OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 157 *********************************************************************** 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 157 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Bio: Farley, Ezekiel - N [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020718232939.006dab58@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Farley, Ezekiel - Noble Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Ezekiel Farley was born in Greene County, Pa., in the year 1810, came to this State with his father, in the year 1815, who settled about three miles south of Summerfield. On the 17th of September, 1861, he volunteered in Captain James H. Riggs' company, under the leadership of it's gallant colonel, J.A. Garfield. He was with the regiment in its battles and marches one year, when his health failed him and he was honorably discharged from the service on the 17th day of September, 1862. He returned home, but his health was so broken that he died in a few years. He had two noble boys that lost their lives in ther service - Henry and Sylvanus. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:29:40 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020718232940.006d8e80@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Bates, Patrick - Noble Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Patrick Bates was born in Seneca Township, Guernsey County, in 1841. He remained at home until 1861, when he enlisted in Company D, Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years, being mustered out with the company. He was in engagements at Middle Creek, Chickasaw Mountain, the Vicksburg campaign, and back to Vicksburg with Banks in his Red River expedition. In 1867 he married Mary E. Hughes, of this county, and by her had two children, both deceased. His wife died in 1870, and in 1881 he married Mary Morris. They have had three children, two of whom are living - Amanda and Maggie. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:29:41 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020718232941.006d6920@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Somers, Andrew - Noble Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Freedom (Whigville P.O.) is a small village about four miles from Summerfield, in a northwesterly direction. About the year 1841 Andrew Somers, an itinerant shoemaker from Massachusetts, came into the neighborhood and worked from house to house, carrying his kit of tools with him. In 1843 he purchased a lot from Samuel Large, upon which he erected a small one-story frame house, in one corner of which he has his shop. He was an honest Christian man and reared a respectable family - nine children. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:29:42 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020718232942.006d7060@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Finley, William = Noble Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- William Finley came from Pennsylvania when a young man, and settled in Seneca Township about 1825. He was a worthy, industrious pioneer, and used to claim that he had cleared more land than any man he ever knew, except Aaron Morris. In 1832 he married Rachel Glover, whose parents came to the county about the same time that Mr. Finley did. Among his pioneer experiences was hauling grain to the Muskingam River, forty miles, over poorly constructed roads, selling it at from twenty-five to forty cents per bushel, and taking the larger part of the proceeds in trade. After living in Seneca Township thirty-five years, in 1860 he removed to Center Township, and thence in 170 to Wayne County, Iowa, taking with him his younger children. His wife died in 1878 and he in 1886. The grandfather of William Finley and his brother, aged nineteen and twenty-one years respectively, came to America from Ireland just before the Revolution. Landing in New York without means, they there separated, and the identity of the two families was never certainly fixd, except that the family of Patrick Finley had a similar legend. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:29:43 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020718232943.006ddad0@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Leeper, Rev. Williiam - Noble Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- About 1839 Rev. William Leeper, of Irish parentage, a Methodist preacher, bought the Rice farm. He was regarded as eccentric in both actions and doctrine, and after a time it was seen that he was insane. He died in the asylum. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:29:44 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020718232944.006cb310@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Moore, Lewis J. - Noble Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Lewis J. Moore was born in Marion Township in 1842. At the age of seven years he was bound out until he was twenty to Andrew J. Moore. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war, participating in several noted battles. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #157 *******************************************