OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 18 *********************************************************************** 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 03 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Bio: Spriggs, Thornton - [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030131210858.0155a6c4@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Spriggs, Thornton - Mercer Co. 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 >From "History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio" by Sutton pub 1882: pg 370 Thornton Spriggs was the son of William and Mary Wilson Spriggs. They came to this county in 1840. William and Margaret Wilson are the parents of Mrs. Spriggs. Mr. William Spriggs died in 1875 and his wife in 1859. Thornton Spriggs, their son, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1836, and was raised on a farm, and is also a stock-raiser. He married his wife, Jane Wilson, Oct. 21, 1858. She was born in 1838. Their children are William, Seth, Daniel, John, James, Henrietta, Lucretia, and Charles. He served four years as assessor, and sheriff of Mercer County four years, from 1870 to 1874. He had three uncles in the Revolutionary war, one of whon was a colonel, another a captain, and the third a private. His wife's brother and his own brother were in the Rebellion, and he was drafted, but furnished a substitute. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:25:47 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030201142547.006888a0@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Morrow, James - Shelby Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Marcella Messer. History of Shelby County 1883 Sutton Pg. 196 Orange Township James Morrow The name Morrow is a modification of the Scotch name of Murray. The great-grandfather of James Morrow emigrated to America from Londenderry about 1730. John Morrow, father of James was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, about the time of the Revolutionary War. He was a brother of Jeremiah Morrow, who was the first Representative in Congress from Ohio: and also was Governor of Ohio from 1822-1826. Governor Morrow came to the territory of Ohio in 1795. He was a member of the first convention that framed the Constitution of the State. John Morrow, a younger brother of the Governor, came to Ohio at the beginning of the present century, and located in Butler County. Here he married Mary Robinson about 1805. James was the second some of this marriage. He was born in Butler County in 1810. In 1818 his father entered three-quarter sections of land in what is now Shelby County. This land he gave to his children. In 1838 James married Miss Mary Clark, and the same year moved to his present home in section 34, Orange Township. They have raised a family of six children, viz., Mary A., Margaret J., Rebecca, Sarah, Robert C, and Elijah J. Mrs. Morrow died in 1860, since which time Mr. M. has lived with his children. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:25:48 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030201142548.0068e678@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Cromer, Harrison - shelby co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Marcella Messer. History of Shelby County, R. Sutton, 1883 Page 273 Cynthian Township Harrison Cromer The Cromers, as far back as we can learn of them, are from Kentucky. Abraham Cromer, with his family came from Kentucky to Miami County, Ohio, some time prior to the war of 1812. He served as a soldier in that war, and was one of the party who found and cared for Dilbone and Girard at their massacre by Indians in 1813. He died near this place. His wife, Hannah Cromer, died about 1876, aged ninety-eight years. Elnathan, a son of the above, was born in Kentucky in the year 1808, was brought by his parents to Miami County when a small child, and has lived there from that time to the present. He married Sarah Cavault in 1832. They raised a family of nine children. Harrison Cromer, of this township, was born in Miami County in 1834. He is the eldest son of Elnathan Cromer. He is a farmer and has made that his business through life. In 1856 he married Phebe A. Gaskill of Miami County. They have seven children, viz., Laura P., William H., Thomas H., Mary A., Elanthan E., John M., and Anna M. In 1868 he bought a farm in this township, to which he moved his family. His farm is among the best improved ones of the township. He has erected upon it fine buildings and improvements, all of which have been made by his own industry, never having inherited anything. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:25:49 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030201142549.00662e28@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Dunlap, David - Shelby Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Marcella Messer. History of Shelby County, R. Sutton 1883 pg. 274 Cynthian Township David Dunlap David Dunlap Sr., was born in Ireland in 1780. When twenty years of age he came to the United States to seek a home. He located in Lancaster County, PA. Here he married Mary Sharp in 1807. They lived on a farm as laborers and continued as laborers on the same farm as long as they lived. One of his sons succeeded him as a tenant and resides there at the present time, so that some of the family have resided as tenants on this farm for over seventy years. The father died in 1865. His wife died in 1863. David Dunlap Jr, a son of the above, was born in Pennsylvania in 1821. In 1849 he married Mary A. Lemon, of Lancaster, PA., and the same year came to Montgomery County Ohio, where he lived one year, then came to a wild piece of land in this township. Here he built himself a hewed log house and commenced his present home. There were born to him by this marriage three children, viz., Jacob D., Mary C., and William W., both sons now dead. His wife died in 1861. In 1866 he married for his second wife Elizabeth Wolf. By this marriage there was one child, Emma E. His second wife died in 1878. Death has visited his home not less than six different times. He has buried from his house two wives, two sons, a brother and his mother in law. Although his past has been clouded by affliction, may his future be bright with the sunshine of hope. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V03 Issue #18 ******************************************