey, June 21, 1905. He is a teacher. Lives in Delaware, O. 259. CHARLES HAVEN, b. December 9, 1884. 260. FLORA HESTER, b. December 30, 1886. 261. FRANCIS HEDDING, b. December 30, 1886. 262. ELSIE HAVERGAL, b. August 9, 1889. 263. ANNA RUTH, b. April 23, 1891. 264. MIRIAM B., b. April 13, 1894. 265. FINLAY HESTER is the third child and second son of Martin M. and Mary F. Hester. He was born near Norwalk, O., July 1, 1857. His boyhood days were spent on the home farm and he attended the district public school. Later he entered the Norwalk High School, graduating therefrom June, 1877. That fall he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, O., where he remained for some years. After leaving college he engaged in farming. As a farmer he is wide-awake, intelligent and progressive. In the summer of 1877 he was converted. He chose as his church home that of his parents, the Methodist Episcopal. In the year 1892, November 22, he was married to Miss Mabelle L. Webb. As a citizen he ranks high in his community, being esteemed for his stable, upright and capable character. Sons of Finlay and Mabelle L. (Webb) Hester, being the sixth generation, are: 266. WEBB, b. October 15, 1893. 267. LOREN, b. July 9, 1896. 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