OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 042 *********************************************************************** 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 02 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: #1 osu connection part I [SCHcrochet@aol.com] #2 death certificate for Justice [SCHcrochet@aol.com] #3 death certificate [SCHcrochet@aol.com] #4 helping in Ohio [SCHcrochet@aol.com] #5 death certificate [SCHcrochet@aol.com] #6 Fw: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio- ["Maggie" ] #7 Fw: Bio History-- Know your Ohio-- ["Maggie" ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:02:47 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: osu connection part I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hi all I will, a bit at a time post some information from an old OSU year book, dated 1926. The index is not completely visible, so it will not be in any particular order. George W. Rightmire, 6th President of OSU, class of 1995 Deans and the College Alfred Vivian William E. Henderson James E. Hagerty Harry M. Semans George F. Arps Embury A. Hitchcock John J. Adams Eugene F. McCampbell Claire A Dye David S. White Elisabeth Conrad (s not z) Jessica Foster William McPherson A bit more information is availble on above names. If these are your family, contact me off list. Secretaries of the Colleges: True G. Watson S. M. Whinery Felix E. Held Harvey V. Cottrell Raymond D. Bennett William D. Turnbull Alonzo H. Tuttle Francis L. Landacre Clarence M. Brown Oscar V. Brumley Student Council Men Frederick W. R. Pride VP Parker Z. Bloser Sec Victor H. Barnes Treasurer Albert S. Porter Seniors: Victor H. Barnes, Parker Z. Bloser, Myers A. Clark, Victor L. Keys, Ralph L. Peters, Frederick W. R. Pride, and Paul B. Russell Juniors Charles E. Johnston, J. Howard MacKay, Albert S. Porter, Clinton A. Roach, Richard M. Tubbs, Donald C. Turnbull Sophomore: George B. Marshall, Frederick J. Milligan, and John H. Winters Freshman Lewis V. Gray, Graduate: Harmon A. Runnels Sandy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:49:46 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <91.18b971ee.29a9849a@aol.com> Subject: death certificate for Justice Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Certificate # 45693 Scioto County, city of Portsmouth Henry J. Justice Wheelersburg, Ohio, Rt #2 Mercy Hospital White Widowed Male dob 5-19-1872 dod 7-18-1942 age 70y10m29d retired wife was Mary Justice birthplace Lawrence Co, Kentucky Father Henry Justice, Sr. born Scioto Co, Ohio Mother Mary Leadingham born Carter Co, Kentucky Informant Sydney Justice Wilson of Portsmouth, Ohio (assumed to a daughter) Burial Old Wheelersburg Funeral Pratt Hill CAUSE OF DEATH: Myocarditis Sandy Searching Family Stories with Sandy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:50:25 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <61.1b6bcbee.29a984c1@aol.com> Subject: death certificate Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Death Certificate 11823 Henry Jackson Justice Sciotoville, Station 6 Scioto County, city of Portsmouth white widowed male dod 3-22-1840 dod 2-4-1927 age 86y10m12d retired farmer born Virginia, Wise Father Henry Jackson Justice born Wise Virginia Mother Jane Hall born Wise Virginia Informant G. H. Justice, Sciotoville Sta. City Cause of Death Mitral Insufficiency Buried Wheelersburg City Undertaker George ----in Portsmouth Sandy Searching Family Stories with Sandy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:51:17 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <154.972d0ed.29a984f5@aol.com> Subject: helping in Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Many of us help others throughout Ohio. More proof of that below. As I prepared to leave the library yesterday and collect my jazz, I noticed a death certificate left behind. Made a photo copy and left at the desk, hoping that individual might call after going home and realizing they didn't have it. If not, maybe one of you out there needs this: FRANCIS B. ZIMMERMAN dob 5-21-1848 dod 3-1-1920 age at death 71y9m8d born Pennsylvania d/o James Hess, also born PA d/o Christina Franks also born PA Informant Ernest Zimmerman (husband, I would assume) This was a white, married, female Cause of death is: Organic Valvular Heart Disease Burial Maple Grove Undertaker Stansbury and Leick---- Orville, Ohio Wayne County, Ohio Chippewa township The actual Certificate number isn't readable, perhaps they made another copy because of that and actually have their certificate. Sandy Searching Family Stories with Sandy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:09:31 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: death certificate Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 40448 Frederick W. Keppler white widowed male Cuyahoga County, city of Cleveland dob 10-27-1846 dod 6-28-1935 wife was Ruth Hudson Keppler age at death 88y8m1d retired merchant birthplace Cleveland, Ohio Father Adolph Keppler, born Germany Mother Elizabeth can't read the last name, born in France (name might be De or Du Meo ?) Informant Gertrude D. Clegg burial Lakeview (?) Cause: Found dead in bed 8 am, probably cause of death Cerebral Hemorrhage and so reported to County Morgue. Sandy Searching Family Stories with Sandy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:44:15 -0500 From: "Maggie" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <013401c1bd07$10704b20$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio-- Ohio Shawnees - Part 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------Original Message------- From: Darlene & Kathi kelley Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 19:04:32 To: MaggieOhio@columbus.rr.com Subject: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio-- Ohio Shawnees - Part 1 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Feb 6, 2002 ***************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley ***************************************** Ohio Shawnees -- Part 1 The Shawnee Indians were living in the Ohio Valley as early as 1660, but the Iroquois were not willing to share their rich hunting grounds and drove the Shawnees away. Some went to Illinois, others to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Georgia. As the power of the Iroquois weakened, the Shawnees eventually moved back into Ohio, from the south and the east and settled in the lower Scioto River valley. The Shawnees spoke a form of the Alogonquian language and were related to the Delaware, Miami, and Ottawa Indians, having a special friendship with the Wyandotes. Other Indian tribes were allies one day and enemies the next. Political alliances were complicated and certainly changed with the times. First they were allies of the French until the British traders moved into the Ohio country around 1740. The French pushed the British out of Ohio and the Shawnees were forced to be the allies of the French again until the British victory in the French and Indian War. As the French trading posts turned into British forts, the Ohio Indians began to band together to fight the British. During the American Revolution, the Shawnees fought alongside the British against the Americans and continued to fight the Americans afterwards. They were fierce warriors and were among the most feared and respected of all Ohio's Indians, with Tecumseh as their greatest Chief. After General Anthoney Wayne defeated the Ohio Indians, in 1794 at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the Shawnees surrendered most of their lands in Ohio with the signing of the Treaty of Greenville. Many of the Shawnees moved into Indiana and continued to fight for land and freedom. General William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnees and their allies at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Between 1831 and 1833 the United States forced the Shawnees to give up their reservations in Ohio and they were sent off to reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas. The Shawnee were divided into different clans, with the main chief coming from the Shawnees could only come from the one clan. The name of this clan was "Chillicothe." When a village was called Chillicothe it meant that it was home to the principal chief, the capitol city of the Shawnee. Chillicothe was also the first state capitol in Ohio, but this modern city was not the site of the former Shawnee village or capitol home of the prinicipal chief. ******************************************* George Bluejacket -- His Story of the " Shawanoes " George Bluejacket was the son of the great Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket. He later became a chief himself. He wrote his history of the Shawnee people between 1829 and 1831. It shows the Indians version of Ohio's early history, and gives us the unique and invaluable perspective of a Shawnee Indian whose father was one of the most influential Indian participants in the events of one of Ohio's tragic Indian Wars.-- "A Story of the Shawanoes" [ Water People ] By George Bluejacket 1886. Wapaughkonnetta [ Wapakoneta, Ohio ] October 29, 1829. part 1-- I have been told by Nath-the-wee-law [ Geo. C. Johnson ] to write a story of our tribe. Nath-the-wee-law is our brother and friend of our people. My father [Bluejacket] was great Chief and told us many things of the old Shawanoes. [Shawnees]. Other old Chiefs have told us many things too. I was born two winters after the Gin-e-wane Al-ag-wa [" rain of stars " -- the spectacular meteor shower of 1800 ] at our Pe-quaw [Piqua] on Big Miami Se-pe [ Great Miami River ]. My father was Head-Chief then at that town. My Father Chief was buried there by our White Father [ John Johnson ] near the school house. Many of our people are buried there. Our White Father has told us to go sit by our dead on his farm any time. Some of our tribe go there every summer. We all love that place. We all love our White Father John Johnson too. I now tell about our tribe. Old Chief Black-hoof has told us that our tribe came from the great salt water, where Ke-sath-wa [ the sun ] came out of the Kitch-e-ca-me [ lake ] in the morning, and hid on the Me-to-quegh-ke [ forest ] at night. We were great people. Our men were great warriors. They fought many tribes and always beat them. The beginning of the Shawanoe tribe was when the Co-cum-tha [ Grandmother ] of our people come up out of the great salt water holding the tail of the Me-she-pe-she. [ Panther ] Her Wash-et-che [ husband ] was carried to the shore by a very big Wa-be-the. [ swan or goose ] The land where our people had lived was swallowed up in the great salt water by Watch-e-me-ne-too [ bad spirit or devil ], but Mish-e-me-ne-toc [ the great god or good spirit ] saved these two and they were the first of our tribe. Many animals and birds were saved too, so there was plenty hunting in the new Me-to-quegh-ke [ forest ]. That was many Te-pa-wa-ko-te [ hundred seasons , or years ] ago, and our people soon became many. They have always been called Shawanoes [ Water People ] and the Me-she-pe-she [ Panther ] and Wa-be-the [ Swan ] have always been the signs [ or totems ] of this tribe. After a time the white people got too many for the red man and then we followed the best hunting toward the north where the Al-wa-ma-ke [ bottom land ] was good for the corn, and the Ma-vuegh-ke [ hills ] full of game. The Mean-e-lench [ young men ] hunted and ran on warpath. The Pash-e-to-the [ old men ] caught the A-ma-tha [ fish ] in the Bo-with-e [ small streams ] and the E-qui-wa [ women ] worked in the Da-me [ maize or corn ]. Then may seasons passed, the tribe always going north, to when Black-hoof was a Mean-e-lench [ young man ] and they were all north of the Great Se-pe [ Great River or the Ohio River ] Here we were given much land by our brothers, the Wyandots. We built many towns and lived long time in peace, till the white man behind the great Se-pe tried to drive us away. They sent their Shem-a-noes [ Long Knives ] to our lodges and killed our E-qui-wa and A-pe-to-the [ women and children ]. ********************************************** to be continued in part 2. . --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:56:00 -0500 From: "Maggie" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <013f01c1bd08$b70f3620$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History-- Know your Ohio-- Ohio Shawnee --Part 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------Original Message------- From: Darlene & Kathi kelley Date: Saturday, February 09, 2002 19:41:12 To: MaggieOhio@columbus.rr.com Subject: Bio History-- Know your Ohio-- Ohio Shawnee --Part 2 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Feb 9, 2002 ********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley Ohio Shawnee Indians *********************************************** Ohio Shawnees -- Part 2 Con't of George Bluejacket's " A Story of the Shawnoes " -- Oct 29,1829. Then our great Chief called all our warriors to a big Council at the Chillicothe Town. Here they made talk to use the war paint till all the bad spirits of our enemies were dead. Black Hoof told us all this. My Father told me, and so told me too that himself he remember these wars along the Big Se-Pe. [ Ohio River ] Then he spoke to me too about the great army of General Clarke [ George Rogers Clark ] and Logan [ Benjamin Logan ]; how the Watch-e-men-e-toc [ evil spirit ] was with the warriors at our Pe-quaw town on Mad River, where many of us where killed and our town burned; how we came to the Big Miami [ Great Miami River ] and built a new Pe-quaw town; how many died in the winter from hungry and cold, though our brothers, the Wyandots, gave us some corn and beans. He told me too how angry our warriors were and how they made war medicine; how they went in the summer to the pale face houses, killed many and took many scalps. How after two summers Clarke come again and burned our towns on the Big Miami; and how all the tribes above the Great Se-pe [ Ohio River ] met in council at Pe-quaw town; how all the war-chiefs struck the war-post and made words that the pale-face people must stay behind [ south and east of ] the Great Se-Pe. My Father Bluejacket, Little Turtle and Tarhe made much talk at council, and for many summers our war bands camped along the Great Se-Pe. Then came the time when an army of Shem-a-ga-ne [soldiers] come over the old salt trail to the Miami towns, but our tribes beat them so they ran home Harmar's Defeat--1790 ]. The next season a great army come back [ west ] of the Big Miami to the Maumee towns, and our warriors killed so many that they only got back home [ St. Clair's Defeat --1791]. My Father show me many scalp from that big battle. My Father told me too that all the tribes how much angry and make all ready to go on war-path over the Great Se-Pe into Kentucky, but Simon Girty tell them another big army coming, so our warriors stay home and wait. They wait one, two seasons, then Tota [ a Frenchman ] tell them big army coming up old trail and camp on Greenville Creek. My Father Chief Bluejacket tell me this; He send runners [scouts] to see this big army and tell him how many. He keep runners all time watch this army, and all tribes wait on Maumee Se-Pe. [ river ]. He send war band to catch White Chief [Anthony Wayne] sleepy, but that army never sleepy, so wait for him come to fort on Maumee where British Chief [ Maj. William Campbell] say they help Indians beat Wayne [ Fort Miamis]. This time Indian get beat and also get no help from army [ Battle of Fallen Timbers-- 1794 ]. My Father Chief Bluejacket told me British Fort army all liars, and next season most all tribes go to big council at Greenville [ Treaty of Greenville ]. Here they make treaty with Wayne, bury tomahawk, and give much land to Shem-a-noes [Americans]. My Father Chief Bluejacket never after dig up tomahawk against Sham-a-noes, but after a few times [years] Tecumseh and his Brother [ The Prophet ] make war medicine with the British Cheif at Detroit and try to make our tribe fight Shem-a-noes [ Americans ] but my Father say no, but other tribes say yes, but get beat by Big White Chief Harrison [ William Henry Harrison ] at Tippecanoe on Wabash Se-Pe. [ Battle of Tippecanoe -- 1811; Tecumseh Sites]. Our tribe then live at Wapaughkonnetta, above treaty line [ Treaty of Greenville Line ], but soon when British want us to make war medicine our Great White Father at Washington [ President James Monroe ] move our trbe back to our old Pe-quaw Town [ Upper Piqua ], where some of Delawares, Wyandots, Ottawas, and Senecas stay peaceful under council of our white Father, John Johnson. This I know myself, for I was a big boy [ 10 years old ] and many time play at post with John Johnson A-pe-to-the [ children ]. Captain John Logan and some more of our tribe were runners for General Harrison, and were all brave men. Sometime after this war [ was ] over we were moved back to Wapaughkonnetta, but our White Father, John Johnson, was still our agent and many time come to talk with our people there. My Father Chief Blue Jacket. Black Hoof and Wi-wei-i-pea were big friends with John Johnson and many times went to his post at Pe-quaw, [ upper Piqua ], and I to sometimes went with them too. For many seasons we live peaceful at Wapaughkonnetta, then when I am young man [ 19 years old --1821] John Johnson take me to post and let me go to school-house on his farm. I live in John Johnson post, and our master [ school teacher ] live there too. Our Master [ James Laird - an Irishman ] much red-head man, and beat everybody with stick, but we soon know how to read, write, and spell like himself. Some boys name Winans, Widney, Russell, McIntire, Bill Johnson go to same school house I do, and get beat too. I like to live at John Johnson, but one, two, three winter, then I go back to Wapaughkonnetta and other boys go back down to school house. Not much go past [ happens ] for some seasons [ years ] then Nath-the-wee-law [ George C. Johnson ] buy trading store of Skip-a-ge-tha [ Nicholas Greenham ] at Wapaughkonnetta and me I sometime make help in store. We make big friends together, and he have me write some all the time. Frank Duchouquet [ Francis Ducheuquet, an early French trader among the Ohio Indian tribes ], George Moffett [ a European-American raised by the Shawnee from childhood ] and John Elliot [ official blacksmith at John Johnson's post ] were big friends with us too, and sometimes we make big hunt all together in the Mis-ke-ko-pe [ swampland ] toward Maumee Se-pe [ River ]. George Moffett's Indian name is Kit-er-hoo; Frank Duchouquet's is So-wah-quo-the, and both belong to our tribe. In the last moon myself, George Moffett, and Nath-the wee-law [ George C. Johnson ] make big deer hunt near the big Kitch-e-ca-me [ Lake Erie ] and brought in 63 skins. Many of us kill a-magh-qua [ beaver], Osh-as-qua [ muskrat ] and ki-ta-te [ otter ] in the cold season. Jan 9, 1830. I have not make much write in book for two moons. Nath-the-wee-law [ George C. Johnson ] and Skip-age-tha [ Nicholas Greenham ] with some head chiefs of our tribe and Wyandots, make big long walk to see our Great White Father at Washington, and tell him about Indians trouble since John Johnson no more Father [ agent ] for our tribes. Our now White Father [ agent ] make much talk about our goods, but no make goods come to Indian. Our tribe get much winter goods from John Johnson anyway, for John Johnson always friend of poor Indian. One time in corn season some many white people come from Piquatown to our New Corn Dance. Nath-the-wee-law [ George C. Johnson ] dance with us a make them people much laugh. We had a good time but some Indians drink much fire-water and fight an other till one two die. Also we make big race and shoot at post but George Moffett too------- [ Here an entire leaf was missing from the diary and the following was written in the Fall of 1830, for they were congregated at St. Mary's in December of that year. ] ----- have come to tell us all Indians must move right away to Girty's Town [ St. Mary's ] to make ready to go to new Indian land on big Ta-was-ko-ta [ prairie ] near Night Lodge of Ke-sath-wa [ Sun ]. Our old people make much sorry [ sorrow for they not wish to leave old home. Nath-the-wee-law [ George C. Johnson ] and John Johnson sorry too, but say Indian must do like the Great White Father at Washington say, for white people must have all land before the Big Se-pe [ East of the Mississippi River ]. Our tribe is no more a great people. Our old chiefs most all gone. Our warriors sit down most like E-qui-wa [ women ]. We take what our White Father gives us. Now we must go to new land. Soon more times we will have to move again. Soon there will be no more Shaw-anoes. Our hearts are full of sorry [sorrow] for all the tribes. But we will listen to the voice of our Mish-eme-ne-toc [ good spirit ] in the great Me-to-quegh-to [forest] and he tells his A-pe-to-the [children] when they are all gone from this Mel-che-a-sis-ke [ poor land or poor earth] he will lead their We-che-a-sis-ke to good land where all place is for Indian; where pale-face never come. Then poor Indian more again be happy. Girty's Town [ St. Mary's Ohio ] June 1831. Nath-the wee-law [ George C. Johnston ] tell me to write more in book. Soon he will go back home to Pe-quawtown. When our White Father [agent] have plenty much Me-she-wa [ horses ] then Indian start on long walk to new home. Our tribe will go down to old Pe-quaw Town at John Johnston post, and sit sometime on the graves of our fathers and make sorry. We will make sorry for as long as we can, and then we will tell good by to John Johnston and Nath-the-wee-law. The we will tell good by to the Me-to-quegh-ke [ forest ] at the Se-pe and leave our home forever. My heart full of sorry-- George Bluejacket. *********************************************** From other authority, we learn that just previous to the Shawnees removal west, and by special invitation of their former agent, Col John Johnson, this tribe did come down in body to their old home at Upper Piqua and remained several days on the site of their old home and burial grounds. Their parting from these old-tme scenes, and especially their final farewell to their kindly old Agent and his family, was very affecting, and was the occasion of much shedding of tears for all participants. Not long after the removal of this tribe to their western reservation, Biuejacket became Chief, according to Major Stephen Johnston. Among the papers, accounts, and manuscripts left by George C. Johnston, were several important documents relating to that period in his life when he conducted a licensed trading post at Wapaughkonnetta and later at St. Mary's. His dealings were confined principally to the Indian tradem especially with the Shawnanoes, for the members of this tribe far outnumbered all the others at these posts just previous to their removal to the west. These tribes had been under the guidence and protection of Col John Johnston, at Upper Piqua for many a year, but a new administration at Washngton had removed him from office and placed them under the control of his successor at Wapaughkonnetta. George C. Johnston had been adopted into this branch of the Shawnanoe tribe, so when they were taken away from Upper Piqua, he soon followed them to their new post above the treaty line. One interesting relic, of this period, with dates running from Nov 8, 1829 to June 1, 1831, is a large number of unpaid notes , in book form, given by different members of the tribe to Johnston for goods, and as they went west so after this date these notes undoubtedly stand for a large loss sustained by this devoted man for his love of the Shawnanoe tribe. *********************************************** Con't in part 3. . --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #42 ******************************************