SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  SARVER, Hiram

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>From The History of Shelby County, Ohio, published by R. Sutton & Co., 
Philadelphia, 1883.
				

Page 192  Orange Township
Hiram Sarver

The Sarvers are of German extraction.  Their first settlement in America
was Virgina.  The first of whom we can get any knowledge was Samuel Sarver,
who was born in Virginia about 1790.  He served as a soldier in the war of
1812. After his term of enlistment in 1814 he married Sarah Brill.  They
raised a family of six boys.  This family came to Shelby County in 1825,
and located in Green Township.  When they came to Ohio all the effects they
had they brought on the back of one horse.  Mrs. Sarver rode on this same
horse together with the two youngest children.  Mr. Sarver and the other
children walking all the way.  When they landed they had no money.  They
squatted on a piece of land, which several years later they bought.  It is
not necessary to describe the hardships through which they had to pass in a
new country, with a family of six small children and no means of support,
except the hands of one man to provide food and clothing for his wife and
children in the woods without an acre of cleared land.  It was here in the
woods that Hiram Sarver was born in the year 1828, three years after their
settlement. He lived with his father until he died in 1843. He then hired
out for six years for $25.00 a year and his everyday clothing.  In 1853 he
married Nancy Dickensheets, by whom he had eleven children, seven of who
are living, viz., Margaret, L.J., Mary C., Charles H., William G., Ella M.,
Carrie M., and Emery C.. Mr. S. bought his present home with the money he
earned before he married, working at $25.00 a year except $100.00 he
received from his father's estate.  They are located on section 32.  Henry
Dickensheets, the father of Mrs. Sarver, was born in Maryland about 1795.
When a young man he went to Kentucky, where he formed the acquaintance of
Mary Hines, and came with her to Montgomery County, Ohio, about 1814, and
was there married.  It was here that Mrs. Sarver was born in 1831, and
brought by her parents in Shelby County in 1832.