tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72170457061177655962024-03-05T20:59:19.007-05:00Williams County, Ohio GenealogyHelpful family research for Williams County, Ohio located in NW corner of the state.Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.comBlogger611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-46575096928164690702022-11-25T19:18:00.006-05:002022-11-25T19:23:09.956-05:00Civil War Veteran’s Guardian Was Murdered by a Jealous Brother-in-Law - Edwin A Langley, Springfield Twp<p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 1in;"><b> By Pamela Pattison Lash<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 1in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">This Civil War Soldier left his native residence of Keene, Coshocton Co, OH after his service in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry was over, taking his wife and small children to Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH. A blacksmith by trade he established a home here and later moved to Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH after the death of his wife.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Edwin Apuilla LANGLEY, the son of Moses B Langley and Martha B Childs, was born on 17 March 1843 in Keene, Coshocton Co, OH. He is found in both the 1850 and 1860 Keene, Coshocton Co, OH Federal Census Records, living with his parents and later his widowed mother. Moses B Langley was born in NH c1802 and died by 30 June 1859. Dr. Lucius Howard was appointed by the local court as guardian for Moses’ minor heirs, Jonas C, Lila P, and Edwin A Langley. Representing them and the interests of widow Martha Langley, Lucius petitioned the court to sell Moses’ lands of Lot 18 consisting of about 160 acres. Three men were set to appraise the value of this property and Howard was then allowed to sell the property with the proviso of 1/3 payment in hand, 1/3 in one year, and the balance in two years with 6% interest. Edwin and Lila appear to be twins of age 16 and Jonas was 20 years of age. Older sister Mary Jane had married Simon Elliott on 13 Apr 1854 in Coshocton and lived in Richland Twp, Defiance Co, OH. The youngest child, Rebecca Langley was born c1848 but she must have died before the father as she is not included in this probate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">On 28 January 1860 Dr. Lucius Howard, husband of the former Rosette Farwell, was murdered by his brother-in-law in the Farwell Butcher Shop. Lewis Farwell believed that Lucius was overly friendly with Farwell’s wife and had words with the physician earlier in the evening. Farwell then left home to conduct some business and Howard decided to stroll over to the butcher shop. Farwell changed his mind and returned home to find Howard there and killed him with a piece of stove wood. The butcher was convicted of second degree murder and spent a term at the Ohio Penitentiary. He later moved to Illinois with his family.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">By the 1860 Richland, Defiance Co, OH Federal Census records, Edwin’s sister Mary and husband Simon Elliott, and Langley brother Jonas were listed there. Edwin Langley joined the Co G unit of the 104<sup>th</sup> OVI and later was transferred to the Co H unit of the 80<sup>th</sup> OVI. He mustered in on 29 Feb 1864 in Ohio and mustered out on 13 Aug 1865 at Little Rock Arkansas as a private. He married Clarissa Leavitt in Coshocton Co, OH on 19 Oct 1865. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Clarissa, born in Keene, OH on 13 Nov 1842, was the daughter of Gideon Leavitt and wife Mary Sickles. Edwin, Clarissa, and children were found in the 1870 Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census; they were also enumerated there in 1880 and he was listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule for the Stryker, OH area. He applied for a CW Pension as an invalid on 23 Aug 1890. Clarissa died in Williams Co, OH on 24 Sept 1894 and was buried in the Boynton Cemetery of Springfield Twp. Edwin and Clarissa were the parents of the following four children:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Pren M (died as toddler, Williams Co, OH), male<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Zina E (1869 OH – 6 Dec 1951, Alvordton, Williams Co, OH)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Milo Edwin (1871 Stryker, OH – Jan 1957, Williams Co, OH; m1 Eva Austin, 15 Oct 1893, Williams Co, OH; m2 Alta M Replogle)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Edna Mary (14 Aug 1880, Williams Co, OH – pos 22 Jan 1948, Lucas Co, OH; m Robert Lee Johnson, 25 Mar 1913, Lucas Co, OH )<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">By 1900 Edwin was living in Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH as a landlord but ten years later he was residing in Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH as a widower living on his own income. Edwin died on 28 Jan 1919 in West Unity, OH of heart disease and was buried beside Clarissa in Boynton Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Reference List<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1850 Keene, Coshocton Co, OH Federal Census – Edwin 7 OH with parents<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1860 Keene, Coshocton Co, OH Federal Census – Edwin A 17 OH with mother<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1870 Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – Edwin 27 OH/Clarissa 29 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1880 Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – Edwin 37 OH/Clarissa 38 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1890 Veterans Schedule, Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1900 Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH Federal Census – Edwin 57 OH, widower, landlord<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">1910 Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – Edwin 67 OH, widower, own income<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">“Bryan Times” (Bryan, OH), 28 Jan 1957 – Milo Edwin Langley Obit<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Civil War Pension – invalid, 23 Aug 1890<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Coshocton Co, OH Marriages, 1859-1874, p396 – Edwin A Langley and Clarissa Leavitt<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Coshocton Co, OH Probate Administrator of Estates, 1858-1866<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">“Leader Enterprise” (Montpelier, OH), 10 Dec 1951 – Zina E Langley Obit<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Lupien, David, Boys in Blue, p6,7,18<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Official Roster of Soldiers of State of Ohio<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Ohio Grave Registrations for Ohio Soldiers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH Cemeteries, p15<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">“The Progressive Age”, (Coshocton, OH), Wednesday, 3 Aug 1859, p3 c1- guardianship sale of real estate<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">US Civil War Draft Registration, 1863, Keene, Coshocton Co, OH - unmarried<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;">US Civil War Soldiers M552 Roll 62<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 1in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-13094090799065848612022-11-19T20:43:00.001-05:002022-11-19T20:46:22.705-05:00Montpelier Brothers in Civil War Service - the Lambersons<p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Montpelier Brothers in Civil War Service – the Lambersons</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.5in;"><b>By Pamela Pattison Lash<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Our first Civil War veteran and resident of Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio descended from a Revolutionary War soldier. He was one of three sons who served in the Union Army and took great pride in his Infantry service of 1 Year 4 Months and 26 Days. The soldier entered the war as a private in Company K of the 38<sup>th</sup> Ohio Volunteer Infantry, mustering in on 16 February 1864 in Ohio and mustering out on the most common day for this unit, 12 July 1865 in Louisville, Tennessee. He later applied for a CW pension as an invalid on 3 July 1876, suffering from injuries to his right shoulder, and upon his death due to paralysis of the heart, his widow was granted his pension on 14 June 1915.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">William Whitfield LAMBERSON, the fourth child of nine and the third son of Edward S. Lamberson and wife Charity Ely, was born on 24 June 1843, probably in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Through his maternal lineage he traced back to his Revolutionary War veteran great-grandfather, Colonel George Ely of Hunterdon Co, NJ, DAR #A038190. This lineage is also applicable for both Asher and James Lamberson.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">William’s family can be found in the federal census records of 1840 Rush Twp, Northumberland Co, PA, 1850 Roaring Creek, Montour Co, PA, and 1860 Cardington, Morrow Co, OH. His father, Edward S Lamberson, was born on 9 July 1818 in Northumberland Co, PA. He was the son of Edward Lamberson and Mary Ann Quick; both were buried in the Presbyterian Chapel Cemetery at Rushtown, PA. Edward S married Charity Ely in Northumberland Co, PA on 1 September 1836. Charity, the daughter of Caleb Ely and Jeanette Campbell, was born on 29 February 1820 in Northumberland Co, PA. Together they had the following children: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(1) Samuel Ely (1837-1841),<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(2) Asher Ely (10 Dec 1839 PA – 21 May 1925, Jackson Co, MI, m Margueritte Ely, 2 Mar 1864, Lenawee Co, MI, both buried in Pleasant Union View Cemetery, Fayette, Fulton Co, OH), second subject,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(3) Elizabeth Jane (1840 – 1841),<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(4) William Whitfield, our main subject, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(5) Harriet Ann (1843 – bef 1850), <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(6) James Wesley (27 Jan 1847 – 22 Nov 1923 Montpelier, OH, m Rebecca Ann Mehrling, 25 Dec 1867, Williams Co, OH, both buried in Riverside Cemetery, Montpelier), third subject<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(7) Joanna “Annie” (6 Oct 1853 – 6 Feb 1940, m Thomas J Merritt, 17 Aug 1872, Hillsdale Co, MI), <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(8) Semira “Myra”(28 Mar 1855 – 31 Jan 1918, Jackson Co, MI, m Levi Merritt, 25 Mar 1875, Hillsdale Co, MI, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(9) Maxwell Boggs (1857 – 15 June 1933, Elkhart Co, IN, m Caroline Malala Fetterhoff, 12 Aug 1883, Steuben Co, IN. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Father Edward S Lamberson died on 19 Dec 1884 in Fayette, Fulton Co, OH and was buried there in the Pleasant View Union Cemetery. Mother Charity Ely Lamberson passed away on 25 Apr 1886, also in Fayette, and was buried beside husband Edward.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">William married Margaret Adelina Coleman on 3 December 1865 in Williams County, Ohio. Margaret, the daughter of William Coleman and Maria Lutz/Lutes, was born in Blissfield, Coshocton Co, OH on 27 May 1851. They are found in the following federal census records: 1870 Cardington, Morrow Co, OH, 1880 NW Twp, Williams Co, OH, 1890 Veterans Schedule for Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH, and the 1900 and 1910 Montpelier, Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH, where his occupation was driving a grocery wagon. The couple had five children, 3 sons and 2 daughters. The children are: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(1) Lillian (16 Apr 1866, Coshocton Co, OH – 17 Apr 1866, Coshocton Co, OH), <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(2) Abraham Ellsworth (13 Feb 1868 Coshocton Co, OH – 8 July 1939, Toledo, Lucas Co, OH, m Nellie Tressler, 20 Sept 1892, Williams Co, OH), hardware merchant,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(3) George Johnson (18 Nov 1870, Morrow Co, OH – 23 June 1953 near Archbold, Fulton Co, OH, m1 Gertie J Kernys, 9 Mar 1893, Hillsdale Co, MI; m2 Elizabeth “Libbie” Huffman, 19 Nov 1899, Williams Co, OH), farmer and custodian of Park and Lincoln Schools in Bryan,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(4) Bertha Charity (3 Nov 1873 Coshocton Co, OH – 15 Oct 1940 Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co, MI, m1 Fred Chapman, 1891; m2 John S Smith, 1895; m3 Eli Stockwell, 1910), <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">(5) Harley Winfred (18 Oct 1883, Montpelier, Williams Co, OH – 17 June 1936 Toledo, Lucas Co, OH, m Mary Pacholski).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">William died on 9 June 1915 in Montpelier and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery there. Margaret used the services of lawyer EE Bechtol to file for his Civil War Pension as his widow for the cost of $10. Margaret continued to live in Montpelier until her death on 20 September 1900. She too was buried in Riverside Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Oldest brother Asher Ely Lamberson served in Co I of the 3<sup>rd</sup> Ohio Infantry as a private, mustering in May 1861. He was soon discharged due to lung trouble. By the Civil War Draft Records for Clinton Twp, Fulton Co, OH Asher in 1863 was unmarried with a notation that he had consumption and had been twice refused to be in military service. Asher is found in the 1890 Veteran’s Schedule as a resident of Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH with a muster in date of March 1861 but without a muster out date. Asher and his wife Margaret Ely were parents of a son, Franklin Spencer, born 28 Oct 1880 in Fulton Co, OH; he married Celeste Crawford, 13 Apr 1903 in Fulton Co, OH. Margaret was the daughter of William Ely and Sarah Jane Campbell. She was born in Oh on 27 Oct 1844 and died in Fayette, Fulton Co, OH on 30 Nov 1911. After his wife’s death Asher moved to Leoni, Jackson Co, MI, and lived with his son Frank until his death due to arteriosclerosis. He was listed as a retired barber on his Michigan death certificate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Younger brother James Wesley Lamberson was also a CW veteran, serving in Co A 142<sup>nd</sup> Indiana Infantry as a corporal from 20 Sept 1864 to 28 June 1865 when he mustered out at Kendallville, IN. He served 9 Months and 25 Days. He married Rebecca A Mehrling, the daughter of John Mehrling and Lydia Reber. Rebecca was born in Huron Co, OH on 1 July 1848 and died on 12 September 1924 in Montpelier. James and Rebecca were the parents of the following four children:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1. William E (31 Oct 1868, Williams Co, OH – 14 July 1948, Williams Co, OH; m Corda Huntington, 1891),<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">2. Ada Rose (6 Dec 1871, Morrow Co, OH – 18 June 1946; m William F Carl),<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">3. Alice M ( Nov 1873, NW Twp, Williams Co, OH – 31 Aug 1887, Montpelier, Williams Co, OH),<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">4. George Alfred (31 Jan 1876, Williams Co, OH – 12 Aug 1952, Williams Co, OH; m Sylvia Bible, 24 Dec 1899, Williams Co, OH),<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">James applied for a Civil War pension as an invalid on 10 Apr 1871; his widow Rebecca was granted his pension on 11 Feb 1924.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Reference List<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1840 Rush Twp, Northumberland Co, PA Federal Census – Edward Lomason and family<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1850 Roaring Cree, Montour Co, PA Federal Census – Asher 11 PA/William 6 PA/ James 3 PA with parents<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1860 Cardington, Morrow Co, OH Federal Census – Asher 21 PA/William 17 PA /James 13 PA with parents<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1870 Cardington, Morrow Co, OH Federal Census – William 26 PA/Margaret 20 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1870 Fayette, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH Federal Census – Asher 33 PA/Margaret 27 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1880 Fayette, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH Federal Census – Asher 42 PA/Margaret 35 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1880 NW Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – William 37 PA/Margaret 29 OH and James 33 PA/Rebecca A 32 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1890 Veterans Schedule, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH Federal Census– Asher’s enlistment/discharge dates/company/rank<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1890 Veterans Schedule, Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – William’s enlistment/discharge dates/company/rank<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1900 Fayette, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH Federal Census – Asher 63 PA/Margaret 55 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1900 Montpelier, Superior Twp, WilliamsCo, OH Federal Census – William 56 PA/Margaret 49 OH and James 53 PA/Rebecca 51 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1910 Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – William 66 PA/Margaret 58 OH and James 63 PA/Rebecca A 62 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1920 Leoni, Jackson Co, MI Federal Census – Asher 82 PA widower<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1920 Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census – JW 72 PA/Rebecca 71 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">“Bryan Democrat” (Bryan, OH), 13 July 1939 p8c6 – E A Lamberson obit<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">“Bryan Times” (Bryan, OH), 23 June 1953 p1c1 – George Lamberson obit<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Civil War Pensions<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865 M552 Roll 61<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Ely, Revell, and Stacey: A Historical Narrative p258, 319<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Lupien, David, Boys in Blue, p16, 42<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Official Roster of Soldiers of Ohio – muster in and ou dates, company, regiment, rank<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Ohio Grave Registratiions for US Soldiers, 1804-1958 – William’s next of kin listed as Eli Stockwell<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH Cemeteries p141<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Williams Co, OH Marriages V3 p465– James Lamberson and Rebecca A Mehrling; V3 p500 William Lamberson and Margaret Lutz<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Jackson Co, MI Death Record<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Williams Co, OH Death Records<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sometimes when doing research and a write-up of a family, one can begin with the obituary of one or both of the husband/wife team and then go to other sources to add or adjust to what the obituary tells us. Note that all information in an obit is not always accurate. The data was usually supplied by a family member in the throes of grief or with little to no real knowledge so family lore is thrown into the mix.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The obituary for Benjamin Robert Willett gives a few details - Benjamin, born in Montgomery Co, MD, died on 18 February 1907 at his Bryan home at the corner of Beech and Bryan Streets. He became an Ohio resident in 1834 when his parents left Maryland and settled in Ohio. Benjamin was a partner in several business ventures when he came to West Unity in December of 1849 from Mansfield, Richland Co, OH. He later moved in 1861 to his present home in Bryan. He and his wife, Nancy L Wilhelm (m. 16 March 1856 in Williams Co, OH) did not have any children so they adopted the present surviving daughter, Mrs Ada T McElhenie. “Uncle Ben” as he was known to many purchased a tombstone shop located on the west side of the square. Later he was part owner of a dry goods store on the east side of the square…..The Bryan Democrat (Bryan, OH), Thursday, 19 February 1907, p1 c4-5 with picture.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Another smaller obit appeared in The Defiance Express (Defiance, OH), Friday, 20 February 1907 p8 c1 – Benjamin Willett recently died at his home in Bryan at the age of 79. He was a Williams County, Ohio native for 58 years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The History of Williams County, Ohio by Weston Goodspeed, 1882 p600-601 tells of the senior Willetts coming from Maryland to Ohio. The parents of Benjamin are buried in Fountain Grove Cemetery, Bryan, OH, where Benjamin JR and his wife were buried. Benjamin Willett, SR (25 July 1786 – 4 August 1862) and wife Anna Howes Willett (1793 – 1863) were the parents of the following children: Horatio, Hamilton, Catherine, Meredith, Sarah, Otha, Elizabeth, our subject Benjamin, Joseph, and Oliver. The father, Benjamin SR has a will found in Will Volume 1 p117, 18 August 1862 case number 699. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Benjamin JR. was listed in the following federal census records:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">1850 Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH – Benjamin 22 MD farming and mill maker, living with brother Horatio<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">1860 Bryan, Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH – now married Benjamin R 32 MD no occupation and Nancy L 25 PA<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">He married Nancy L Wilhelm, who was born on 11 November 1833 in Canton, Stark Co, OH, the daughter of John and Charlotte Kreisler/Crider Wilhelm of Franklin Co, PA. Nancy’s siblings were Mariah, Susannah, John, Fanny, Henry, Rebecca, and Catherine, and most of them were enumerated in the 1850 Canton, Stark Co, OH Federal Census. Note that Benjamin’s obit says Nancy was born in OH but most of the census records list her as Pennsylvania native. The earliest census record for Wilhelm is 1840 in Plain Twp, Stark Co, OH. Nancy’s mother died in Canton, Stark Co, OH on 16 February 1879, but her father died in Bryan, OH on 28 March 1887; both Wilhelms are buried in the Rowland Cemetery in Stark Co, OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">According to the 1863 Civil War Draft Registration Benjamin of Bryan was a marble dealer. He did not serve in the war.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">1870 Bryan, Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH – BR 41 MD marble cutter and Nancy 35 PA<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">1880 same location – BR 52 MD merchant, Nancy 45 PA, and Ida 5 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">1900 same location listed as 14 Lynn St – Benjamin 72 MD (Jan 1828), Nancy 66 (Nov 1833), mar 39Y, no children<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sometime between 1907 when Benjamin died and 1914 Nancy moved to Toledo, Lucas Co, OH as his widow according to the Toledo City Directory. By 1920 she was living with Ada and Thomas J McElhennie (married on 9 March 1898 in Williams Co, OH), still in Toledo until her death on 10 November 1924. The Bryan Press (Bryan, OH), 13 November 1924 p5 c3 contains her obituary. She was laid to rest in Fountain Grove Cemetery, next to husband Benjamin Willett.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In his Bryan Press (Bryan, OH), 21 February 1907 p4 c3 – additional information:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He died of kidney and heart problems<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He was a man of pronounced opinions, often gruff, but a kind heart.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He retired in 1875.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->They were married in West Unity, OH.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-63636166591652180012021-12-31T19:14:00.002-05:002021-12-31T19:14:20.232-05:00A Drunken Doctor with No Patients, Divorce in Williams Co, OH - Tritch, 1883<p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mary Ellen Foust Tritch v Thomas Walker Tritch</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Drunken Doctor with No Patients, Divorce in Williams County, Ohio, 1883</span></b><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 31 December 2021)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is a major update as I had originally detailed the couple as FRITCH, but I recently discovered the surname was TRITCH. </span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The physician conducted himself so badly that nobody had any confidence in him. He had no patients; therefore, he had no means of support. He married a Williams County native and proceeded to make her life and that of his two children a miserable existence due to his penchant for wine, women, and song.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mary Ellen Foust, daughter of Benjamin Shoemaker and Priscilla Markle Foust, was born on 13 February 1858, in Wms Co, OH. Her parents, natives of Berk Co, PA, came to this county in 1845, first settling in Jefferson Twp for the 1850 federal census (p27) and then moving to Bryan, Pulaski Twp in 1868. The family was listed in the 1870 Bryan, Pulaski Twp federal census, p2, as BS Foust 46 PA, Priscilla 52 PA, Ella Jane 13 OH, Martha A 11 OH, and John A 19 OH. The couple had seven children with one dying in the Civil War, two dying in infancy, and four surviving their parents' deaths. Mr. Foust was a member of the coroner's jury who investigated the death of the little Schamp son who was killed by Mr. Tyler, the convicted murderer hung in the 1840's.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mary Ellen married Thomas Walker Tritch, an Ohio native, on 2 Mar 1876, Wms Co (Marriages V4 p452) and the couple had two known children, Ralph, b. 21 Feb 1877 IN, and Eva Belle, b. 11 Apr 1881, Pulaski Twp (Births V2 p33). Thomas, a physician, was the son of Trisby and Esther Isabell Walker Tritch, was born in Findlay, Hancock Co, OH, on 30 January 1850. He was enumerated with his parents in the 1850 Whitley Co, IN and 1860 Troy, Whitley Co, IN Federal Census records. He graduated from Findlay Normal School in 1872. As a married couple the Tritch family was listed in the 1880 Auburn, DeKa;b Co, IN Federal Census as Thomas W Tritch 30 IN physician, Ella 22 OH, Ralph 3 IN. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">From The Kendalville Weekly (Kendalville, IN), 14 April 1881, p5 c2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dr Tritch, formerly of Auburn, has been in Kendalville a few days engraving. The doctor is an educated gentleman being a graduate of the old reliable homeopathic college in Cleveland, Ohio and enjoyed at one time a good practice in Auburn, but it seems he has abandoned the practice and taken up his old business. Drinking too much whiskey has had considerable to do in the change we judge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">From The Goshen Times (Goshen, IN), 30 November 1882, p3 c4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dr. Tritch, an engraver has been in our place a number of days doing a job of engraving for Isaac Rowell.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mary Ellen Tritch stated to the Williams County Civil and Criminal Court (Journal 12 p133 - 28 Nov 1883; Roll 39 case number 1194 - 18 Aug 1883) that she wanted a divorce from husband Thomas. She told a tale of being taken to live in Indiana, away from her friends and family where Thomas failed to provide her with sufficient food, clothing, or fuel. The winters of 1876-1877 and 1879 were extremely cold. What money Thomas had he spent on drink and women. Mary Ellen stated that on 10 May 1879 in Fostoria, Seneca Co, OH, Thomas committed adultery with a Mrs. Folliot and from that day through Sept 1879 he was with other women there. During the years of 1882 and 1883 he lived in Kendalville, IN and had relations with this Mrs. Folliot there as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mary Ellen called witness Will Jones, a 20-year-old man from Fostoria, to tell the court of Thomas' character. Jones said he knew Thomas from Fostoria as an immoral physician who spent his money on whiskey and prostitutes. He knew Thomas was seeing Emma Folliatt, a known prostitute, in Aug 1880. This evidence was enough for the court to grant the divorce.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ellen Tritch married William Hartle on 20 May 1886 in Williams Co (Marriages V5 #836) and at the time of her father's death on 26 July 1902 she and her husband lived in Ft. Wayne, IN. The 1900 (p27), 1910 (p106), and 1920 (p217) federal census records for Ward 9, Fort Wayne, Allen Co, IN reveal the Hartles with a daughter Catherine L., b Dec 1890. William (born Apr 1862 IN with OH native parents) was a traveling salesman for Swift and Company; sometime between 1900-1910 the couple had another child but the infant did not survive. Ellen’s son Ralph Tritch also lived in Ft. Wayne in 1900 as a coachman for a wealthy couple. William died in Allen Co, IN on 3 May 1931 and was buried in the Lindenwood Cemetery in Ft Wayne. Ella died on 4 April 1937 in Ft Wayne and was laid to rest in Lindenwood Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">While visiting from Buffalo, NY Thomas Tritch, physician, died at the home of his sister in Findlay, Hancock Co, OH on 13 November 1898 and was buried there in the Maple Grove Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-67562767270797156102021-12-08T19:55:00.001-05:002021-12-08T19:55:16.212-05:00Clarissa J Meads Bair v William H Bair Divorce in Williams County, OH, 1869<p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clarissa J. Meads Bair v William H. Bair (Journal 7 p327 - May 1869; Roll 21 case number 1 - May 1869) - see William Bear v Rachel A. Stewart Bear; Fidelia Robinson Hill Dodd v Peter Marriner Dodd; Leichty</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 8 December 2021)</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have actually been in the process of updating this detailing twice as I discovered new information that tied into other divorce stories, most recently being the Dodd detailing.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The couple was married in Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH, on 1 Mar 1860 (Marriage V6 p2). Note that in this marriage record the bride's name was Eliza J. Meads. Clarissa, the daughter of Isaac and Lydia Leonard Meads, was 16 years old (b. 7 June 1844, Fairfield, Herkimer Co, NY) when she married as she was found with her parents in the 1850 Cayuga, Chemung Co, NY Federal Census as Clarissa 6 NY along with her parents and sister Eliza 2 NY and other siblings. She was listed in the 1860 Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH federal census, dated 15 June 1860, as Isaac Meads 38 NY, Lydia 38 NY, Clarissa J. Blair 16 NY, Eliza Meads 12 NY, Isaac 14 NY, Mary 7 NY. Note her married name was listed as Blair not Bair. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Also one finds the Bair family enumerated in the 1850 Todd, Crawford Co, OH federal census p48 as Samuel Bear 35 Oh, Nancy 35 PA, William 13 OH, Jehill 10 OH, Mary J 8 OH, Martha J 6 OH, and Lorenzo 2 OH and in the 1860 Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH federal census p57 as Samuel Bair 44 OH, Nancy 45 PA, William 22 OH, Jehiel 20 OH, and Martha 16 OH. William was the son of Samuel and Nancy A Harger Bair.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The couple had three children: Oliver F, Jenny V, and Adam. Clarissa charged William with extreme cruelty and subpoenaed the following witnesses to bring testimony: David Wheeler, Mary Shade, Art Riggle, James and Sarah Hudkins, Charles Elder, and WH Ensign. The divorce was granted. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to the 1870 Pulaski Twp federal census p31, William 33 OH laborer and son Oliver 11 OH lived with Samuel Bair 55 OH plasterer and wife Nancy 57 PA. On 7 Oct 1877 William H. Bair married Mary D. Hopkins in Wms Co (Marriage V4 p537). In the 1880 Bryan federal census the family was enumerated as William 42 OH-PA-OH, Mary 36 CAN, Oliver 21 OH, and Jehiel Bair, boarder 39 OH-PA-OH, divorced with rheumatism. William died c15 Nov 1883 and was buried in the Fountain Grove Cemetery in Bryan, later to be joined by Nancy A. (1814-1885) and Samuel (1815-1891). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clarissa Jane Meads Bair next married Nathan Hill, son of Fidelia Robinson Dodd and Melvin Hill, on 23 June 1869 in South Wright Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI. The 1870 Bryan Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census showed them as Nathan Hill 20 OH, Clarissa 25 NY, Viola 5 OH, Delano 4 OH, and Jerome 8/12 OH. They were enumerated in the 1880 Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census as Nathan Hill 32 OH, Clarissa J 34 NY, Bear, Oliver 20 OH stepson, Bear, Delano 14 OH stepson, Hill, Jerome 10, Henry 8 OH, Marvin 4 OH, and Birtha 2 OH. By 1900 Clarissa was living in Stryker and listed in that federal census as Clarissa 56 NY (July 1843), married 31 Y with 10 children/7 living. She died on 22 April 1932 in Williams Co, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is so interesting about this divorce is that there is another divorce - Clarissa’s sister, Eliza, who married William’s brother, Johiel Bair, in Crawford Co OH on 10 May 1866 and appeared to be divorced by 1880 as shown by the 1880 federal census mentioned above.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anna Elizabeth Meads, born 13 February 1843 in Fairfield, Herkimer Co, NY, next married on 25 March 1880, in Crawford Co, OH Lewis Stremmell. She died on 14 February 1943 in Saint Albans, Kanawha Co, WVA and was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Crawford Co, OH. Her ex-husband Johiel Bair, born 26 Oct 1839 in Crawford Co, OH, married Anna Maria Rausch (1850 Germany - 1912 Williams Co, OH). Johiel was a CW veteran of Co A Ft Band 64 and Co I 164th OVI. He died in Bryan, Williams Co, OH on 22 June 1917 and was buried there in Fountain Grove Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-43126818554605761692021-12-03T19:58:00.003-05:002022-02-08T12:16:23.868-05:00A Divorce in 1881 and a Murder in 1928 - Ora Eby<p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Phoebe Snyder Eby v Orra Alvin Eby</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.5pt;">No Sympathy, No Comfort, Divorce in Williams County, Ohio, 1881</span></b><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.5pt;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 3 December 2021)</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sometimes I found a very simple divorce record that did not have much information but was so touching, so sad. This is one of those situations; however in updating this, I found much more, including the homicide case of Ora Eby.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Phoebe Snyder married Orra Eby on 16 June 1878 in Montgomery, Hillsdale Co, MI. Both were born in Williams Co, OH – he was 22Y and she was 19Y; residency reports were shown that he lived in Steuben Co, IN while Phoebe lived in Williams Co, OH. Phoebe was born on 28 April 1859, the daughter of Dr Charles Wesley Snyder and wife Eliza Bush. The family was enumerated in the 1860 Edon, Florence Twp, Williams Co, OH as Charles 31 OH, Eliza 22 OH, Esther 2 OH and Phoebe 1 OH. In the 1870 Florence Twp federal census, p34, there was an Orra Eby 14 OH living in the Harrison Martin household. If these two census records reflect the couple, Phoebe was born in 1844 and Orra was born in 1856. This means she was 34 and he was 22 when they married.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">I have found more information on Ora A Eby, born 27 March 1856 in Ohio, the son of Joseph Eby (1822-14 April 1856 Elkhart Co, IN) and Rachel Palmer (19 January 1827 NY – 16 August 1886 Walnut City, Rush Co, KS). By c1840 Rachel Palmer and her parents were residents of Williams Co, OH and she married Joseph Eby in Steuben Co, IN on 13 July 1846.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Phoebe Eby appeared in the Williams County, Ohio Civil and Criminal Court (Roll 36 case number 865 - 23 Feb 1881) requesting a divorce. She complained that Orra failed to provide for her and their son Tharsend. On 1 Oct 1879 she returned to the household of her uncle, John Snyder, and Orra fled to Kansas. Their son died on 24 Nov 1880 at which time Phebe received no sympathy, no comfort, and no money for their son's funeral. The court granted her a divorce. In 1880 Florence Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census Dr Snyder had daughter Phoebe Eby 21 OH and grand-daughter Jane Eby 1 OH living with next door. Phoebe next married William H Fetters (28 Feb 1857 Williams Co, OH – 1 May 1928 Bryan, OH. The couple had children: Lulu, Beulah, and Charles. Phoebe died on 26 April 1934 in Bryan, OH and was buried in Brown Cemetery beside her husband William Fetters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amos Beebe, son of William and Polly Truman Beebe, was born in DeRuyter, Madison Co, NY. He first married Martha Ross on 1 Jan 1826 in Knox Co, OH. By 1860 he had moved to Scott Twp, Steuben Co, IN and married Rachel Elizabeth Palmer, the widow of Joseph Eby, and the mother of Ora Eby.The Beebes had three children, William C, James Edward, and Jesse, all born in Scott Twp. Amos Beebe died in Steuben Co, IN on 11 Mar 1873 and was buried in the Alvarado Cem there. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Steuben Republican (Angola, IN), 1 May 1878 p3</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> stated that Ora Eby of Richland Twp excavated a portion of an Indian skeleton from a mound on the farm of John Ferrier. Earlier in 1877 Ora was identified as a teacher in York Twp. His brother Joseph Eby, a teacher in the Otsego Center School, c Jan 1879 was charged with assault and battery for taking a hickory stick to a non-compliant student who was causing trouble in the classroom. Interestingly the newspaper stated that Eby, who pled not guilty, was indeed found not guilty as a teacher in that timeframe was identified as in loco parentis, or in place of the parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">According to the 1880 Center Twp, Rush Co, KS federal census p538B, Oran A Eby 23 OH lived with his mother and siblings, Rachel Beebe 53 NY, Joel D. Eby 25 IN, and Beebe sons William C 19 IN, Edward 16 IN, and Jesse J 13 IN. The record showed that both Oran and mother Rachel were divorced. Orra was also listed in the 1880 Franklin, Jackson Co, KS federal census p 139 as married man Orra A. Eby 24 OH-PA-NY, living in the household of Henry Eaby 61 OH. By the 1885 Center Twp, Rush Co, Kansas state census, Rachel Beebe and her sons, Orra and Joel Eby, plus Beebe step-children were enumerated there. According to the <i>Western Economist (La Crosse, KS), 13 August 1891 p5 </i>there was a sheriff’s sale and foreclosure of estate of Rachel Beebe. The heirs of this were notified as Beebe – William, Jesse, Ed, James; Eby – Sidney, Ora, Joel, JD (administrator); Mary Eby Martin; Sarah A Eby Vaughan. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Orra lived in Los Angeles, CA with wife Janet according to the 1910 federal census and was a widower/roomer there as of 1930; however Janet A Eby b1855 Canada living in Gardenia, Los Angeles Co, CA is listed as a widow in the 1920 federal census. The conclusion could be that Ora once more was divorced sometime between 1916 when they were both listed as voters and 1920 when Janet is found in the federal census; however a kind reader sent me a death certificate for Janet Bond Eby who died on 28 April 1918 in Los Angeles. The document stated her husband was Ora Eby.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">The California Eagle, 5 May 1938 p5 c3</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> told the story of Ora Alvin Eby, an aged reclusive 83 year old, being the victim of young hoodlums who tortured and beat him to death to make him tell where he had concealed sums of money. He was gagged with a pillow slip. Ora was murdered on 20 April 1938 in Los Angeles, CA, caused by being struck with an unknown instrument causing a concussion of the brain. Neighbors all believed he was very wealthy as he owned real estate there. His death certificate stated he was a widower, but his wife’s name was Jennie. The state called this an unresolved homicide. Ora Alvin Eby was buried in Inglewood Cemetery in Los Angeles.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-87876428738233417382021-12-02T20:49:00.001-05:002021-12-02T20:49:59.591-05:00A None-Divorce in Williams County and A Criminal Case in Iowa - Aaron Culbertson, 1863<p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aaron Culbertson v Rebecca Hubley Culbertson</span></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> <b>("Bryan Democrat", 21 May 1863; Roll 16 case number 69 - Nov 1863)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 2 December 2021)</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The following is an update on a 2010 divorce posting. There’s more to this story such as two more wives for Aaron and a criminal case involving wife #2.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The couple was married in Richland Co, OH on 7 Aug 1853 (Marriage V6 p175). Aaron, born on 25 Feb 1835 in OH, was the son of John and Anna Miley Culbertson, Jr. In the 1850 Blooming Grove, Richland Co, OH Federal Census as Aaron 18 OH thresher with his mother Anna 35 and siblings. Rebecca, born on 26 Apr 1833 in Marietta, Lancaster Co, PA, was the daughter of Henry and Catherine Hubley. In the 1850 Weller Twp, Richland Co, OH federal census p275, the Hubley family appeared as Henry 59 PA, Catharine 59 PA, Abraham 30 PA deaf and dumb, Henry 21 PA, Susan 19 PA, and Rebecca 17 PA. By the 1860 federal census p340, the Henry Hubley family lived in Olivesburg, Butler Twp, Richland Co, OH. Aaron served in the Civil War as a private in the Co H 47<sup>th</sup> Ohio Volunteer Infantry and marched with General to the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Aaron who wanted a divorce the couple had three children, Albert (1), Arabella (3), and Sarah Ann (7). He stated that on 15 Feb 1856 Rebecca committed adultery with Stephen Wisner, a NW Twp neighbor. Aaron had only recently (Feb 1861) learned of her adultery; Rebecca left him and returned to Richland Co. He wanted custody of the children. Rebecca's brother, Henry Hubley, gave a deposition to the court. Rebecca lived with him in Blooming Grove Twp, Richland Co, OH; she said Aaron had disgraced her but that he wanted her to return to Wms Co and live as man and wife. Rebecca denied the adultery charge. The couple must have settled their differences as Aaron dropped the suit. They were enumerated in the 1870 NW Twp, Wms Co federal census, p20, as Aaron 35 OH, Rebecca 37 PA, Sarah or Scinda 16 OH, Arabelle 12 OH, Albert 10 OH, and Tecumseh S. 2/12 (b 26 Mar 1870, Birth V 1 p3; died 9 July 1871 @ 1Y 3M 13D, buried in the Nettle Lake Cemetery, NW Twp). They later had a daughter Amanda A., b 11 Nov 1872 (Birth V 1 p45).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Culbertsons moved by 1875 and were found in the 1880 Buchanan Twp, Jefferson Co, IA federal census p364, as Aaron 45 OH, Rebecca 47 PA, Sarah A 26 OH, Albert 19 OH, Amanda 7 OH, and Hope G 5 IA. Oldest daughter Sarah or Sadie Culbertson married Mahlon P. Baldwin on 1 Oct 1885 in Crydon, Wayne Co, IA. Rebecca, having not eaten for 30 days, died on 6 July 1882 and was buried in the Upper Richwoods Cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aaron next married Mary L Baldwin Anderson (born 26 March 1839 in Van Buren Co, IA), on 19 September 1883 in Jefferson Co, IA. Mary was the daughter of Stacy and Elizabeth Jones Baldwin, the widow of Hezekiah Anderson and the mother of Bert Anderson. Aaron’s daughter Hope later married her new step-mother’s son, Bert. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I discovered a criminal story in the Fairfield Ledger (Fairfield, IA), 12 October 1888 p3 c3-4 and subsequent issues plus an online article on the State of Iowa v Lawson J Baldwin criminal court case. It seems that Mary Culbertson had a Civil War veteran brother, Lawson Jones Baldwin, who got a 15 year-old girl pregnant. Her name was Mattie Rodabaugh. The young girl went to the home of Aaron and Mary Culbertson on 28 June 1885 where she was drugged and violated by instruments meant to cause an abortion. She was later taken to her father’s home on July 2 and Mattie died there on July 8. Mary Culbertson and a Dr Milikin were initially charged along with Lawson Baldwin with second degree murder but the charges were later dropped on Mary and the doctor. Lawson Baldwin stood trial and was found guilty of second degree murder by a jury of his peers, even though he pled not guilty. Mattie’s dying declarations were known to the court such as “the terrible instruments” and “they abused me horribly”; however these statements were later thrown out. After a failed appeal, Lawson was sentenced to ten years of hard labor on 12 October 1888 and he was taken to Ft Madison, IA. He was 42 years old at the time. Lawson served his sentence and later died in Wapello Co, IA on 6 January 1912. Mary Baldwin Culbertson died in Wapello Co, IA on 13 September 1898; she was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aaron, a grocery man, next married Emma Decker, on 8 October 1899 in Wapello Co, IA. In the 1900 Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA federal census p169, the Culbertsons were listed as Aaron Feb 1835 (65) OH, wife Emma Jan 1860 (40) IA no children, and brother-in-law, John Decker, Mar 1858 (42) IA. This family lived on North Sheridan Avenue. Aaron died on 21 Nov 1923 in Wapello Co, IA. His obit and death certificate stated that he was senile, a retired grocery man, and a Civil War veteran; he was buried in the Shaull Cemetery. Emma died on 27 February 1926 and was buried beside Aaron in the Shaull Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-16678672631330485652021-11-26T13:15:00.000-05:002021-11-26T13:15:35.141-05:00Catherine Myer Kent Boillot Duhamel Burchell - A French Lady Who Married Multiple Times in Williams County, OH<p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smith Kent v Catherine Meyer/Myer Kent</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Quick Entanglement, Divorce in Williams County, Ohio, 1860 </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 25 November 2021)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been updating the divorce detailings I started over twenty years ago and have discovered so much information that was not available before. This particular story is really two stories that converge on one woman – Catherine Myer/Meyer Kent Boillot Duhamel Burchell.</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He made her acquaintance and nine days later he proposed. He thought she was a person of fair and virtuous conduct. He quickly found out that she was not. Love at first sight had put blinders on his common sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smith Kent, b. 1830 OH, the son of Ashford and Nancy Thompson Kent, lived in Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH according to the 1850 federal census, p103B, as follows: Ashford Kent 64 VA, Nancy 60 OH, Thomas 27 OH, Isaac 22 OH, Smith 20 OH, Elcy 18 OH, David 16 OH, Rachael 15 OH, and Louisa 11 OH. Smith's mother, Nancy, died on 14 Nov 1855 @63Y 7M 10D and was buried in the Beaver Creek Cemetery, Pulaski Twp, Wms Co, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to his testimony in the Williams County Civil and Criminal Court records (Journal 6 p55 - 27 Nov 1860; Roll 14 case number 114), Smith Kent made the acquaintance of Catherine Meyer on 1 Mar 1859. He proposed and was married to her on 10 Mar 1859, Williams Co, OH (Marriages V3 p49). Catherine turned out in four months time to be "a common prostitute" when on 11 July 1859 she was delivered of a full grown child which was not his, but that of an unknown Besconcon. After the birth of the child Smith abandoned Catherine and had not lived with her since then.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 1860 Bryan, Pulaski Twp federal census, p181A, bears out this fact that Smith Kent 30 OH was residing with his father Ashford 71 VA and sisters Rachel 24 OH and Louisa 20 OH plus an unnamed female 6/12 IN. Who this child was is not currently known, but presumably she is not the child mentioned in the divorce. The court granted Smith a divorce after listening to the testimony of Polly Shoe, Louisa Kent, and Mrs. Charles Chapman. Catherine did not appear in court nor did she contest this divorce. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, E Smith Kent was a Civil War soldier with the Co K 68<sup>th</sup> Ohio Infantry; he died on 15 April 1862 at Crump’s Landing, TN. Catherine filed and received his CW pension on 3 February 1863 and later for minor Lewis Joseph Kent. In fact Catherine had two sons, both named Kent – Lewis Joseph (7 July 1859 – 1902 Archbold, Fulton Co, OH; married Jessie/Jennie Bair c1880) and Edward E Kent (28 May 1862 – 14 February 1950 Kendalville, Noble Co, IN; married Minnie Schwartz). Both boys were born in Williams Co, OH, with the former mentioned in the original divorce filing. It would appear that Smith Kent and Catherine reconciled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the 1860 Stryker, Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p56B, Catherine’s Myer family was listed as John 61 FR, Mary 61 FR, Catherine 22 FR, and Lewis 1 OH. In the 1870 Springfield Twp, Williams Co, OH federal census the Myer family appeared as John 72 FR, Mary A 72 FR, Peter Bruot 33 FR, Lewis 11 OH, Edwin 8 OH, and Catherine 33 FR. Note that Bruot should be Boillot. Catherine married Peter Pierre Boillot on 3 March 1870 Williams Co, OH. Peter was a Civil War soldier who served in Co L 2<sup>nd</sup> Ohio Artillery. Peter filed and was given a divorce from Catherine c5 October 1882 according to DeKalb Co, IN Order Book 1876-1883.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The story now turns to another Williams Co, OH divorce detailing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />John Duhamel v Marie Duhamel</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>(Journal 12 p105 - 13 June 1883; Roll 39 Box 128 case number 1142 - 28 Apr 1883)</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The couple was married on 15 Mar 1876 in New York City, NY. John, parentage unknown, was born in Nov 1824 in Paris, France. According to the 1880 Stryker, Springfield Twp, Wms Co federal census, p663A, John was listed as 58 Paris, FR, laborer, married but living alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He charged that Marie was willfully absent for three years or more. She lived at 132 Madison Ave, NYC. A legal notice appeared in the <i>Bryan Press</i>, 8 June 1883. He was granted a divorce. Nothing further is known of Marie Duhamel. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 13 June 1883 in Wms Co (Marriage V5 #357) John married Catharine Kent. In the 1900 Letcher Twp, Sanborn Co, SD federal census p245, John Duhamel, who immigrated to the US in 1873, first settling in NY, was listed as John Nov 1824 (75) FR and wife Katherine, who came to the US in 1854, Apr 1837 (63) FR, married 24 years with two children, both surviving. Note that Katherine was married before her marriage to John Duhamel and they were married 17 years before the 1900 census. Why the Duhamels were living in South Dakota is not currently known. Wms Co, OH Death V3 p29 showed John Duhamel died on 26 Jan 1908 and was buried in French Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Catherine Myer Kent Boillot Duhamel next married ex-convict George Burchell on 9 November 1910 in Williams Co, OH. George, the son of John and Ellen Cochran Burchell, was convicted in 1892 of being a part of the murder of Arthur Brown in Bryan, OH. George was in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus in 1900, but the Governor of Ohio later pardoned him. By the 1910 Bryan, Pulaski Twp Williams Co, OH Federal Census he was George 42 OH single, blacksmith. I wrote a small book on this murder titled, Native Sons Gone Wrong, published by the Williams County Genealogical Society. George would outlive Catherine and marry again. Catherine died in October 1914 as Catherine Duhamel, so perhaps she was divorced again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-5453453256715704292021-11-06T15:30:00.001-04:002021-11-06T15:50:42.488-04:00New Twists to Divorce Detailing of George G Cowhick and Rilla Fisher, 1881<p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Arilla/Rilla Fisher Cowhick v George G. Cowhick</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;"> <b>(Journal 11 p320 - 31 Dec 1881; Roll 37 case number 963 - 16 Nov 1881)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 6 November 2021)</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">As stated in other posts, I have been updating divorce detailings I posted here in 2010. When I began to update this one, I realized there was so much new information that impacted the original story, so I decided to make a new posting of this with all the twists and turns of a novel - “you can’t make this stuff up” was in my head when I typed the story of a bigamist who later becomes a doctor (maybe??)!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">The couple was married on 29 Jan 1874, in Williams Center, Williams Co OH (Marriage V4 p323). George was the son of William and Mary Jane Rex Cowhick who lived in Donegal, Washington Co, PA in 1860. His father was a veteran of the War of 1812, having served as a private in the first Regiment, Kennedy’s PA Militia. George was born in 1853 at Hancock Co, VA (now WVA). George Cowhick 17 OH laborer was listed in the 1870 Bryan, Pulaski Twp federal census, p35, with the Milton Plummer family. Closeby was another Cowhick family, his mother and siblings: Dan 21 OH fireman, Jane Mary 57 PA, Elizabeth 18 OH, and Winfield 11 PA. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rilla was the daughter of James C. and Rebecca Mannon Fisher, who were married in Wms Co on 28 Sept 1852 (Marriages V2 p129). Rills was born on 13 January 1856 in this county. According to the 1870 Center Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p38, the Fisher family was enumerated as James C. 42 OH stockman, Rebecca 36 PA, Jane 16 OH, Rilla 14 OH, Della 9 OH, Ella 7 OH, Addie 5 OH, Carrie 2 OH and in the 1880 same location census she was listed as Rilla Fisher 24 daughter, single.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Our story from the marriage in 1874 turns to an old newspaper clipping from the Delphos Weekly Herald (Delphos, OH), 28 November 1878 p3 c3:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">“The people of Willshire have been shocked by the discovery of a veritable bigamist in their midst. The offender heretofore bore a good reputation and was one of the leading business men of that thriving village. The following particulars are taken from the Van Wert Bulletin of last Friday:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">The town of Willshire, this county, was thrown into an excitement, a few days ago, by the announcement that Mr GM Clair, a prominent businessman, had two wives and was passing under an assumed name. Mr Clair came to Willshire in 1874, is a man of fine appearance and pleasant address and soon won the confidence of the people by putting on moral airs. He joined a temperance society, attended parties and was one of the gayest of the gay. He wooed and won Miss Amanda E Woods, and they were joined in marriage 30 July 1874 by Rev O Kennedy. Soon after the marriage the father and mother of the lady he had led down the altar died and she fell heir to some four or five thousand dollars. Clair took charge of the money and went into the milling business with Mr BF Woods and others under the firm of Woods, Clair, and Co. Mr Clair sold his interest in the mill and went into the hardware, stove, and tin business, and continued in that business until detected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">He lost money and had squandered nearly everything the woman that he had so terribly wronged had fallen heir to. He drank heavily and some four weeks ago, while delirious, gave the first illumination of his crime. A few days later a map peddler visited Willshire and exposed him, said his true name was George Cowhick, and he formerly lived in Bryan, Williams County, Ohio, and that he has a wife living in that county. The case was investigated and the peddler’s statement was found to be true.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">His mother lives in Williams County and did not know of his whereabouts. He was married to Miss Rilla Fisher at Williams Center on 29 January 1874 and they lived together at Hicksville some three months. He left and she heard from him by letter a few days afterwards, but since that time could get no trace of the runaway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">A warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr Clair alias Cowhick and he was arrested in Indiana Monday night and placed in jail in Van Wert Tuesday morning. He admitted the charge, said he wanted a special grand jury at the present term of court to hurry the matter up. He is probably in haste to enter new fields of conquest. A jury was summoned, Cowhick was indicted for bigamy and was arraigned Wednesday morning and pleaded guilty. He made a pretty speech in the court, said he had been a bad, naughty man, but had resolved to do better. The court pitied him for his sorrow and let him off with one year in the penitentiary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">The friends of the second lady he married induced him to sell his stock of goods to them, making the notes, which amounted to some $1,700 in her name, thus saving a portion of her money.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">The First Lady he married was here last week, but did not wish to prosecute him. His second victim also refused to prosecute. He loves the last lady passionately and tried to get her to promise to live with him when he returned, but she refused. Fortunately neither of the women had children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cowhick’s mother acted the part of the true woman. When she heard of her son’s crime she went at once to Willshire to console the woman he had so terribly wronged.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Whether George G Cowhick ever served time in the penitentiary is anyone’s guess. No records have currently been found to confirm or deny this punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now back to the divorce in Williams County – Rilla in 1881 told the court that George had been absent for more than three years and she wanted a divorce, which was granted. One wonders why she did not file immediately after visiting Willshire/Van Wert in 1878. In the 1900 Center Twp, Williams Co, OH federal census p14B, the Fisher family was enumerated as James C 69 OH, Rebecca 66 OH, Arilla (daughter, divorced) b Jan 1866 (34), and Charles 22 OH. Note that her birth year is not correct. In both the 1900 and 1910 Rilla Fisher was listed as divorced as was her sister Addie Fisher Scott. Arilla Fisher died in Center Twp, Williams Co, OH on 13 Mar 1946 at the age of 90 and was buried in the Fountain Grove Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">One might think this was the end of the story, BUT there’s more. From multiple old newspapers one learns the rest of this story:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">In April 1886 Mitchell, South Dakota – George G Cowhick has had 16 years of experience in being a merchant of paints, oils, glass, and wall paper. In April 1889 same location George becomes the Republican chairman of the East Side Caucus. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">1886 he married Rebecca Ann Canon, the daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Littler Canon; later Rebecca studied and became a doctor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">15 Sept 1886 – a son is born<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">1889 he purchased land in Buffalo Co, SD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">13 Nov 1896. His three month old son Harry dies of malarial fever<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">24 Dec 1897 his daughter Marie is in grammar school<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Oct 1890 they move to Missouri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">In Jan 1899 Mrs DR Cowhick will go to Kansas City to study at the homeopathic physicians college and later to study osteopathy; she will take her two little daughter to Chicago where she’ll leave them in the safety of her aunt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sept 1900 she is in Kansas City, MO for more college training and her daughter Marie will start high school there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">1902 – he moved from Mitchell, SD to Kansas City, MO where his wife is a doctor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">By 1910 George and Rebecca are living apart again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Jan 1910 his 17 year old daughter Marion/Marie eloped with Walter Walker of dental school. Dr George Cowhick did not approve of this as she was too young and Walter was too “rah rah” with rolled up trousers and goofy hat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">24 Sept 1915 he is a doctor in Forgan, OK, supposedly receiving a license in 1901<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">Doctor Rebecca Cowhick in 1918 went to Los Angeles, CA to help stamp out the first cases of influenza; she just set up a practice in Utah. She died on 21 December 1922 in Salt Lake City, Utah of ptomaine poisoning and was buried in Mt Oliver Cemetery there. Dr Rebecca was the mother of five children: Marie Walker, Oscar, Emogene, Hazel, Harry C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Doctor” George Cowhick died in Kansas City, MO and was buried in Mt Moriah Cemetery in 1926. How he made the transition from house painter and paper hanger to physician is unknown but he did own a pharmacy with his son son, Oscar. He lived in Forgan, OK from 1912-1915 where he was routinely sued for delinquent taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-33549578770723212062021-10-29T16:11:00.047-04:002022-01-09T14:55:19.229-05:00Updated Divorce Detailings for September/December 2021 - 2022<p>I have been busy updating divorce detailings and encourage you to use the search bar on the lower right hand side of my blog to plug in surnames for the following if you have an interest in them:</p><p>ALDERMAN</p><p>ALDRICH</p><p>ALLEN</p><p>ARCHER</p><p>AVERY</p><p>BAIR</p><p>BASSETT</p><p>BAVIN</p><p>BAYLEY</p><p>BEACH</p><p>BEATTY</p><p>BECKBENNETT</p><p>BLESSING</p><p>BLIGH/BLY</p><p>BOHNER</p><p>BONNELL</p><p>BOOS</p><p>BOTT</p><p>BOWLBY</p><p>BOYNTON</p><p>BROWN Orlando</p><p>BYERS</p><p>CAMERON</p><p>CAMP</p><p>CARLE</p><p>CASE</p><p>CASEBEER</p><p>CASS</p><p>CAYWOOD</p><p>CHARLTON</p><p>CHEYNEY</p><p>CLIFTON</p><p>CLINGER</p><p>CLODFELTER</p><p>COMBS</p><p>CONNERY</p><p>COWHICK</p><p>CRAWFORD, Frank</p><p>CRAWFORD, Samuel T</p><p>CULBERTSON, Aaron</p><p>DEAKINS</p><p>DECKER</p><p>DEIPER/DUPRE/DONBERT</p><p>DESBUFF (various spellings)</p><p>DODD</p><p>DONALDSON</p><p>DONER<span> </span></p><p>DONGAN/DUGAN</p><p>DUHAMEL</p><p>DURBIN</p><p>DURR</p><p>EBY</p><p>ECKENROAD</p><p>ELLIS</p><p>EVERETT</p><p>FEES</p><p>FERRIER</p><p>FORRESTER</p><p>FRIES</p><p>GARST/GERST</p><p>GILBERT, Nathan</p><p>GLORE</p><p>GOFF</p><p>GRAVES</p><p>GREEK</p><p>GREENWOOD</p><p>GRIST/GRIEST</p><p>HUBBARD</p><p>JENNINGS</p><p>KENT, Smith</p><p>ROBINSON, James</p><p>ROBINSON, John</p><p>RUSSELL</p><p>STOCKING</p><p>SWEETMAN</p><p>TRITCH</p><p>TURLEY</p><p>VAN BEHREN</p><p>VANGEEN</p><p>WILLETT</p><p><br /></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-75432348378748638792021-10-16T12:44:00.003-04:002021-10-16T12:44:21.377-04:00Old Steuben Co, IN Newspapers - Mentions of Williams Co, OH People, 1870’s<p>L<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ittle Pickings from Some Steuben Co, IN Newspapers: Williams Co, OH People in 1870’s</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">By Pamela Pattison Lash<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">I was looking for some information in these Steuben Co, IN newspapers and came across a few articles on random Williams Co, OH residents.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Steuben Republic (Angola, IN), Wednesday, 4 November 1874 p3 c1<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">HS KIRK, formerly of this county, but lately of Derek Lick in Wms Co, has returned and is now in Alvarado<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Same paper as above, Wednesday, 31 October 1877 p3 c4<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Mr O”MEALEY’s barn in NW Twp was completely destroyed along with all contents (gives a list) due to careless smokers with pipes in the barn in the morning<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Same paper as above, Wednesday, 12 December 1877, p2 c5<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Joseph REEVES, former resident and early settler here, died at home in Columbia, Wms Co, OH last Friday, 7 December 1877 at age of 68; he was born in Victor, Ontario Co, NY and came to Richland Twp near Metz on 1836<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Angola Herald (Angola, IN), Wednesday, 20 February 1878 p3 c2<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Orrin J RICKERD is an energetic hoop driver and has left her to farm in NW Twp, Wms Co, OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Same paper as above, Wednesday, 2 April 1879, page and column not noted<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Emily FOX died on 30 March 1879 at 29Y 3M 15D; she was wife of John FOX<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Steuben Herald (Angola, IN), Wednesday, 23 April 1879, p5 c1/p5c4 - 2 articles in same issue<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">M/M John K MORROW attended the funeral of George COBLENTZ of Bryan, Wms Co, OH last Saturday. The deceased was the father of Mrs MORROW and one of the early pioneers of Wms Co, OH; he was 80 years old/George COBLENTZ died on 17 April 1879 of bilious fever at 79Y 5M 12D (Note: it pays to look around the same issue as one can see the difference in the age from one article to another.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Same paper as above, Wednesday, 23 July 1879 p5 c5<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Dr GW FINCH, one of the oldest physicians in Wms Co, OH died in West Unity a week ago last Sunday of pyaemia poisoning of blood; he had an excellent reputation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-25797479084012960432021-10-13T15:36:00.000-04:002021-10-13T15:36:50.976-04:00The Bryan Lawyer Who Was Married and Divorced Twice - Oscar C Beechler<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Oscar C. Beechler v Agnes Wright Beechler (Journal 15 p254; Roll 48 Box 160 case number 2219) – Mar 1890</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 13 October 2021)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">The couple was married on 4 Feb 1879 in Dundee, Monroe Co, MI. (Marriage License data - She was 20 and he was 31. Their witnesses, both from Dundee, MI were George Covell and Fred Sheer or Freer.)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Oscar charged that Agnes had been absent for more than three years and they had no children together. He believed Alice lived in Glen Lord, Berrien Co, MI. A legal notice appeared in <i>The Tri-State Alliance</i> beginning 13 Mar 1890 and running six consecutive weeks. Oscar was granted a divorce.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Oscar, born May 1847 in Wayne Co, OH, was the son of George and Susan Hawkins Beechler. The Beechlers moved to this county c1848 and had the following children: Malona, Thomas, Mar, Elizabeth, John C, George Nicholas, Sarah, Susan, Oscar, Martha, Curtis W, and Xenophan. His parents were Lancaster, PA natives - George Beechler (1800-1876) and mother Susan (1810-1903). They are buried in the Fountain Grove Cemetery in Bryan, Williams Co, OH.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Agnes Wright (May 1860 Wooster, Wayne Co, OH –31 December 1943, Berrien Co, MI) was daughter of William C and Naomi Wright. After the divorce she married Monroe Nathan Lord (1818-aft 1900), on 16 October 1890 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co, MI; he was married before to Jane L. Austin who died in 1887; he was the father of three children. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Note two things – </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1. There is a considerable age gap between Agnes and Monroe Lord (about 42 Years) but that was not too unusual for the time.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">2. In Oscar’s divorce deposition he said Agnes lived in Glen Lord, Berrien Co, MI. I wonder if he meant to say she was living with a Lord in Berrien.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Here is what I’ve found as a timeline for Agnes:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1900 <i>Benton, Berrien, Michigan</i>; Roll: <i>T623_702</i>; Page: <i>15A</i>; Enumeration District: <i>57</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">h/h336/340 Lord, Monroe (Nov 1818) 81 mar 11Y NY-Can-Can farmer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Agnes wife (Oct 1850) 49 0/0 ch OH-OH-MA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">By 1910 Agnes was a widow living in Benton, Berrien Co, MI</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">In 1920 Agnes was still living in Benton, Berrien Co, MI</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Now for the Beechler family – here is a timeline of their life in Williams Co, OH.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">The Beechlers were enumerated in the 1850 Center Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p73, as Beechler, George 49 PA, Susan 40 OH, Malona 21 OH, Mary 17 OH, Elizabeth 15 OH, John 11 OH, George 9 OH, Sarah 6 OH, Susan 5 OH, Oscar 3 OH, Martha 1 OH. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1864 Williams Co, OH Atlas – George Beechler, Center Twp Sec 21</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">By the 1870 Bryan federal census the Beechler family was listed as Beechler, George 69 PA, Susan 60 OH, Mary Dongan 32 OH, Elizabeth Beechler 23 OH, <b>Oscar Beechler</b> 23 OH, Xenophie 16 OH, and Agnes Dongan 3 OH. – <span style="color: red;">see Mary Beechler Dongan divorce detailing</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1874 Williams Co, OH Atlas – George Beechler, Center Twp Sec 21</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Williams Co, OH Probate – George Beechler, 6 Mar 1876 case number 1807 estate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Oscar married Agnes Wright on 4 Feb 1879 in Dundee, Monroe Co, MI.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1880 <i>Bryan, Williams, Ohio</i>; Roll: <i>1078</i>; Family History Film: <i>1255078</i>; Page: <i>653B</i>; Enumeration District: <i>12</i>; Image: <i>0168</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">h/h 486/513 <b>Beechler, OC</b> 30 lawyer OH-PA-OH</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Agnes </span></b><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">21 OH-OH-OH</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Weston Goodspeed, The History of Williams Co, OH, 1882, p243 and 590</span></i><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">, stated that Oscar was a lawyer in Bryan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Divorce proceedings to end the Beechler marriage cMarch Term 1890.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Oscar married Anna Goller Stailey (10 May 1865 – 13 Dec 1945, Los Angeles, CA) on 22 Jan 1891 in Defiance Co, OH. She was the daughter of John and Christina Strahley Goller and the former of wife of Thomas J Staley/Stailey. (See - </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Anna Stailey v Thomas J. Stailey</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> (Journal 14 p494 - 1 Dec 1888; Roll 46 case number 1962 – 1888; Journal 15 p3 – 28 Mar 1889 case number 1961)<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> The case was continued in 1888. The action shows an infant child, Albner; a visitation schedule was set but for some reason she’s not entitled to a divorce, but she must have obtained one later.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Anna was from the Defiance Co, OH area as evidenced by the 1870 federal census:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1870 Washington, Defiance, Ohio; Roll: M593_1195; Page: 195A; Image: 393; Family History Library Film: 552694.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Goller, Anna 6 OH with her parents</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">There are also two other Civil and Criminal Court Rolls where Oscar C. Beechler is named – Roll 52 #3066 (1893-1894) and Roll 61 #4372 (1899-1900)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">30 Apr 1882, Defiance Co, OH Marriage – Anna Goller and Thomas J Stailey</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">26 Oct 1886, Defiance Co, OH Births – R R Stailey, son of Anna Goller and Thomas J Stailey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">Anna Goller Stailey v Thomas J. Stailey</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> (Journal 14 p494 - 1 Dec 1888; Roll 46 case number 1962 – 1888; Journal 15 p3 – 28 Mar 1889 case number 1961)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> The couple was married on 30 Apr 1882 in Defiance Co, OH. The case was continued in 1888. On 26 Oct 1886 in Defiance Co, OH a son, RR Stailey, was born to Anna Goller and Thomas J. Stailey. This action shows an infant child, Albner; a visitation schedule was set but for some reason she’s not entitled to a divorce at that time but did obtain one later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1900 <i>Bryan, Williams, Ohio</i>; Roll: <i>T623_1332</i>; Page: <i>14B</i>; Enumeration District: <i>112</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Center St</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">h/h 350/355 <b>Beechler, Oscar D</b> (May 1847) 53 mar 9Y OH-PA-OH lawyer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Anna </span></b><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">(May 1860) 40 wife 1/1 ch OH-OH-OH</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Staley, Willie (Oct 1883) 16 step-son OH-OH-OH</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">h/h 351 Susan mother lived next door (June 1810) 89 widow 14/5 ch OH-PA-Del</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1910 <i>Pulaski, Williams, Ohio</i>; Roll: <i>T624_1241</i>; Page: <i>5A</i>; Enumeration District: <i>0130</i>; Image: <i>935</i>; FHL Number: <i>1375254</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">202 Lynn St</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">h/h 114/123 <b>Beachler, Oscar C</b> 61 OH-OH-OH lawyer in general practice divorced</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">1910 <i>Los Angeles Assembly District 74, Los Angeles, California</i>; Roll: <i>T624_84</i>; Page: <i>3A</i>; Enumeration District: <i>0088</i>; Image: <i>247</i>; FHL Number: <i>1374097</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">h/h 64/65 Stailey, Anna 46 widow 2/1 ch OH-unknown-Germ dressmaker</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">John W son 26 single OH-OH-OH carpenter</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Oscar Beechler’s obit in the <i>Bryan Press, 9 Jan 1913, p4</i>, stated that he died on 5 Jan 1913 and was buried in Fountain Grove Cemetery in Bryan. He was born in Center Twp 66 years before and lived in Ney and Williams Center during his early years. He was twice married and divorced from both wives.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">The Bryan Democrat (Bryan, OH), 7 January 1913 p1 c5 told a slightly different tale of Oscar’s life: Oscar C Beechler, a well-known attorney of Bryan and practically a life-long resident of Williams county, died at the home of Mrs Connie Boothman, South Main Street, following an illness of a week’s duration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">A week before his death he was found in his office in a critical condition, having suffered a stroke of paralysis. The attack proved serious and he never fully regained consciousness. At the time of his death he was about 67 years of age.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Mr Beechler was born in Wayne County, OH and in the early part of his life moved to Center Township. He taught school for a number of years and studied law in the University at Ann Arbor, MI. After graduating he moved to Bryan and began the practice of law in 1873. He was connected with Philetus Smith in this profession for a number of years, but for the last few years he has conducted his practice alone. He was an industrious citizen and in his younger days was prominent in all the affairs of Williams County.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10 o’clock at the Presbyterian Church. Rev E S Marshall will conduct the services and the chairman of the local bar association, Judge Charles E Bowersox, will also speak. Interment will be made in the Fountain Grove Cemetery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">Williams Co, OH Probate – Oscar C. Beechler, 9 Jan 1913 case number 5715 estate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-81786054240960714192021-10-08T13:03:00.000-04:002021-10-08T13:03:20.301-04:00Murder and Suicide in Edgerton, OH, 1938<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Edgerton Shooting Caused by Jealousy, Officers Find</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Edgerton, O, Dec 13 - Jealousy of another Edgerton woman whose name was not revealed prompted the murder and suicide tragedy here Sunday morning. It was disclosed Monday afternoon as Williams county authorities concluded a formal inquest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">The persons were questioned at the investigation into the shooting of Vern Eck, 42, by Mrs Nona Goeltzenleuchter, 32, who then fatally wounded herself with the same shotgun.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Note Spoke of Woman<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">“Murder and suicide” was the formal verdict returned by Dr Howard Lucan of Montpelier, Williams county coroner. He disclosed that the note left by Mrs. Goeltzenleuchter mentioned another woman, as well as plans for the double shooting and care by relatives of her two children, Dale Jr 13, and Dawn, 11.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Relatives and neighbors testified that Mrs. G was insanely jealous of Eck who had been a roomer in her home here for about a year. Her husband, Dale E of Defiance, filed suit for divorce Dec 2 in common pleas court at Defiance. The petition recited that Mrs G had refused frequently to go with him to live in Defiance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Funeral Planned<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Last rites for Mrs G was scheduled for this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in the Church of Christ here. Burial was to take place in the Edgerton cemetery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Services for Eck will be held Wednesday at 1:30 pm in the home of a brother, Frank, St Joseph Twp, Williams County. Interment also will be in Edgerton cemetery. Note that I don’t have a full citation on this as I found it on Find-A-Grave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Another newspaper article gave a few more details - <i>Defiance Crescent News (Defiance Co, OH), Monday, 12 December 1938 p1 c6-7:</i> Mother At Edgerton Takes Own Life<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">When the children came home from Sunday School they witnessed an argument between their mother and Eck. They were told to go outside and play. Later they discovered the bodies. Eck was dead but Nona was still living. She told them to run to neighbors. Help was given but Nona died on the way to the hospital.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Vern Eck had been in the process of moving his belongings into a trailer he procured for a new home. Nona had left a note telling that she had planned this action for some time and stated she wanted her children to be taken in by relatives. She also told that husband Dale had sued her in court on December 2 for a divorce, citing gross neglect, extreme cruelty, and refusing to live with him. She filed a countersuit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">As late as May 1938 Eck was in a party of people with Nona visiting her relatives.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">After reading these old newspaper articles, I found the following information about the principals of this tragedy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Vernon Eck (11 Mar 1896 Milford, Defiance Co, OH - 11 Dec 1938, Edgerton, Williams Co, OH) was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Upp Eck. His obit (Edgerton Earth, Thursday, 22 Dec 1938) stated he was born in Clarksville, OH, but his birth certificate listed Milford Twp. It said he lived in Toledo in boyhood when his mother died. In 1900 Milford Twp, Defiance Co, OH Federal Census Vernon 4 OH lived with his parents. In 1910 same place Vernon 14 OH lived with his father. According to the WWI Draft Registration, Vernon was living in Toledo; moreover, his physical description was tall, stout, brown eyes, and light hair. By 1920 Toledo, Lucas Co, OH Federal Census record, Vernon 23 OH was living with his wife Amber 31 OH, and worked as a mechanic in a shipyard.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">He married Amber Harriet Holloran, daughter of Lewis Phelis and Lillian Warner, in Toledo, Lucas Co, OH on 19 Feb 1918. She was divorced from Rodrick Halloren, whom she married in Lucas Co, OH on 15 Aug 1906. In 1930 Lucas Co, OH Vernon 33 OH and Amber 39 lived together. At the time of his murder he had been living as a boarder for a year or so that would be 1937-1938. Amber, the widow, married Albert Strole in Williams Co, OH on 18 Feb 1939 and passed away on 1 March 1946 in Williams Co, OH, but was buried in Lake Twp Cemetery, Walbridge, Wood Co, OH.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Nona B. Proper, born 1906 prob Defiance Co, OH, was the daughter of Ira and Violet (Hart) Proper. She was enumerated with her parents in the 1910 Milford Twp, Defiance Co, OH Federal Census, and the 1920 St Joseph Twp, Williams Co, OH records. Nona married Dale E Goeltzenleuchter in Williams Co, OH on 30 August 1922. They were listed in the 1930 Edgerton, St Joseph Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census as Dale E 27 OH and Nona 24 OH. Dale E was born on 27 March 1903 in Edgerton, Williams Co, OH, the son of Charles and Estella (Kissinger) Goeltzenleuchter, and was listed in the 1910 St Joseph Twp, Williams Co, OH Federal Census with his parents. Sometime after this tragedy, Dale married Elizabeth “Goldie” (Shirey) Buckelman, former wife of Edgar Buckelman, whom she married on 5 April 1919 in Defiance Co, OH. Dale died on 21 May 1953 and was buried in Sherwood Cemetery, Defiance Co, OH.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-51520958430379683302021-09-19T15:02:00.000-04:002021-09-19T15:02:48.045-04:00Divorce: Lucy Curtis Alderman v Martin VB Alderman, Williams County, OH - 1878<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: justify;">Lucy Curtis Alderman v Martin VB Alderman, Williams County, OH Divorce 1878 (19 September 2021)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">From the Williams County Civil and Criminal Court (Journal 9 p494, Roll 32 case number 445 - 17 Apr 1878) there was a divorce which dealt with a cruel Alderman. Lucy Curtis (b1852 NY, daughter of James and Ellen Curtis, natives of Ireland, lived in Verona, Oneida Co, NY (1850), and Rome, Oneida Co, NY (1855-1870). The 18 year-old school teacher married Martin Alderman in Onondaga Co, NY on 4 July 1870. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Martin (b Nov 1846 NY - 23 Mar 1910 Fayetteville, Onondaga Co, NY) was the son of John and Laura (Potter) Alderman. By the 1875 NY State census for Manlius, Onondaga Co, the Aldermans were enumerated as Martin 28 NY laborer, Lucy 22 NY, Horace 4 NY, and Minnie 1 NY along with father John Alderman 56 NY. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Lucy Alderman appeared in court, a resident of Ohio for at least one year, in 1878, requesting a divorce. She stated that on 1 Aug 1871 Martin violently beat her; on 1 Nov 1876 Martin was extremely cruel to her and willfully deserted her on that date. She called into court the following people to substantiate her claims: Alex Gilbert, Lewis Grosvenour, Sarah J. Alderman, and Jenny Kinney. The couple had two children - Horace J (May 1872 MI - 2 Jan 1944, Toledo, Lucas Co, OH, m Iona Pitts, 1891) and Minnie M (25 Nov 1874 NY - 25 Nov 1948. Antwerp, Paulding Co, OH; m Andrew Ruger). The divorce was granted and Lucy almost disappeared from this story, but a letter of permission to marry was attached to her daughter’s marriage license: “I am willing to have my daughter marry. Her father hasn’t done anything for her since she was two. I am divorced. Signed......Lucy J. Manning.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Martin married Sarah J Swingham (1845 PA) on 18 Apr 1880 in Waldron, Hillsdale Co, MI; both were residents of Fulton Co, OH. Via the 1880 Orleans, Ionia Co, MI federal census, one finds this family as Martin 33 NY farmer, Sarah J 35 NY, Horace J 9 MI, and Minnie 6 NY. Note - there is an error in Lucy’s aforesaid letter of marriage permission as Minnie is clearly living with her father at age of six. Two daughters have been discovered as issue of Martin and Sarah - Maryett (31 Dec 1875 - 10 Aug 1876, Amboy, Hillsdale Co, MI, and Amy B (Dec 1888, MI - . Note that Maryett was born to Sarah Alderman several years before Lucy applied for a divorce. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">According to the Syracuse Evening Herald (Syracuse, NY), 24 May 1893, p4 c3 Martin Alderman of Ohio while visiting his sister, Mrs Julia Hooghkirk, stole her jewels and sold them to buy a revolver. He was sent to the NY State Penitentiary for 60 days and the revolver was confiscated. By 25 Dec 1896 Martin and his wife were destitute and became inmates of the Onondaga Co Poor House. The couple is found living in Dewitt, Onondaga Co, NY through the 1900 federal census - Martin 53 NY and wife Harriett 53 NY; therefore sometime between 1880 and 1900 Martin has married again. The Superintendent of the Municipal Lodging aka Poor House found work for Martin and his wife on a farm nearby near Fayetteville, NY (Post Standard, Syracuse, NY), Monday, 17 June 1901, p7 1. The 1905 Onondaga Co, NY state census showed the couple still living in the poor house as inmates. The Poor House records do show that Harriet was born in Germany, had very little education, and was a domestic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Wednesday, 22 March 1910 contained a meager obit for Martin Alderman, survived by widow and a son and daughter. He was buried beside his mother in the Fayetteville Cemetery. Nothing is known of his widow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-46069047513300159292021-09-01T18:49:00.000-04:002021-09-01T18:49:20.707-04:00WCGS FB Page<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/genealogyohio.wmscounty.7">https://www.facebook.com/genealogyohio.wmscounty.7</a></p><p>The above link should take you to the Williams County Ohio Genealogical Society Facebook Page where you are welcome to check out the posts and comment on the offerings. PLEASE like us………..</p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-51322444712224799022021-08-28T14:00:00.005-04:002021-08-28T14:39:03.952-04:00Ezekiel Masters - Early Settler of Both Williams and Fulton Counties, OH<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ezekiel Masters - An Early Settler and Father of Many of Fulton/Williams Counties, OH</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">From an unsourced newspaper article from the West Unity Reporter c 17 August 1899 - the eighth annual reunion of the Master’s Family was held in the home of Mrs SB Masters in Pioneer, OH.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">The Master’s home is very pleasantly situated with plenty of shade to make the home cool and inviting to the relatives who commenced to gather about 9 AM. Later after dinner they gathered on the lawn and listened to a very appropriate program that was greatly enjoyed. It was decided that they put in a memorial window in the church at Franklin or what is commonly called Masters Corners. In 1851 Ezekiel Masters gave the land for a church and it is a fitting tribute to him who in his earlier days did so much for the up building of a church at Masters Corners.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">At this reunion four generations were represented. There were 5 sons, 3 daughters, 16 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, 60 relatives in all and 10 invited guests. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Ezekiel Masters was born on 3 December 1811 in Martinsburg, Knox Co, OH, the son of Robert Masters and Hannah Boyle. In the fall of 1826 the Masters family moved from Knox Co, OH to Marion Co, OH. On 13 October 1836 Ezekiel married Mary Oliver in Canaan, Marion Co, OH. Mary, the daughter of William Oliver and Sally Summer, was born on 19 February 1819 in Marion Co, OH. Together Mary and Ezekiel had the following children (first 4 born in Marion Co, OH with last four in Fulton Co, OH):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1. Sarah Summer (1 Aug 1837 Marion Co, OH-16 May 1885 West Unity, Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH; mar Lafayette G Ely, 12 Nov 1857; both buried West Franklin Cem, Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH)- 4 children all born in Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">A. Charles Summer Ely (7 Mar 1859 - 13 Dec 1939 West Unity, Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH; mar Rosella J Amsbaugh, 29 Nov 1883); bur West Franklin Cem<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 1. Mabel Ely<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">B. Alice May Ely (19 Feb 1864 - 8 Jan 1966; mar Julius W Boothman)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 1. Florence B Boothman<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 2. Kenneth F Boothman<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">C. Luella “Louie” Ely (14 Feb 1871-7 Nov 1932; mar Edward M Clerc)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">D. George Masters Ely (2 Aug 1873 - 29 Jan 1967; mar Ada Ellen Ely; mar Minnie Dell Caskey Hepker<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 1. Dr Gilbert C Ely<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 2. Kathryn Ely<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 3. Marjorie Ely<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> 4. Laura Ely<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">2. Mahala Ann (12 Jan 1839 - 9 Mar 1911; mar Obadiah Ely, c1857<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">3. Hannah Mary (22 Feb 1840 - 23 Mar 1917; mar Charles L Stevens, 25 Dec 1860)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">4. Nelson R (24 Feb 1843 - 15 Mar 1927; mar Hannah Van Buskirk, Sept 1866)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">5. Lydia Oliver (Mar 1845 - 27 Nov 1897; mar Charles Gorsuch, 10 Oct 1864)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">6. William (21 Jan 1847-22 Sept 1849)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">7. Keziah Jane (1849-1926; mar John Hanes, 28 Nov 1867)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">8. Oliver Ezekiel (22 Dec 1850-16 Apr 1925; mar Addie Hull, c1875)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Using the children’s birth information, one can determine the Masters family moved between 1843-1845 from Marion Co, to Fulton Co, OH. After birthing eight children, Mary Oliver Masters died on 27 December 1850 in Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH and was buried in the local West Franklin Cemetery. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Looking for a helpmate and mother to his children, Ezekiel found Susannah Berniece Perkins, daughter of John Perkins and Abigail Jones, very early settlers in Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH. Susannah was born in 1824, making her 13 years younger than farmer Ezekiel. They married in Williams County, OH on 21 July 1852 and proceeded to have a family of the following seven children with the last two born in Pioneer, Williams Co, OH:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1. Elliot Perkins (10 Oct 1853 - 14 Dec 1931; mar Martha Fulton, c1876<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">2. William Clayton (Feb 1855 - 20 July 1943)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">3. Charles Homer (Mar 1856 - 28 Apr 1917; mar Alice A Joy, 17 Apr 1880)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">4. Alpheus E (Oct 1857-1908; mar Lillian Parkhurst)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">5. Mary Abigail (4 May 1859-23 Dec 1921; mar Walter Morse, *** Evers)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">6. Ida Beatrice (Aug 1860-1937; mar Henry Barkley)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">7. Francis Lincoln (27 July 1862-22 Nov 1947; mar Viola Bartoe, Laura Gilbert)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Ezekiel performed many good works in his life and was instrumental in establishing the West Franklin Church and its surrounding cemetery, where he, his two wives, and many children lay to rest. The Honorable Ezekiel Masters passed away on 24 October 1886; later his wife, Susannah, would join him in 1914. His was a life well-lived.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Additional Sources<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1840 US Federal Census, Canaan, Marion Co, OH - Masters, Ezekiel 1m20-29, 2f under 5, 1f 10-14, 1f 20-29<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1850 US Federal Census, Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH- Masters, Ezekiel 33 OH/Mary 31 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1860 US Federal Census, Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH - Masters, Ezekiel 43 OH/Susannah 35 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1870 US Federal Census, Pioneer, Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH - Masters, Ezekiel 53 OH/Susannah B 45 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1880 US Federal Census, Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH - Masters, Ezekiel 63 OH/Susannah 56 OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1900 US Federal Census, Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH - Masters, Susannah 75 OH widow 7/7 ch<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">1910 US Federal Census, Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH - Masters, Susannah 85 OH widow 7/6 ch<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Bryan Press (Bryan, OH), 28 October 1886 - obit of Ezekiel Masters<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Bryan Democrat (Bryan, OH), 28 October 1886 p4 c3/11 November 1886 p4 c3 - obit and tributes to Ezekiel Masters<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Defiance Daily Crescent (Defiance, OH), 26 June 1908, p4c2<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Find-A-Grave, Ezekiel, Mary, Susannah Masters, West Franklin Cem, Fulton Co, OH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Historical Narrative of the Ely, revel, and Stacey Families, p222/327/386-387<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati, OH), 12 January 1887, p15c2<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Williams County, OH Deaths, V2 p37 - Ezekiel Masters<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-54271814048106693302019-04-26T09:39:00.004-04:002019-04-26T09:41:53.705-04:00He Killed His Father and Began a Partial Life of Crime – Jackson Wonderly<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>He Killed His Father and Began a Partial Life of Crime – Jackson Wonderly</b></div>
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<b>By Pamela Pattison Lash</b></div>
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There are so many real crime stories found in old newspapers. This particular one deals with a man who started a decade’s worth of crime in a big way – he was seventeen when he shot his father to death.<br />
Here are the newspaper snippets:<br />
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<i>Defiance Democrat, 20 July 1876, p3 c5</i><br />
Mrs. Elizabeth Wonderly was indicted for murder with a bail of $2500. Her trial will be in September. Jackson Wonderly was indicted for murder of his father with a bail of $2,000.<br />
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<i>Defiance Democrat, 20 July 1876, p3 c1</i><br />
The trial of Jack Wonderly attracted more ladies than any other trial in the county. One lady gave him a gold ring. Jackson was 17 years old; he shot his father to death in a domestic quarrel last November. The trial was from July 5-15 with many witnesses. He was given seven years of hard labor for manslaughter instead of the original charge of first degree murder.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 7 March 1878, p3 c7</i><br />
Under application of Seneca Wonderly and others to the Governor of Ohio on 2 April 1878 there was a plea for pardon for Jackson W. Wonderly, convicted of manslaughter at the May Term 1876 in Defiance County, OH. His sentence was seven years.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 24 October 1879, p5 c4</i><br />
Jack Wonderly returned from the penitentiary, having served 3Y 11M out of seven years.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 5 January 1882, p5 c4</i><br />
Jack Wonderly was locked up in Hicksville jail for cattle stealing and forgery.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 12 January 1882, p6 c4</i><br />
Jack Wonderly probably would have added a second murder to his list of crimes if allowed to run at large.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 19 January 1882, p6 c3 and 5</i><br />
There is much sympathy for Jack Wonderly that was wasted a few years ago when he was on trial for killing his father. He was arrested along with John Wonderly and George Sewell for cattle stealing.<br />
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<i>Bryan Press, 26 January 1882, p5 c2</i><br />
Jack Wonderly stole cattle and plead guilty at Defiance; he was same youth who was tried a few years ago for killing his father.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 26 July 1882, p6 c 3 and 5</i><br />
Four men were taken to the penitentiary by Sheriff Foust and Coroner Aldrich. Jack Wonderly was one of them. He had changed his plea to guilty.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 26 November 1885, p6 c4</i><br />
Sheriff Wonderly and Marshall Hepler took Jack Wonderly who was convicted of grand larceny to Columbus; he was sentenced to four years.<br />
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<i>Defiance County Express, 10 December 1885, p3 c3</i><br />
Abner Coy of Mark Twp. lost two valuable colts as friends of Jack Wonderly may have had something to do with this. Abner’s evidence had sent Jack to the pen again.<br />
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<i>Defiance Daily News, 8 July 1898, p4 c3</i><br />
Jack Wonderly and his wife of Cygnet came here for funeral of his mother, Mrs. Lemon.<br />
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<i>Defiance Daily News, 27 December 1899, p5 c2</i><br />
At Mark Center Jack Wonderly came to spend Christmas with his relatives.<br />
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By now the reader has a fair idea of the criminal activities of Jackson Wonderly, but who was he?<br />
The following is what I have been able to piece together for Jack and his family:<br />
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Jackson Wonderly was born in May 1859 in Loudon Twp., Seneca Co, OH, but grew up in Mark Center, Defiance Co, OH, the son of Civil War Veteran, Joseph W Wonderly, and beloved mother Elizabeth Thom. The parents were married on 15 December 1853, Seneca Co, OH. They would have a large family of children – Seneca, Melissa J, Jackson, Peleg, Emma, John Madison, Chauncey, and Marietta.<br />
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Joseph, the father, was a carpenter who enlisted on 30 August 1862 – 30 June 1865, in Co K 101st Ohio Infantry. Elizabeth, the mother, would also be indicted for her husband’s murder, but it does not appear that she was sent to jail. She applied for and received a pension through her husband’s service on 28 June 1880. Sometime between 1884-1887 Elizabeth married Samuel Chambers Lemmon, a hotel clerk from Garrett, DeKalb Co, IN; Samuel was also a Civil War Veteran, a musician with the WVA 1st Cavalry. Elizabeth died July 1898 and was buried in the Forest Home Cemetery, Hicksville, Defiance Co, OH.<br />
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At some point when Jackson was no longer in prison he married Bardie Gansley, 24 November 1894, Miami Co, OH. The couple had a daughter, Ladonna Wonderly, who would later marry Welcome Dalrymple. Bardie died in April 1928 and later Jackson would pass away in 1932; they are buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Shiloh, Montgomery Co, OH.<br />
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Aside from the newspaper articles, other sources were employed to provide data for this tale.<br />
1860 Loudon Twp, Seneca Co, OH<br />
1870 Milford Twp, Defiance Co, OH<br />
1880 Mark Center, Defiance Co, OH<br />
Miami County, OH Marriages (1885-1895), p458<br />
1900 Sidney, Shelby Co, OH<br />
1910 Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH<br />
1920 Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH<br />
1930 Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH<br />
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Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-88389844602244976742018-12-31T13:42:00.000-05:002018-12-31T13:42:59.351-05:00Pool Room Proprietor Divorce - Gause v Gause - Williams Co, OH, 1906<br />
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<b>Bertha M Gause v Bert D Gause, Williams Co, OH, 1906</b></div>
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<b>By Pamela Pattison Lash</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bryan Democrat (Bryan,
OH), Thursday, 27 November 1906, p1 c7</i></div>
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Ordered to Leave Home<o:p></o:p></div>
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So Says Mrs. Bertha M Gause in Petition for Divorce from
Bert D Gause<o:p></o:p></div>
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Charging among other things, that her husband, Bert D Gause,
ordered her to leave home before the next afternoon, or that he would hire a
dray (wagon) and move her and her clothing, Mrs. Bertha M Gause, prays for a
legal separation of the marital ties that now bind her to an alleged recreant
spouse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the petition filed in common pleas court, and sworn to by
her, Mrs. Gause charges that her husband has been guilty of extreme cruelty and
gross neglect of duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says that for
two years Mr. Gause has refused to give her any affection or attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That he refused her money, unless she would
tell him for what purpose she wished to use it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mrs. Gause also says that the defendant would take his meals at a hotel
and that on several occasions from the slightest provocation, cursed her before
large crowds of young people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mrs. Gause says her husband has property in Montpelier
valued at $2,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asks for a
divorce, suitable alimony, and that she be restored to her maiden name of
Bertha M Daughton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DA Websterr of
Montpelier is her attorney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Gause
operates a pool room in that town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
couple was married at St Joe, MI on September 27, 1903.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s what I found about this couple:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bert D Gause (31 July 1878, Roan, Wabash Co, IN – 7 December
1960. Elkhart, Elkhart Co, IN), was the son of George Gause and Kate Corder; he
is buried in Rice Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart Co, IN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bertha M Daughton/Doughton (13 December 1884, Montpelier,
Williams Co, OH – 24 February 1979, Toledo, Lucas Co, OH), was the daughter of
Cassius/Caius Doughton and Emma S Wingert.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As stated in the newspaper article the couple was married on
27 September 1903 in St Joseph Co, MI.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other marriages included<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bert D Gause married Mae A Deal , daughter of Silas Grier on
24 December 1920 in Elkhart Co, IN; Mae had been divorce twice before, once in
1911 and the other shortly before her marriage to Bert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple had a daughter, Emeline, born
1931.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bertha married William M Lane on 14 May 1908 in Lucas Co, OH
and divorced by the 1910 federal census. She married Daniel J Rehklau in Lucas
Co, OH on 4 April 1915.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From South Bend and Indianapolis, IN newspapers , starting
on 9 January 1915 -5 March 1915 one learns that Bert was a naughty boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melvin Long, a tramp, was arrested for
stealing $200 worth of cigars from freight car on route from Florida to
Chicago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Long, his brother, a
Lake Shore trainman, is charged with receiving stolen goods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bert D Gauze, poolroom owner, is accused of
buying some stolen cigars and Clyde Deller, laborer, is held under
investigation in Elkhart, IN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bert had to pay a cash bond on $500 for his appearance in
court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been said he purchased
stolen items from a gang of loafers about his place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bert was convicted of receiving stolen goods
and fined $50 plus served 30 days in jail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In South Bend and Indianapolis newspapers of 1916 Bert
placed several ads in newspapers – he has a first class mail order or hardware
specialty, full of merit, dies ready for manufacturing, price $5,00.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Free inducements offered you to locate in MI, OH, IL, and IN
with some capital furnished as going concern.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cigar and billiard room, part cash, seven years in business,
will stand strict investigation, no junk, good business, well located, best
reason for selling…………….Bert D Gause.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One also learns that Bert has a brother, William who was the
owner of William Gause Shows and Italian Band (carnival) that toured principal
cities in US, plus in 1909 had a first class restaurant in Peru, IN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sources<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elkhart Co, IN Marriages V 29 p593<o:p></o:p></div>
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1880 Roan, Wabash Co, IN – Bert 3 IN with parents<o:p></o:p></div>
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1900 Paw Paw, Wabash Co, IN – Bert D 21 IN with parents<o:p></o:p></div>
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1900 Montpelier, Williams Co, OH – Bertha M 15 OH with
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1908 Toledo, Lucas Co, OH Marriages, p213 – Bertha says
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1910 Elkhart, Elkhart Co, IN – Bert 31 In with brother<o:p></o:p></div>
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1915 - Lucas Co, OH Marriages (1914-1917) – Bertha says she’s been
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1920 Elkhart, Elkhart Co, IN – Bert 42 IN roomer<o:p></o:p></div>
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1930 Elkhart Co, IN – Bert D 50 IN/Mae A 42 IN living with
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1940 Elkhart, Elkhart Co, IN – bert 60 IN/Mae 52 IN<o:p></o:p></div>
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1942 WWII Draft Registration – Bert of Elkhart Co, IN<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-35143629543736843022018-11-21T14:43:00.000-05:002018-11-21T14:43:39.435-05:00Divorce in Defiance Co, OH - Heacock, 1849<br />
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<b>Larkin Heacock v Mary M Sherrod Heacock - Divorce in Defiance Co, OH, 1849</b></div>
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<b>By Pamela Pattison Lash</b></div>
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From a newspaper account one can begin to do some research
on the couple known as the Heacocks or Haycocks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Defiance Democrat (Defiance, OH), Saturday, 23 June 1849, p3
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Petition for Divorce<o:p></o:p></div>
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February 1849 a bill was filled in the Court of Common Pleas of Defiance, Oh by
the said Larkin Heacock, praying to be divorced from the said Mary M Heacock,
his wife. The cause was neglect of duty, willful absence, and at the next term
of said court an application will be made for a decree divorcing said complaint
from said defendant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Larkin Heacock, son of Samuel Heacock and Esther Antrim, was
born on 11 April 1812 in Washington Co, PA and died on 16 October 1887 in
Holgate, Henry Co, OH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was buried in
Riverside Cemetery, Defiance, Defiance Co, OH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Larkin</span> appears to be a Quaker<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary M Sherrod, the daughter of William Sherrod and Mary
Polly Nicholas, was born on 18 October 1815 in Orange, Carroll Co, OH, and died
c1880.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple was married on 20
November 1834 in Carroll Co, OH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1840 the couple lived in Warren, Tuscarawas Co, OH with
head of household Larkin Haycock having the enumerated as 1male under 5, 1 male
20-29, 1female under 5, 1 female 5-9, and 1 female 20-29.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were living next door to a John c
Haycock and a Caleb Haycock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten years
before Mary’s father, William Sherrod, Sr was enumerated in Warren, Tuscarawas
Co, OH.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On 3 October 1842 in Carroll Co, OH a will was brought to
the court for probate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The will belonged
to William Sherrod, Mary’s dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The will
was signed by his mark on 4 September 1842, giving out bequests to his beloved
wife, his youngest son David B Sherrod as his executor, and his youngest daughter,
Mary Haycock, wife of Larkin Haycock, in addition to what I gave her, $200
starting on 17 June 1844 setting up a promissory note and each year $25 to be
taken from this sum for her, and my son-in-law Larkin Haycock is NOT to use or
have any contact with the aforesaid money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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with his father-in-law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps Mary was
no longer living with Larkin by that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Larkin’s obituary stated that he moved to Defiance from a farm near Evans
port about 1845 and was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for a number of
years head miller at the Defiance Mill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later he was proprietor of the Russell House and afterwards had charge
of the Larkin and Empire Hotels. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1850 Defiance, Defiance Co, OH shows Larkin Heacock 39 PA
miller $300 real estate living with Frederick and Elizabeth Stevens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frederick was also a miller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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On 19 May 1853 in Defiance Co, OH he married Susannah
Hamilton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Susannah Clarissa Iler, was born
on 14 April 1824 at Kirks Mills, Washington Co, PA and died on 21 September 1894;
she is buried next to Larkin in Riverside Cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had two children from her marriage to Mr.
Hamilton – John Hamilton and Emma Hamilton Booth (George).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her obit stated that she came from Columbiana
Co, OH with her widowed mother, Jane Iler and her two children to Defiance in
1854.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few years she married
Larkin Heacock who had two children, Sherrod and Martha. Together they had
Edward Byron, Ambia B, Victoria, Ulysses Grant, Alice K, and Tecumseh Sherman. </div>
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incorrect as she had already married Larkin in 1853.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the 1860 federal census for Defiance, Defiance co, OH one
finds Larkin Heacock 48 running a boardinghouse PA with Susannah 36 PA, Sherrod
20 OH law student, John Hamilton 11 OH, and Heacock children Emma 8 OH, Edward
6 OH, Ambia 2 OH, and Victoria 4/12 OH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again
Larkin was listed in 1870 Defiance, Defiance Co, OH as 58 hotelkeeper PA, Susan
C 46 PA, Sherrod 30 OH, Edward B 16 OH, Ambia B 12 OH, Ulysses G 8 OH, and
Hamiltons John 21 OH farm laborer and Emma J 18 OH milliner/dressmaker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the 1880 Defiance, Defiance Co, OH federal census L
Heacock 69 PA was hotel keeper along with Susanna 56 PA, Sherrod 40 OH lawyer,
EB 25 OH traveling agent, AB 22 OH, and Grant 18 OH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1882 the couple moved to Holgate, Henry
Co, OH where Larkin died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> More information is needed about ex-wife Mary M Sherrod Heacock.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-76859967683559134112018-11-14T17:32:00.003-05:002018-11-14T17:32:42.987-05:00Buried Alive in Williams County, OH, 1902 - Warburton/Warberton<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Buried Alive in Williams County, OH, 1902<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Pamela Pattison Lash<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The following account appeared in the Bryan Democrat (Bryan, OH), Thursday, 4 December 1902, p1 c8:</b></div>
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<b>Uncle James Warberton, one of the sturdy pioneers of this section, was buried alive last Friday forenoon and lives to tell the tale. Mr. Warberton descended into an old well near his residence to remove the brick from the wall, it being no longer used as a source of water supply for the family. He went down into the well by means of a ladder, and was engaged about his task; without a moment’s warning the earth caved in from all sides. Before Mr. Warberton was cognizant of what had happened he found himself buried under two or three feet of very compact sand. Fortunately, for Mr. W. members of his family were near the scene of the accident, and immediately set to work with all their might and main at exhumation. The dirt was removed from around his head in a remarkably short time, but some moments elapsed before he was entirely extricated from his perilous position. His escape from suffocation is considered miraculous, and he owes his life to the prompt assistance of the rescuing party. Mr. Warberton is past eighty years and a well preserved man for one of his advanced age. – Edgerton Earth.</b></div>
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<b>James Warburton (25 September 1822, Lancastershire, England – 7 January 1907, of dropsy, Edgerton, St Joseph Twp, Wms Co, OH); buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Edgerton, St Joseph Twp, Wms Co, OH; came to the US c 2 May 1842 and married first – Dinah Salter (1824 England -1860, Medina Co, OH).</b></div>
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<b>The couple had five children – Albert H, Mary E, Allice A, Frank C, and Eliza J, all of whom were born in Summit Co, OH, and all but Mary E lived in Summit Co, OH. Mary E married Enos Vallen, 15 April 1866 in Summit Co, OH but later moved to Williams Co.</b></div>
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<b>Sometime after Dinah Warburton died, James moved to Williams Co, OH c1864 and settled on 240 acres in Section 12 of St Joseph Twp. He married Mary A (Hudson) Morris, widow of Charles Morris, on 9 December 1879, Wms Co, OH, and the couple continued to live on the Warburton homestead until about 1894 when James sold half of his land to son-in-law Enos Vallen; by 1903 Enos owned it all but James and wife Mary Ann continued to live there until James’ death. Mary later moved to Toledo, Lucas Co, OH, until her death on 13 July 1908. There is a stone for the couple in Maple Grove Cem, but no dates were inscribed to signify either birth or death dates.</b></div>
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<b>I noted that the surname can be Warberton or Warburton. When the above described incident happened James was just 80 years old and the rescuing party (his family members) most likely were his wife, his daughter and son-in-law, Enos Vallen. Perhaps this event was the reason why by 1903 Enos owned all the homestead. </b></div>
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<b>1850 Bath, Summit Co, OH – James 26 Eng/Dinah 26 Eng - miller</b></div>
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<b>1860 Northampton, Summit Co, OH – James 40 Eng w/children – common laborer</b></div>
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<b>1870 St Joseph Twp, Wms Co, OH – Mary Morris 35 OH with daughters Hannah and Ida</b></div>
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<b>1880 Edgerton, St Joseph Twp, Wms Co, OH – James 57 Eng/ Mary A 47 OH – retired miller</b></div>
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<b>1900 St Joseph Twp, Wms Co, OH – James 77 Eng/ Mary A 65 OH no occupation</b></div>
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<b>Medina Co, OH Marriages 1841-1855 p79 – James and Dinah Salter</b></div>
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<b>Williams Co, OH Marriages V4 p660 #1962 – James and Mary Ann Morris</b></div>
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Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-35091684457549061542018-11-08T12:31:00.001-05:002018-11-08T12:31:17.659-05:00Williams County, Ohio Naturalization Record, 1836-1839, 1842, 1866 and 1860-1874<br />
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Kuenh, Conrad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Wrinberge, Conrad 22
December 1836 - Hanover Fairfield Co, OH A</div>
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Neidhardt, Jacob<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>14
June 1837<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>France<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>New York<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>B<o:p></o:p></div>
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Loburen, Frederick<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>August
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Nees, George<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>15
April 1839<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alsace, France<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oneida Co, NY<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>D<o:p></o:p></div>
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P2/Boos, John</div>
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17 January 1860</div>
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Predeger, Valentine/Pifer, Conrad</div>
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Hesse Darmstadt/Erie Co, PA</div>
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P3/Fehlman, Frederick</div>
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June 1852</div>
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Hellman, William/Rinkel, Frederick<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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P4/Younk, Philip</div>
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P5/Schaberg, Stephen</div>
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Youse, Jacob/Wibist, Joseph</div>
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P6/Gates, Frank</div>
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Gates, Joseph/Anwldt, PG</div>
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P7/Pike, Richard</div>
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Lees, William/Bush, Joseph</div>
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P8/Radenbaugh, Jacob</div>
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19 March 1860</div>
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Greisop, John/Grub, Peter</div>
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P12/Harbaugh, John</div>
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18 April 1860</div>
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Gise, Henry/Dirk, George</div>
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P14/Dirk, George</div>
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P16/Mentz, John</div>
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19 May 1860</div>
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P18/Krommiller, Ludwig</div>
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Coy, Andrew/Berey, John</div>
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P19/Collenberger, Conrad</div>
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Plummer, MB/Gearhart, Henry</div>
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Hesse Darmstadt/OH</div>
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P20/Snider, Henry</div>
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15 June 1860</div>
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Rinkle, F/Grub, Peter</div>
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Bavaria/Williams Co, OH</div>
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P21/Housnich, Jacob</div>
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Arrived April 1824</div>
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Plummer, MB/Lucts, E</div>
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France/OH</div>
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P22/Bavin, John</div>
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16 June 1860</div>
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Copeland, John D/Miller, BR</div>
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Great Britain/Ireland/Williams Co, OH</div>
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P23/Carey, Julius</div>
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Arrived June 1840</div>
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Planson, Peter/Carey, Valentine</div>
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France/OH</div>
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P24/Besey, John</div>
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23 June 1860</div>
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Coy, Andrew/Benner, Samuel</div>
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Switzerland/Williams Co, OH</div>
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P25/Dorriot, John</div>
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Arrived May 1840</div>
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Willet, BR/Doriot, Gustave</div>
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Switzerland/Williams Co, OH</div>
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P26/Doriot, Gustave</div>
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30 June 1860</div>
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Willet, BR/Doriot, Julius</div>
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Switzerland?Wayne Co, OH</div>
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P27/Dorrson, Henry</div>
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Arrived March 1853</div>
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Sheridan, William/Curm, Charles</div>
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Switzerland/OH</div>
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Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-81126541421145416782018-06-21T11:38:00.003-04:002018-06-21T11:38:57.604-04:00Ice Pick Stabbing in Alvordton, 1933<br />
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Tri-State Alliance (Pioneer, OH), 29 June 1933, p1 c7<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stabbing Affray at Alvordton<o:p></o:p></div>
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Herbert Cassaday Attacks Hubert Stahl With Ice Pick<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the results of troubles extending over several years and
in particular on Halloween night two years ago, Herbert Cassaday, 64, of
Alvordton waited in the post office for Hubert Stahl, 28, last Saturday morning
and when he entered the door attacked him with an ice pick, stabbing him 16
times and only from the fact that the instrument was dull Stahl would
undoubtedly have been seriously wounded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stahl was surprised and stunned and was finally able to turn
and use his fists and several vicious jabs, one on Cassidy’s head that caused
him to break away and run down the CN tracks where he was overtaken and
captured by Marshall Lester Borton who called Sheriff Siders who took Cassady to
the county jail, where he was charged with assault with intent to kill, the
affidavit being made by Mayor Wyrick of Alvord ton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was given a hearing in Justice Fogelsong’s
court at Bryan and bound over to the grand jury under $300 bond which was
furnished and he was released Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This stabbing is the climax of a bitter feeling that has
existed between the men for some time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two years ago on Halloween night Cassady claimed that Stahl and others
came to his house, flashed a light in his face, pounded and otherwise injured
so that he has not been well since and at that time he had Stahl arrested and
charged with assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The case was tried
in Justice court at Bryan and Cassady lost and was compelled to pay the cost of
$11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has harbored a bitter feeling
toward Stahl since that time and threatened to get even.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-24109619594464183942018-06-21T11:33:00.001-04:002018-06-21T11:33:40.276-04:00New Project at Local History Center, WCPL, Bryan, OH<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New on the Shelf at
LHC<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Williams County, OH Marriages V8 – 1899 – every name data
plus a family group sheet for each couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A researcher will be able to utilize this in conjunction with the older
Volume 8 Marriage Book that is currently on the shelf. This book will act as an
index for the new book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is an
example of what additional information one can find. (old data is underlined)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Williams Co, OH
Marriages V8 p1/cert1 – m 11 Jan 1899<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<u>Stephenson, William Henry</u> (2 Nov 1870, West Unity,
Wms Co, OH – 1955), s/o James A Stephenson and Lorinda Radabaugh, farmer, age
28<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Coulon, Ida</u> (29 July 1875, Stryker, Wms Co, OH – 11
Nov 1979, Romulus, Wayne Co, MI), d/o Louis Coulon and Louise Gentit, farmer,
age 23<o:p></o:p></div>
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Both buried in Shiffler Cem, Jefferson Twp, Wms Co, OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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Children: James Olen, Charles Vernon<o:p></o:p></div>
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1880 Brady Twp, Wms Co, OH – William 9 OH w/parents<o:p></o:p></div>
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1900 Brady Twp, Wms Co, OH – William H 29 OH/Ida 24 OH w/his
parents<o:p></o:p></div>
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1910 Brady Twp, Wms Co, OH – William H 39 OH/Ida 34 OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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1920 Brady Twp, Wms Co, OH – William 49 OH/Ida 44 OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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1930 Stryker, Wms Co, OH – William H 58 OH/Ida 54 <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Williams Co, OH
Marriages V8 p1/cert2 – 8 Jan 1899<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<u>Erney, Benjamin</u> (26 Feb 1876 Seneca Co, ON or
Sandusky, Erie Co, OH – 19 Aug 1944 Stryker, Wms Co, OH), s/o Frank Erney and
Elizabeth Sprow, basketmaker, age 22<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Kaiser, Louise</u> (17 July 1876, Wms Co, OH – 28 Sept
1967, Wms Co, OH), d/o Lewis Kaiser and Mary Keinhart, housekeeper, age 22<o:p></o:p></div>
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Both buried in Oakwood Cem, Stryker, Springfield Twp, Wms
Co, OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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Children: Arthur Frank, Edward Benjamin, Paul Jacob<o:p></o:p></div>
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1880 Sandusky, Erie Co, OH – Benjamin 4 OH w/parents<o:p></o:p></div>
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1900 St Joseph Twp, Wms Co, OH – Benjamin 24 OH/ Louise 25
OH w/her mother<o:p></o:p></div>
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1910 Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH – Benjamin 34 OH/Louise 35
OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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1918 WWI Draft Registration – Stryker, rr telegrapger<o:p></o:p></div>
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1920 Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH – Benjamin 44 OH/Louise 45
OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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1940 Stryker, Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH – Benjamin 64
OH/Louise 65 OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-4774589681401176342018-02-07T17:34:00.001-05:002018-02-07T17:36:54.147-05:00Mother Sues Daughter - Grace Harper v Mary Alice Mills, Wms Co, OH 1909<br />
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<b>Mother Sues Daughter - Grace Harper v Mary Alice Mills, Wms Co, OH 1909</b></div>
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<b>By Pamela Pattison Lash</b></div>
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Sometimes I see a newspaper article that is definitely
unique and this is one such item.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here
is the article:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bryan Democrat (Bryan, OH), Thursday, 19 January 1909 p1 c4<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mother Sues Her Daughter<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Says Offspring Refused to Keep Agreement to Support Her for Property<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In a petition filed in common pleas court last week a mother
sues to have the property restored to her that she had transferred to her
daughter who the mother charges has failed to fulfill an agreement to keep and
support her during her natural life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The action is brought by Grace a Harper past eighty years of
age against her daughter, Mary Mills, of Springfield Twp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Harper says in her petition that on
august 17, 1903 her daughter agreed to keep and support her for the remainder
of her natural life, in consideration of which Mrs. Harper avers she deeded to
her daughter some property in Ridgeville Township, Henry Co, OH, and gave her
certain personal effects named in the petition and $80 in cash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The aged plaintiff charges that shortly
afterwards Mrs. Mills refused to fulfill the verbal agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By reason of this Mrs. Harper says she was
forced to become dependent on other relatives and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asks for an order of the court setting
aside the transfer and the return of the personal property and money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RL Starr is attorney for Mrs. Harper.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is what one can learn from a little research concerning
the family:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grace A Hively (17 May 1829 Ross Co, OH – 19 November 1915,
Ridgeville, Henry Co, OH); daughter of James W Hively and Henrietta
Easterbrook; buried in Locust Grove Cem, Ridgeville, Henry Co, OH; spouse of
James Wesley Harper (19 May 1828 Lenawee Co, MI – 23 September 1900 Defiance
Co, OH); buried in Locust Grove Cem, Ridgeville Corners, Henry Co, OH; married
28 June 1849, Defiance Co, OH<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their children were two boys who died early, one unknown, Arthur
A, Hattie E, Mary Alice, and William EP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is Mary Alice that figures into this story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Alice Harper (13 Feb 1863 Henry Co, OH – 20 February
1928 Wms Co, OH); buried in Boynton Cem, Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH; spouse
William Arthur Mills; married c1881.<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to federal census records we get a sense of the
geographical dynamics of this story:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1900 Ridgeville, Henry Co, OH – Grace Harper 71 widow no
occupation, mother of 7 children with 4 surviving; she is living alone<o:p></o:p></div>
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1900 Ridgeville, Henry Co, OH – William Mills and wife Mary
are living there; he is a farmer; not living close to mother<o:p></o:p></div>
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1910 Adams, Defiance Co, OH – Grace Harper 81 is living with
son William E P and his family<o:p></o:p></div>
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1910 Springfield, Wms Co, OH – William Mills and wife Mary
are farming and residing there<o:p></o:p></div>
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The conclusion using just the census is that Grace has been
taken in by her son William, presumably sometime between the agreement of 17
August 1903 and the court date of 19 January 1909.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is living with her son in Adams Twp,
Defiance Co, OH in 1910 but dies in Ridgeville in 1915.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether she retrieved her personal and real
estate property needs to be researched further.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Pamela Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16309624637243728662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217045706117765596.post-28960403437741578872018-01-05T10:14:00.002-05:002018-01-05T10:15:44.718-05:00Old Newspapers Tell a Sad Tale of Edon Man Convicted of Murder - John Glenn Toner<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>A Shocking End to John Glenn Toner</b></div>
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<b>By Pamela Pattison Lash</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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When I started this investigation into the arrest, conviction, and aftermath of John Glenn Toner for murder, I was surprised at the sheer volume of material that could be gleaned from old newspapers. Here is the tale of perhaps over-privilege, intoxication, a hammer, and a missing stomach. </div>
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<i>Fort Wayne Sentinel
(Fort Wayne, IN), Thursday, 16 August 1906 p4 c5<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Toner Pays For Fun<o:p></o:p></div>
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J Glenn Toner of Edon, OH, arrested under the name of Myers,
paid a fine of $5 and costs in the city court this morning for public
intoxication, his arrest having been brought about by the fact that he drove
his automobile through the Berry Street arcade yesterday afternoon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He entered the arcade from the alley at the south and said
he thought it was a public driveway. He
gave a mortgage on his machine and a bond of $50 was put up for him. Patrolmen Paul arrested him after he had done
a lot of reckless driving but no personal or property damage was inflicted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Detroit Free Press
(Detroit, MI), Saturday, 10 January 1920 p3 c8<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Victim of Assault With Hammer Dies<o:p></o:p></div>
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Assailant, Who Took Poison, Will Recover<o:p></o:p></div>
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Peter Granzow, 55 years old, farmer, living near Royal Oak,
who was assaulted in his home by Glenn Toner, 35 years old, a neighboring
farmer, died in Harper Hospital Friday afternoon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toner, who is in Receiving Hospital, suffering from
self-administered poison, will recover, it is believed. His story to the police Thursday night led to
the discovery of Granzow in his home. He
was unconscious. Toner said he had a
faint recollection of assaulting Granzow with a hammer while Granzow
slept. They had quarreled following
several days of drinking, he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toner was recently arrested in Royal Oak and was to appear
before Justice McEwan of Royal Oak, Friday on a serious charge preferred by
Mrs. Tonner, who left him a week ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Battle Creek Enquirer
(Battle Creek, MI), Wednesday, 14 January 1920 p3 c2<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Held For Murder, Does Not Know Victim Is Dead<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pontiac, Jan 14 – J Glenn Toner is being held here for the
murder of Peter Glangow of Royal Oak Township, who died from wounds inflicted
in the home of Toner. Quite a bit of damaging
evidence has been found in Toner’s home, including a hammer covered with blood,
a half-burned pillow covered with what is believed to be human blood, and
Toner’s coat, on the sleeve of which are spots believed to be blood. Toner has not yet been informed that Grangow
is dead. He claims to have suffered a
loss of memory concerning what happened last Sunday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Detroit Free Press
(Detroit, MI), Saturday, 17 January 1920 p18 c5<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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A grand jury probe into the death of Peter Granzow of Royal
Oak who was found fatally injured in the home of J Glenn Toner, was ordered
today by Assistant Prosecutor Blakeslee.
He intends to summon several witnesses who have been loath to tell about
certain drinking parties at the Toner home just prior to discovery of the
crime. Granzow died from hammer blows on
the head.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Bryan Democrat (Bryan,
OH), Tuesday, 16 March 1920 p1 c3<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Toner Trial This Week<o:p></o:p></div>
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The trial of Glenn Toner, former Williams County citizen,
for the murder of Peter Granzow, was set to open at Pontiac, MI, on Monday, CL
Newcomer, Bryan attorney, will appear in the trial as one of the attorneys for
the defendant. Ganzow was found nearly
dead from the effects of a blow by a hammer the first week in January at the
home of Toner near Royal Oak, MI, and newspapers at that time published an
account of the murder. Toner is a son of
J M Toner of Edon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Detroit Free Press
(Detroit, MI), Thursday, 18 March 1920 p13 c2<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lapse of Memory Murder Defense<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pontiac Man Tells His Story on Witness Stand<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pontiac, MI, March 17 – J Glenn Toner is on trial in circuit
court for the murder of Ellwood Granzow, Royal Oak Township farmer, who
succumbed to wounds from a hammer. Toner
surrendered himself to officers and claims a lapse of memory concerning events
during the alleged drinking party at his home.
While at the Detroit Receiving Hospital, he claimed he dreamed of seeing
Granzow sitting on the floor of the Toner home with a hole in his head. Granzow was later found in a similar
position. Mrs. Toner appeared in her
husband’s behalf today and there are several more witnesses for the defense. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Lansing State Journal
(Lansing, MI), Wednesday, 24 March 1920 p7 c4<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Pontiac – Life in Jackson Prison at solitary confinement and
hard labor was the sentence imposed upon J Glenn Toner in circuit court by
Judge K P Rockwell. Toner, a Royal Oak
man, was convicted of having killed Ellwood Granzow, a farmer living near him,
in a quarrel during a drinking bout.
Toner’s defense showed he had been addicted to drink since early youth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Yale Expositor
(Yale, MI), Thursday, 23 June 1921 p2 c2<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Pontiac – An appeal to the Supreme Court is being taken in
the case of J Glenn Toner, of Royal Oak, serving a life sentence in Jackson
Prison for complicity in the death of Peter Granzow, who was beaten to death
during a drunken orgy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Bryan Press (Bryan,
OH), 26 August 1926 p1 c4<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Suspect Murder of Prisoner From Edon<o:p></o:p></div>
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Suspicious Aroused By Return Of Body Without Stomach From
Penitentiary<o:p></o:p></div>
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Considerable speculation has prevailed in and about Edon for
the past week concerning the death of J Glenn Toner who died at the Michigan
State Penitentiary at Jackson a week ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toner was found dead Sunday evening and relatives at Edon notified
that an inquest would be held Monday evening at 7 PM and an undertaker was sent
to Jackson from Edon to be present at the inquest. When he arrived at Jackson from Edon at 4 PM
Monday he was informed that the inquest was over and that Toner had died of
peritonitis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first report concerning his death said that he had died
of ulcers of the stomach but he had not been ill as some people from Edon had
been at Jackson six days before he died and they saw him but knew nothing
concerning the alleged stomach ailment.
They report that he looked well at that time and was working as a
foreman of the department in which automobile license tags are made.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The body was brought to Edon and after arrival there a post
mortem examination was held and it was discovered that his stomach was missing,
leading some to suspect that possibly he had been poisoned and an effort was
made to remove the evidence in case action should be taken later.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toner was secretary to the chaplain of the prison, played in
the prison band, and is reported to have been in close touch <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Bryan Democrat (Bryan,
OH), 27 August 1926 p1 c4<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Death of Edon Man at Jackson Is Questioned<o:p></o:p></div>
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The death of Glenn Toner at Jackson Prison is being
investigated, relatives not being satisfied with the report handed out at that institution
following his death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toner was sent to prison six years ago last January for the
murder of a man at Pontiac. The two had
been drinking heavily. In the prison he
made friends, became secretary to the chaplain, played in the prison band and
in all was in close touch with prison politics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Following his death an undertaker was sent to Jackson. He was told that Toner had died of
peritonitis, the inquest being over.
Another report had given his ailment as ulcers of the stomach. In Edon a post mortem examination revealed
that his stomach was missing, and this aroused the suspicion that he had been
poisoned and the stomach removed to do away with evidence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Detroit Free Press
(Detroit, MI), Monday, 30 August 1926 p1 c8<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Free Press Is Blamed For Blocking Release<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preliminary Payment of $200 After Cleric Returned One Check
Is Described<o:p></o:p></div>
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J Glenn Toner, a life termer at Jackson State Prison, died
there three weeks ago, a disappointed man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He believed his parole had been arranged. At least $200 had been paid for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With his death the correspondence that had marked the
efforts of himself, his brother, and his counsel to cancel his sentence for
murder came to light. The details of his
case seem illuminating in connection with charges of huckstering of paroles
during the Grosbeck administration that have been made in the course of the
present governorship campaign in which the governor is seeking a fourth term –
something unprecedented in Michigan.
Several state officials are involved in the case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blare Grosbeck has been governor nearly 7,000 paroles having
been granted by him. The records of the
parole office, which was reorganized in 1911 bringing it directly under the
thumb of the governor, have been kept from the public.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The operation of the office has been subject to widespread
criticism as a result of the wholesale releases in the face of increasing
crime.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In part of the correspondence the collapse of the Toner case
is blamed on the Detroit Free Press but as soon as the paper’s criticism of the
parole methods ceased the writ of liberty would probably ensue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another letter from the chaplain at the prison, Rev William
Hopp, who cooperated with State Senator Barney Brower, the administration floor
leader in the legislature and the others in the Toner case, urged that the
arrangements be pushed as expeditiously as possible as everyone in Michigan
expects the appointment of the governor as attorney general following the
resignation of the present attorney general.
This, of course, is mere speculation, but may prove correct, in which
case your plans may miscarry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It will be recalled that certain state officials campaigned
diligently for the appointment of Grosbeck as US Attorney General and that when
President Coolidge named Charles Warren instead, they sought as diligently and
successfully to block confirmation of that choice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was Rev Hopp who directed the brother and counsel of
Toner to Brower. He returned a check to
Toner pointing out that is justice to his position as chaplain he could not
very well enter late any arrangement that might be made with Brower.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Counsel for Toner were Augustus Gebbhard of Bryan, OH, and
Bert Chandler of Hudson, MI. A third
individual who was active in Toner’s behalf was Charles Wardner, director of
vocational education in Jackson.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their activity began late in 1923 and continued through
1926.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toner was committed to Jackson in 1920, being sentenced to
serve a life term by the late Judge Rockwell of Pontiac. In a drunken brawl near Royal Oak he had hit
a man named Granzow with a hammer, killing him. For a time while he was in
prison he was secretary to Hopp. Later
he served with a road construction gang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a letter to Wardner, Toner’s brother reviewed at length
the efforts that had been made to get his brother out of prison. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Times Herald (Port
Huron, MI), Tuesday, 31 August 1926 p2 c3<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Regarding the case of J Glenn Toner, a lifer who died
recently at the Jackson State prison, the Governor related the circumstances
under which executive clemency was denied Toner. He said Senator Burney Brower of Jackson was
retained as one of several attorneys in the case on behalf of Toner, but later
withdrew, offering to return the retainer fee of $200 he had been paid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The only effect of the charges in the Toner case, the
Governor said, is the insinuation that Senator Brower had some political
influence with me. The sum and substance
of the whole story is that three lawyers sought a parole which they did not
get.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Bryan Democrat (Bryan,
OH), 31 August 1926 p1 c1<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Toner Case Shows Corrupt Officials Sought Bribes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Highest Officials Were In Corrupt Deals, Says Free Press<o:p></o:p></div>
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Letters of Edon and Bryan Men Scattered Over Free Press In
Toner Case<o:p></o:p></div>
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The death of J Glenn Toner of Edon at Jackson Prison is
stirring Michigan because it brings open charges that the parole of prisoners
in that state has been bartered by a ring of high officials, from governor down
to prison chaplain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Monday’s Detroit Free Press were several fac-simile
letters written by OG Toner of Edon, Attorney AL Gebbhard of Bryan, and William
F Hopp, Jackson chaplain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Toner’s letter to Mr. Warder states that he, Mr. Toner,
did not grasp the situation when it was first hinted that he might obtain his
brother’s release. “I was not familiar
in dealing with such fellows. I never
bought anybody and I did not understand conditions. He visited a Senator Brower, he writes, and
paid an advance fee of $200 to that state official.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Criticism of Governor Groesbeck’s many paroles, 8,000 in
all, made it seem advisable to drop proceedings for Toner’s parole in November
1925. Mr. Hop, chaplain, urged Mr. Toner
to get busy with Senator Brower, and haste was also urged in 1924 because it
was believed that Go Groesbeck might be appointed Attorney-General by President
Coolidge, in which case the parole matter would be up to a new governor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the Williams County men went into Michigan to secure
the parole of a prisoner they found officials working adroitly for cash for
that parole, and it is now feared that Toner’s death instead of being from
natural causes, was a means taken to silence the prisoner and cover up the
corruption existing there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An underground letter from James Glenn Toner to his friend
Charles Warder told him “that the prisoner was in fear of being bumped
off.” Mr. Warder was in NY at the time
the letter was sent to him and shortly after Toner, former Deon man, died
suddenly in Jackson Prison.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Investigation of the case is now being pushed at Jackson by Mr.
Warder, RW Reese, another friend of Mr. Toner and the Detroit Free Press, which
has been attacking the prison management for some time. J M Toner, father of the dead man, expected
to be called to Jackson the first of the week in the case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Warder, one of the men who is pushing the case, is a
teacher of vocational training in the Jackson schools. At the time he received the warning letter
from Toner he was in New York, where he owns a pleasure resort.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Toner, the father, said Saturday that he felt there were
too many good people in Jackson to permit this case to be dropped, yet he also
intimated that he is somewhat discouraged regarding the progress that it is
making. It is one of the most mysterious
prison deaths that has puzzled Michigan authorities for years. Friday’s News-Bee said:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“OG Toner placed some reliance in the observations of Maude
Walters, Deon, who visited Toner in prison a few days before his death. She said he appeared to be in the best of
health.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is claimed that both Toner and his family had sought
pardon for the prisoner. The brother at Deon
employed an agent, he said, to present his claim two years ago. That agent shortly before Toner’s death
received a letter from the prisoner, complaining about the delay, the brother
says.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“For some time Toner was employed on a road gang. After his complaint he was kept in closer
quarters at the prison. Whether prison
authorities feared it was not safe to permit Toner to remain on the road gang
could not be learned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“From present indications, however, it is not likely that a
probe will be launched, unless relatives can bring other persons into the
controversy. Officials here say that as
far as they are concerned the investigation is closed.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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