More Photos Added To Website Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday March 29, 2004 04:26:34 New photos have been uploade to the website FAMILIES IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO Mystery Photo - Marietta Class of 1904 Mystery Photo - 1935 Children's Home "Glee Club" The Family of Delbert & Mary (Mankins) Hardie Franklin & Bernice McNeal Esther Daniels Carrie Daniel Smith & Schoolmates Esther, Mary & Susan Daniels Thomas & Rosa (Burlingame) Lord Sabra Gates Patten & Rosa Burlingame (Mother & Dau.) Richard Smith & Aunt Caroline Hart 1916 Willard School - 8th Grade 2nd Grade Norwood School 1943 or 44 6th Grade Norwood School 1946-47 You can view these pics at this site: http://hometown.aol.com/familiesofwashco/index.html (Copy & paste this link into your browser) If you have any "OLD" photos you would like to have added to the site, please email me. BROTHER OF DANIEL BOONE KILLED OPPOSITE MARIETTA Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday March 08, 2004 20:12:21 Brother of Daniel Boone Killed Opposite Marietta That a brother of Daniel Boone, Kentucky pioneer, was killed by Indians on the West Virginia bank of the Ohio River directly opposite Marietta, is a legend that persisted at least up to 1849. In that year the incident was recounted by the Cincinnati Chronicle and Atlas, with an accompanying ballad of 15 verses appropriate to the tragedy. The island referred to is commonly known now as Buckley’s Island. The opposite shore was a part of Virginia. Boone and companion were supposedly enroute to join Daniel Boone, following the famous Indian hunter’s exploration of Kentucky in 1769. the narrative reads: “A boat bound for Kentucky, descending the Ohio River before the first settlement at Marietta, stopped at the foot of the Muskingum Island, and a brother of the celebrated Daniel Boone, with a companion, went on the Virginia shore to hunt. Indians who were watching the river from the cliff above, discovered and succeeded in decoying them by imitating the call of a wild turkey. Boone was killed on a rock by the water’s edge, while his comrade escaped to the boat. ‘Boone’s Rock,’ covered by the rudely carved initials of many visitors, stood for years a monument of the dead--but before the improvements of this utilitarian aged, even that relic has melted away.” Extacted from The Marietta Times - Thursday April 7, 1938 - 150th Anniversary Edition - pg. 10 col. 7 Debbie (Noland) Nitsche March 2004 NEWPORT ONE OF EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday March 09, 2004 15:41:11 NEWPORT ONE OF EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS Newport had its beginning 10 years after the Marietta settlement. At the regular meeting of the Court of Quarter Sessions in Marietta in 1798, a distinct township, “all that territory lying east of the western boundary of the Seventh Range,” was set apart and named Newport Township. This included what is now the eastern third of Washington County. Six townships,including Newport Township, were within its original boundaries. The DANAS and the GREENES share the honor of having made the first settlement in what is Newport. Both came in the same year, 1798. William and Luther DANA secured a large tract of land and erected the first log houses. The brothers were sons of Captain William DANA, Revolutionary War soldier, who settled in Belpre. William DANA placed his cabin near what is now called Milltown, where he built the first mill. Luther DANA built his house on a part of the farm that is now the ADKINS home, just above Newport village. ---Moved From Belpre Daniel GREENE and his family came to Newport about the same time. GREENE built his log house on what is now the Greenwood farm. The GREENE family lived previously at Belpre. Daniel GREENE built the first brick house in Newport and on of the first in the Ohio Valley in 1808. The house has been in the GREENWOOD family for several generations. Is now the home of Mrs. Carrie GREENE GREENWOOD, widow of Junius GREENWOOD, and their son, William C. GREENWOOD. Prominent among the early families of Newport, several of which were connected with the original pioneer families of Marietta, were the BATTELLES, the James B. GREENE family, the ADKINS family, the Christopher GREENE family, the HOLDRENS, the WOODS, the HASKELLS, the FERGUSONS, the LITTLES, the BARKERS, the KERRS, the CREES, the GALES, MceLHINNEYS (I think this should be McKENNEYS), REAS, and GANOS. ---First Church Organized Churches in Newport were not built until many years after the Newport pioneers established their homes. The Methodist Church was organized in 1825 and the first church building was erected in 1829. The present church was built in 1870. The Baptist denomination in Newport has always been a strong one. Its first church was built in 1842. The present church was dedicated in 1880. Besides the Methodist and Baptist denominations, the Church of Christ was recently organized. Luther BARKER was the first postmaster at Newport. succeeding postmasters of the early years were Ebenezer BATTELLE, Dr. George W. GALE, Joseph W. CRANDALL, Thomas O’NEAL, Samuel AMLIN, Alfred CREE, George DAVENPORT, John M. GANO, E. A. JONES and George W. HAIGHT. A postoffice was established in 1841 at Lower Newport, with Jacob MIDDLESWART as postmaster; one at Newell’s Run in 1865, with Thomas J. CONNER the postmaster of Newport. Outlying post offices were abandoned with the coming of rural free delivery. ---Education Fostered Newport has always fostered education. Newport High School was established in the era when high schools were built in Washington County villages and rural districts, in the last few decades. Erastus ADKINS of Newport was in the second class graduated from Marietta College, and served later on the faculty of the college. Theodore GREENWOOD, valedictorian of his class, was a casualty of the Civil War shortly after his graduation. Newport was a “milltown” in its early years. The first grist mill was a water mill built by the pioneer William DANA. Until the 1913 flood Newport had a flouring mill that was built in 1879 by the old Newport Mill Company of which Victor Hugo TORNER was president. ---Banished Liquor Long Ago Distilleries were numberous in Newport in the early days of the settlement. Reference to old account books of store-keepers shows that in the early days whiskey was legal tender for payment of debts. Newport takes pride in the fact that liquor was banished from the village more that a century ago, and that little liquor traffic has been carried on there since. Extracted from The Marietta Daily Times, Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition - Section C, page 10, col. 1 Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 Names have been capitalized for easy identification. BOY ESCAPED MASSACRE AT BIG BOTTOM Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday March 09, 2004 17:39:10 BOY ESCAPED MASSACRE AT BIG BOTTOM Killings By Indians Occur In An Attack Near Waterford A single survivor remained to tell of the Big Bottom massacre, where 12 whites died at the hands of Indians in the bloodiest slaughter of early settlers. in the lower Muskingum Valley. this occurred on the evening of January 2, 1791. It was a planned attack carried out with such speed and ferocity as to permit of no resistance. The Indian War was on in the Ohio Country, and although it raged chiefly in the northwest, there appeared to have been a confederacy of tribes conspiring to annihilate the white settlements. Open threats had been made that “before the trees again put forth their leaves” there should not remain a single chimney smoke of the white man northwest of the Ohio River. In Morgan County, north of Waterford, and just across the Washington County line, was the scene of carnage. ---Taken By Surprise Thirteen men and youths in the Big Bottom settlement were assembled that evening around a large fire in a fortification they had built. Suddenly a hoard of Indians crashed in the door, shot their victims and leaped through the smoke to complete their work with tomahawk and scalping knife. All the whites, with the exception of 16-year old Philip STACY, were quickly dispatched. The boy hid in a corner beneath some bed clothing. His brother, John STACY was killed. the leader of the little colony was Colonel William STACY, ancestor of the STACY families in Washington County. He and several others were absent from the settlement when the massacre occurred. ---List Of The Victims The persons killed were John STACY, son of Colonel William STACY, Ezra PUTNAM, son of Colonel PUTNAM of Marietta, John CAMP and Zebulon THROOP of Massachusetts, Johnathan FARWELL and James COUCH, who came from New Hampshire, William JAMES of Connecticut, Joseph CLARK of Rhode Island, Isaac MEEKS, his wife and two children, who lived with Isaac and Rebecca WILLIAMS at Williamstown,W. Va. Asa and Eleazer BALLARD, living in a cabin near the scene, heard the firing of muskets. Sensing danger, they grabbed up their rifles and ran out just before the Indians burst into the cabin. Of the 20 persons imperiled in the surprise attack, they and Philip STACY were the only ones to escape. Only one of the Indians was wounded in this affair. He is said to have been shot by Isaac MEEKS, a Virginia hunter who was a friend of Isaac WILLIAMS, and was employed as a hunter by the Big Bottom settlers. When news of the massacre reached Marietta, many of the heads of families in all the settlements were here attending the Court of Quarter Sessions. In the grief, midst of the general alarm court was adjourned. In the Waterford community, around Fort Frye, there were mingled emotions of grief, indignation and anxiety. This was true also of settlers in Marietta, Belpre and Williamstown. Anselm TUPPER and a company of men from Marietta visited the scene two days after the tragedy. They found that the Indians had ripped up the flooring, piled it on the bodies of their victims, and fired it. The fortification had been comparatively new. Constructed of green beech long, it was not entirely consumed by the fire. Most of the bodies were disfigured by tomahawk and flame. They were buried within the walls of the building. Not until after the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, which ended Indian warfare in Ohio, was there a futher attempt at the settlement by whites in the Big Bottom region. ---Massacre Site Marked A marker, suitably inscribed, now identifies for travelers along the Muskingum the site of the massacre. Indians who committed the outraged are said to have included 25 Delawares and Wyandottes, members of tribes hither to tolerant in their relations with the settlers. Apparently, they had been drawn into an alliance with hostile tribes active in the Indian War. a war club was found on the ground at the scene of the killings. This, according to Indian tradition, was a formal declaration of war. The Ohio Company officials at Marietta communicated with the secretary of war, with the result that all inhabitants of the outlying settlements were advised to remove their women and children to Marietta for protection in the fortifications. A large sum was expended by the Ohio Company for protection of the settlers during the Indian War. History does not show that any of the expense was refunded by the government. Extracted from The Marietta Daily Times, Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition - Section 2, page 2, col. 1 Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 Names have been capitalized for easy identification. INDIANS IN AREA CAUSED INSECURITY Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday March 09, 2004 16:19:57 INDIANS IN AREA CAUSED INSECURITY Despite safeguards of the Ohio Company for protection of Marietta pioneers and the settlers who followed in their wake, constant presence of Indians in the region held for years its threat of impending calamity. There was reason for this feeling of insecurity. Here were the Campus Martius fortification and the Picketed Point, as well as Farmer’s Castle at Belpre and Fort Frye at Waterford. Obviously, the settlers could not remain always in these retreats. Although scouts patrolled the region surrounding the settlements, there were numerous Indian outrages in the Marietta area. But the red man gave to the Campus Martius fortification a wide berth. The massacre at Big Bottom, in the Ohio Company’s Purchase north of Waterford, and just across the Washington County line, was the most ruthless slaughter perpetrated by Indians in this region. Within the Ohio Company’s domain, the first Indian blow was the killing of Captain King of Farmers’ Castle at Belpre. He was ambushed. then later in 1789, Scout Joseph ROGERS, a lookout for protection of the settlers, was tomahawked and scalped on the site of Marietta Memorial Hospital. ---Killed By Four Indians Matthew KERR, who settled on the island in the Ohio River opposite Marietta, was killed by four Indians. After the Indian War began, he moved to Marietta for protection in the stockade. Leaving his cattle on the island, he made daily trips there to feed them. One day, as he was about to land from his boat, the Indians fired on him. He was scalped in his boat. The body was found lying in it when it floated down to the mouth of the Muskingum. sons of the victim, Hamilton KERR and George KERR, killed the Indians, whom they found lurking on the island. Signs of the presence of Indians in the vicinity of Marietta were discovered every day, although none ventured near Campus Martius. General Rufus PUTNAM’S sons, William, Rufus, and Edwin, and his son-in-law, Augustus BROWNING, were in imminent peril one day while working a field for flax and oats, near what is now Mound Cemetery. Discovering in time fresh tracks from moccasined feet encircling the plowed field, they fled hastily to Campus Martius. ---Soldier Is Slain A soldier was killed by Indians at Fort Harmar. Isaac HOPPER was struck down and scalped near the fort. His body was buried in the forest. another ranger form Fort Harmar, named Robert WARTH, was killed within a stone’s throw of the fort. John WARTH, a brother, and also a ranger, rushed from the fort in time to see the Indian run toward Harmar Hill, waving the scalp of his victim. WARTH fired. Evidently, he wounded the Indian. some time after the incident, a body was found in a cave on Harmar Hill, and it was generally believed to have been that of the Indian who killed Robert WARTH. Bird LOCKHART, who lived in the cabin of Isaac and Rebecca WILLIAMS at Williamstown, outwitted one of the red men when he put his hat on the ramrod of his gun, and exposed it from behind a tree. The Indian shot through the hat, and approached to collect a scalp. Imagine his surprise. LOCKHART stepped out and fired at close range. Abel SHERMAN of the Waterford settlement, was killed by SILVERHEELS, a Shawnee who was befriended by the white men. them time was August 4, 1794. This was one of the last Indian killings in this part of the state. The Marietta Daily Times, Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition - Section C, page 10, col. 5 Debbie (Noland) Nitsche March 2004 Names have been capitalized for easy identification. TRADITIONS DIFFER ON HOW WATERTOWN RECEIVED NAME Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Thursday March 11, 2004 18:00:06 TRADITIONS DIFFER ON HOW WATERTOWN RECEIVED NAME The little village of Watertown, about 12 miles northeast of Marietta is said to have been named by the grandfather of Joseph A. ARNOLD, Civil War veteran and one-time president of the Watertown bank, who died in the Spring of 1923. The grandson, well known in Marietta, where he attended many an annual reunion of the Washington County Veterans' Association, lived and died on the 200 acre farm near the village. He prospered not only as a farmer, but from wells of the gusher type drilled on his acreage by the Cameron interest in 1902-3. ---Born In Rhode Island Henry S. ARNOLD was his father, Henry, born in Rhode Island soon after 1800, came with his father, Joseph P. ARNOLD, to Marietta, the trip down the Ohio being made by flatboat, which also conveyed ox-teams, farming implements and household goods. At Marietta the goods were loaded on wagons and the little cavalcade started for Lancaster, where they intended to locate. Progress through the woods was slow and wearisome. At the end of the second day the family had reached the tiny hamlet of Wooster --- probably so named by Esquire WOODFORD, at that time the only resident. ---Halted By Waters Owing to the high waters of the creek, Joseph P. found that he could proceed no further. Making a virtue of necessity, he located one and a half milled north of the intended village, remarking to its single inhabitant that in his opinion the name of the place should be changed to Watertown. Apparently there was no objection from WOODFORD, and Watertown it became. Another authority has it that the village and township were name Watertown after the WATERMAN family, on of whose members lost his life in the early settlement. It has been called Wooster, and an new name was sought to avoid having two Woosters in the same state. The Marietta Daily Times, Thursday April 7, 1838 150th Anniversary Edition Section 5, page 16, col. 6 Retyped by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 Names have been capitalized for easy identification TWO SCOUTS IN ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday March 21, 2004 02:58:46 TWO SCOUTS IN ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS Scouts out of the Campus Martius garrison weren’t always a match for prowling Indians around the early Marietta settlement. Two of them---Joseph ROGERS and Edward HENDERSON---on March 13, 1791, had ranged all day without seeing a redskin. Returning in the evening along a cow path traversing what is known now as the Strecker Hill, within a mile of the fortress they were met by the rifle fire of two Indians who sprang up from behind a log about 50 yards ahead of them. ROGERS, walking ahead, was shot through the breast. When HENDERSON rushed forward to support his companion, ROGERS assured him that he was mortally wounded, and urged HENDERSON to save himself. As HENDERSON started to flee, two more Indians appeared and fired at him. They aimed at his head, because his folded blanket protected this back. Bullets pierced his hunting shirt and grazed his scalp. He dashed on, unharmed, but finally realized that the Indians had headed him off. Turning up a ravine, and crossing a bridge, he ran right into their camp. there, a single redskin was so busily engaged in making a fire that he did not even look up. Out of this danger HENDERSON cautiously withdrew, not daring to reveal his location by shooting the Indian at the fire. He made a circuitous route over Duck Creek, and came out safely on the Ohio, arriving at the “Point” after dark. “Indians killed ROGERS!” HENDERSON chased to the gate!,” was the message that spread over the settlement. Cannon boomed a warning, and guns from Fort Harmar and Campus Martius answered through the night. Soon, exaggerated reports that Indians were attacking gates of the fort resulted in an exodus from every private residence to the protected enclosures. But there was no massacre. At 10 o’clock next morning, Captain ROGERS, scalped and stripped of his clothing, was found and buried in the village. Extracted from The Marietta Daily Times Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition pg. 12; Col. 3 & 4 Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 (Surnames are captialized for easy identification) SILVERHEELS PAYS PENALTY FOR SCALPING Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Saturday March 20, 2004 18:33:20 Extracted from The Marietta Daily Times Thursday April 7, 1938 150th Anniversary Edition pg. 2; Col. 4 & 5 SILVERHEELS PAYS PENALTY FOR SCALPING The legend of “Silverheels,” son of a Shawnee chief, has endured in the Indian lore of the Muskingum Valley since the days of the Indian War in Ohio. Accepted as a friend by the whites because of his affable manner, he mingled with settlers about Waterford and north of there as a well disposed, good-natured son of the forest. He was considered a lonesome and harmless Indian who had strayed from his tribe to dwell in peace and harmony with the white men. His murder of Able SHERMAN, in the Olive Green neighborhood near Stockport contributed to the total of sporadic outrages here abouts as a result of the Indian warfare raging futher northward. These continued up to the signing of the treaty with General “Mad Anthony” WAYNE at Greenville. Descendants of Abel SHERMAN, among them Professor C. E. SHERMAN of Ohio State University, related from generation to generation the story of the murder of their ancestor. ---Murder Is Avenged Abel SHERMAN’S murder was avenged by his son some four years later. Incidents leading to the fixing of guilt on SILVERHEELS might have claimed the interest of a modern detective. This Indian’s dramatic page in the Indian history of the Muskingum Valley was due indirectly to his weakness for “fire water,” and his loquacity when under its influence. His name was not without its appeal to historians, and he is described as an Indian of unusually fine physique and personality. Early in June of 1794, a small party of Indians visited the Waterford settlement, evidently seeking plunder and white scalps. One of their strategies was the driving of the settlers cows off for a distance form their regular grazing places. Thus they lured the whites away in a search for the animals, which suited the Indians’ purpose of ambush and slaughter. ---Would “Protect” Whites Apparently indignant at the Indians because of their habit of lurking about the settlements, and thus causing a feeling of uncertainty and insecurity, SILVERHEELS declared his purpose to protect the whites. One evening, Abel SHERMAN, described as a resolute man of about 60 years, left the Olive Green block house near Beverly. His errand was to search for his cow, which he thought might have been taken to Fort Frye, or that the rangers might have seen. Soon after he left, the report of a rifle was heard. Ezra SHERMAN, a son, suspecting that something might have happened to his father, ran a quarter-mile to find him dead and scalped. The body lay in a patch of May apples, the shirt bosom filled with the wild fruit. ---”Dead Man’s Run” Men from Fort Frye buried the body near the mouth of the run where he had fallen. This run has since been known as “Dead Man’s Run.” With peace there came the sequel to the murder--or a few years thereafter. SILVERHEELS sometime in 1798 visited the mine of salt prospectors on Salt Creek, Muskingum County. He had been drinking. Given more liquor before he left, he became talkative and boastful. His tongue running fast, he narrated exploits of the chase and adventures in the war with the white settlers. Those men listed with idle interest--all excepting one. This man was pretty well informed as to what had taken place near Stockport in 1794. He was vastly interested in SILVERHEELS’ narrative when it touch upon the killing of a white settler. Details fitted those associated with the SHERMAN murder. ---Son Hears Story Josiah SHERMAN, another son of the victim, heard of the story told by SILVERHEELS. He determined to investigate his suspicions. The Indian had told of killing a man while the latter was gathering May apples. He had spoken of the peculiar formation of his victim’s head. He said he had divided the scalp into two parts, and had sold it at a British post in Detroit for $50. Josiah SHERMAN investigated the story of SILVERHEELS as to his hiding of his victim’s gun in a hollow log, the log’s location being given. He checked every detail of the story, and it said to have found proof positive that the avowed friend of his father was the father’s murderer. The evidence was in. the case was complete. Hunters, traversing the woods a few days thereafter across the river from Stockport, found the body of SILVERHEELS. There was a bullet though his heart. Extracted by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 (Surnames were typed as shown in the article, but captialized for easy identification) FORMATION OF COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINA Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Saturday March 27, 2004 16:43:39 This information may prove to be very helpful to researchers of ancestors who migrited from Virginia (W. Va.)into Washington County, Ohio. THE FORMATION OF HARRISON, WOOD, JACKSON, RITCHIE, WIRT, AND PLEASANTS COUNTIES, VIRGINIA (Now West Virginia) When Augusta county had been formed in 1738 it had included all the "utmost parts of West Virginia" and extended from the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi. From its original limits have been carved West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. But gradually this was being divided and subdivided. For example, in 1778, after Clark's campaign, the county of Illinois was created to include all of Virginia west of the Ohio, and in 1783, this vast territory was added to the Union. In 1776, the first Assembly of the newly declared Commonwealth of Virginia passed an act dividing what has been known as the district of West Augusta into three counties --- Monogalia, Ohio and Youghiogheny. Then in May, 1784, an act of the Assembly provided the "From and after the 20th of July next, the county of Monongalia shaw be divided into two distinct counties by a line beginning on the Maryland line at the Fork Ford on the land of John GOFF, thence down the said creek to Tygart's Valley ford: thence up the said creek to the line of Ohio county, and that part of said coutny lying south of the line shall be called and known by the name of the county of Harrison." Wood county was formed from Harrison by an act of Assembly Dec. 21, 1798 by which was declared a certain section of land "shall from and after the first day of May next, from one distinct county to be called and known by the name of Wood county." It was named in honor of General James WOOD, then governor of Virginia, whose father was the founder of Winchester, and who had himself done vallant service during the Revolution. Parts of Wood county subseqently were cut off and became protions of the new counties of Jackson (1831); Ritchie (1843); Wirt (1848); and Pleasants (1851), and the ultimate area as it now exists is 375 square miles. ---The Sentinel Parkersburg, West Virginia June, 1939 - Anniversary Edition Sec. 8 Pg. 7, Col. 3 Estracted by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net March 2004 More Photos Added To Website Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday March 29, 2004 04:26:34 New photos have been uploade to the website FAMILIES IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO Mystery Photo - Marietta Class of 1904 Mystery Photo - 1935 Children's Home "Glee Club" The Family of Delbert & Mary (Mankins) Hardie Franklin & Bernice McNeal Esther Daniels Carrie Daniel Smith & Schoolmates Esther, Mary & Susan Daniels Thomas & Rosa (Burlingame) Lord Sabra Gates Patten & Rosa Burlingame (Mother & Dau.) Richard Smith & Aunt Caroline Hart 1916 Willard School - 8th Grade 2nd Grade Norwood School 1943 or 44 6th Grade Norwood School 1946-47 You can view these pics at this site: http://hometown.aol.com/familiesofwashco/index.html (Copy & paste this link into your browser) If you have any "OLD" photos you would like to have added to the site, please email me. New “LINKS” Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday March 29, 2004 05:01:40 New “LINKS” added to the website: CEMETERIES Deming, Henry, Wolcott, Wood Cemetery ----------------------- PHOTOS People Of The Past Places Of The Past Historical Markers - Sites - Churches - Etc.. Solomon & Clarissa Parke ----------------------- PERSONAL WEB PAGES BRUGH Family Line Eli GILBERT Edward Wilson CURRIER (Biography) William MOULTON / Lydia GREENLEAF George CORNER / Martha DUMVILLE MEREDITH Lineage Lloyd BIDDLE / Sarah MITCHELL Thomas KEMBLE/KIMBLE Descendants ----------------------- DEEDS CHAPMAN Family Deed Abstracts ----------------------- PUBLICATIONS WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAPTER OF OGS Cemeteries - Death - Marriages - Births Benjamin of Ohio - An Online Book (The Story of the Settlement of Marietta) ----------------------- DEATHS Various Obituaries (Estracted by Linda Hall) ----------------------- HISTORICAL PLACES History of Townships (Names of many early settlers) ----------------------- 1850 CENSUS (Heads of Housholds) Watertown Union Independence Decatur Lawrence Aurelius Warren Barlow Roxbury Jolly Grandview Waterford Fearing Adams Belpre Wesley Harmar Liberty Ludlow Newport and Salem Complete census for Wesley & Marietta Ward 2 (Complete) ----------------------- CREEKS & FORKS ----------------------- RESEARCH TIPS AND INFORMATION Public Library) Obituaries Offer Link To Deeper Research ----------------------- HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY NEWSLETTERS Past Newsletters: November 2003 - April 2004 ----------------------- SURNAME REGISTRY INDEX HICKMAN KINNEY PERRY CORNS GOSS SPRACKLEN/SPRACKLIN HICKMAN KINNEY PERRY CORNS SINCLAIR/ST.CLAIR STANLEY CHAPMAN GUITTEAU POND ----------------------- http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/Intropage1.html (Copy & paste this link in your browser)