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ADAMS TOWNSHIP.
BY HON. I. W. QUINSY.
ADAMS Township has an area of 14,200 acres, a fraction over twenty-two square miles. It is one of the smallest in the county, It was the twelfth township established in the county. It was named for and in honor of John Quincy Adams, who had died the year before its formation at Washington City, being stricken with paralysis while in the discharge of his duties on the floor of the House of Representatives, as a member of Congress from Massachusetts.
Its surface is diversified and undulating. Along the water-courses there are considerable stretches of rich bottom land of like kind and quality to that of the Miami bottoms. This bottom land is flanked on either side by low lines of hills that lead to the higher table-lands above. West and north of Todd's Fork, there is a gently rolling upland of deep rich soil, in places black and loamy. East and southeast of Todd's Fork, the upland is foamy, well adapted to the growth of wheat and the tame grasses. It is also fine grazing land, the grasses grown upon it being highly nutritious.
STREAMS.
The two principal water-courses are Todd's Fork, a tributary of the Little Miami, and Lytle's Creek, the latter of which empties its waters into the former about one mile southwest of Sligo. Lytle's Creek was named for Gen. William Lytle, of Cincinnati, who was one of the pioneers of Hamilton County, and a distinguished citizen. He was a land surveyor, and was often employed by those holding military land warrants to locate and survey their lands. In 1802, Ambrose Dudley employed him to make a survey, known as Dudley's survey, No. 2,789, containing 2,660 acres, for which and other services rendered, Dudley deeded him 700 acres off the north end of the survey. Asa Green has in his keeping now the original deed from Dudley to Lytle for this 700 acres. It is dated. on the 3d day of June, 1802, the consideration in the deed being stated as follows: "In consideration of locating 2,660 2/3 acres of land, lying and being in the county of Hamilton, and territory northwest of the River Ohio, on the waters of Todd's Fork, a branch of the Little Miami."
Ambrose Dudley lived at that time in Fayette County, By, where he continued to reside as late as the year 1820. The perils, privations, and the exposures incident to making a survey of land at this early day were so great that Lytle, no doubt, well earned the tract of land with which he was rewarded for his services. Lytle's Creek enters the township near the middle of the eastern boundary line, and flows almost due west until it debouches into Todd's Fork.
Todd's Fork was probably named for and in perpetuation of the memory of Col. John Todd, an early settler in the vicinity of Lexington, Ky., who was a noted Indian fighter. In 1782, with the rank of Colonel, he was in command of the militia around Lexington and with a portion of his command participated in the disastrous and bloody battle of the Blue Licks August 19, 1782, where he was killed while in command. In this battle Daniel Boone had a son killed, and came near being captured himself by the Indians. It flows in a southwesterly direction through the township, entering it at 194 poles east of the southwest corner of the township.
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About one-half mile east of Ogden, there is a small stream that flows into Lytle's Creek from a southerly direction, known by the name of Indian Branch, Prior to the first settlements, a portion of a tribe of Indians had made their home upon its banks at times, probably while away from their villages on hunting excisions. Within the memory of some now living, the stumps of the trees and saplings which had been hacked down with their hatchets could yet be seen, and a small patch of land in the richest bottom cleared by the Indians; hence the name Indian Branch. About a third of a mile from the mouth of lndian Branch there is another stream that puts into it from an easterly direction, known as Jess's Run.
Dutch Creek is the name of a tributary of Todd's Fork, that flows into it from a northeasterly direction. The north line of the township crosses it not far from its mouth. Little Creek. is the name of a stream that flows in a southerly direction through the northeast portion of the township and empties into Todd's Fork about a mile above the mouth of Lytle's Creek. There is another small stream that has its bead near the southern line of the township and flows in a northwesterly direction and empties into Lytle's Creek, about one mile below Ogden.
MILLS.
In the earlier day, these streams afforded an abundant water supply. The dense growth of timber prevented the sun's rays from reaching the ground and the water that fell in the form of rain and snow did net evaporate rapidly, but was carried off slowly by the natural channels on the surface. The decaying leaves, the prostrate timber, the rotten logs, and the driftwood, tended to prevent the rapid drainage of the water from off the surface of the ground. In the year 1805, a man by the name of Mordecai Mendenhall bought a part of the Gates survey of James Murray, in whose name the survey was patented, and built a grist-mill on Todd's Fork, about one mile above the mouth of Dutch Creek. It was probably the first mill built on Todd's Fork.* March 15, 1806, he sold it with 140 acres of land to Jonathan Wright, who owned it until 1814, when he sold it to Richard Fallis. Fallis refitted and enlarged it and kept it running until 1826, when he sold it with a tract of 256 acres of land to his nephew, Jonathan Fallis. In 1830, Jonathan Fallis sold it with forty-seven acres of land to Josiah Townsend. Townsend afterward died, and in May, 1837, his administrator deeded it back to Jonathan Fallis, by order of court and in payment of an unpaid balance of the original purchase money. Fallis immediately deeded it to John Hadley, who owned it until 1841, when he sold it to Stacey* Haines, who kept it until 1854. It was afterward owned by Thomas Kimbrough, Jeremiah Kimbrough, his son, William L. Hadley, Thomas Hazard, A. U. Hadley, and again by William L. Hadley. It having fallen into disuse and decay about the year 1867, he took it down.
In 1808, Eli Harvey and John Hadley, brothers-in-law, built a grist-mill on 'Todd's Fork about one mile below Springfield Meeting-House. It was afterward owned by John Hadley, and became widely known as Hadley's Mill. His sons, Isaac and John, afterward owned it for a time, and about thirty years ago it was purchased by Jesse Thatcher. Soon after, it caught fire and burned down. Thatcher built another mill on the same site, a large, three-story building, and for some time it had considerable custom. About ten years ago, he took it down and moved it to Wilmington.
In 1818, John Holladay built a saw-mill on Lytle's Creek, near where Ogden has since been built, and three years later built a grist-mill. About the saw-mill was rebuilt. The grist-mill some time afterward was enter
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larged. refitted, and steam power attached. This mill property has had various owners. Both the mills are still standing, but are no longer in use as such, The old mill-race has become filled up and put in cultivation with adjoining land, but it is still remembered by many who skated upon its smoothly frozen surface when boys.
It hardly seems credible that such a small stream as Little Creek now ap pears to be once afforded sufficient water-power to run a mill; but such is the fact. In the year 1811, Caleb Harvey built a carding and fulling mill on his farm on said creek that was kept running for many years. It was largely patronized, the early settlers coming for many miles to get their wool carded and rolled into rolls, and their blankets and jeans fulled. So crowded was it with work that it was sometimes kept running nights. A man by the name of Alexander Montgomery was its proprietor for a long time.. It stood a few reds up the creek from where the Lebanon road, now a pike, crosses the stream. Several years later, farther down the stream, a saw-mill was built. It has recently disappeared also.
About the year 1842, William B. Andrew built a saw-mill on Lytle's Creek, about a mile and a half above its mouth. It was kept running much of the time for many years, but fell into decay, and' is now a thing of the past. All of these mills, with the exception of the one at Ogden, have disappeared. It still stands as a memento of the sturdy pioneers. If Standing and in running order as of yore, but little grinding could be done upon them, owing to the lack of a supply of water. The rainfall annually is as large, perhaps, as it was then; but it runs off quickly, the streams rising, suddenly and the water running swiftly. In those days the farmer took his wheat to the mill and stored it in a granary set apart for him by the miller, to be ground into flour as needed for family use. Now, the steam-mills do most of the work. The mill-stones used for grinding the grain were quite small, the first used being only eighteen or twenty inches in diameter, and made from pieces broken from large rocks.
TIMBER.
The whole of the territory now embraced in Adams Township was, at the date of the first settlements within its borders, a vast, unbroken forest. Great, stately-looking poplars, like giant sentinels on guard, stood on every slope and hill-side, nodding to each other as the wind swayed them to and fro, while, on the bottom land, rich in alluvial deposits, the black walnuts reared aloft their spreading branches as if courting recognition as the kings of the forest trees. Nor were the white oaks and wide-spreading elms wanting. It was not uncommon to see trees of the species of poplar, oak, and walnut, that were from four to five feet in diameter, and devoid of limb or branch to the height of sixty feet. The timber that then stood upon certain acres of land that at that time might have been selected, would, if standing now as it stood then, be worth hundreds of dollars per acre, while as a whole, if now standing, it would be worth vastly more than the cleared land is now worth, rating lumber at the present prevailing prices. Yet the timber could not be spared, for the early settlers, as well as those who were to come after them, must have homes and farms, and to have these, the timber must be cleared away, and the farms must be opened up for cultivation. In making the clearings, the trees were first girdled with the ax, or "deadened," as it was generally called, and then left standing until the branches and bodies became somewhat decayed. They were then felled to the ground, rolled into great heaps, and burned, except such as were fit for making into rails for fencing.
This list contains the names of such trees as are indigenous to the locality:
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FAMILY NAME. Common Name. Classical Name,
Elm .......................... Red or slippery elm......... Ulmus fulva.
Elm.......................... White elm........................U Americana.
Elm ........................... Hackberry...................... Celtis occidentalis.
Dogwood .................. Dogwood .......................Cornus florida.
Dogwood .................. Black gum......................Nyssa multifora.
Fig............................. Mulberry........................ Morus Rubra.
Laurel........................ Sassafras.......... ............. S. ofcinale.
Linden ............... ........Linden or Basswood....... Tilia Americanus.
Oak............................ Burr oak..........................Quercus macrocarpa.
Oak ........................... White oak......... .. .. . . .. . Q alba.
Oak..............................Red oak...... . .. .. ... . ... . Q rubra.
Oak............................. Horn-beam or iron wood..Carpinus.
Maple........................ ..Sugar maple................ Acer saccharinum.
Maple.......................... Swamp maple... .......... ... A. rubrum.
Plane tree.................... Sycamore or buttonwood... Plantarus occidentalis.
Pulse......................... Locust ............................ Robina pseudacacia.
Pulse......................... Honey locust.................... S. officinale.
Walnut.............. ......... White walnut or butternut.. Juglans cinerea.
Walnut....................... Black walnut............... J. nigra.
Walnut....................... Shellbark hickory........... Carya Sulcata.
Walnut...................... . Brown or pignut hickory... C. porcina.
Soapberry. ...... . .. ....... Buckeye or horse-chestnut.. Aesculus.
Willow....................... Common willow... ......... Salix cordata.
Willow....................... Black willow............... S. nigra.
Willow....................... Yellow poplar........... ... Populus grandidentata.
Willow............ .... ...... . American aspen....... .. . . . P. tremuloideo.
Oak.......................... Beech................... Fagus ferruginea.
Olive......................... White ash....... ........... Fraxinus Americana. Olive.......................... Blue ash................... F. quadrangulata.
Pear ............................... Wild cherry................ Prunus Serotina.
FORMATION OF THE TOWNSHIP.
The territory now embraced in the township was originally a part of Chester and Vernon Townships. The first official act of the first Board of County Commissioners of the then new county of Clinton, was to divide the county, then but recently established, into three townships-Chester, Richland and Vernon. Richland absorbed the territory that had been sliced off from Highland County, and the two others, that taken from Warren. The line between the two counties ran in a due north and south direction, immediately east of where the original town of Wilmington was afterward laid out. Grant street is now at or near the old line. Lytle's Crack was the line between the two townships of Chester and Vernon, beginning where the creek crossed the former line of the two counties mentioned, and continuing to the point where it unites its waters with those of Todd's Fork, and from their junction the line ran due west to the Warren County line. This order was made on the 8th of April, 1810, by George McManis, James Birdsall and Henry Babb, who had been elected to office but a few days before.
The boundary line between Chester and Vernon Townships remained the same as established by this order until August 21, 1813, when at a special meeting of the Commissioners, the line was moved farther north, changing it to the state road leading from Wilmington to Lebanon, Union Township being established at the same time, and absorbing portions of both townships, It seems that this order was not understood by all, and it was reiterated at the June session, 1830, as will be shown by the following entry:
JUNE SESSION, A. D. 1830.
CHESTER AND VERNON Alteration.
TOWNSHIPS,
At the present session of the Commissioners of Clinton County, to wit: the stated session of June, 1830, held by Joseph Roberds, John Lewis and James Sherman, Commis-
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sioners, a petition signed by divers citizens of the county, praying for a restoration to Vernon Township, of that part of Chester which formerly belonged to Vernon, that is, that the Lebanon State road be the line between said townships: whereupon the Commissioners aforesaid, being of opinion that said alteration is necessary. adjudge and order that the said alteration be made. and that the road aforesaid be hereafter taken and esteemed to be the line between said townships.
The village of Sligo haying grown into a considerable town previous to 1849, although unincorporated, part of the village being in Chester Township and part in Vernon. there was a movement begun by its citizens and others of the vicinity, to form a new township of which it should be the business center and voting place, Accordingly, on the 5th day of March, 1849, a petition for a new township was presented to the County Commissioners, signed by John H. Moore, Simon Harvey, and others, praying for the formation of a new township out of the territory therein described, and which included parts of Chester, Vernon and Union Townships. Hiram Maden was appointed by the Commissioners to make the survey and ascertain the number of square miles in the proposed territory, which he afterward did. Having ascertained that it did not include sufficient territory required by law to constitute a new township, leave was asked to withdraw the petition and papers, which was granted. Another petition was immediately put in circulation for the same purpose, which was on the 1st day of May, 1849, presented to the Commissioners at a special session, asking for the formation of a township, the survey this time including more territory than before.
COPY OF THE PETITION.
To THE COMMISSIONERS OF CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO:
Your petitioners, citizens of Clinton County, Ohio, respectfully represent that we labor under great inconvenience on account of our very remote situation from the place of holding elections, and from the place where other township business is transacted, In consequence of which we respectfully, but most earnestly, ask you to establish a township Lo be taken out of Union , Chester and Vernon Townships.
[Here follows a description of the Territory the same as in the survey.]
We, your petitioners, now claim it is an act of justice, as there is left in each of the townships from which the proposed new township is to be taken, ample amount of territory to still constitute a constitutional township, that our petition he granted as now asked for, and which is signed by citizens and voters In the district included in the boundary of the new township.
NAMES OF PETITIONERS.
Henry Harvey
William W. Sheppard,
John P. Black
Elihu Hambleton,
Joel McKinney,
John R. Jobe,
George Carter,
William Vandervoort,
David Pyle,
Micajah Moore,
Harlan Maden,
William Bennett,
Henry Hazard,
David S. Pyle,
John H. Elkins,
Ezekiel Conklin,
Samuel Moore.
Aaron Howell,
William S. Riley,
Alfred Black,
Joshua Clark,
Joseph Thatcher,
Stacy Haines,
Daniel Smith,
Jeremiah Kimbrough,
Daniel Shank,
Abel Thomberry,
Jabez H. Hadley,
Jehu Pyle,
William Cooper,
Samuel J. Cleland,
James M. Davis,
Eden Andrew,
William Ballard,
David Harlan,
Benjamin Brackney,
Egbert K. Howland,
James H. Elkins,
Alden Jenks,
John Townsend,
William Henson,
John Pyle,
Clinton Parks,
Eli Hadley,
Levi Stratton,
Simon Hadley,
Levi N. Miller,
David Jenks,
John H. Moore,
Adam Osborn,
Uriah W. Hunt,
John Crosson,
Chalkley Albertson,
Ezeklel Hornaday,
Eli Kimbrough,
John Hadley, Jr.,
William B. Andrew,
John B. Davis,
George Maden,
Lewis F. Davis,
George Slack, Esq.,
William Osborn,
David F. Harlan,
Samuel Andrew,
Reed Ferris,
E. F. Curl,
Micajah Stratton,
Hiram Maden,
Eli Harvey,
John Daugherty,
Thomas Kimbrough,
John Cleland,
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S. Lindley,
John Kimbrough,
B. F. DeLaplane,
Lorenzo Jenks,
James Black,
Joshua Moore,
William A. Glover,
Asa Green,
William P. Harvey,
Isaac Hornaday,
Jesse Thatcher,
J. H Longshore,
Alfred Hollcraft,
Alexander Bowen,
David Curl,
Jacob Hadley,
Gideon Truss,
Alexander Cleland,
Joseph Moore.
Thomas J. Daugherty,
Lorenzo Clark,
Samuel Omerman,
Cyrus E. Carter,
Calvin Andrew,
Joseph W. Slack,
John J. Anson,
William Simms,
Moses Izard,
John Hornaday,
Simon Harvey,
Joseph Wingfield,
John Fallis,
Amos Haines,
Jonathan D. Hadley,
Ezra Moon,
William Daniels,
William Moore,
Augustus Buck,
John B. Carter,
Thomas J. Cast,
Ira Ferris,
John B. Smith,
DeLos Ferris,
Samuel Mart,
Nathan M. Evritt.
Artemas Nickerson,
Jeremiah Kimbrough,
Seneca Wildman,
John Maden,
Isaac Schooley,
Eli Maden,
Mahlon Stratton,
Armoni Hale,
Edward S. Davis,
Alexander Harlan,
Isaac Harvey,
David Thatcher,
Enoch Carter.
SURVEY OF ADAMS TOWNSHIP.
The following is a copy of the Survey that accompanied the petition, and, having been adopted as the boundary of the township at its formation, and not having Since been changed, it still remains the boundary line:
"Beginning at a point opposite Jonathan Hadley's; at a stake in Warren County line, in A. Branstrator's field; thence east 118 poles to Jonathan Hadley's, excluding him; thence to Isaac Hawkins' farm south 68' 20' east, crossing Todd's Fork at one mile and 194 poles, to the turnpike road at one mile and 290 poles, whole distance, two miles and 40 poles, to a Stake, including the said Hawkins; thence to the land line of John Osborn, south 58' eas two miles and 102 poles, to a beech and two small mulberries; thence east 116 poles to the wes line of Union Township, to a Stake and three beeches; thence South 1' west 44 poles, to the southwest corner of Union Township, to a dead beech and white oak; thence south 1' east 320 poles to a stake in said line in Peter Osborn's field; thence north 7' west, crossing Cincinnati State Road at one mile and 60 pole, the county road at Joshua Moore's at one mile, 312 poles, the county road at Haines Moore's at two miles and 140 poles, Lytle's Creek at two miles and 170 pules, the turnpike road at three miles and 102 poles, Todd's Fork at four miles and 280 poles, Waynesville road at five miles and 60 poles (whole distance five miles and 71 poles), to a Stake; thence west 81 poleS, crossing Waynesville road at 11 poles to a Stake, where Union Township line crosses the county road leading from Clarksville to Centre Meeting House; thence to Daniel Collett's, Esq., south 86' 48' west, three miles and 165 poles, crossing Miller's Creek at 205 poles, excluding said Collett; thence west to the Warren County line, one mile and 159 poles to a stake in said line; thence with the Warren County line, south 1' west two miles and 571 poles to the beginning, crossing the Lebanon road and line of Chester and Vernon Townships at two miles and 46 poles, containing twenty-two and one-quarter Square miles."
This survey was made by Hiram Maden, a man of much experience as a surveyor, an i a resident of Adams Township after its formation, until his death a few years ago. Of the territory within the lines of this Survey Chester Township contributed ten and one-half square miles; Vernon Township contributed eight and one-quarter Square miles; and Union Township contributed three and one-quarter square miles. On the 1st day of May, 1849, the matter was considered by the Commissioners, and the order made by them establishing the township.
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COMMISSIONERS ORDER AN ELECTION.
On the same day, the Commissioners directed that an election should be held for said township on Saturday, May 12, 1849, and gave notice of the same, directing the legal voters to meet at the shop of John H. Moore, in Sligo, on that day, and then and there proceed, as required by law, to the election of the township officers of said township, to wit: Three Trustees, one Clerk, one Treasurer, one Assessor, and one Constable. The County Commissioners at this time were Azel Walker, Joseph Hoskins and Jesse Doan. Thus was Adams Township established. Thirty-three years have since elapsed-a third of a century. The length of time that marks a generation has passed away. This flight of time has widely separated and scattered the actors of that day. Of the 130 that signed the petition, less than thirty are now residents of the township. The tide of emigration carried many westward. A few are residents of other townships of the county. Probably fully one-half have paid the debt of nature and been gathered to their fathers.
FIRST ELECTION IN THE TOWNSHIP.
This was on the 12th of May, 1849. It was held at the shop of John H. Moore. Henry Harvey, David Jenks and W. B. Andrew were the Judges. The following officers were elected: Trustees, Jeremiah Kimbrough, David Jenks and Peter Osborn; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Assessor, Dr. W. W. Sheppard; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Constable, James H. Elkins. On the 10th of October, in the same year, Henry Hazard was elected Justice of the Peace.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
The following is a complete list, including these above, of the township officers elected each year, up to the present time:
1850-Trustees, David Jenks, Thomas Kimbrough, W. B. Andrew; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer. Simon Harvey; Assessor, Eden Andrew; Constable, James H. Elkins.
1851-Trustees; Thomas Kimbrough, W. B. Andrew, and W. S. Riley; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, John Cleland; Constable, John Cleland.
1852-Trustees, Thomas Kimbrough, William B. Andrew, and Lewis N. Miller; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, William W. Sheppard; Constable, James M. Longshore.
1853-Trustees, Thomas Kimbrough. W. B. Andrew and Jonathan Hadley; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, William Hadley; Constable, John McBryant.
1854 -Trustees, W. B. Andrew, Jonathan Hadley and John Hadley, Jr.; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Eden Andrew; Constable. William A. Oyler.
1855--Trustees, W. B. Andrew, Abel Thornberry and Ephraim Urton; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Hiram Maden; Constable, Samuel Holmes.
1856--Trustees, Abel Thornberry, Ephraim Urton and David Curl; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, W. B. Andrew; Constable, Charles P. Oyler.
1857-Trustees, Ephraim Urton, David Curl and Thomas Kimbrough; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Thomas Kimbrough; Constable, Allen Dakin.
1858-Trustees, Ephraim Urton, Joseph T. Coate and Harlan Maden;
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Clerk, W. B. Andrew; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Hiram Maden; Constable, A. F. Dakin. T. Coats and Hiram Maden
1859-Trustees, Ephraim Urton. Joseph T. Coate and Hiram Maden, Clerk, W. B. Andrew, Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Alexander B. Harlan; Constable, Allen F. Dakin.
1860-Trustees, Ephraim Urton, Joseph T. Coate, Joseph W. Slack; Clerk, Jonathan D. Hadley; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Isaac Schooley. Constable, Isaac Schooley
1861-Trustees, Joseph T. Coate, Joseph W. Slack and Ephraim Urton; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Isaac Schooley; Constable, Isaac Schooley.
1862 - Trustees, J. W. Slack, A, T. Moore and Adam Osborn; Clerk A. M. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, J. M. Brazil; Constable, Isaac Schooley.
1863-Trustees, Adam Osborn, A. T, Moore and George Madden; Clerk A. H. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, J. M. Brazil; Constable, Clerk, J. M. Brazil.
1864-Trustees, George Madden, Adam Osborn and H. H. Hadley Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, I. W. Quinby; Constable, J. M. Brazil.
1865-Trustees, H. H. Hadley, George Madden and Adam Osborn; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, Amos Huffman; Constable, Jobs Southard.
1866-Trustees, George Madden, H. H. Hadley and J. W. Slack; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, A. M. Haney; Constable, A. J. Pennington.
1867 - Trustees, H. H. Hadley, George Madden and J. W. Slack; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, Simon Harvey; Assessor, ---------; Constable, A. J. Pennington.
1868-Trustees, John H. Moore, Samuel Pyle and J. W. Hadley; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, j. W. Slack; Assessor, D. H. Ogborn; Constable Jobe Southard.
1869-Trustees, John H. Moore, Samuel Pyle and I. H. Osborn; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, j. W. Slack; Assessor, D. H. Ogborn; Constable, Jobe Southard.
1870-Trustees. Samuel Pyle, I. H. Osborn and J. C. Green; Clerk, A. M. Haney; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, Elwood Curl; Constable, J. R. Southard.
1871--Trustees, Hiram Coate, John C. Green and I. H. Osborn; Clerk Franklin Spencer; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, D. H. Ogborn; Constable, Jobe R. Southard.
1872--Trustees, Hiram Coats, William Hale and Joseph Anson; Clerk, Albert Stratton; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, D. H. Ogborn; Constable, A. J. Pennington.
1873-Trustees, Hiram Coate, W. Hale and Joseph Anson; Clerk, Albert Stratton; Treasurer, J. W. Slack, Assessor Eden Andrew; Constable, Ira Andrew.
1874-Trustees, Hiram Coate, William Hale and Joseph Anson; Clerk, S. McFadden; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, S. G. Green; Constable, Samuel W. Baker.
1875-Trustees, Hiram Coate, William Hale and Joseph Anson; Clerk, S. McFadden; Treasurer, Joseph W. Slack; Assessor William H. Yeo; Constable. William M. Sumner.
1876-Trustees, James Whetsel, Joseph Arson and Hiram Coate; Clerk,
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S. McFadden; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, D. S. Pyle; Constable, W. M. Sumner.
1877-Trustees, James Whetsel. Joseph Anson and William Hale; Clerk, S. McFadden; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, J. C, Davis; Constable, W. M. Sumner.
1878--Trustees. Joseph Anson, William Hale and James Whetsel; Clerk, S. 'McFadden; Treasurer, J, W, Slack; Assessor, Joseph H. Smith; Constable, W. M. Sumner.
1879-Trustees, Joseph Anson, William Hale and James Whetsel; Clerk, S. McFadden; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, Clark Moore; Constable, W. M. Sumner.
1880-Trustees, Joseph B. Carson, James Whetsel and William Hale; Clerk, S. McFadden; Treasurer. J. W, Slack; Assessor, J. C. Davis; Constable, W. M, Sumner.
1881-Trustees, J. B. Carson, William Hale and James Whetsel; Clerk, S. McFadden; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, Clark Moore; Constable, Henry Turner.
1882-Trustees, J. B. Carson, Harlan H. Hadley and Harlan Maden; Clerk, Samuel McFadden; Treasurer, J. W. Slack; Assessor, Frank Howard; Constable,
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF ADAMS TOWNSHIP, AND WHEN ELECTED.
Henry Hazard, October 9, 1849; John H., Moore, March 23, 1850; John H. Moore, October 9, 1852; Ira Kimbrough, April 4, 1853; Jabez H. Hadley, April 7, 1856; Robert M. Harlan, April 7, 1856; W. W. Sheppard, April 4, 1859; Robert M. Harlan, April 4, 1859; Robert M. Harlan, April 7, 1862; W. W. Sheppard, April 7, 1862; William McCune, April 3, 1865; I. W. Quinby,* April 3, 1865; H. M. Reese, April 2, 1866; Joseph Anson, April 1, 1867 (resigned); William McCune, April 7, 1868; Aaron Harvey, April 7, 1868; David H. Ogborn, April -, 1869; Samuel Trimmer, October 11, 1870; D. H. Ogborn, April 3, 1872; Rodney Jenks, April 10, 1874; O. C. McCune, April 5, 1875; Levi Stratton, April 2, 1877; O. C. McCune, April 1, 1878; Levi Stratton, April 5, 1880; O. C. McCune, April 4, 1881,
ROADWAYS.
What may be termed the first road in the township was along Todd's Fork, the early immigrants following the water-courses, and cutting Out the brush and logs as best it could be done. There were bridle-ways for horseback travel, and blazed ways from house to house of the early settlers, but nothing worthy the name of roads until after 1810. Soon after Wilmington was laid Out, there was a road established from Wilmington to Lebanon, passing for some miles through what is nOw Adams Township. It is still known as the Lebanon road. Under an order of the County Commissioners, George Richards, William Butler and Joseph Roberds, Viewers, with Nathan Linton, Surveyor, laid Out a road from Centre Meeting-House down Todd's Fork, by Fallis' Mill, Eli Maden's, Jacob Hale's and Joshua Nickerson's, near John Hadley's Mill, to intersect the rOad leading down Todd's Fork, near William Hadley's. Their report was made April 3, 1819, afterward approved, and the road Ordered opened. September 27, 1819, under Order of Commissioners, Robert Eachus, Mahlon Haworth, Viewers, with Nathan Linton. Surveyor, proceeded to lay out a road from John Shields' Mill, On Cowan's Creek, by the way of Joshua Moore's Mill and Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, to Fall's' Mill. They reported October 19, 1819. The length of the rOad was five miles and 310 poles,
* I. W. Quinby, being about to remove to Wilmington, resigned after serving one year.
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The road from Columbus to Cincinnati, known as the State road, was Surveyed in October, 1822, under a resolution adopted by the General Assembly of Ohio, February, 1822. The resolution named John Matson, of Hamilton County, and Joseph Brown, of Knox County, as Commissioners for that purpose, who selected R. G. W. Howe as surveyor. The direction from Wilmington toward Cincinnati for the first eight miles was south 53' west. The whole length of the road was 101 miles. This road was never opened all the way. The high bluff south of Cowan's Creek prevented travel on it from that point south for several miles. Its location was not satisfactory to the people of Clinton and Fayette Counties. Accordingly, on the 27th of January, 1823, an act of the Legislature was passed naming Joseph Doan, of Wilmington, Jesse Millikan, of Washington Court House, as Commissioners to resurvey the State road from Columbus to Cincinnati, and authorizing them to view the route by Washington, Wilmington, Clarksville, mouth of Todd's Fork and Hopkinsville to Cincinnati, and to compare as much of said route as lay between Wilmington and Cincinnati, with the route located by John Matson and Joseph Brown, and determine which of said routes would be of the most general and public utility. The survey was made in October, 1823. They reported in favor of the route surveyed by themselves by the way of Washington Court House, Wilmington, Clarksville, mouth of Todd's Fork, Hopkinsville and Montgomery to Cincinnati. Jesse Millikan was the surveyor from Washington to Cincinnati. The bearings on this road changed frequently, the line being mainly on the divide between Todd's Fork and Lytle's Creek. It was on better ground, and through a much more populated locality, and was of easy access from the settlements along both streams. The whole length of this route was 195 miles.
In March, 1827, a road was laid out and established from College Township road to Holaday's Mill on Lytle's Creek, from near where Villars' Chapel now stands. It ran by or near where the following-named persons now reside: Eden Andrew, Joseph Carson, Mahlon Stratton, Joseph Anson and Mary Turner. From Anson's, it ran on that line between Jenks and Howell to Holaday's line; thence between Holaday and Jenks nearly north to Gaskill; thence between Gaskill and Jenks west about forty rods to the corner of what is now known as the Hale farm.
In 1828, a road was established from Pyle's Mill, in a northerly direction to the Lebanon State road by Branstrator's; distance, two and one-half miles, less than a mile of which lies in Adams Township.
In 1838, the road from the State road, near Peter Osborn's, in a northerly direction along the line between Benjamin Howell and John Osborn, across Holaday's land, afterward Isaiah Quinby's, between Conrad Smith and Caleb Moore, and past Hiram Maden's, was established.
Space will not permit an allusion to the location of all the roads of the township Suffice it to say that by the year 1840 the roads of the township had generally been established.
In the year 1835, a charter was granted by the Legislature for building the Goshen, Columbus & Wilmington pike. Work was begun on the south west end of it the following year. The portion in Clinton County was built mainly in 1839, but not completed until 1840. It was never completed the whole distance, that part in Clinton County stopping two miles east of Wilmington. . The line from Clarksville to Wilmington was in the main built on the route of a road laid out by Doan and Millikan in 1823, but on a more direct line, cutting off many of the angles. The building of this pike was looked upon at the time by the people of Clinton County, and especially those residing along the line, as an event of great importance in the history of the
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county. It facilitated travel and gave the farmers a broad, macadamized highway over which to transport their grain and produce to market at Cincinnati. It shortened the time of the trip fully one-half. It gave the people of Adams Township, and indeed of the whole county, the benefit of a stage line, with daily coaches each way; also greatly increased mail facilities. A line of telegraph was established along the pike, which remained until the C., W. & Z. Railroad was built. This was the first pike in the county. Toll-gates were erected at various points, and tolls taken. A toll-gate house was built at the hall-way point between Wilmington and Clarksville, which might be termed the nucleus of the village of Sligo.
In 1867. the Legislature passed two different acts giving the County Commissioners authority to order the construction of-free pikes, and to let out the grading and graveling of the same in sections, to the lowest bidder. They became known as the free pike laws. One authorized the construction of the same on a petition of a majority of the resident land-owners residing within the boundary of the road improvement. The tax to raise the construction fund was levied upon real estate only, according to the supposed benefits received, within two miles on either side of the line. This was known as the two-mile law. The other taxed both realty and personalty within one mile on either side of the same, and was known as the one-mile law. Under these acts, various lines of free pikes were established and built, until all the principal roads in the township had been widened, straightened to some extent, graded and graveled. It has made a very marked improvement in the roadways, and greatly facilitated public travel. This free pike system revolutionized road making. Nature has been generous and provided an abundant supply of gravel and stone for the purpose, generally easy of access.
THE CINCINNATI, WILMINGTON &r ZANESVILLE RAILROAD.
In 1852, work was begun in Adams Township in the construction of the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville Railroad. Adams Township, at an election previously held, had voted in favor of the county issuing bonds to the amount of $200,000, to assist in building it.* The first station or stopping place for trains in Adams Township was at Andrew's Mill. In 1855, the station was changed by the railroad company from Andrew's Mill to a point on the road a half-mile farther east, near Burton's Mill, formerly Holaday's, Asa Green donating to the company sufficient land for a switch and other needed railroad purposes. The building of the railroad was another great event to the citizens of Adams Township and Clinton County, and marked a new era in the history of both. It reduced the time required to make a trip to Cincinnati to less than three hours, so that one could make the round trip in a day and have several hours for business in the city. All were greatly gratified with the building of the railroad, except the regular wagoners. They made a business of hauling produce to the city, and of bringing back a load of merchandise for the merchants at the towns in the interior, They argued that the facility and rapidity of transportation by rail would throw them out of their usual employment. And so it did. They had to dispose of their teams and wagons, and find other pursuits in life. Heretofore, the surplus products of the farms were hauled to Cincinnati in wagons, the teamsters and farmers finding bed and board at the wayside taverns, where,, after their wagons were securely placed in the wagon-yard and the teams stabled, fed and watered, they gathered in groups around the fire and spent their evenings in interchange of ideas and in telling stories and cracking jokes, varied occasionally by a drink all around at the bar of the inn. But the genius of steam came and put a stop See general chapter on internal improvements.
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to it all. The country taverns along the pike, in the bar-rooms of which at night, around the blazing fires, many a good story had been told and many a joke and jest and laugh went round, were closed for want of custom. No wonder that Henry Clay, the "mill-boy of the slashes," and Tom Corwin, the wagoner's boy," were popular with these sturdy men of the past generation. Tom Corwin, as the old couplet had it in the campaign of 1840,
"At the crack of his whip, he would halloo Whoa! Haw!
Hurrah for Torn Corwin the wagoner's boy!"
VILLAGES
There are only two villages in the township, Sligo and Ogden, neither of which is incorporated. Sligo had no existence prior to the building of the Goshen & Wilmington Turnpike. A man by the name of George Taylor, a hatter by trade, had a shop there on a lot in the forks of the road long before the town was laid out. This lot was afterward owned by John Kimbrough, on which he built a house in 1841 or 1842, the first two-story house erected in the town. In this building he kept hotel for several years. A toll-gate house (the first one) was built by John Shields in 1840. The lot is now owned by the heirs of John Murphy. The second toll-gate house was built by Rebecca Kersey, sister of Thomas Kersey, but the gate was kept by the Widow Beach. The toll-gate was taken down several years ago, but the house is still standing. John Swindler was the first blacksmith at Sligo, and John Hawthorn the next. Hawthorn left in the spring of 1839, and went to Eaton. John Kimbrough commenced smithing in the same shop, a log one, in 1839. It stood north of the pike, but on the south side of the old road. That shed was torn down, and a brick one built by Kimbrough, in 1841.
Soon afterward, George Slack built a two-story brick residence on the south side of the pike and occupied it until he moved West. It is now owned by Stillings. Simon Harvey settled on his farm and lived there long before Sligo was a town. The town got its name from the brand of iron that was used at the smith shop at the time, it having been made at the Sligo Mills, in Pittsburgh, they probably having taken the name from a town of that name in the northern part of Ireland. Matthias O'Neall, who owned a farm south of the pike, sold to John Kimbrough an acre and a half of land July 12, 1841, and a year later sold him three-fourths of an acre more, This was afterward divided up into smaller lots by Kimbrough; and sold to various persons. He built his smith shop on one of the lots. Kimbrough, in 1842, also bought three-fourths of an acre of Rebecca Kersey. She had some years before bought seventeen acres of William Hadley. She afterward sold lots to Calvin Andrew, J. W. Slack, H. S. Slack, Delos Ferris and Mary J. Hadley. O'Neall afterward sold lots to E. & J. Hadley, Delos Ferris and Simon Harvey. William S. Riley sold a lot to E. K. Howland April 17, 1848, and afterward sold lots to Jesse Thatcher and Cyrus E. Carter. Edward S. Davis sold fourteen and a half acres to Mary S, Hadley, in December, 1848, and later sold two and a fourth acres to William Henson, and one. fourth of an acre to Sarah Hardesty. Jesse Thatcher built the house now owned by Samuel Furgesun. William S. Riley built the house owned by Evelyn Moore. John J. Longshore built the house now owned by the Widow Lancaster. Of the earlier residents of Sligo, there were John Kimbrough, John H. Longshore, Delos Ferris, George Slack, J. W. Slack, Allen Hazard, John H. Moore, Dr. W. W. Sheppard, Simon Hadley, Simon Harvey, Calvin Andrew, William S. Riley, Jesse Thatcher, Ira Kimbrough, John M. Brazil, Isaac Schooley, Edward S. Davis, David Thatcher, Cyrus E. Carter, Henry Harvey, John P. Black, Elihu Hambleton, Henry Hazard, Alfred Hollcraft, Jabez H. Hadley, Egbert K. Howland, Will-
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iam Henson and Ira Ferris. Allen Hazard, Jacob Hadley, William L. Hadley, John H. Moore and James Haney, were some of the earlier storekeepers. Joseph W. Slack for many years was engaged in the manufacture of carriages, buggies and wagons, sometimes giving employment to as many as fifteen men.
Ogden had no existence until some vests after the railroad was built. It was first called Linden, but there being a station on the Marietta & Cincinnati road by the name of Lyndon, many mistakes occurred in shipping freight out from Cincinnati, causing confusion and delay in receiving them. The name, therefore, was abandoned, and that of Ogden substituted, being named for Ogden on the Pacific Railroad. It was made a passenger and freight station in 1855, by the railroad authorities; $700 were raised by the citizens of the vicinity and donated to the railroad company for the purpose of getting the station established at that point, the stopping-place for passengers, therefore, being about half a mile farther west, at Andrew's Mill. Afterward, there was some land donated to the company for stockpens, switch, etc. To Asa Green belongs the credit of getting the station established there more than to any other person. He put up the first building in Ogden. It was used as a station-house and storeroom, and has been occupied ever since as such, some ad ditions having been added since. He also put up the freight depot with the assistance of some other parties of the neighborhood. A small house, built by Peyton Burton, was moved across the creek to a lot and used for a residence by John Marsh, the first station agent. John Wisman built the second residence in Ogden He was a miller by trade Asa Green laid off five lots in 1857, on the south side of the railroad, on 'land bought of John B. Carter. In 1859, Jacob Beard built a residence. In December, 1860, Carter laid off four lots on the north side of the railroad, and Asa Green five. In June, 1866, there was a meeting-house lot and five others laid off by Asa Green, making twenty in all. In the spring of 1864, David F. Carter built a residence, now owned by Joseph Smith, and in March of that year L W. Quinby bought the corner lot of Asa Green, and moved a two-story frame building from Sligo upon it. He used the lower story for a storeroom, and fitted up the upper story for a residence. In October of that year, he and Amos Huffman, under the firm name of Quinby & Huffman, opened a store in the lower room. In 1864, Abraham Haney built a residence since known as the Joseph Coate property. Various other residences were built from time to time. Adam Osborn built the first blacksmith shop about 1864, and has occupied it continuously ever since, The station and railroad agents have been as follows, and in the following order: John Marsh, Jacob Beard, Isaac Roberts, Huffman & Osborn, Jeremiah Kimbrough, George W. Owens and Clare & Colter.
POST OFFICES.
There have been two post offices in Adams Township. The first was at Sligo, established the 13th of March, 1844. This post office remained located at Sligo until the 8th of September, 1865, when it was removed to Ogden by order of the Post Office Department in order to avoid the expense of conveying the mail from the station at Ogden to and from Sligo, and to afford better mail facilities. The following are the names of the various Postmasters, and when appointed:
At Sligo-George Slack, March 13, 1844; William W. Sheppard, March 11, 1850; Allen Hazard, January 15, 1852; Joseph W. Slack, October 31, 1857; William W. Sheppard, December 8, 1862.
At Ogden--Isaiah W. Quinby, September 8, 1865; David S. Osborn, February 20, 1866, Isaac Roberts, September 30, 1867; Isaiah H. Osborn, December 15, 1873; Samuel G. Green, February 5, 1875; George W. Owens,
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March 26, 1878; James E. Smith, August 12, 1880; Samuel G, Green, May 17, 1882.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
In the year 1808, the first schoolhouse was built in the township. It was erected on the land of Isaac Harvey, about one-fourth of a mile north of Todd's Fork. As early as 1812 or 1813. there was a small log schoolhouse built on the Nathaniel Carter farm, a short distance west of the present residence of Elijah Coate. As early as 1814, there was a schoolhouse built on the Isaac Stout farm, near his north line, about one-fourth of a mile east of Lytle's Creek Meeting-House. In 1813 or 1814, a schoolhouse was built on the farm of George Carter, who had recently purchased it of Jeremiah Kimbrough. It was built by the neighbors, of logs, Jeremiah Kimbrough, Thomas Kersey and Nathan Mendenhall assisting Carter in the work. Other schoolhouses were built from time to time, as the farms were opened up. About 1820, there was a schoolhouse built in the woods near Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, and soon after another on the road leading from the Lebanon road to the Maden settlement, on Todd's Fork The first schoolhouse at Springfield was built by the Friends of Springfield Monthly Meeting, in 1835. It was under their control and management for many years, and afterward became a district schoolhouse. There was a schoolhouse built at an early day on Isaac Chew's land, more latterly known as the McKnight farm. In 1834, there was a frame schoolhouse built on what was then the Holaday farm, afterward and since known as the Quinby farm. It was weather-boarded on the outside, and ceiled overhead oil the inside. Between the studdings in the sides and ends, mortar made of clay had been filled in to make it warm and answer instead of plastering. These walls were whitewashed from time to time with blue clay. Around the room next the wall were placed rudely constructed benches made from slabs obtained at the saw-mill. Built out from the wall all around, and supported by brackets underneath, were wide boards that answered the purpose of desks. The scholars sat facing the wall, except the smaller children, who were seated around the stove that occupied the center of the room. About the year 1845, there was a neat frame schoolhouse built at Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, by the Society of Friends. After several years, it became a district schoolhouse, under the control of the Boards of Education of Adams and Union Townships. All these schoolhouses have passed away. Scarcely a vestige of them remains to mark the spots where they once stood. With the adoption of the school law of 1853, a different system of maintaining schools from that which had before prevailed was inaugurated. The township was divided into subdistricts, and redistricted throughout. The old schoolhouses were generally abandoned, new sites procured, and new schoolhouses erected. These were in the main commodious and comfortable, and furnished with properly-sized and substan tial desks, with folding seats. In this respect the schoolhouses of the present day are in marked contrast with those of the early days. The log fireplace, the greased paper windows, the stools and seats without a support for the back, the absence of blackboard and maps were common then.
SCHOOL-TEACHERS.
The first school in what is now Adams Township was taught by William Holaday, in the Harvey Schoolhouse, in the year 1808, soon after it was erected. George Carter began teaching as early as 1812 or 1813. He taught in a schoolhouse on his own farm for several terms, and afterward at Lytle's Creek, and various other places in the county. Warren Sabin, Joseph Doan, son of Joseph Doan, Sr., John Harvey, son of William Harvey, James Dakin, Henry Harvey, Eli Harvey, son of William Harvey, Thomas Kersey, Hiram
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Maden and James Osborn were teachers of the early days, in point, of time ranging from 1808 up to 1825. Among what may be termed the second generation of teachers. were William Cooper, James Crawford, Thomas Green and Henry Zimmerman. William Cooper owned an acre of land on the State road, in the Osborn neighborhood, on which he built a small house in which he taught a few of the children of the neighborhood. occasionally teaching some district school. He was a bachelor. and lived entirely alone. Of him it can be said emphatically that he ruled by love. and the same may be said of George Carter. Cooper was a kindly-hearted and benevolent man, making at times sundry little presents to his pupils. in a quiet way that was sure to win their esteem. The little house in which he lived so long, and in which he gathered around him his little flock, is still standing, although removed to the opposite side of the road from where it formerly stood. James Crawford was also a bachelor. He was a strict disciplinarian, requiring good order on the part of the pupils, and neatness and exactness in their work. He taught much at Lytle's Creek, and for many years in what was known as the Quinby School house. Henry Zimmerman was the great grammar-school teacher of forty years ago. He knew Kirkham's grammar by rote. He was the author of a grammar. He was an itinerant teacher, eccentric in manner and disposition, and voluble of speech. His memory was wonderful. Any one might read a verse from the Bible at random, and he could immediately give the number and chapter of the verse, and probably repeat the next verse.
All of the first generation of teachers are gone. But few of the second generation yet remain. Of those who taught in Adams Township, or lived in it from 1835 to 1860, may be mentioned Rachel Lomax, William Bates, Jacob Connor, Jesse G. Starbuck, Jabez Hadley, Amos Coffman, Thomas Hinds, Josephine Qninby, Thomas M. Quinby, Elwood Hollingsworth, Joseph Moore, J. M. Moore, Jesse H. Kirk, Obediah Allen, Miriam Quinby, Wilson Hobbs, Joseph Hale, Aaron Harvey, Cyrus Green, Jeptha Garner, Rebecca Harvey, Eliza Ogborn, Susan Thornberry, Jeremiah Howell, E. B. Harlan, Hannah Quinby, I. W. Quinby, David S. Pyle.
CHURCHES.
About the year 1809, an indulged meeting of the Society of Friends was held in the Harvey Schoolhouse, the request for the same having been granted by the Centre Monthly Meeting. In 1812, the first church in the township was built at Springfield, and a preparatory meeting established. The ground on which it was built was the graveyard ground near by, being donated for that purpose by Isaac Harvey. In 1818, the privilege of holding a monthly meeting was granted the society, which has been held there continuously ever since. The meeting-house at Springfield was built in 1850, it being the third one built at that locality.
In 1817, the Friends' Church at Lytle's Creek was built by the Friends of that vicinity. William Jones and Eli Millikan were the carpenters. Three acres of land were donated by Richard Fallis for a church Site. It is no longer used as a church, having been sold to Emer McMillan, to whose farm it was removed about ten years ago. It was used as a house of worship until 1869. In the year 1866, two new churches were built by contributions from the membership of the Methodist Protestant Church, in the way of subscriptions in money, material and labor, under the direction of the Rev. Winans, assisted by Thomas McDonald, an influential member of the Methodist Protestant Church. The one at Ogden was known as the Ogden Methodist Protestant Church, and that at Sligo by the name of Union Chapel. In 1869, the membership having become very weak, and the Society of Friends at Lytle's
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Creek Meeting-House being desirous of changing their place of meeting to that locality, the Trustees sold the church at Ogden for a merely nominal consideration to the Society of Friends and deeded the same to them through the intervention of a third party. They have occupied it ever since as a house of public worship. For several years, dating back as far as 1842, there wore Methodist meetings held at intervals at the Quinby Schoolhouse. These meetings were conducted by the Rev. James Villars, who is still living, and who, some ten years ago, built Villars' Chapel, in Vernon Township.
Politically, Adams Township has been strongly Republican since the formation of the party in 1855. Prior to that it was a Whig township. It has been so overwhelmingly Republican that in township elections but little attention has at times been paid to the politics of certain candidates for office. When it came to a State or county election, her Republian majority was immense, considering the number of her electors. For years, the Democratic vote did not embrace one-tenth of the total vote cast. At one time, it ran down as low as thirteen during the time of the war. In 1876, the township gave at the Presidential election 175 votes for Hayes, and 29 for Tilden. In 1880, the vote for Garfield was 191, and the vote for Hancock 23.
ADAMS TOWNSHIP IN THE WAR.
The township responded nobly to the call for troops at the beginning of the war, and ever afterward until its close. There were always enough volunteers to fill the township's quota of troops and keep it clear of the different drafts of men that were ordered. A young man by the name of Isaac Tyson is said to have been the first volunteer. The company and regiment in which he enlisted are difficult to ascertain, as he left no relatives in the township. It is not now known that he lived to return from the war. The following is a list of the names of the soldiers who volunteered in the service, from the township so far as can be ascertained, with the company and regiment in which each served, if now known:
William H. Andrew, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Wesley Andrew, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry-
Jacob Andrew, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Abraham Anson, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
John Anson, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Clinton Anson, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Benjamin Anson, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Joshua Albertson, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
John M. Brazil, Company D, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Asa Carter, Company -, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
John Carter, Company -, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
William Cleland, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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Mahlon Daugherty, Company K, Thirtoontb Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
James Hartman, Company D, Thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Albert Harvey, Company --, Twelfth Rogimont Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Calvin Haines, Company I, Seventy-ninth Rogiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
James Harvey, Company I, Soventy-niutb Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
John Hazard, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Joseph Hale, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In. fantry.
Henry Harvey, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
John Harlan, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Aaron Harvey, Company D, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery.
Benjamin F. Howell, Company -, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
David Jenks, Company F, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Garland Jobe, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
William Jobe, Company D, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Andrew Jobe, Company D, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
David H. Ogborn, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
William Maden, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Isaiah H. Osborn, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Seth W. Osborn, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Philip R. Osborn, Company -, Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Henry Osborn, Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
M. W. Osborn, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Peter Osborn, Jr., Company -, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Andrew Pennington, Company H, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Parker Pennington, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Christopher Pennington, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Jesse C. Quinby, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Patrick Reagan, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Daniel Reagan, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
B. H. Simpson, Compauy I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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First Lieut. Joseph W. Slack, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Robert P. Snowdon, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Bennett Sniff, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
George H. Smith, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Joseph H. Smith, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
John C. Smith, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Isaac Tyson, company and regiment unknown.
Jonathan F. Tyrrell, company and regiment unknown.
William C. Worthington, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
James Whetsel, Company D, Thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Of these Wesley Andrews, Joseph Hale and Henry Harvey died in the service from Sickness. The latter two were brought home for burial, and were interred at Springfield. Hale was the Sergeant Major of the Seventy-ninth Regiment. He died at or near Frankfort, Ky., and Harvey near Louisville. Garland Jobe was killed in battle in West Virginia. Seth Osborn, after being discharged from the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry on account of sick now, re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment shortly before the war closed. B. H. Simpson was transferred to Company I, First United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers. It would be interesting to trace the history of each of these soldiers while in the service and since, but space forbids. Some are dead, and some are living. Some are yet in the county and township, while others have sought homes farther west. Wherever they are, may success and prosperity crown their efforts, and happiness and enjoyment center in their breasts, and, as their country's defenders, may they ever be remembered.
List of the names of soldiers who volunteered elsewhere, and who now reside in Adams Township:
Joseph B. Carson, Company -, Thirteenth Regimen. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
John Edwards, Company H, Fifty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
F. F. Ham, Company B, Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Amos Huffman, Company C, Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Jesse Hampton, Company F, Seventh Kentucky Cavalry.
Henry Hall, Company H, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
James Hall, Company H, Twenty-seventh Regiment United States Colored Troops.
Demetrius Kimbrough, Company E, Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Thomas Elwood Moore, Company K, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
John McBried, Company A, Seventieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Jacob Simmons, Company H, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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William Turney, Company I, Twenty-seventh Regiment United States Colored Troops.
James Thompson, Company --, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Alexander McKinney, company and regiment unknown.
Under an act to organize and discipline the Ohio militia, passed April 14, 1863, those liable to military service in the township under a general order from the Adjutant General of the State, met on the 4th of July, 1863, at Sligo, and proceeded to elect officers of the company. J. M. Gorrelle was elected Captain, P. R. Osborn, First Lieutenant and Samuel Denny, Second Lieutenant. The company numbered 120 men. It is to be regretted that the muster-roll cannot be obtained, so that the names of all the members of the company could be given.
At the time of the Morgan raid in August, 1863, the company, with many others of the county, was ordered into the service of the State to aid in the capture of Morgan, or to drive him out of the State. In a few hours after the order was promulgated, through the daily papers as it was, it reached the township and the different members of the company were ordered to meet at once to go to Camp Dennison, there to procure arms, and then to follow after Morgan. Considerable time was consumed in getting the company together and in awaiting transportation, so that by the time it reached Camp Dennison, Morgan was on his way up the river hotly pursued by Hobson. After being in camp a few days, the company was ordered to return home, Morgan being captured about this time.* The writer has made considerable effort to procure a roll of the officers and men of the company, but without success.
FAMILY HISTORY.
Before closing this historical sketch, it is well to give mention of some of the early settlers and their families, and of some of the more prominent persons of a later generation. With biographical sketches, the writer has' nothing to do. In some instances, in order to show family connections, mention has been made of parties who are not now nor ever were residents of the township.
The first resident of the township was Samuel Lee, who, in the year 1804, or prior thereto, built a cabin in the vicinity of Springfield Meeting-House, on what afterward became the land of Isaac Harvey. The following year, Archi bald Edwards and Peter Dicks Settled in the same vicinity. The same year (1805), Isaac Harvey came to Ohio with Peter Dicks, who was his brother-in-law; Jacob Hale and John Hadley accompanied them. Harvey afterward returned to North Carolina for the purpose of purchasing the Pollard tract of land, consisting of 2,000 acres, which he did in connection with his brother, Eli. Pollard resided at Richmond, Va. In the fall of 1806, he returned to Ohio, bringing with him his brothers, Eli, Joshua and Caleb and their families, who, with others who accompanied them, made about one hun dred in all. The Harveys all settled in the vicinity of each other, on what was known as the Pollard land, and together formed what became known as the Harvey settlement, which was the nucleus of a large settlement afterward. Their brother, William, a few years afterward, followed them from North Carolina, and settled on Todd's Fork, where Thomas Daugherty now lives.
These brothers had two sisters, Martha and Lydia. Isaac Harvey's wife's maiden name was Lydia Dicks. He lived near Springfield, and built a brick house on his farm in 1814, which is still standing, and is now occupied' by Thomas Pyle. He had three sons and six daughters. His sons' names were
* See Chapter XIV.
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William, Harlan and Simon D.; his daughters' names were Nancy. Elizabeth, Rebecca, Martha, Lydia and Ruth. His son William married a young lady by the name of Crew. He owned the land where Harveysburg was afterward laid out by him. His daughter Nancy married Archibald Edwards. Elizabeth became the wife of Enoch Harlan, Rebecca the wife of Jonathan Hadley, Martha the wife of Aaron Antram, Ruth the wife of a man by the name of Towel. Eli Harvey's wife's maiden name was Mary Stanfield. He settled between Lytle's Creek and Todd's Fork, near their junction, where the Widow Howard now lives. He had one son, William, and three daughters, Ann, Mary and Cynthia. He died on the 14th of April, 1822, at the age of sixty years. Joshua lived on the south of Todd's Fork. He was married three times. His first wife was a Morrison. His second wife was Mary Moon, the sister of James Moon. His third wife was a Chew, a sister of Reuben, Isaac and John Chew. He had five children by his first wife Caleb, Hannah, Simon, Levi and Robert. Jehu and Nancy were children of the second wife, and were twins. Samuel and Abigail were children of the third wife. All of this family now living reside in Indiana. Caleb Harvey settled where his son Isaac now lives, about one-half mile southwest of Springfield. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Jesse and Hannah Towel, of North Carolina. They had seven children, Jesse, Joshua, Hannah, Eli, Rebecca and Elizabeth. His wife died on the 27th of June, 1825, at the age of forty-eight He died the 12th of December, 1830, at the age of fifty-four. The oldest three children were born in North Carolina. Their son Joshua died in 1831, leaving a daughter, Nancy, who was raised in the family of her grandfather. Caleb and his wife were both buried at Springfield. William Harvey, the brother of Isaac, Eli, Joshua and Caleb, married Mary, daughter of David and Sarah Vestal. They had five children, John, Eli, David, Sarah and Elizabeth. The three boys were born in North Carolina William Harvey died December 5, 1858, at the age of eighty-eight. His widow, Mary, died in 1863, in the ninety-sixth year of her age. Both are buried at Springfield. Of the two sisters of these brothers-Martha and Lydia-Martha married Jacob Hale, Sr., and Lydia married John Hadley.
Eli Harvey, son of William, was married twice. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Mary Fallis. He lived on the Lebanon road, about two miles west of Todd's Fork. He was born in North Carolina, in 1803, and died in April, 1872, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife, Sarah, died in July, 1835, at the age of thirty. His second wife was Ruth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Fisher. He was buried at Springfield. His first wife's children's names were Lydia, Mary, Williaim Penn, Esther, Ann and Sarah. The children by his second wife were Joseph, Isaac, Hannah, John, James and Sinai. The former two died in infancy. Of this family of eleven children, only five are now living.
Isaac Harvey, son of Caleb, resides near Springfield. His wife is the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Edwards, of Warren County. They have had nine children, Caleb, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Rebecca, William, Nathaniel, Abigail, Jesse H. and Enos F.
Simon Harvey was the second son of Joshua Harvey. After his father's death, he became the owner of a large portion of his father's farm. He built a house on the Lebanon road, where the village of Sligo was afterward laid out He was Treasurer of Adams Township for a great many years. He raised a family of seven children.
Henry Harvey was a son of Caleb and Mary Harvey, of Wayne County, Ind. His wife, Ann, was the daughter of George and Elizabeth Maden. Both are now dead. They had a family of ten children, three of whom died in in-
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fancy. For many years he was an Indian Agent, a position which he held with credit to himself and to the Government. Previous to his death, lip, with his family, moved to Kansas.
Preserved Dakin emigrated from the State of New York, and settled on what was afterward the Lebanon road, near Lvtle's Creek Meeting House, on the farm now owned by John Hornada, in 1806. He soon afterward purchased a large tract of land in Chester Township and removed there. Mordecai Mendenhall settled on Todd's Fork in 1806, and built a mill there, which was afterward known as the Fallis Mill. He sold it to Jonathan Wright He had a brother, Nathan Mendenhall, who lived on a farm in the same vicinity. Nathan Mendenhall was a brother-in-law of Jeremiah Kimbrough.
In the year 1804, Joshua Nickerson came from New York and settled on Todd's Fork, about one mile above the Harvey settlement, on the farm now owned by Evan Hadley, whose wife is a grand-daughter of. Nickerson. He had three sons and one daughter. His sons' names were Clark, David and Artemas. The daughter's name Susannah. She married William Morrow, and afterward lived in Warren County, west of Clarksville. Clark Nickerson married Martha Ashby. Both have been dead for many years. They had five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons' names are James, Joshua and David. One of the daughters married a McKay, and the other became the wife of Evan Hadley. Artemas Nickerson married Elizabeth Reed. Both are now dead. They had six children, Susannah, Amanda, Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail and Samuel R. His daughter Mary married William L. Hadley. She now resides in Wilmington, and is well known as a loading member and minister of the Society of Friends. David Nickerson, brother of Artemas and Clark, married a Spencer, and afterward removed to Indiana.
Isaac Reynolds was an early settler, and lived where Elias Fisher afterward lived, since known as the Fisher-Curl place.
David Ferris settled in what is now Adams Township as early as 1805 or 1806.
Jeremiah Poe settled on Todd's Fork, in the Gates survey, prior to 1809. He sold his farm to Thomas Kersey, and sought a home elsewhere.
A man by the name of Wrightsman was the first settler on the Rayburn farm. He gave the land for the graveyard at Lytle's Creek. He sold his farm to Mahlon Stratton in 1816, and moved away.
John Hadley was born on the 23d of September, 1770, in Chatham County, N. C. He was the son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley. His wife was Lydia, daughter of William and Elizabeth Harvey, of Orange County, N. C., and a sister of Eli, Isaac, William, Caleb and Joshua Harvey. They came to Ohio in 1806, and settled near Todd's Fork. They were married in North Carolina; in Crane Creek Monthly Meeting, as early as 1794. They were the parents of twelve children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows: William, Simon, Elizabeth, Joshua, Jacob, Isaac, Eli, John, Thomas, Jonathan D., Ruth and Jane, all but four of whom were born before they came to Ohio. Of these, Joshua died in infancy, and Thomas at the age of nineteen. In connection with his brother-in-law, Eli Harvey, he built and afterward became the ownet of what was for a long time known as the Hadley Mill, on Todd's Fork. Both he and his wife were consistent and influential members of the Society of Friends, and members of Springfield Monthly Meeting. He died in 1832, in his sixty-second year. His widow survived him twenty years. Both are buried at Springfield.
William Hadley, eldest son of John and Lydia Hadley, was born on the 18th of July, 1795, in North Carolina, and came to Ohio with his father. His first wife was Sarah Lindley. She died on the 28th of April, 1829. They
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had seven children, Jonathan, Deborah, Thomas, who died in infancy, Eleanor, Eli L., Mary and Milton. He afterward married Susannah Thatcher, widow of Thomas Thatcher. She was a daughter of Joseph Stratton. He died October 23, 1845. There were two children by the second marriage. Sarah and William. William Hadley died October 23, 1845. Susannah Hadley, for many years of the latter part of her life, made her home with Theodocia Hadley, her daughter, at whose residence, in Vernon Township, near the line of Adams Township. She died on the 18th of August, 1880, at the ripe age of eighty-six years. She was buried at Springfield
Simon Hadley, sun of John and Lydia Hadley, was born November 1, 1796, in North Carolina, and came to Ohio with his father. His wife's name was Ann, the daughter of Thomas Kersey, Sr. He was a resident of Adams Township from the time he came to Ohio to the time of his death, which occurred on the 13th of May, 1870. His wife died September 28, 1843. Both were buried at Springfield They bad seven children, Jabez, Rebecca, Lydia, John, Julia, Ann K. and Mary M.
Simon Hadley, some time after the death of his first wife, married Mary I. O'Neall, a widow, whose maiden name was Ingham. She was formerly from New York. Elizabeth, the third child of John Hadley, married Ezekiel Hornada. She deceased May 9, 1850, in the fifty-second year of her age.
Jacob Hadley, son of John and Ruth Hadley, was born the 3d of March, 1801, in North Carolina He came to Ohio with his parents when but five years of age. His wife was Mary, daughter of Beale and Mary Butler, of Wayne County, Ind. He was a successful farmer of Adams Township, where he resided until about 1868, when he removed to Wilmington. He was a strict member of the Society of. Friends, highly respected by all who knew him, and a minister of considerable ability. He clung tenaciously to the teachings and doctrines of the Friends in all their purity and simplicity, and was adverse to yielding to the innovations in their manner of worship which have prevailed for the last fifteen years. He died on the 11th of February, 1879, at the age of seventy-eight. His wife died on the 20th of July, 1858, at the age of fifty seven. Both are buried at Springfield. They had seven children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows: Samuel H., Eliza Ann, William Beale, Elwood, Mary B., Susannah Jane and Naomi.
Isaac Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley, married Lydia, daughter of John Hazard. They had seven children, Calvin, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Elmira, Henry, Rebecca and Harriet. Isaac Hadley died July 22, 1839, at the age of thirty-six. His widow afterward became the wife of James Smith. He died, and she afterward married William Pyle, son of Jehu Pyle, Sr.
Eli Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley, was born on the 27th of September, 1804, and died November 29, 1854, at the age of fifty. His wife was Abigail, daughter of Reuben and Rhoda Green. She died the 30th of April, 1837, at the age of twenty-eight. They had five children, Mahala G., Gulielma, Thomas, Micajah and Rhoda.
John Hadley was born the 15th of April, 1810. He was the son of John and Lydia Hadley. His wife was Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wildman, of Clark County, Ohio. They had seven children, to wit: Hiram, Elizabeth, Margaret, Deborah, Henry, Ruth and Seth. Deborah and Ruth both died in infancy. John Hadley's wife died on the 21st of April, 1848, and was buried at Springfield. For many years he resided near Springfield, on the farm now owned by Hiram Coates. He, after the death of his first wife, married Rhoda Stanton, a widow, and afterward lived at Springboro, in Warren County. He died in March, 1882, and is buried at Springfield.
Jonathan D. Hadley, the youngest son of John and Lydia Hadley, was
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born August 10, 1812. His wife was Susannah Clawson, daughter of William Clawson. They had four children, Louisa, Mahlon, John William and Evan. Jonathan D. Hadley died about 1872, at Clarksville. His widow died at Wilmington in 1874, and both are buried at Springfield.
Ruth Hadley became the wife of W. B. Andrew. She died on the 19th of October, 1852.
Jane, the youngest child of John and Lydia Hadley, married Seneca Wildman, and, with her husband, removed to Iowa more than twenty years ago. She is the onlv one of the family now living. All deceased members of the family are buried at Springfield.
Jonathan T. Hadley was born on the 14th of March, 1793. He was the son of Simon and Elizabeth Hadley, of North Carolina. He emigrated to Ohio in 1810, and settled in what is now Adams Township, near the line of the county of Warren. He married Rebecca, daughter of Isaac Harvey. He had nine children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows, viz.: Elizabeth, Lydia, Samuel L., Ruth, Isaac, Simon, Deborah, Milton and Harlan H.
Jonathan T. Hadley deceased in 1880. Rebecca Hadley, his wife, died on the 20th day of June, 1876, aged eighty-one years. Both are buried at Springfield.
William Hadley, son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley, and a brother of John Hadley, emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Vernon Township. His wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Ann Clark, of North Carolina He settled on what is now known as the Marshall farm, on Todd's Fork. He died in 1842, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife died in the month of February, 1837, at the age of sixty sight years. They had a numerous family of children, as follows: David, Mary, John, Ruth, Jonathan, Ann, Joshua, Sarah, William, Jr., and Jane.
David Hadley, eldest son of William and Sarah Hadley, of North Carolina, was born on the 27th of April, 1794, emigrated to Ohio in 1815, and settled near Clarksville. His wife was Sarah, daughter of David and Hannah Lindley, of Orange County, N. C. He died in the year 1852. Sarah, his widow, is living, and is now in her eighty-seventh yaar. They had ten children, to wit: Hannah, William L., Samuel, Mary, Isaiah, David, Sarah, Lindley, Chambers and Abraham.
With the exception of the Harvey family, the Hadley family was by far the most numerous of any one family among the earlier settlers of the western part of Clinton County. They wore, and are probably yet, either directly related to or connected with one-half of the families of that portion of the county. With but few exceptions, all were or are members of the Society of Friends, and are influential and respected citizens. Many have, from time to time, moved to other counties of the State, and to other States, especially to Indiana and Iowa.
Nathan Harlan and William Harlan were brothers, and sons of Enoch Harlan, of Guilford County, N. C. They came to Ohio in 1805, and settled about one mile from Springfield-Nathan on land since known as the Joseph Coate farm, and William on land now owned by Harrison Mullen and Milo Hale. William married in North Carolina, his wife being Charity Kimbrough, a daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrough. They had nine children, as follows: David, Margaret, Jonathan, Ruth, Nancy, Enoch, William, Nathaniel and Edith. Nathan was the eldest son. He also married in North Carolina, his wife being Sarah Hunt, the daughter of a minister of that name. They had nine children, as follows: Lydia, Enoch, Martha, Nathan, Edith, Prudence, Jabez, John and Hannah. John Harlan and Enoch, his brother, came from
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North Carolina with their mother, and, after a short residence in Highland County, settled in the same vicinity in the spring of 1807. He married Lydia Hale, daughter of Jacob Hale He has been dead but a few years. They had the following-named children: Jacob, Elizabeth, Rebecca. James and Warren.
There were others who died in infancy. John had the following-named brothers: William, David, Enoch, Nathan, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Solomon, and three sisters-Nancy Mendenhall, Hannah Maden and Rebecca Hampton.
All of this family except Nathaniel settled in the vicinity of Springfield and Oakland, all living near each other. David and Solomon were the last to come, arriving in 1811. Their mother's name was Edith. She was a sister of Elizabeth Harvey, who came to Ohio in 1806, with her sons, Isaac, Caleb, Eli, Joshua and William. Both were widows. Elizabeth Harvey was born on the 16th of August, 1736, and died the 165th of February, 1832, in her ninety-sixth year.
Ezekiel Hornada was born in North Carolina, Randolph County, on the 26th of February, 1796. He came to Ohio in 1806, with the Harvey brothers and their families. Isaac Harvey was his uncle by marriage. His mother's name was Dicks. Having been left an orphan at an early age, he was bound out to Isaac Harvey, in whose family he was raised. He married November 11, 1818. His wife was Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Hadley. He was the father of twelve children, to wit: John, Jehu, Isaiah, Jane, Simon, Mary, William, Eleanor, Lydia, Eli, Isaac and Louisa. Of these, Jehu died at the se of fifteen; Jane, Simon, Eli and Isaac, before they bad reached the age of two years; and Mary, at the age of thirty-five. His wife died in 1850, and was buried at Springfield. He assisted Isaac Harvey in building his house, a brick one, still standing, in 1814. He did the principal part of the hauling. He went to school to Warren Sabin, at the Harvey Schoolhouse, in 1809. He went to school afterward to Hiram Maden and Thomas Kersey, who taught at the schoolhouse on Nathaniel Carter's farm. Some years after his marriage, he bought the John Abernathy farm, on the Lebanon road, some two miles west of Todd's Fork, and built the brick house now standing upon it in 1832. Some time after his first wife's death, he married again. For two years preceding April, 1882, he lived in Sligo. He has recently removed to Indiana, at the age of eighty-six. He resided continuously in what is now Adams Township for seventy-six years, more than three-quarters of a century, a period of time never equaled as yet by any other citizen of the township, and only nearly approached by Asa Green and Armenia Hale. One cannot but reflect upon the many exciting incidents, perils and privations through which he has passed, many of which he relates with a simplicity and clearness that are very interesting. He has lived to see what was at that time an unbroken forest gradually disappear before the advancing tide of emigration and civilization. The wild turkey and the deer, then so plentiful, have disappeared, and with them the wolf and bear. Where, bat a few years before his coming, the wild Indian lurked and lingered, or swiftly glided on his war-path, the iron horse, with fiery breath and shrill neigh, for nearly thirty years has been coursing along on glittering rails of iron. Schoolhouses, churches and villages have sprung into existence with a rapidity which. to him, must appear like enchantment. He well remembers the storm of 1806 that prostrated the timber south west of where Sligo now stands. He says that the wild turkeys were so plentiful for some vears after he came to Ohio that they afforded an abundance of food through the fall and winter seasons for the settlers. and that to him it appeared as if the hand of Providence provided for them. He says that often he has seen wild turkeys in droves by the hundreds, and that in the fall and winter they became very fat. It is to be regretted that circumstances were
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such that be could not spend the remainder of his days among scenes so long familiar io him. John Hornada. eldest son of Ezekiel Hornada. now resides on the pike about one mile east of Sligo.
Reuben Green was born in Grayson County, N. C. on the 28th of July 1770. On January 5, 1797, he married Rhoda, daughter of David and Mary Ballard. He emigrated to Ohio in the fall of 1811, and first settled near Centre Meeting-House. In 1813, he bought pin acres of land of William Lytle, on Lytle's Creek, where he settled and lived the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Society of Friends. and, for many years preceding his death. he sat at the head of Lytle's Creek Meeting. His wife died on the 10th day of February. 1843, at the age of sixty-eight years. He died on the 25th day of December. 1852. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was the father of twelve children. their names and the order of their ages being; as follows: Isaac, Mary, David, Lydia, Robert, Asa, Anna, Abigail, John, Susannah , Row land and Rhoda. Isaac died at the age of ten: Lydia, in infancy; and Anna, at the age of fourteen. Mary, the eldest, married Mordecai Walker; David married Mary Jessup. Robert married Mahala Unthank; Abigail married Eli Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley: John married Mary Ann Watkins; Susannah married Isaac Moore, son of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn.; Rowland married Absillet Thomas, of Wayne County, Ind. ; and Rhoda married Daniel Young. Of this family of children, Asa and John are the only living representatives. John Green lives in Logan County, Ohio, and has a family of six children. David and Rowland for many years lived in Union Township, Clinton County. Rowland died in Indiana in 1881.
Asa Green was born on the 5th day of January, 1805. in Grayson County, N. C.; came to Ohio with his father in 1811, with whom he lived until he was married. His wife was the daughter of Nathaniel Carter. They were married at Lytle's Creek, in Friends' Meeting. Both he and his wife are still living at their farm, adjoining the village of Ogden, once known as the Holiday farm, and immediately west of the farm on which his father lived. They raised a family of eight children, their names being as follows: Jane, Reuben, Mary Ann, Cyrus, Gulielma, John C., Samuel G. and Nancy Emily. All the children are living except Gulielma and John. The following is a brief sketch of some of the earlier scenes and events of his life, obtained from him for insertion here:
"I was born January 5, 1805. I remember leaving Virginia. My father and family, of which I was one, moved out to Ohio in a wagon. We had five horses. We drove seven or eight head of cattle, and were five weeks on the way. We first settled near Centre. This was in the fall of 1811. I remember of attending meeting there. It was held in a hewed-log house. When we moved to Lytle's Creek, my father built a hewed-log house, twenty by twenty-four feet, one story. It was built near a spring on the hillside, about one hundred yards north of the creek, a short distance east of Ogden, and near where the railroad now is. My father planted out an orchard soon after, a few of the old trees of which are still standing. A few years afterward, he took the house down and moved it from the hillside where first built to the top of the hill, where there was a better situation. When he rebuilt it, he weather boarded it. This house is still standing, and is in a fair state of preservation, and is still occupied as a family residence. When we first moved, there was no clearing, except about four acres across the creek on the bottom, which had been cleared up by Charles Stout, who then lived near where Rodney Jenks now lives. He had opened up a small clearing there, but was not the owner of the land, but only a renter, or squatter, upon it. Samuel Andrew had a small clearing where he lived. Nathaniel Carter had made a small beginning
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on his land, bought of Lytle, and lived in a log house south of the small creek, or run, that passes through the Carter farm. Benjamin Howell made the first clearing on the Howell farm. Charles Howell made the first clearing on the Quinby farm. He was the son-in-law of a man by the name of Stout. He moved away afterward, Joseph Stratton having bought 150 acres of Lytle and divided it between his sons, Micajah and Joseph. The latter built the one. story frame house on the Quinby farm, but, as he was single himself, rented it. Joseph Stratton lived where Caleb Moore now lives. He built the old two-story frame house that is still standing there. Micajah Stratton built the brick house on the Rodney Jenks farm, recently taken down. I attended school in a small log house on the Stout farm, east of Lytle's Creek. This was in 1814. I also went to school at a schoolhouse on Nathaniel Carter's place. We went to Springfield to meeting until the Lytle's Creek Meeting-House was built. It was built in 1817. In 1820, my father built a frame barn, the first one in the neighborhood. Persons came quite a distance to see it. It is still standing. It is twenty-four by fifty feet. I remember that, after the rafters were raised, in a feat of daring, my cousin, Reuben Chew, walked on the points of the rafters from one end of the barn to the other. We went to mill at the John Hadley mill, on Todd's Fork, until the Holaday Mill was built. They ground wheat and corn on the same stone. They ran the bolt by hand."
John Holaday settled on what is now known as the Asa Green farm in 1814. He came from Virginia. His wife's name was Susannah, daughter of Robert Fortner. They had a family of eight children-Hannah, Robert, William, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, John, Susannah and Jesse. He built the brick house in which Asa Green now lives in 1830, and afterward sold his farm to Asa Green, and moved with his family to Jefferson Township, this county.
Samuel Andrew was born in Orange County, N. C., December 14, 1783. He was the son of William and Hannah Andrew. He married Delilah, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham County, N. C., October 17, 1805. He came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Greene County, where he resided for two years, and then settled on Lytle's Creek, on the farm where he resided until the time of his death, on the 18th of July, 1871. His wife died in 1856. Both are buried at Springfield. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He had four children-William B., John, Hannah and Susannah.
William B. Andrew, his son, was born July 21, 1806. He married Ruth, daughter of John Hadley, and was the father of ten children, to wit: Eliza Jane, Hannah, Samuel, Delilah, Isaac H., John T., William H., Jacob, Lydia and Wilson. His wife died October 19, 1852. In 1868, he removed to Henry County, Iowa, where he afterward died. All of his children are still living, and reside in Iowa. William B. Andrew was a man of considerable promi nence, politically and otherwise. He was an ardent Whig and Republican. He was several times elected Township Trustee, and. in 1864, County Commissioner. in which office he served for three years.
John Andrew, son of Samuel, married Jane McWhorter. He removed to Fayette County, where he resided for several years, and then removed to Vernon Township, and afterward to Lebanon. After the death of his first wife, in 1854, be married a Mrs. Roach. He had three children-Mary E., John W. and Robert.
Hannah, daughter of Samuel Andrew, married Jacob Hale, of Adams Township, who died in 1849. She is the mother of three children-William, Alfred and Susannah. The two sons reside in Adams Township.
Susanna, daughter of Samuel Andrew, married John McFadden in 1847. She, with her husband, lived at the home farm, caring for and comforting her father and mother in their last years of life. John McFadden died July 6, 1871,
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at the age of fifty-six. They had seven children, to wit: Samuel, Martha Jane. Esher Ann, Mary E.. James L., Laura D. and John W.
Henry Andrew. brother of Samuel Andrew, and son of William and Hannah, was born February 12, 1777. His wife was Jane hills. He carne to Ohio at an early day. and settled on a farm adjoining that of his brother Samuel. near Sligo, now owned by John G. Outcalt. He had seven children, to wit: Robert, John, Hannah. Joseph, William. Jonathan and Sarah. He removed to Jefferson Township some years afterward.
James Andrew. brother of Samuel and Henry, came to Ohio about the same time they did. He for many years lived in what is now Adams Township. He was the father of nine children, to wit: Ira. Eden, Minerva, Calvin, Cyrus, Miles, Mary Ann. John Wesley and Emily. Of these, Eden, Miles and Emily live in Adams Township.
Samuel Chew eame to Ohio at an early day. He married Abigail Green, sister of Reuben Green, and was the first settler on what was afterward known as the John Anson farm. He had four sons -Isaac, Ephraim, John and Ren bon; and three daughters-Alice, Mary and Ruth.
Joshua Moore was the son of Thomas Moore and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn. He was born on the 17th of October 1791. He came to Ohio in 1811. He married Nancy, daughter of Joseph and Theodocia Stratton. They lived in Wilmington for a year or two after they were first married, and then moved to Adams Township and lived in a small house near where Harris Moore now lives. He soon after bought fifty acres of land of David Stout, who lived where Haines Moore afterward lived. He afterward bought out J obn Sheridan, getting eighty-one acres of him, and moved to the farm on which he lived up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 7th of February, 1874. He sold the Stout farm to his brother Haines about 1821, soon after he bought of Sheridan, and afterward, in 1838, he, in connection with Haines Moore, bought out Nathan Stalker, he taking so much of the Stalker farm as lay on the south side of Lytle's Creek, and his brother taking the residue. Nancy, his widow, continued to reside at the home place until her death, which took place in December, 1881. Both are buried at Springfield. They had a family of twelve children, as follows: David S., who died in infancy; John Haines, Sarah Ann, Micajah, William, Joseph, Harriet, Nancy, Joshua, Benjamin (who died in infancy), Jehu C. and Seth. William died single, November 14, 1877; Seth died single, September 8, 1865, fit the age of twenty-six; John Haines married Ruth Lindley; she died in 1869, at the age of fifty-one; he now resides in Wilmington, having married a second wife. whose name was Mary Hines; Micajah resides in Adams Township; Sarah Ann Linton, in Union Township; Nancy Harvey, in Adams Township; Joshua, in Wilmington; Joseph resides in Warren County, and Jehu in Pennsylvania.
Haines Moore, brother of Joshua, came to Ohio about two years after his brother Joshua did. He lived on a farm in Union Township, near the Adams Township line, for many years, and raised a family of children. His wife was Eliza Antram, daughter of John Antram. A few years ago, they moved 1o Wilmington, where they have since resided.
Caleb Moore, brother of Joshua and Haines, came from Pennsylvania about 1832, and, soon after, bought the Joseph Stratton farm, on Lytle's Creek, where be has since resided. He was born about the year 1800. His wife's name was Nancy, daughter of Andrew Jack, who was a Revolutionary soldier. They had a family of six children, as follows: William, John, Harris C., Hannah, Emily and Nancy Ellen. Nancy Moore died about 1845, and Mr. Moore afterward married Martha Miller. They had two children--Ethelbert J. and Martha Adaline.
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John and Isaac Moore were two other brothers of this family, who came to Ohio about 1832. Isaac married Susannah Green, daughter of Reuben Green. He died October 6, 1840, at the age of twenty-eight. John Moore married Ann Moore, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn. He was born on the 31st of August, 1798. She was born July 6, 1805. Some time after their marriage, they moved to near Newcastle, Henry Co., Ind., where he died. They had a family of several children. She married again, her second husband being John Evans. They moved to Jasper County, Ind., where she died about 1875. Elizabeth Moore, widow of Samuel Moore, who died in Pennsylvania, came to Ohio about 1832. She lived for a few years oil the farm of Joseph Stratton, Jr., afterward the Quinby farm, and then bought about twenty acres of the Stalker farm, where she afterward lived until a few years before her death, when she moved to Sligo. She died on the 13th of August, 1874, in her eighty-sixth year. Her father, Andrew Jack, came to Ohio with her, and made his home with her until his death. She had seven children, whose names were as follows: Melinda, Nancy, Sarah Ann, Melissa, Eliza, Evaline and Samuel. Eliza married Joseph W. Slack, and Samuel married Sarah Jane Hadley, daughter of William and Sophia Hadley.
George Maden, Sr., was one of the pioneers of Adams Township. He settled on what is now the Jabez Hadley farm. His first wife was the Widow Reynolds, whose maiden name was Harvey. There. were four children by this union, viz., Eli, George, Elizabeth and Edith. His second wife was Elizabeth Carter, sister of George Carter. By, this marriage there were eight children, viz., Hiram, Solomon, John, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary, Ruth and Deborah. He died at an advanced age, and is buried at Lytle's Creek, as was also his wife, Elizabeth. George married Mary Chew, daughter of Samuel Chew and a sister of Isaac, Ephraim, John and Reuben Chew. He moved to Indiana, where he has since died. Elizabeth married a man by the name of Reeves; Edith married Joseph Stubbs; Solomon married a Robbins; John died single; Nancy became the wife of Henry Harvey, both of whom are now dead; Rebecca mar ried Reuben Chew, son of Samuel Chew; both are dead; Mary married Amos Harvey, brother of Henry Harvey; Ruth married Robert Hunt, son of Jacob and Lydia Hunt; Deborah married a man who lived in Indiana.
Eli Maden married Hannah Harlan, daughter of Enoch Harlan. They had six children, viz., Harlan. John, George, Hiram, Rowena and Rebecca, all of whom, except Hiram, reside in Adams Township. Harlan Maden, son of Eli, married Marguerite Osborn, a daughter of William Osborn, Sr., and Hiram married William Harvey's daughter, Hannah Harvey. Eli Maden died a few years ago.
Hiram Maden. son of George Maden, was born January 28, 1792, in Orange County, N. C. He emigrated with his father to Ohio. He was married twice. His first wife was Susannah, daughter of Jehu and Sarah Stuart, of Wayne County, Ind. They were married about the year 1826. She only lived a few years after the marriage. She is buried at Lytle's Creek. There were three children by this marriage, viz., Sarah, George and Jehu. About the year 1834. he married a second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Susannah Osborn. There were seven children by this union, viz., William, John, Eli, Elizabeth, Hiram, Susannah and Thomas Elwood.
Hiram Maden died in April, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age. His wife, Elizabeth, died January 10, 1866, at the age of sixty-two. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was a very useful citizen. and a consistent member of the Society of Friends. He was a teacher in his younger days, and afterward a surveyor of much practice. Next to Nathan Linton, he has probably done more surveying in Clinton County than any other person.
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Jeremiah Kimbrough was a native of Rowan County, N. C. He was born on the 15th* of September, 1778. His wife was Sarah Mendenhall, a sister of Nathan Mendenhall. They were married in 1799, in Rowan County, N. C. They came to Ohio in November, 1809, with their family, which then consisted of six children. In the spring of 1810. he bought about one hundred acres of land in the hurray Survey and settled upon it, opened up a clearing; and built a cabin. This was afterward known as the George Carter and Micajah Stratton farm. It is on Todd's Fork, near the northeastern part of the township. In 1812, he sold his farni to George Carter, and moved to Tennessee, but, not liking the country, he came back without unloading his wagon. He then bought ht the farm on which John Hornada now resides, where he lived until 18'28, when he sold it to his son Thomas, and then bought the Isaac Harvey farm, on Todd's Fork, near Springfield, where he resided until his death, August 15, 1850. He died while in a carriage with his son Eli, on their way from Wilmington to his home. His widow died in 1859, while at her daughter's, Elizabeth Howell. They had a family of eleven children, all of whom are living except two, their names and order of ages being as follows: Thomas, born September 18, 1800; Elizabeth, born January 3, 1802; Susannah, born March 13, 1803; Hannah, born in October, 1804; Charity, born July 3, 1807, Sarah, born in January, 1809; Mary, born in November, 1810; John, born May 26, 1812; Ira, born in the year 1815; Edith, born in the year 18'30; Eli, born in November, 1821.
Elizabeth was the first child married. She married Benjamin Howell. Susannah married Robert Holleraff; she resides in Randolph County, Ind. Hannah married William Ballard, son of John Ballard; she resides in Grant County, Ind., having married a second husband by the name of Kerwin. Charity married Lewis Hiatt, son of Jesse Hiatt; she died in 1863. Sarah married John Whitson, son of John Whitson, Sr.; she now resides in Grant County, Ind. Mary married Caleb Townsend, son of John Townsend; she resides in Iowa. John married Demice Beach, daughter of Benjamin Beach; he died October 18, 1854. Ira married Clara Howland, daughter of Barnabas Howland; he now resides in Harveysburg. Edith, married Hiram Daugherty; she now resides in Indiana Eli married Margaret, daughter of John Townsend; he now resides in Grant County, Ind. Each of these unions was productive of numerous offspring, so that the grandchildren of Jeremiah Kim. brough would probably aggregate one hundred, and his descendants would probably now number three hundred. But two of the children---Thomas and Elizabeth-now reside in Adams Township.
Thomas Kimbrough married Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse Hiatt, a brother of Lewis Hiatt. They were married on the 4th of April, 1822, and recently passed their sixtieth marriage anniversary. They now reside with their son, Demetrius, in the western part of Adams Township, near the Lebanon road, and both are in the enjoyment of reasonable bodily health and mental vigor, considering their advanced age. His wife, when a child of seven or eight years, resided with her fater near Wilmington, and passed over the ground where Wilmington now is when it was an unbroken forest, save where two small cabins were erected, some distance apart-one near where the City Hall now is built, and the other to the north of it. They are the oldest couple residing in Adams Township. They have had a family of nine children, as follows Martha, who married James Spray; Sarah, who married John Brazil; Jeremiah; Mary, who married John W. Richardson; Edith, who married William Edwards; Jesse; Susannah, wife of Harlan H. Hadley; Demetrius,
* Other authority says September 20.
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who married Esther Bangham; Charity, wife of Aaron Harvey, son of William Harvey and grandson of Isaac Harvey.
Jeremiah Kimbrough, oldest son of Thomas Kimbrough, was born October 14, 1827. In 1849, he married Esther, daughter of Eli and Sarah Harvey. By this union there was one child, whose name is Louisa. His wife died December 18, 1859. His second wife is Rhoda, daughter of Eli Hadley, and sister of Micajah and Thomas Hadley. Jeremiah Kimbrough has resided in Adams Township since its first formation. He is held in high esteem by all who know him. He is a prominent member of Springfield Monthly Meeting.
John Johnson was an early settler. He lived on the north side of Lytle's Creek, on the Haines Moore place. His wife was a Ballard. He sold his land to Henry Tibbetts, who sold to Nathan Stalker, who sold to Moore. His daughter Rhoda married Abel Thornberry.
Robert Howell was one of the early settlers in Gates' Survey, on what is known as the Indian Branch. The land is now owned by Micajah Moore. He built a cabin near by a large spring that flows out from near the roots and under the branches of a spreading beech tree. He planted a nursery there, and set out an orchard of apple and peach trees. Some of the apple trees are still standing. He had quite a family of children, among whom were Charles, Benjamin, John, William, Jeremiah, Thomas, Robert, Ruth and Nancy. He settled there probably prior to .1810. All of the family went farther west prior to 1823, except Benjamin. Charles Howell made the first clearing on the Quinby farm. Charles Howell's wife was the daughter of Charles Stout, who lived near where Rodney Jenks now lives.
Benjamin Howell was born July 14, 1792. He emigrated to Ohio with his father. He was married, about the year 1820, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrough: He was the first settler upon what is known as the Howell farm, which at that time consisted of 100 acres in the Dudley Survey. This was in 1820, directly after his marriage. Here he cleared up a farm, and afterward purchased sixty-seven acres of what was once known as. the Robert Howell place. He had a family of ten children, as follows: Jeremiah, Jedidah, Riley, Aaron, Patsy, Henry, Adeline, William, John and Benjamin. Benjamin Howell died July 2, 1855, Elizabeth Howell, his widow, is still living, and makes her home with her son-in-law, William Biddlecome.
George Carter was born March 8, 1782. He was the eon of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C. His wife, Miriam, was born on the 2d of February, 1787. She was the daughter of Jesse Wilson and Elizabeth, his wife, of Randolph County, Va. He came to Ohio in the year 1812, and settled about one mile west of Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, on what was after ward known as the Micajah Stratton farm. For forty years or more, he was a teacher. He taught in many different places, always with success. He was a kind-hearted man. He was a minister in the Society of Friends, being considered one of the ablest in the church, especially upon doctrinal points. But few persons exerted a more potent and widespread influence for Christianity than be. He was the father of seven children, their names and order of ages being as follows: Jesse, John, Samuel, Wilson, Cyrus, Louisa and George. Two of the sons died after arriving at manhood-George, on the 8th of Jan uary, 1845, at the age of twenty-two years and eight months. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. Of the other children, Jesse married Melinda Bently. Some years before his death, he emigrated to Kansas. Afterward, while back on a visit in Ohio, he died at Lewis Hunt's. He is buried at Grassy Branch. John married and resided near Bloomington, where he died a few years ago. Cyrus married Susannah Nickerson, and resided for many years in Clintori County, but a few years ago he removed to Howard Lake, Minn., where he nom
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resides, having married a second wife. Some of the children were born in North Carolina. Both parents lived to a ripe old age. George departed this life on the - day of ----, 18-, and Miriam on the 19th of January, 1876, at the age of ninety years eleven months and eighteen days. Both are buried at Grassy Run.
Nathaniel Carter was born on the '?1st of June. 1779. He was the son of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County. N. C., and a brother of George Carter. Ifis wife's name was Nancy, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chat ham County, N. C. They came to Ohio in 1812, and settled in Dudley's Survey, between where the villages of Ogden and Sligo now are, he having bought a piece of land of William Lytle. He was a well-to-do citizen, and a member of he Society of Friends. He was the father of six children, as follows: Jane, born on the 17th of February, 18112, wlto married,.Samuel Gaskill; John B;, Enoch, Susannah, Ann and Delilah Susannah married Asa Green; Ann married William Holaday; Nathaniel Carter died March 3, 1843, in his sixty-fourth year; Nancy, his widow, died November 5, 1863, at the age of eighty-two, surviving him more than twenty years.
John Baker Carter, son of Nathaniel and Susannah Carter, was born February l, 1802. His wife's name was Sarah Smith. He was the father of six children, to wit: Mary, Nancy, Jane, William, Nathaniel and Asa, all of whom are still living. He now resides in Waubaunsee County, Kan. While in Ohio, he resided on a portion of the farm formerly owned by his father.
Enoch Carter, son of Nathaniel and Nancy Carter, was born December 28, 1808. His wife was a Faulkner. He resided for many years on a portion of the farm on which he was born and raised He was the father of ton children, as follows: David, Nathaniel, John, Rachel, Samuel, Hiram, Phoebe Ann, Elizabeth, Jane and Susannah. Both parents are now dead.
Conrad Smith was a pioneer. He settled on the Smith farm, in Gates' Survey, about 1815. His wife was Elizabeth McDaniel. He had a family of five children, viz., John, George, Daniel, Abigail and Susannah. John married Mariah Smith; Abigail married Samuel Wingfield, and Susannah married Aquilla Reese. The two daughters now reside in Illinois. One of the brothers lives at Harveysburg. Conrad Smith and his wife have been dead several years. They were both highly respected by all who knew them. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek.
Daniel Smith, son of Conrad and Elizabeth Smith, was born in 1809. His wife was Ann Hartman. For a few years after their marriage, they resided northeast of Wilmington. They then removed back to the farm, and lived there with his parents until their death, and until the time of his death, which occurred March 30, 1880. He was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery. He was a man strictly honorable in all his dealings, and of kind and benevolent disposition. They had a family of five children, viz., George H., Joseph H., John C . and James E., and a daughter who died in girlhood, named Mary E. George, Joseph and John all volunteered in the service of the United States, and were gallant and brave soldiers. They were members of Company G, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. George died in February, 1878, while Sheriff of Clinton County, Ohio, to which office he had been elected in 1876.
Nathan Stalker settled on Lytle's Creek as early as 1809. His wife was Mary Ballard, daughter of David Ballard. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was one of the first members of Lytle's Creek Meeting. He sold his farm to Joshua and Haines Moore, and moved to Indiana, where he afterward died. The orchard which he planted is in part still standing. He lived on the hill, near by where Harris Moore now lives. He had a family of eight children, Elean-
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or, Lydia, John, Eli, David. Mary, Sarah and Rhoda. Eleanor, Lydia and Sarah all died after reaching womanhood, single, and are buried at Lytle's Creek.
Cornelius Hobson was a settler on the Micajah Moore place as early as 1816. He sold his farm about 1820 to John Osborn.
John Newlin settled on the Oliver Moore farm as early as 1809. He had several children, among whom were Eli, William and Lydia.
John Sheridan was an early settler on the Joshua Moore farm. He sold his farm to Joshua Moore, and went West.
Isaac Stout settled on Lytle's Creek on the Isaiah Stout farm about 1807. He cut the first stick of timber on the Stout farm. His wife's name was Susannah. They had the following-named children, viz., Jesse, Sarah, Phoebe, Lydia, Rebecca, Matilda, Isaac and Isaiah Stout.
Isaiah Stout lives on the home place, and is the youngest son of Isaac and Susannah Stout. His wife's name was Lucinda Hardesty. He has a family of several children, all of whom are grown up and married.
Charles Stout was a first cousin of Isaac Stout, and was the first settler on the Rodney Jenks place. David, his brother, was the first settler on the Haines Moore place, and built the mill there on Lytle's Creek, afterward owned by Joshua Moore. It ground corn only. It is related that Charles Stout had a cow that got fast in the mud in a boggy place by a strong spring on his land, and that the wolves attacked her and nearly killed her. The wolves killed his dog also. He then went to Highland County, got a wolf-trap, set it, and caught a very large gray wolf.
John Pyle was born August 5, 1766, in Chatham County, N. C. About the year 1815, he moved to Washington County, Ind. In 1823, he came to Clinton County, Ohio, and settled on the farm now owned by William S. Riley. His wife's name was Ruth. He had a family of six children, viz., Will. iam, Sarah, John, Jehu, Mary and Edith, only two of whom came to Ohio with him. These were William and Jehu. Two daughters married and settled in Indiana. His children were all born in North Carolina, where his wife had deceased previous to his moving to Indiana. He died January 20, 1846, in the eightieth year of his age. He was noted for being a remarkably good hunter. He would go into the woods and kill deer when no other porson could
Jehu Pyle, Jr., son of Jehu and Ruth Pyle, was born on Christmas Day, 1795, in Chatham County, N. C. His wife was Ebther, daughter of Joseph and Docia Stratton. She was born on the 4th of February, 1804. About 1832, John Pyle, Jr., in connection with his brother William, bought the Samuel Southwick farm on Lytle's Creek, near its mouth, the tract purchased consisting of several hundred acres. John Pyle moved to and lived at what is now known as the Esther Pyle or Snowdon farm, where he continued to reside until the time of his death, which occurred the 29th of January, 1859. They had a family of eleven children, viz., Joseph and William, who were twins, David S., Abigail, Caleb, Nancy, Lindley, Mary, John, Melinda and Emily. Of these, Joseph, Abigail, Caleb, Nancy, Lindley and Mary died in their youth. John died in 1856, in the sixteenth year of his age.
William Pyle married Rebecca Garner. He has a family of several chipdren. For some years, he resided in Indiana, but is now a resident of Adams Township. He was born July 16, 1822.
David S. Pyle was born on the 27th of September, 1824. His wife was Sarah T. West. She died in 1856. He afterward married Nancy Fishef There were five children by the first marriage; and three by the second. Esther Pyle, widow of Jehu, resides with her son-in-law, Snowdon, and is now in the seventy-ninth year of her age.
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William Pyle, Sr., son of Jehu and Ruth, was born March 11, 1788, in North Carolina. His wife was Mary, daughter of William Hadley. She was born on the 17th of July, 179'3, and died the 7th of February, 1848, at the age of fifty-six. There were nine, children by this marriage, viz., Samuel, John, Mary, Ruth, John, David, Sarah, William and Ann Maria. He married again. His second wife, Abigail, died in 1853. He afterward married Lydia Smith, whose maiden name was Hazard. He died July 20, 1875.
Samuel Pyle is the only one of this family who resides in Adams Township. Jehu, David and Ann Maria are dead. Others reside in Indiana and Iowa. Samuel Pyle was born on the 22d of September, 1812. His first wife was a daughter of Thomas Austin, who settled on Todd's Fork as early as 1807. They had the following named children: Ann Eliza, Emily, Caroline. Amanda, Henry. Thomas, Melissa, Clark and Arthur. His second wifo was Harriet McMillan. He resides in the southern part of the township, and is universally esteemed by all who know him.
Samuel Southwick was an early settler on Lytle's Creek, on the John Pyle, Jr., or Snowdon farm. He bought, about 1830, the Eli Harvey farm, near the mouth of Lytle's Creek. He afterward sold out to John and William Pyle, and moved to Indiana. He was married four times. His first wife was a daughter of David Stearns; his second wife was a sister to his first wife. His third wife was Susannah Jenks, only sister of David Jenks, This marriage was about 1820. He had five children, two of them by his third wife. Their names were Philo and Riley. His son Emory married Harriet Humphreys. Southwick laid out a graveyard on his land, containing about an eighth of an acre, which he reserved in his deed to Pyle. Two of his wives are buried there, and two of his children, the first grave being that of one of his children.
Benjamin Farquhar came to Ohio in 1805, from Maryland. His wife's name was Rachel, a daughter of Jonathan and Susannah Wright, who came from Maryland about the same time. They had the following-named children: Uriah, born January 5, 1795; Cyrus, born July 4, 1796; Allen, born July 18, 1798; Jonathan, born April 21, 1800; Josiah, born February 19, 1802; Susannah, born October 16, 1804; Edwin, born July 3, 1807; Rebecca, born September 9, 1810; and Rachel, born September 18, 1815. He bought land and settled in what is now the extreme northeastern part of Adams Township. Uriah studied medicine with Dr. Lathrop, of Waynesville. He came to Wilmington in 1816, practiced medicine for about twenty years, and then removed to Logansport, Ind. His wife was Keziah Elam. Cyrus married Lydia, daughter of Richard Fallis. Allen married Louisa Stockdale; Jonathan studied medicine with his brother. While visiting a patient, he was thrown from his horse and injured, from the effects of which he died. He was of married. Edwin died in infancy; Rebecca married Isaac Strickle; Susannah married Dr. Lytle, of Logansport, Ind.; Rachel married John Cadwallader. Benjamin Farquhar died in 1827, at the age of sixty-one, and is buried at
Josiah Farquhar, son of Benjamin, married Abi Linton. He lived on the Farquhar farm until his death, April 9, 1838. His children were Benjamin, Nathan, Francis and Caroline. Nathan and Caroline died in infancy. Benjamin and Francis both reside in Wilmington, as does their mother, Abi Sparks, she having married again, her second husband being Dr. Sparks. Both are prominent business men, and members of Friends' Church.
David Stearns was an early settler. He lived in the southwest; part of Adams Township. He had three sons, Melzar, Luther and Harvey, and two daughters. He came from Massachusetts in 1813. Melzar Stearns owned about two hundred acres of land in the T. Baytop and Dudley Surveys. It
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was afterward owned by Samuel and John. Pyle, sons of William Pyle, who bought it after his death, which occurred about 1834. His wife's name was Achsah Cranson. He was buried at the Southwick Graveyard. He was a farm er, and for several years kept a dairy, and made cheese and butter. He was a very influential citizen. He had three sons, Cranson, Seneca and Harrison, and a daughter Sarah. Cranson married Catherine Elliott, widow of David Elliott, whose maiden name was Shaffer. She had two children by her first husband, a son and a daughter, Mary. The son lives in Venice, Butler County, and the daughter, who married A. McNama, resides in Wilmington. Cranson Stearns is still living at Mainville.
Henry LeValley lived on the Joseph Anson farm. John Stackhouse after.ward owned it and died there in 1820. He was the first person buried at Lytle's Creek.
Simon Grey was the first owner of the farm where Mahlon Stratton now resides, and lived there at an early day. His wife was Mary Reese. He built the house iu which Stratton now lives, in 1835. David Jenks did the carpenter work.
Joseph and Mahlon Stratton were cousins who settled on Lytle's Creek in 1809.Joseph Stratton was born at Campbell Court House, Va., June 2, 1769. His wife was Docia Mormon, who was born May 2, 1773. She died October 5, 1823, and was buried at Lytle's Creek. He lived on what is known it's the Caleb Moore farm. He married a second wife afterward. His children by the first marriage were Micajah, David, Susannah, Nancy, Joseph, Esther and Benjamin. There were two children by the second marriage, one of whom, Rebecca, died when a young lady, and Edward; who is still living. He died February 7, 1831, and is buried at Lytle's Creek. Mahlon Stratton was the first settler on what was known as the Rayburn place. His wife's name was Sarah. Both lived there until their death. He donated the land for the burial-ground at Lytles Creek, where he and his wife were both buried. They had eight children, viz., Levi, David, Mary, Sarah, Rachel, Elizabeth, Susannah, Esther and Mahlon.
Thomas Kersey, Sr., was born September 15, 1759. He was the son of William and Hannah Kersey, of Guilford County, N. C. His wife's name was Rebecca, daughter of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C. She was born July 11, 1759. He came to Ohio and settled on Todd's Fork in 1812, on land adjoining that of John Carter, his brother-in-law. He had six children, three boys and three girls. The boys' names were John, Thomas and Carter; the girls' names were Mary, Nancy and Rebecca. He died August 10, 1865, and was buried at Lytle's Creek. John married a Steddom; Carter married a Lindsey; Mary married Eli Millikan, and Nancy married Simon Hadley.
Thomas Kersey, Jr., was born January 27, 1793, in Guilford County, N. C.; came to Ohio with his father in 1822. His wife was Letitia, daughter of Samuel and Martha Craig, of Warren County, Ohio. He died September 7, 1870, in his seventy-eighth year. His widow survived him two years, and died May 11, 1872, in her seventy-second year. They had six children, Ann, William, John, Hannah, Martha and Rebecca. The parents are buried at Lytle's Creek
William Osborn was born in North Carolina August 1, 1778. His wife's name was Susannah Foust, daughter of Philip Snotherly, of North Carolina They were married in 1799; came to Ohio in the fall of 1815, and, after living a year or two on the Samuel Harvey place on Lytle's Creek, afterward owned by Thomas Rich, he bought 100 acres of land and settled on it in J Roberts' Survey, in the extreme southern part of the township. They were
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Friends. They had a family of eight children, viz., Thomas, born February 23, 1800; John, born May 15, 1801; Elizabeth, born February 27, 1803; Mary, born January 2, 1305; Peter, born March 3, 1807; William, born December 5, 1808; Charles, born June 10, 1811; and Margaret, born July 25, 1814. He died about 1860. His wife died June 25, 1848; both are buried at Lytle's Creek.
Thomas Osborn married Margaret Reynard, daughter of Adam Reynard, He died July 18, 1838. He had the following-named children: William, Su. sannah, Adam, Peter, Catharine Mary, Elisba, Margaret and Thomas.
John Osborn, son of William, married a daughter of Preserved Dakin. They had a family of several children, none of whom now reside in the township of Adams. John Osborn moved to Kansas several years ago.
Elizabeth Osborn was the second wife of Hiram Maden. She is now dead. Mary Osborn was the second wife of Mordecai Walker, and died in 1848.
Peter Osborn married Sarah, daughter of John Hadley. His wife died August 22, 1853; he died November 17, 1874. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was an influential citizen of Adams Township, and a member of and a minister in the Society of Friends. They had a family of eight children, viz., Alfred, Charles, William H., Sarah Jane, John Thomas, Ruth Ann, Elwood and Eli, all of whom are living except Eli, who died in infancy. All reside in Clinton County. A few years after the death of his first wife, Peter Osborn married Eliza Trueblood, widow of Cyrus Trueblood, of Indiana. Two children were the result of this union-Mary E., who became the wife of James Smith, and Adeline Osborn.
William Osborn, Jr., was married December 25, 1834, to Hannah Hadley, d daughter of David Hadley. He had five children by this union-David S., Mary Emily, William, Isaiah H. and Seth. William Osborn remained single after the death of his first wife until 1881, when he married Theodocia Hadley, widow of Eli L. Hadley, whose maiden name was Thatcher.
Charles Osborn married Elizabeth Fulgum. He resided on the home farm, of which he became the owner after his father's death. They had thirteen children, viz., Sarah, Isaiah, Mary Jane, Michael W., Peter, Caroline, Elizabeth, Charles W., Calvin, Lydia, Clark, Frank and Delphina Isaiah died at eight years of age, and Calvin at twelve. His wife, Elizabeth, died October 28, 1864, and he afterward married Jemima Clark, a widow. Charles Osborn deceased on the 1st of January, 1876, at the age of sixty-four years. He is buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery.
Jacob Hale was one of the first settlers on Todd's Fork In 1805, with Isaac Harvey and John Hadley, he came to view the country. They traveled on horseback, coming through Highland County. They found it a "goodly land." They returned to North Carolina, resolved to part with their posses sons there, and remove with their families to Ohio as soon as possible. Jacob Rate was largely engaged in business there, and owning considerable land it took him some time to close up his affairs. The three, Hadley, Harvey and Hale, were all brothers-in-law, Hale having married Martha Harvey, and John Hadley her sister Lydia. They selected a tract of land on Todd's. Fork, en owned by Robert Pollard, since known as the T. Baytop Survey, No. 2,372, as suitable for making them a home, with others of their family who were expected to come with them to what was then, to them, the far West. This survey contained over two thousand acres of land, and was purchased by Isaac and Eli Harvey, jointly, from the owner, at Richmond, Va., for this purpose. In 1807, Jacob Hale came with his family to Ohio, and settled on Todd's Fork, bought over three hundred acres of said survey. All of his children, except the youngest, were born in North Carolina. Their names and order of
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their ages are as follows: Samuel, Elizabeth, William, Eli, Ruth, Lydia, Jacob, Martha, Joseph, Armonia, Mary and Emily. Of these Elizabeth married James Massie; William married Mariah Sabin, sister of Warren and Zebulon Sabin; Eli Hale married Ann Hadley, daughter of William Hadley; Lydia married John Harlan, who settled near Dakin's Corner; Jacob and Martha were twins; Jacob married Hannah Andrew, daughter of Samuel Andrew; Martha married Hiram Mendenhall, son of Nathan Mendenhall, whose wife was Nancy Harlan; Joseph Hale's first wife was Rowena Harlan, and his second wife was Sarah Sewell; Armonia Hale married Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Ed, wards; Mary married Isaac Goldsberry; Emily died in infancy.
Armonia Hale was born in Randolph County, N. C. He came to Ohio with his father when he was about three years of age. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Edwards. He resides on the farm where his father settled when be first came to Ohio. He is an industrious and useful citizen. He has resided continuously on the same farm for over seventy-five 'years. His family consisted of the following-named children: Joseph, Elwood, Milo, John, Edward and Jacob, sons, and Martha and Ann, daughters.
John Anson came from New Jersey in 1817. He died in 1848, at the age of seventy-eight. His wife's name was Hannah. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek They had the following-named children: Samuel, Evaline, David, John, Isaac, Benjamin, Thomas, Andrew, Joseph and Clinton. Joseph resides in Adams Township. He and Andrew are the only members of the family now living.
Jacob Hale, son of Jacob Hale, Sr., was born July 12, 1802, in Randolph County, N. C. His wife's name was Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Delia Andrew. She was born January 7, 1812. He died about the year 1844; his widow is still living. They had three children-William, Susannah and Alfred. William Hale and Alfred both reside in Adams Township, and are prosperous farmers.
Jesse Thatcher was born August 1, 1815, and was the son of Thomas and Susannah Thatcher, and a brother of Joseph and David Thatcher. He died in May, 1882, in his seventy-seventh year. He was the father of quite a large family of children. His wife was a daughter of Adam Rhinard, an early settler in Union Township.
David Jenks was born October 23, 1790, in Rhode Island, and raised in Massachusetts. He was the son of David and Susannah Jenks, and came to Ohio in 1818, and first settled in Butler County. In 1824, he came to Adams Township and bought about seventy-five acres of land of Samuel Gaskill, who had bought it at the administrator's sale of John Stackhouse, who died in 1820, he having bought it of a man by the name of LeValley. His wife's name was Thankful, daughter of Thomas Fish. She died June 9, 1830. They bad seven children, as follows: Achsah, Joseph, Lorenzo, Rodney, Harriet, Alden and Thankful. He afterward married Keziah Jessup, by whom he had one child, Amanda. He died January 5, 1854, and was buried at the Southwick Graveyard, as were both his wives. Keziah, his widow, only survived him about three months.
Rodney Jenks, son of David, was born May 2, 1823. He married Sarah Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Byard. They had five children-George, David Hannah Ann, Alden and Martha Ellen, only two of whom, George and David, are now living Rodney Jenks resides near Ogden, on what was once known as the Micajah Stratton farm.
Isaiah Quinby was born in Lancaster County, Penn, January 30, 1799, He married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Elimh and Sarah Moore, of Center County, Penn. They emigrated to Ohio in 1826, coming down the Ohio River
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from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati in a skiff. He first settled in Warren County, near Hisey's Mill, where they lived for a few years, and then removed to Chester Township, near Oakland, where they resided until the fall of 1839, when they removed to Adams Township, near Lytle's Creek, where he purchased a farm of one of the Holaday's, being the same since owned by Joseph Stratton, Jr. hey had eleven children, viz. Sarah Jane, Aaron B., Josephine E., Thomas M., Miriam E., Ezra A., Mercy Ann, Isaiah W., Elijah, Hannah Sophia and Jesse Cutler. Josephine, wife of R. A. Washburn, died July 23, 1859, and is buried at Lytle's Creek. She left one child, Josephine by name. Mercy Ann, wife of George Gillett, died at Bedford, Iowa, in July, 1873. She left three children. Sarah Jane and Elijah died in infancy.
Elizabeth Quinby died December 23, 1858, and is buried at Lytle's Creek; she was a member of the Society of Friends. Isaiah Quinby married a second wife, by which marriage there was one child, Harris Quinby; he resides in Iowa Isaiah Quinby moved to the vicinity of Hawleysville, Page Co., Iowa, in 1866; he died in March, 1873, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and is buried at Hawleysville.
Dr. William W. Sheppard, of Sligo, Clinton County, is a practicing physician of large experience. He is the son of Levi Sheppard, and was raised in Wilmington; he came to Adams Township in 1848, where he has since resided continuously, except a few years spent in Illinois. His wife's name is Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Riddle; they have had three children, viz., Shotwell, Rachel and Levi. Their daughter died a few years ago, and is buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery. Dr. Sheppard was born March 20, 1821. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Society of Friends, and enjoy the confidence and respect of all who know them.