My Washington County, Ohio Surnames Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday October 07, 2003 18:07:52 I am researching the surnames of JOHNSON, PARKE (PARK, PARKS), MANKIN(S) MASON, COBURN, FARNSWORTH, BEEBE, MCNEAL, BEEGLE (BEAGLE), and NOLAND in Washington County, Ohio. McNamee in Meigs Co. Coil/Coyl/Coyle in Noble Co. SURNAMES - ROLL CALL Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday October 08, 2003 01:02:03 Someone suggested to me that I add a link to list email addresses showing what surnames that people are researching. I think that's a great idea. For now, you can list your surnames in this months' newsletter. Soon, I will add a link, titled "ROLL CALL". UPDATE: "ROLL CALL" in now on the LINKS page listed as the SURNAME REGISTRY INDEX. MCNEAL Genealogy And Allied Families Will Reid Twb7776969@aol.com Thursday October 09, 2003 17:05:07 Books: 1. History of the MCNEAL Family in America, by Bernice McNeal Cohill, 1956 2. John McNeal 3. Descendants of Andrew McNEAL, by Mrs. Guy F. McNeal, 1965. There is lots of information about the life of John McNeal while he was held captive by the Indians. See below an excert from Williams History of Washington Co., Ohio For a look-up email Will at Twb7776969@aol.com or Debbie Nitsche at Diamonddeb@comcast.net History of Washington County, Ohio By H.Z. Williams pg. 624 Among the early pioneers of Washington County, was John McNeal, Sr. He was of Scotch parentage, born about the year 1743. When fourteen years of age he was taken prisoner by the Indians in Pennsylvania and remained in captivity for seven years. During his captivity he and another white boy accompanied three Indian chiefs as servants from Pennsylvania to the headwaters of the Missouri, as he called the county which is now Dakota or Montana. They visited on their journey the principal Indian tribes and consulted their chiefs. He did not know positively the object of the visit, but supposed it was to unite the various tribes in a general war against the whites. If such was the case it did not succeed. The journey both ways consumed three years. When the treaty of November, 1764 was concluded, he was set at liberty. He made his way back to Pennsylvania, where he found one sister still living. He subsequently married Anna Howell who was a native of New Jersey, born in 1760, and some time prior to the summer of 1791 removed to Morgantown, Virginia. In the spring of 1796 he decided to remove to the Northwest Territory and floated down the Monongahela and Ohio rivers to Marietta, arriving in the later part of April. He drew his donation lot (No. 28) between Rainbow and Waterford. He first settled on Duck creek, near what is now Stanleyville, where he lived until the spring of 1799 when he moved to his clam where he resided until his death which occurred probably in the fall of 1819. His wife survived him many years, dying in 1846. Their children, who grew to mature years, were James, Elizabeth, John, Susan and Margaret (twins), William, Andrew, Levi and David. Of these Anna is still living and is the only survivor of the family. Brabham and Burris Families Will Reid twb7776969@aol.com Tuesday October 14, 2003 04:30:39 The main surname that I'm working on is the Brabham and Burris. The Brabhan came to Washington County about 1837 or so, the Burris I'm not sure when they came to Washington County butI know it was in around the late 1700's, some went to Morgan County first but ended up in Washington County. The Brabham are connected to a lot of the familes in and around Washington County as far as I know that there still might be some still in the area. Here is just some of the names that tie into the families, Brabham, Burris, McNeal, Bellows, Power or Powers, Starlin or Starling and Sterling, Beebe, Hardin or Harden, Dye, Angle, Burchett, Carpenter, Devol, Quimby,Combs, Fish, Gossett, Hill, Miller, Oliver, Riley, Rutter, McKenna, Stackhouse, Stiers, Strahler, Webster, Willis, Wolcott, Zimmerman and many more. I have over 9700 names in my file and I'm always glad to try to help others with info that I have and all ways looking for more info on the ones that I have Will From The Webmaster Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday October 07, 2003 17:43:54 This newsletter is for the purpose of Washington County, Ohio Historical and Genealogy Information only. Please do not post questions here. If you have questions, you may want to ask them in the Guest Book section of this site. If you have an article you would like to submit for the December Newsletter, visit this site: http://home.comcast.net/~diamonddeb/Index.html Click on WRITE A NEWSLETTER ARTICLE Thank you Debbie (Noland) Nitsche HENRY CEMETERY Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday October 21, 2003 18:09:09 HENRY CEMETERY A neglected cemetery is on David HENRY’s old 100 acre far. Lot 09 of Watertown Township. Henry’s log cabin still stands there where Township road 170 (Meiser Road) runs into County Road 109. By 1875, John HENRY was living there and in recent years Sarah HENRY owned the place. The Cemetery is 100 yards in back of the log cabin and is presently on Raymond Tornes’farm. There is no longer a fence around the graveyard and cows have been grazing there and have knocked down most of the stones, breaking up sereral of them with their hooves. A few stones were completely covered with sod at the time Dana Snow and I visited the place, Sunday afternoon, 19 March 1972. Following are the tombstone inscriptions we could find including some dug up from the turf. There well could be others buried that we could not find. (Research done by Jerry Barker Devol) 1. Arza S. GILLMOR Born May 26, 1848 Died Aug. 16, 1897 2. & 3. John H. GILLMOR Born Aug. 31, 1812 Died Nov. 26, 1854. Betsey HENRY w/o John H. GILLMOR Born Apr. 6, 1812 Died June 6, 1896 4. Corp’l. David HENRY Co. C. 63 Ohio Vol. Inf. 5. Infant s/o W. & E. McNEAL Died May 18, 1841 Aged 3 D. 6. Alma, d/o W. & M. McNEAL Died June 27, 1861 Aged 5Y. 2M. 5D 7. Infant s/o F. & J. M. McNEAL Died March 8, 1895 Aged 17 Days 8. Charlie, s/o Frank & Mary McNEAL Died June 16, 1881 Aged 8 (9) Y. 2M 1D 9. Charlotte, d/o William & M. McNEAL Died Jan. 11, 1861 Aged 9Y 6D. 10. Giles, s/o W. & M. McNEAL Died May 20, 1845 Aged 2Y 5M 11. John McNEAL Sr. For 7 years a prisoner with the Delaware Indians and a settler to the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio in 1797. Died Oct. 1819 Aged about 85 Years. 12. Anna Howell w/o John McNeal Died Jan. 1846 Aged 85 Yrs. 13. Lorin, s/o W. & M. McNEAL Died June 5, 1845 Aged 3M 23D 14. Lucy, d/o W. & M. McNEAL Died Sept. 14, 1833 Aged 3Y 5M 15. Mahala, d/o W. & M. McNEAL Died Apr. 30, 1840 Aged 2Y 10M 12D. 16. Miltilda, w/o Wm. MCNEAL Died July 12, 1875 Aged 65Y 8M 12D 17. William McNEAL Died April 9, 1879 Aged 91Y 1M 15D 18. Anne PERKINS, d/o of W. & E. PERKINS Died June 15, 1845 Aged 3Y 9M 19. Eunice, w/o William PERKINS Died March 1, 1855 in the 44th yr. of her age. 20. Sylvester, s/o William & E. PERKINS Died Oct. 26, 1854 Aged 6Y 4M. 21. William H. s/o William and Eunice PERKINS Died July 12, 1840 in the 8th yr. of his age. 22. Mary HENRY, w/o Carl PETER Born Mar. 9, 1823 Died Aug. 2, 1860 in her 37 year 23. Sarah E., d/o J. & E. W. WEBSTER Died Jan. 14, 1849 Aged 6M. 11D. CAPTAIN JONATHAN DEVOLL Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday October 21, 2003 18:27:45 CAPTAIN JONATHAN DEVOLL CAPTAIN DEVOLL, when a young many acquired the trade of Ship Carpenter and in later years became quite noted in the construction of boats, ships and mills. He volunteered at the beginning of the revolution, in 1775, as first Lieutenant and Adjutant of the regiment. In 1777 he resigned because superseded in promotion of Adjutant of Second regiment to the office of Brigade Major. In 1775 he performed a very brilliant exploit in capturing a British Brig in Newport harbor and the following year capturing a British Brig in Newport harbor and the following year captured a band of Tories near the same locality. He joined the Ohio Company in 1787 and was one of the first forty-eight pioneers who arrived at Marietta, April 7th, 1788. During the winter he had superintended the construction of boats at Sumrills Ferry. He was chiefly engaged during the summers of 1788-9 in building Campus Martins and remove with his family to Belpre in February 1790. At the breaking out of the Indian war in 1791 he superintended the construction of Farmers Castle, and built the Floating Mill at Belpre, in 1791. In 1797 he removed to a farm on Wiseman’s bottom, on the Muskingum, five miles above Marietta. Here the next year he built a floating mill where he did custom grinding for the farmers on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. In 1802 he built the cohoonor Nonparoil. In 1807 he built a large frame flouring mill on the spot where the floating mill was moored. The water wheel was forty feet in diameter, the largest seen at that day west of the mountains. During all these days he improved his farm, planting fruit trees and making his home pleasant and comfortable. in 1800 he purchased and put in operation machinery for carding sheeps wool which had now become so abundant as to need something more than hand cards, as farmers were already owning flocks of sheep. In 1808 he erected works for dressing and fulling cloth both of which operations are believed to have been the first ever carried on in this part of Ohio, if not in the whole state. He may be called the Master mechanic of the settlers. He died, during the epidemic fever which prevailed, in 1823,aged 64. SKETCHES OF PIONEERS, BEING EXTRACTS FROM LIVES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF OHIO BY DR. SAMUEL P. HILDRETH GRIFFIN GREENE, ESQ. Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday October 21, 2003 18:31:57 GRIFFIN GREENE, ESQ. Mr. Greene was born at Warwick, Rhode Island in 1749. Early in life he engaged in the business of a smith and anchor making, and later he and his cousin Jacob Green erected a forge for working in iron. He was also a cousin of General Nathaniel Greene. Both these men belonged to the sect of Quakers from which they were expelled on account of their interest in the war. He commenced his military career in 1775, by serving as Commissary to the Rhode Island troops, although in the previous year he had been trained to military exercises as a volunteer in the Company, to which his cousins Christopher and Nathaniel belonged, with many of the most active and prominent young men of the colony. In 1777 he was paymaster in the regiment commanded by Christopher Greene and during the attack on the fort at Red Bank was exposed to the shot of the enemy by taking a supply of powder to his countrymen. In 1778 his cousin Nathaniel Greene was appointed by Washington quartermaster general of the army, and Griffin became one of his deputies, continuing in that position until General Nathaniel Greene was placed in command of the southern army. In 1777 Mr. Greene engaged as a partner in a company for fitting out two brigantines as privateers, the coast being at that time pretty clear of British ships of War. these were called the Black Snake and the Rattle Snake; but before the one had time to erect its head and the other to shake its rattles in defiance of the British lion they were driven on shore at Sandy Hook in April 1778, by an enemy crusier, and lost. This was the fate of many American privateers and in the estimate it is probable that as much was lost as won by the colonies in this nefarious business. SKETCHES OF PIONEERS, BEING EXTRACTS FROM LIVES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF OHIO BY DR. SAMUEL P. HILDRETH MAJOR JONATHAN HASKELL Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday October 21, 2003 18:42:05 MAJOR JONATHAN HASKELL Major Haskell was born in Rochester, Mass. in 1754 and entered the Army when twenty one years of age and served to the close of the war. He came to Marietta in 1788 and in 1789 joined the Belpre Association. On the breaking out of the Indian War he received a commission as Captain in the regular service and went to Rochester, Mass., where he recruited a Company of soldiers and returned with them to Marietta, in December, 1791, where he was stationed for the defense of that and the surrounding settlements, as soldiers had been withdrawn from Fort Harmar in 1790. He remained in Marietta until 1793 where he was commissioned Captain in the second sub legion under Gen. Wayne and joined the army on the frontier that summer. He was stationed at Fort Saint Clair, where he remained until June, 1794 where he was appointed to the command of the fourth Sub-division with the rank of Major, although his commission was not filed until Aug. 1795. After the war Maj. Haskell returned to his farm in Belpre where he died in 1814. SKETCHES OF PIONEERS, BEING EXTRACTS FROM LIVES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF OHIO BY DR. SAMUEL P. HILDRETH October LINKS Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday October 22, 2003 13:28:18 WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL "LINKS" http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/index.html New Links added for October: NOLAND Census Reports Obituary Notice For James KELLAR Daughters of David & Mary Cool OLIVER of Belpre David OLIVER home, Belpre Historical Picures of Marietta & Southeastern Ohio Dudley Daniel "Squire" DAVIS RECOLLECTIONS OF PIONEER LIFE Watertown Twp. Civil War Roster Revolutionary War Service of ASA COBURN Rev. War Pension Application Extract for William McGEE/MAGEE B L M DATABASE WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO Personal Web Pages: PIXLEY BRABHAM HOFF Family History John BROWN Family History CURTIS Peter HOWE SNODGRASS Family PALMER John DYE Descendants of John EVERETT RATHBONE-HALL Family Group Sheet Family Group Sheet for Thomas Carter DRAKE James BRITTON and Mary PICKENPAUGH (See 3rd Gen.) Gilbert SEAMANS WILLS: Udilla BESS BORN Heirs Martha CECIL Elijah COLLINS Elijah COLLINS Levi CULVER Alanson DEVEREUX Solomon FULLER Elisha PARKE Burr REED Solomon TICE SURNAME REGISTRY INDEX Wash Co Surnames from the 1790's Karen Davis Sowards SowardsFam@aol.com Wednesday October 22, 2003 16:10:34 Here are some of my ancestors who have lived in Washington Co OH (shown as WCo/OH in the lisings). Hope I can find some cousins out there! I have listed the surnames with the ancestors (in Order) listed below each surname. DAVIS - Dudley, 1763-1825 NH-Salem Twp/WCo/OH; marr Mercy WOOD -- Daniel, 1797-1874 NWT-Lowell/WCo/OH; marr Mary Polly DUTTON --- George Buell, 1845-1924 Adams Twp-Marietta; marr Eliz REINHART ---- Clark Sylvester, 1871-1962 Lawrence Twp/WCo/OH-Marietta; marr Margaret Rachel MENDENHALL DEVOL - Daniel DEVOLLD, 1757-1850 VA-Noble Co OH; marr Grace RICHARDSON -- Elizabeth DEVOL, 1801-1886 NWT-Kinderhook; marr William SEEVERS DUTTON - Joseph, 1776-1841 Chester Co PA-Macksburg; marr Anna May JOB-CHILDRETH -- Mary Polly, 1798-1890 Lowell-Lowell; marr Daniel DAVIS GERHARDT - Maria or Mary, 1835-1915 -WCo/OH; marr Adam WAGNER HECK (see REINHART) HESSON - John, bef 1777-bet 1813 to 1820; marr Jane RADDON -- Martha, 1795 or 1797-1868; marr Joseph LAMP LAMP - Joseph, 1796-1874; marr Martha HESSON -- Isaac, 1829-1903; marr Martha WARD --- Joseph Henry, 1854-1927 Noble Co/OH-Whipple Run, WCo/OH; Elizabeth GREEN(E) ---- Willis Maywood, 1878-1969 Noble Co/OH- Marietta; marr Jennie Mable SEEVERS -----Lela Belle, 1905-1970 Macksburg-Mt.Pleasant/MI; marr George Isaac DAVIS LUKE - John, 1765-1846 VA-Noble Co/OH; marr Elizabeth LEWIS -- James, 1796-1869 VA- Nobel Co/OH; marr Permelia COOMBS --- William, 1831-1900 Belmont Co/OH-Noble Co/OH; Mary Ann BRITTON ---- Julia Ann, 1856-1916 Noble Co/OH-Perry Co/OH; marr Martin Mc D. SEEVERS MENDENHALL - John, 1790-1870 PA-WCo/OH; marr Sarah Ann SCOTT -- William A., 1826-1903 NobleCo/OH-WashCo/OH; marr Rachel Henry WILSON --- Isaac Wilson, 1855-1929 WCo/OH-WCo/OH; marr Eliz WAGNER ---- Margaret Rachel, 1878-1918 Newport Twp/WCo/OH-Noble Co/OH; marr Clark Sylvester DAVIS REINHART - Johann Philippe, 1815-1877 Germany-Marietta; marr Henrietta HECK SEEVERS - Abraham, 1746-1822 MA or PA-WCo/OH; marr Mary MORRISON -- William, 1798-1867; marr Elizabeth DEVOL --- Andrew Jackson, 1828- OH- ;marr Sarah Ann GILL ---- Martin Mc D., 1859 or 1860- Newport Twp - ?; marr Julia Ann LUKE ----- Jennie Mabel, 1883-1933 Noble Twp/OH-Whipple WCo OH; marr Willis Maywood LAMP WAGNER - Adam, 1825-1907 Bavaria-Newport Twp/WCo/OH; marr Maria Mary GERHARDT WARD - David, abt 1806- ? ; marr Nancy ? -- Martha, 1833-1908 OH-? ; marr Isaac LAMP WILSON - Isaac Blackburn, 1809-1882; marr Sintha WATSON --Rachel Henry, 1830-1896 Noble Co/OH- Wash Co/OH; marr William A. MENDENHALL Karen Davis Sowards SowardsFam@aol.com RESEARCHING THESE NAME IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO Susie Dent susiedent@aol.com Wednesday October 22, 2003 14:47:48 I am researching the following surnames: Heddleston, Gooseman, Dawson, Ritter. RESEARCHING THESE NAME IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO Cheryl J Skinner cjskinner@zippytech.com or cjskin07@yahoo.com Wednesday October 22, 2003 14:54:42 I am researching the following surnames: Skinner,Close,Bowersock, Francis,Ritchey,Richardson FRYMAN Researcher Charles A. Steinman colcasw@comcast.net Wednesday October 22, 2003 15:23:41 I am a FRYMAN researcher and a ggg grandson of John( beleved to be John Thomas Fryman) b. 1777(probably Shenandoah Co., VA) d. Abt 1851 in Independance Twp. , Washington Co., Ohio. Charles A. Steinman Tel# 304-243-1065 40 Virginia Park Place Wheeling, WV 26003 surnames karen hughes karen@surfbest.net Wednesday October 22, 2003 16:20:47 In Washington County: Skidmore Barr Hall Cole Sprague Surnames Pat O'Toole plotoole@comcast.net Wednesday October 22, 2003 17:17:17 I descend from Samuel Edwards of Independence and Grandview Townships, Washington Co., OH. Samuel and his older brother John settled in Washington County about 1840. My direct line left Washington County about 1910 and settled in East Liverpool, OH, but numerous other descendants of Samuel and John are still living in the Marietta area. My grandfather, Chester Edwards, the grandson son of Samuel returned to Marietta with his young family in the mid 1920's. He opened a retail store (Scio China Co.), selling dishes and housewares, in 1927 at 192 Front Street; in 1933 he relocated the store to 196 Front Street. The store closed about 1957 as that is the last listing I found in the Marietta City Directory. I believe at that time it was located on Putnam Street in the same building that later housed the J.C. Penney's store. About 1933-1934, he moved his family to Oakdale, PA (Pittsburgh area) where he had opened another store in 1928. Many of his descendants, including me, have remained in the Oakdale area. Surnames I am researching: EDWARDS and Allied Families: CANARY, COCHRAN, HUTCHINSON, KEMP, McCOLLOUGH, McMAHAN, PINNEY, RIGGS, WARD, WEBBER and YOST. Pat O'Toole plotoole@comcast.net SURNAMES - ROLL CALL Edith Davis McRae mommom2@ktc.com Thursday October 23, 2003 00:03:02 Washington County, Ohio surnames: DAVIS, Daniel, William, Asa, Asa Gorton LAKE GOSS OLNEY WHITTAMORE PUTMAN SURNAMES - ROLL CALL Tim Beardsley Tim.Beardsley@mail.wvu.edu Thursday October 23, 2003 00:05:50 I am researching the following names in Washington Co., Ohio Beardsley, Gevrez, Grant, McCormick, Peters, Chapman on the local Phineas Beardsley Jr. line. Lowe, Schmidt, Schau, Mason W.B., Mason Wm., Hall, Boyd, Hawbach, McAtee (Benjamin), McAtee (Patrick), Sprague, Davis on the local James Lowe line. Surnames Mary K. Weber Marykweber@aol.com Thursday October 23, 2003 16:24:52 My surnames for Washington Co., OH are Dorff, Miller, Cline, Tice and Walker.