OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 201 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 201 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Wilcox) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Wood) [Archives ] #3 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Wood) [Archives ] 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: 19 Nov 2005 05:52:27 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051119055227.27265.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Wilcox) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Wilcox, James O. 1851 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 19, 2005, 12:52 am Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JAMES O. WILCOX, farmer, P. O. Larue, was born November 9, 1851, in this county, and is the son of Ebenezer R. and Emily (Carpenter) Wilcox. His father was born September 4, 1819, in Franklin County, Ohio, and was the son of Asa and Mary (Carter) Wilcox, the former born February 18, 1788, in Orange County, N. Y., of English descent, and the latter a daughter of Anthony Carter, a French soldier under La Fayette. E. R. Wilcox, the father of our subject, received a common school education and was married at the age of twenty-nine to Emily Hurlbert, who was born February 7, 1820, in Bradford County, Penn., and a daughter of Adriel and Emily (Carpenter) Hurlbert; her father was born in Vermont and was of German descent; her mother was a native of Delaware. This union resulted in six children, of whom our subject is the second, as follows: William A., born September 21, 1850, died September 8, 1851; James O., our subject; Charles M., born November 21, 1853, in McLean County, Ill. Mary D., born April 1, 1855, died September 8, 1856; Frank D., born February 12, 1860, in McLean County, Ill.; and Ebenezer, born October 12, 1863, in Ohio. E. R. Wilcox, the father of our subject, moved in 1852 with his family to McLean County, Ill., but returned in 1862 to Ohio, to take care of his aged father. He remained on the homestead until after the death of his father, which occurred February 12, 1873, when he sold out and moved to Kenton, where he lived for one year, and then purchased a farm eight miles east of Kenton, on the banks of the Scioto River. After living peacefully for four years, he departed this life April 13, 1881. His widow is still living, although an invalid, and has her father, who is a hale and hearty man of eighty-seven years, living with her. Frank Wilcox, the brother of our subject, was the first of the boys to marry; he was married, December 28, 1882, to Miss Alice, the daughter of Perry Hardin, of Marion County. James, our subject, was united in marriage January 10, 1883, to Miss Sarah. born May 22, 1861, in Clark County, this State, a daughter of Joshua and Eliza J. (Campbell) Heisler, the former of German parentage, born in 1829, in Pennsylvania. Additional Comments: Dudley Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/wilcox316bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 19 Nov 2005 05:56:16 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051119055616.28306.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Wood) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Wood, Jesse 1829 - 1864 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 19, 2005, 12:56 am Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JESSE WOOD, deceased, was born December 31, 1829, a native of Hardin County. He was the son of Isaac and Hannah (Baker) Wood, natives of Pennsylvania, of English descent, who emigrated to this State at an early day. The subject of this sketch was a farmer by occupation, and successful in business, owning at the time of his decease eighty-three acres of land in Dudley Township. He was united in marriage January 1, 1856, to Emily Anderson, who was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, April 7, 1832, and daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Clark) Anderson, both natives of Ohio and of English lineage. This union resulted in two children, Frank, born December 24, 1857; and Myrtle Jane, born October 27, 1861. Mr. Wood and his wife were members of the Christian Church. He furnished a substitute during the late war, and died December, 1864, his loss deeply mourned by his wife and two children. Additional Comments: Dudley Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/wood317bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 19 Nov 2005 05:57:20 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051119055720.28580.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Wood) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Wood, Joseph E. 1833 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 19, 2005, 12:57 am Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JOSEPH E. WOOD, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born April 5, 1833, in Union County, Ohio, and is a son of Michael and Eliza (Thayer) Wood, both of English descent, the former a native of New York, the latter a native of Pennsylvania. His father was born April 3, 1801, and moved to Ohio at an early day, settling in Worthington, Franklin County, he died January 7, 1880. The subject of this sketch received a common school education, and has followed farming for his occupation. He married, May 11, 1856, a daughter of James W. and Lena A. (Davis) Boyer, the former of whom was a native of Delaware and died in 1859. Our subject's wife was born August 23, 1837, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and has had thirteen children, eight boys and five girls, viz., Celia, born September, 1856, died April 28, 1866; Joseph R., born January 14, 1860; Charles W., born October 14, 1857 ; Florence, born January 9, 1859; Laura, born March 17, 1862; Michael S., born January 17, 1866, died at the age of twenty months; William F., born March 18, 1865, died at the age of one mouth; Luther, born June 15, 1867 ; John J., born October 16, 1869; Howard W., born November 27, 1871; twins, born June, 1874, died in infancy; Hattie; born May 3, 1878; Charles, born______. Charles Wood was married, May 11, 1882, to Etta, daughter of Charles Smith; Laura Wood is the wife of William Lattimore, and has had two children, Beemer, born in October, 1879, and Bessie A., born February, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Christian Church. Six years ago Mr. Wood suffered a loss of about $1,000 from a fire that occurred in his absence. He owns 110 acres of land in Dudley Township; has filled the office of School Director, and in politics is a Republican. Additional Comments: Dudley Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/wood318bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #201 *******************************************