The Pastfinder: February, 2007

Quarterly Newsletter of the Ashland County Chapter Ohio Genealogical Society
The Pastfinder
Volume 26, Issue 1
February 2007
First Families of Ashland County
2007 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Bill SNYDER, President
points
in• Special
Barbara HART,
Vice of
President
terest: Recording
• Jack HUTCHISON,
Secretary
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• Vera KNOWLTON, Corresponding Secretary
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• Sally SPRENG, Treasurer
• Carolyn COLE, Senior Trustee
• Karen BLOODHART, Intermediate Trustee
• Joan McKINLEY, Junior Trustee
• Tom NEEL, Pastfinder Editor
• Rita KOPP, Librarian
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Queries
2
Patricia Shireman
2
Perry Twp Bastardy
3
Maple Sugar Camp
3
1829 Tax Hanover
4
Savannah Methodist
5
Betty Plank Book
5
Hog Reduction Sullivan
6
Poor Case Sarah Smith
6
OGS Conference
7
Krebs Store in Nova
7
Lafayette Brethren
8
Maple Grove Brethren
9
Member Surnames
9
Mowery Brothers
10
Isaac Culler Teacher
10
The Ashland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical
Society inducted its new
members into the First
Families of Ashland County
at a November banquet at
Celebrations by Sallie
(Catering Service). Arrangements were made by committee co-chairs, Carolyn
Amstutz and Linda Metcalf,
and the master of ceremonies was Myron Amstutz.
Requirements for induction
into the First Families include proving that the applicant’s ancestors were living
in Ashland County prior to
1850 and that there is a direct lineage from the ancestor to the applicant.
Inductees for the 2006 year
were Marleen Renee Applegate, Mary Lou Osbun Fike,
Mary Anne Hamilton, Barbara Helen Hart, Margaret
Mary Stover and Holly
Hawks Taylor of Ashland;
Edwin T. Hunter, of New
Jersey; and Dale Davidson
Harguess, Burton C. Risser,
Jr. and Sr., Eric Blasius Risser, Barbara Karen Risser
Gideon and Philip Alexander Risser of California.
Jacob Risser, 1834, Vermillion
Twp. (Gideon, Risser)
David Stover, 1846, Milton Twp.
(Hamilton, Stover)
Elizabeth Bradfield and John
Smalley, 1823, Perry Twp.
(Harguess)
William Henry Davidson and Sarah
Smalley 1840, Perry Twp.
(Harguess)
Newton A. Hart, 1833, Mifflin
Twp. (Hart)
Thomas S. Hunter, 1839, Vermillion Twp. (Hunter)
William Hunter, 1834, Vermillion
Twp. (Hunter)
James Echelberger, 1846, Vermillion Twp. (Taylor)
Ancestral names added by these
new members were:
We know have 364 First Families
of Ashland County members.
Daniel Applegate, 1838, Vermillion Twp. (Applegate)
John Lutz and Katharine Lutz,
1850, Milton Twp. (Fike)
James Zehner and Peter Zehner,
1835, Milton Twp. (Fike)
Following the FFOAC ceremony, OGS Trustee Ruth
Emmons installed the club
officers for 2007. Officers
New Inductees – Seated, Marleen Renee Applegate, Mary Lou Osbun Fike – Standing, Barbara Helen
Hart, Holly Hawks Taylor, Edwin T. Hunter, Margaret Mary Stover, and Mary Anne Hamilton.
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FFOAC
are William Snyder, President; Barbara
Hart, Vice President; Jack Hutchison,
Recording Secretary; Vera Knowlton,
Corresponding Secretary; Sally Spreng,
Treasurer; Carolyn Cole, Senior Trustee; Karen Bloodhart, Intermediate
Trustee; and Joan McKinley, Junior
Trustee.
Nancy Rowland then presented a program about the Ashland
County Barn Preservation II, showed
several barn types and photographs and
discussed the barn survey process and
how the information was compiled and
is being displayed. She had several
displays set up for viewing.
Any interested applicants for
the 2008 induction are encouraged to
complete the application by August 31,
2007. The applications are available at
the Ashland County Genealogical Society room at the Ashland Public Library
or may be printed from the Ashland
Chapter web site. Applicants need not
be members of the ACGS to apply.
The application fee is $10.
Queries
Daniel STAHL, born about 1825 in
PA, son of Henry STAHL; married first
Mar 1849 Ashland Co OH to Susannah
STAHL born PA; married second Sep
1887 to Elizabeth BEEM. Would love
any information on any of the three,
especially both wives.
… Submitted by Sandy Kicker, 13100
E Hwy H, Stockton MO 65785
[[email protected]]
I am looking for a wedding license and
announcement for Helen LUTHER to
John HOLLAND. Both are buried with
the LUTHER family in Ashland.
… Submitted by Sandra L. HLAD,
1148 Doc Loy Rd, Grandview TN
37337-5503 [[email protected]]
I am researching Peter and Julianna
SMITH who arrived from Somerset Co
PA 1814-1815 and settled in the NW ¼
of Sect. 33, near the Meng Cemetery.
I’m very interested in the Meng Ceme-
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Patricia Shireman—Life Member
Ashland Times-Gazette, Monday, 2 Oct
2006, p. A2, column 1:
Patricia Sue Shireman, 72, of Township
Road 925, Perrysville, died Friday, Sept.
29, 2006, in Colonial Manor Health Care
Center, Loudonville, following a lengthy
illness.
Mrs. Shireman was born March
18, 1934, in Mansfield, and was the
daughter of Cecil Claire and Luella Mae
Hannan Leibolt. She had lived in the
Perrysville area most of her life where
she was a 1952 graduate of Perrysville
High School.
She was a registered nurse
and a 1956 graduate of the University
of Cincinnati College of Nursing. Mrs.
Shireman was director of nursing for
Colonial Manor Health Care Center for
more than 28 years before retiring in
1996.
She was a member of St. John
Lutheran Church, Perrysville. She
loved collecting antiques, shopping at
flea markets and auctions, and family
genealogy.
She is survived by her husband, Harry R. Shireman, whom she
married Sep. 1, 1956; her daugher,
Kimberly Shireman of Eden, NC; and
her brother and sister-in-law, Wesley
and Sandra Leibolt of Reynoldsburg.
She was preceded in death by
her parents.
Funeral services will be 10:30
a.m. today, Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at
Byerly-Lindsey Funeral Home, Loudonville, with the Rev. Don Doerfer
officiating. Burial will be in
Greenlawn Cemetery, Perrysville.
tery. A church was located at the site in
the late 1820s.
… Submitted by Jeffrey E. McCann,
1335 Lane 280 Hamilton Lake, Hamilton IN 46742-9440
[[email protected]]
SELTZERS from the same family? I
believe my great great grandmother
was a daughter of Henry SULCER, the
shoemaker in the 1860 Ashland Co
census. In the 1870 Ashland Co census,
she (Susan E. SULCER NEFF) was
living at a hotel in Jeromesville as a
worker. Does anyone
have a clue about her or
Queries are free of
her family?
charge for members. … Submitted by Brenda
C. Spier, 305 N Mt
Take advantage of this Vernon Ave, Loudonville OH 44842-1137.
Har r iso n
W illiam
BUNTON/BUNTAIN,
born 5 Apr 1849 OH;
need township and
county. Who were his
parents? Siblings?
Can’t find him before
service!
1870 when he was in
Montgomery Twp.,
Request information on
Ashland OH. Thanks for your help.
Julia A. HUMRICHOUSER, born
… Submitted by Sheila Shriver, 4035
1849, married to William RUNKLE in
W 166 St, Cleveland OH 44135-1203
1864; on Mary Jane HUMRICH[[email protected]]
OUSER, born 1852, married Jacob
NELLE 2 Feb 1871; on Alice HUMAre all these SULCEIS, SULSEIS,
RICHOUSER, born 1854; on Curtis
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HUMRICHOUSER, born 1857, died
1887, married 28 Apr 1877 Mary Jane
PRIEST; on Clara A. HUMRICHOUSER, born 1862, married 4 Sep
1881 Eustus WILTROUT; on Franklin
HUMRICHOUSER, born 1864.
… Submitted by Robert G. Oxenger,
1705 Saunders Crescent, Ann Arbor
MI 48103.
Seeking ancestry of Jesse WORKMAN
of Loudonville, Ashland Co OH, son of
Joshua WORKMAN ?, grandson of
Morgan WORKMAN ?, great grandson
of David WORKMAN? Jesse was born
21 Jan 1879 in Loudonville, Ashland
Co OH; married 10 Sep 1901 at Loudonville to Clara BALDNER, daughter
of Andrew BALDNER and Sarah
BREIGHTENBUCHEN? Jesse died 22
Jul 1956 Loudonville. Jesse and Clara
were buried in Loudonville Cemetery.
Did the present day log cabin in Loudonville town square park originally
belong to this extended family?
… Submitted by Barbara Kostelnicek,
609 Bayou Crest Dr, Dickinson TX
77539-6101 [[email protected]]
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Perry Township Bastardy Case
Courtesy, Rita Kopp, Ashland OH, from the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus,
Ohio, Manuscripts, Volume 368 (Cases 230-549), Case Number 316,
Susan Littel vs. William Wireman
17th May 1843 Susan Littel an unmarried woman & resident of the county of
Wayne, Ohio, this day made complaint
under oath to me that she has been delivered of a bastard child & that William Wireman is the father of sd. child.
Her accusation was then reduced to
writing by me & sworn to by her, & I
then issued a warrant for sd. Wm. Wireman directed & delivered to Samuel J.
Himuedo [?], Sheriff of Wayne County.
June 7th, 1843, in obedience to
the command of this writ I have taken
the defendant. He is now present. John
Bechtel, Dept. Sheriff.
The sd. Susanna also present
thereupon the sd. William Wireman &
said Susan Littel before me acknowledged that they had compromised the
above accusation as follows. William
Wireman agrees to give the said Susan
Littel one buggy with sixty dollars
within four months from this date &
also five dollars in store goods in Wooster, the buggy to be delivered at Isaac
Cabill’s in Perry Township, Wayne
County, Ohio, at the end of four
months, etc., the sd. William Wireman
is to give the sd. Susan Littel security
for the delivery of sd. buggy or if he
were in a [?] fail to give the security the
officer is to return him a prisoner forthwith. Deft. Paid the cost.
Making Maple Sugar on Troy Road
Bowerize Photo
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Hanover Township Tax Duplicate for 1829
When the Ashland Co Chapter OGS
published our first volumes of the township research aid series, we did not include tax lists. Here, therefore, is one
such tax list, for Hanover Township,
now Ashland County, 1829. The real
estate tax does not necessarily prove
residence; the chattel (personal property) tax does. A tax is on the previous
year, so this 1829 tax list might prove
residence in the year 1828. The tax
amounts, divided into state tax, road
tax, county tax, court house tax, and
school tax, are omitted here.
“A duplicate of taxes charged in Hanover Township in the County of Richland
and State of Ohio for the year 1829,
Township No. 1, being Township nineteen, Range sixteen.”
ANDERSON, John – 160 acres in NE
quarter Sect. 3, paid.
BURWELL, John – 80 acres in E half
NW quarter Sect. 3, paid.
BUTLER, Stephen – 28 acres being part
of NW quarter Sect. 1, delinquent.
BUCKAW – 2 acres being part of NW
quarter Sect. 1, owner unknown.
BULL, Hezekiah, heirs of – 7 ½ acres
being part of NW quarter Sect. 1.
BULL, Thomas J. – 22 ½ acres being
part of NW quarter Sect. 1, paid.
BULL, George W. – 160 acres in SW
quarter Sect. 1, paid.
BULL, Sarah, heirs of – 152 acres being
part NE quarter Sect. 2.
BULL, Hezekiah – 81 acres in E half
NE quarter Sect. 11, paid.
CLARK, Ransom – 5 ½ acres being part
NW quarter Sect. 1, paid.
CHAMBERS, William – 80 acres in W
half SE quarter Sect. 6.
DRAKE, Edward – 160 acres in NE
quarter Sect. 13, non-resident.
DAVIDSON, George – 60 acres being
part of W half NE quarter Sect. 11,
paid.
HASKELL, Nathaniel – 3/8ths acre
being part of NW quarter Sect. 1,
paid; and 80 acres in E half NE quarter Sect. 12, paid.
HENDRIX, Saml. & J. MYERS - ¾
acre being part of NE quarter Sect. 2.
HIBBERT, Edward - 80 acres in E half
NW quarter Sect. 11, paid; and 20
acres being part of SW quarter Sect.
11, paid; and 80 acres in E half NE
quarter Sect. 15, paid.
HILDEBRAND, John – 136 acres, a
fraction of Sect. 34, paid.
KAY, William – 20 acres being part of
W half NE quarter Sect. 11, paid.
LOUGHLIN, John, heirs – 160 acres in
SE quarter Sect. 2, E half W half
relinquished.
McCOY, John C. – 80 acres in E half
SE quarter Sect. 1, non-resident.
MARVIN, Samuel – 30 acres being
part of E half SW quarter Sect. 1,
paid; also 10 acres being part of NW
quarter Sect. 14, paid.
MERCER, Boyd Jr. – 160 acres in SE
quarter Sect. 3, paid.
McMILLAN, William – 160 acres in
NW quarter Sect. 5, paid.
PALMER, Matthew – 85 acres in E
half NE quarter Sect. 6, paid.
PALMER, James – 75 acres being W
part NE quarter Sect. 6, paid.
PELL, Gilbert – 150 acres in NW quarter Sect. 14, paid.
ROACHES heirs – 160 acres in NE
quarter Sect. 1, paid E half.
RENO, John – 10 acres being part of
NW quarter Sect. 1, non-resident.
STRONG, Abel – 12 ½ acres being part
of NW quarter Sect. 1, paid; also 1
acre being part of NE quarter Sect.
1, paid.
SIMPSON, Jesse – 160 acres in NW
quarter Sect. 22, paid on E half.
WINTER, Abner – 2 acres being part of
NW quarter Sect. 1, paid; also 6 2/3
acres being part of NE quarter Sect.
2, paid.
List of chattel property:
ASKEW, Isaac T. – 1 cow, paid.
ANDERSON, John – 2 horses, 4 cows,
paid.
BURKE, John – 1 cow, paid.
BULL, George W. – 1 horse, 2 cows,
paid.
BURWELL, John – 2 horses, 5 cows,
paid.
BURWELL, William – 2 horses, 4
cows, paid.
CUNNINGHAM, Wm. – 1 horse, 1
cow, out of the county.
CHAMBERS, William – 2 horses, 3
cows, paid.
DAVIDSON, George – 2 horses, 2
cows, paid.
GOBBIN, Hugh – 2 cows, paid.
GARRET, Samuel – 2 horses, 2 cows,
paid.
KAY, William – 1 horse, 2 cows, paid.
McCOY, John C. – 1 horse, 2 cows,
out of the county.
MAPES, Mark – 2 horses, 3 cows,
paid.
McINTIRE, Archibald – 1 horse, 1
cow, paid.
McMILLER, Wm. – 1 horse, 1 cow,
paid.
MARVIN, Ruth – 2 horses, 2 cows,
paid.
McMAHON, Thomas - $800 merchant
capital, paid.
MARVIN, Samuel – 1 horse, paid.
MARTIN, James – 3 cows, paid.
NEPTUNE, Wm. – 2 horses, 7 cows,
paid.
NYE, Lawrence – 1 cow, paid.
PALMER, Matthew – 1 cow, paid.
PALMER, James – 2 horses, 2 cows,
paid.
POLAND, Peter – 2 horses, 2 cows,
paid.
POLAND, Enoch – 1 horse, 2 cows,
paid.
PELL, Gilbert – 5 cows, paid.
PHILIPS, George – 2 cows, paid.
RENO, John – 1 horse, 3 cows, out of
the county.
RIBLET, Henry – 1 horse, 4 cows,
paid.
STRICKLAND, Samuel – 2 cows,
paid.
SIMMONS, Ephraim – 1 horse, out of
the county.
STRONG, Abel – 1 horse, 6 cows,
paid.
SNYDER, George – 2 horses, 3 cows,
paid.
SHEARER, Thomas – 2 horses, 2
cows, paid.
SMITH, Charles – 1 horse, 1 cow,
paid.
SPIDLE, Wm. Jr. – 1 horse, 1 cow,
paid.
SPIDELL, Jacob – 1 horse, 2 cows,
paid.
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1829 Taxes
SPIDELL, Anthony – 2 cows, paid.
SPIDELL, Wm. Senr. – 4 cows, paid.
WELLS, James – 2 cows, paid.
WINTER, Christine – 2 cows, paid.
List of lots in the town of Loudonville:
ASKEW, Isaac T. – 55, paid.
ADAMS, Obadiah – 15, non-resident.
BUTLER, Stephen – 43, 44, deliquent.
BROKAW – 64, 65, 66, owner unknown.
BERK, John – 80, paid.
CLARK, Ransom – 74, 75, 67, 68, 27,
paid.
HIBBERT, Edward – 47, paid.
HILBERT [sic], Edward – 48, paid.
HASKELL, Nathaniel – 70, 71, 72,
paid.
IRWIN, John S. – 51, paid.
JACKSON – 69, deliquent.
NYE, Lawrence – 57, paid.
NAUGLE, John – 81, deliquent.
PELL, Calvin – 45, out of the county.
PELL, Gilbert – 83, paid.
SNIDER, George – 61, 62, 63, 59, 60,
paid.
SPAFFORD, Henry – 76, not owned by
him.
STRONG, Abel – 77, 78, paid.
SIMMONS, Otho – 79, paid.
THOMAS, Richard – 46 [lot 49 added],
paid.
WEATHERBY, Paul – 73, nonresident.
Methodist Episcopal Church
Savannah, Clear Creek Township
Historic Ashland County Book III
Betty Plank, historian of Ashland County, has produced a third volume in collaboration with David Roepke. The 352-page book
includes 177 articles, 144 pictures, and is fully indexed. A check for $42.65 should be made out to the Hayesville Opera House
and sent to the Hayesville Opera House, Book #3, PO Box 191, Hayesville OH 44838-0191.
Delivery is expected as we go to press. Previous volumes were published by the Ashland County Historical Society in 1987 and
1995, but Mr. Roepke of the Hayesville group provided the organization, typing, editing and some funding for this edition.
Chapters include City Developments, Business and Industry, Ashland County Highlights, Special Events, Early Ashland College,
Houses, Troops, Teams, Clubs, Churches, Schools, and Personalities. Columns were previously published serially in the Ashland
Times-Gazette.
Each volume stands on its own, covering all aspects and time periods of the county’s history with no repeats of material.
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Corn—Hog Reduction Contract Statements for Sullivan Township
This continues our series on those farmers
in Ashland County who signed contracts
under the 1934 Corn-Hog Production Adjustment Program. The series of numbers
that follows each name stands for the number of acres in the farming unit, acres in
corn for 1933, acres in corn for 1932, contracted acres in 1934, litters farrowed in
1933, litters farrowed in 1932, hogs produced for market in 1933, hogs produced
for market in 1932, feeder hogs bought in
1933, and feeder hogs bought in 1932. This
report on Sullivan Township was submitted
by Chapter member Shirley Boyd of Ashland.
H.E. AMSBAUGH-5-3-0-0-2-2-9-15-0-0
E.S. BARRICK-75-9-9-0-5-6-44-57-0-0
M.L. BURDEN-?-9-9-0-0-3-0-23-2-3
Lee BURKHART-152-21-18.5-4-3-6-2330-0-0
J.W. COOK-310-50-47-9.7-32-32-107-106-
0-0
CUMMINGS Bros.-130-25-25-5-6-9-4170-0-0
A.C. CALAME-338-65-42-11-16-5-90-380-0
Von E. COLE-144-15-22-3.7-7-8-53-63-00
Ray EARLEY-80-9.5-9-0-2-3-15-20-0-0
H.M. EARLEY-161-26-23-5-1-1-7-1-0-0
W.P.FISHER-205-30-30-6-4-1-20-5-0-0
Peter FELL-153-40-37-11-8-2-36-10-0-0
V.H. GORDON-50-6-6-0-8-5-58-33-0-0
L.E. HILEMAN-150-18-21-4-8-4-55-320-0
W.L HOWMAN-160-24-27-5.1-2-1-8-411-0
H.A. HOLDRIDGE-105-25-37-9-8-5-6347-0-0
L.R. LANCE-116-24-24-5.5-2-6-5-42-0-0
H.R. MYERS-130-12-8-0-7-16-46-89-0-0
W.E. MAYES-100-22-15-3.7-5-3-22-220-0
W.F. McFADDEN-142-21-29-4.9-6-6-4547-7-0
John R. McCONNELL-115-24-24-5-0-0-00-52-0
Julius NIKEL-95-25-25-7-0-0-0-0-4-0
Harold & C.A. ROICE-115-9-15-2.4-4-726-62-3-3
John RINGLER-350-59-60-12-24-38-138122-0-0
Roy ROBB-44-8-10-0-4-2-36-12-2-0
Joseph RICHTER-103-28-14-4.2-2-4-1435-0-0
D.E. SHANK-177-31-23-5.4-2-2-9-19-0-0
Carl A. SPRINKLE-217-28-26-8-2-1-8-30-0
C.H. STANLEY-94-13-22-5-2-5-12-28-0-0
O.R. WOODBURN-129-35-22-6-6-3-2718-0-0
Julius YAHNKE-68-10-8-0-8-3-42-24-0-0
A.W. ZEIGLER-3-0-0-0-11-13-58-76-0-0
H.L. DAKIN-300-35-35-7-0-8-0-50-17-0
The Poor Case of Sarah Smith
[Miscellaneous Common Pleas Case,
Ohio Genealogical Society Library –
Richland Chapter collection].
Trustees of the Township of Green vs.
Trustees of the Township of Lake.
Filed June 3, 1841.
Recorded on Page 269, Vol. 14.
State of Ohio, Richland County
Court of Common Pleas
Term of April, A.D. 1841
The Trustees of the Township of Lake
in the County of Wayne in the said
State of Ohio were summoned to answer unto the Trustees of Green township, the county of Richland, in the said
State of Ohio, of a plea of debt. And
thereupon the said plaintiff by Stewart
and Newman their attorneys complain
ag. [?] the said defendants for that
whereas heretofore to wit on the first
day of April A.D. 1840 at the township
of Green aforesaid one Sarah Smith
living and being in said township of
Green but not having her legal settlement therein but being last before and
on said day legally settled in the said
township of Lake became a pauper and
in a suffering condition and needed and
required temporary relief and support
as such pauper and thereupon to wit on
the day & year last aforesaid at the
township of Greene aforesaid the overseer of the poor of the said township of
Green being satisfied that the said
Sarah Smith was a pauper and in a suffering condition and needed temporary
relief and support did necessarily pay
lay out and expend a large sum of
money, to wit, the sum of one hundred
dollars in and about furnishing and
providing to and for the said Sarah
Smith necessary medicines and medical
attendance watching and nursing whilst
she the said Sarah was sick and clothing, boarding, lodging, washing and
mending for the said Sarah for a long
space of time to wit for the space of
four months until the state of the health
of the said Sarah would permit her to
be removed to the said township of
Lake from the said township of Green
and in removing the said Sarah from
the said township of Green to the said
township of Lake of all which the said
Trustees of the said township of Lake
to wit on the day & year last aforesaid
had within. And the said plaintiff over
that afterwards to wit on the said first
day of April A.D. 1840 to wit at the
township of Lake aforesaid the said
overseers of the poor of the said township of Green requested the said defendants to pay them the said sum of
money so as aforesaid expended for the
said Sarah Smith. By means whereof
and by force of the statute in such case
made and provide an action hath accrued to the said plaintiffs to demand
hereof the said defendants the said sum
of one hundred dollars above demanded. Yet the said defendants have
hitherto neglected and refused and still
do neglect and refuse to pay the said
sum of money to the said plaintiffs or
any part thereof although after requested to pay the sum to the damage
of the said plaintiffs of one hundred
dollars & thereupon they sue.
Stewart & Newman, Plftts. Atty.
State of Ohio, Richland Co.
To the Sheriff, Wayne Co., Greeting:
We command you that you summon
the Trustees of Lake Township, Wayne
County Ohio, if they may be found in
your county, so that they be and appear
before the Judges of our court of com-
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mon pleas now in session at the courthouse in the Town of Mansfield in and
for said County, forthwith to answer
unto the Trustees of Green Township,
Richland County, in an action of Debt.
Debt $100.00, Damages $100.00,
hereof fail not, and of this writ make
legal service & due return.
Witness E. W. Lake, Clerk of our said
Court at Mansfield this 21st of April
1841.
E. W. Lake, Clerk
Barnabas Burns, Dept. [deputy?]
Suit brought by the Plaintiffs to recover
from the Defendant the amount paid for
medical attendance, care, attention,
nursing, and maintenance of one Sarah
Smith, a pauper, properly belonging to
said Lake Township, also for money
paid, laid out & expended for the use of
said Township of Lake in the support
of said pauper.
Stewart & Newman, Pltff. Attny.
Served this writ on the 24 of April
1841 by certified copies on John Ra-
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ney, Eliga Oram & George Martz, the
present Trustees of Lake Township,
Wayne County, Ohio.
S. J. Hommidue [?], Jr., Shff. Of
Wayne County, Ohio
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United Brethren Church at Lafayette
These lists of members are taken from
an account book for the church. The
inside front cover contains an interesting note: “Two men named Claton &
Carter have been sentenced to be hung
for stealing Negroes in South Carolina
and will be executed at Columbus Feb.
25th” [possibly 1858, the date of a debt
entry that follows].
At a meeting of the Trustees
of the United Brethren class held in
Lafayette, Ashland County, Ohio on
the 6th day of March, it was resolved to
repair their church building in said village, and the following subscription
was put in circulation to raise money
for that purpose.
Lafayette, March 6th, 1873.
We the undersigned agree to
pay the sum annexed to our names for
the purpose of repairing the United
Brethren Church house of Lafayette,
Ashland Co., O. Said sums to be paid
as follows, one third when the work of
repair is commenced, one third when
the work is half done, one third when
the work is completed.
Henry Johnston & family - $100.00
Emanuel Albright - $50.00
A. A. Mason - $25.00
Eliza Emmons & family - $50.00
J. C. Albright - $40.00
M. S. Smith - $50.00
Silas Camp - $25.00
Peter Smith - $30.00
Hugh Hamilton - $25.00
Ellen Smith - $5.00
John Teernan - $5.00
Thos. Yeagley - $2.50
E. Eber - $5.00
George Smith - $3.00
D. H. Hoover - $5.00
Henry Jones - $5.00
Wm. W. Snyder - $3.00
F. E. Summerton - $3.00
E. E. Helman - $5.00
G. A. Carlin - $5.00
E. Rauch - $5.00
Amos Fisher - $5.00
Jacob Farb - $2.00
Wm. Runkle - $6.00
A. S. Shutte - $3.00
D. Y. Jones - $5.00
C. M. Bryan - $3.00
Lewis Hemelright - $5.00
T. S. Mathews - $10.00
Jacob Bahl - $5.00
J. W. Shutte - $5.00
P. R. Greenlin - $5.00
George Shutte - $4.00
Henry Swasgood - $5.00
A. Swasgood, Sen. - $2.00
James Dinsmore - $2.00
Joseph Yeagley - $2.00
M. May - $2.00
John Cline - $3.00
Samuel Herr - $5.00
Wm. Myers - $5.00
Elias Zimmerman - $3.00
L. H. Kiplinger - $10.00
John Greenlun - $10.00
Jacob Wiltrout - $10.00
John P. Smalley - $5.00
Adam Eichelbarger - $5.00
Frederick Casel - $5.00
Jacob Ambose - $5.00
J. I. McIntire - $4.00
M. J. Campbell - $5.00
Wm. Ambose - $4.00
A. Lucas - $4.00
A. Househoulder - $3.00
P. M. Moody - $10.00
Jeramiah Noel - $5.00
John Noel - $5.00
Benj. Morr - $5.00
I. S. Cole - $5.00
M. A. McHose - $5.00
Rev. S. Evens - $5.00
Wm. Weikel - $5.00
S. Hoenshul - $5.00
F. E. Myers - $2.00
Z. Emery - $2.00
A. Maurer - $1.00
Dr. Gregg - $1.00
-- Reichebaugh - $5.00
Samuel Utz - $15.00
Susan Shidler - $5.00
Michael Casel - $2.00
H. E. Swartz - $2.00
Philip Ewing - $3.00
Peter Crites - $5.00
Conrod Hoenshul - $5.00
Peter Hoenshul - $2.00
D. Hoenshul - $1.00
Daniel Pittenger - $5.00
John Shutt - $5.00
Wm. Runkle for lumber - $2.18
Subscriptions taken on dedication day:
H. Johnson & E. Albright - $50.00
James Johnson - $50.00
J. M. Triffit - $25.00
Peter Smith - $25.00
M. S. Smith - $25.00
Hugh Hamilton - $25.00
L. H. Kiplinger & wife - $25.00
John Shutt & wife - $20.00
Samuel Utz - $10.00
Thomas Mathew - $15.00
Sister Brenaman & dau. - $10.00
Frank Albright - $10.00
Sarah Albright - $10.00
There are many donations in kind and
bills for construction mentioned. The
following contract let out for the new
building is of interest:
“Stationary blinds with slats 2 new
doors with oval moulding oval moulding on the windows. House to be wainscoated up to the windows. Lining to
be put on up and down. The house to
be well sealed with ---- [?]. Pews to be
of popular or pine. House to have a
belfry like the Belfry on the Pleasant
Grove house. Belfry to be ceiled overhead. All the lumber in the old house
that is suitable to be worked in. Carpenter work to be done in a workman
like manner. Job to be completed by
the 15th day of Aug. 1873. Trustees to
furnish all the material on the ground.
Sealed bids will be received for said
work until Thursday the 27th day of
March up to 5 o’clock. P.M. of said
day.
Peter Smith, M. S. Smith, J. C.
Albright, Hugh Hamilton, Henry Johnson – Trustees.”
A further list of names includes those
from the previous two subscription lists
who still owe part of their payment:
E. Albright
M. S. Smith
George Smith
David Hoover
W. W. Snyder
A. S. Shutt
Elias Zimmerman
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A. Lucas
Jeramiah Noel
John Noel
S. Hoenshiel
Reichenbaugh refuses to pay
H. E. Swartz
Wm. Runkle on lumber
Wm. Runkle
Benj. Morr
Additional subscription payments cover
several more pages in the ledger. The
same list of subscribers is repeated several times as each round of funds is
collected. New names that appear are:
John Emmons
Caroline Noel
Virgil Bryan
Ida Kiplinger
Andrew Swaisgood
E. Spreng
Daniel Switzer
David Brandt
Cyrus Stratten
Ann Wise
Catharine Termen
Amos Fisher
Mary J. Campbell
Henry Myers
Elma Helman
Elizabeth Switzer
Mrs. Bahl
Mother Albright
Henry Kopp
Mrs. A. Eshelbarger
Silvey Power
Mary Johnson
Eligh [sic] Zimmerman
George Johnson
Ben Johnson
G. A. Everts
L. Hemilrich
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Silas Camp
Daniel P. Menguos
Mary Felger
Sherman Yeagley
G. A.Carlin
Ella Smith
Joseph Weikel
Rachel Dinsmore
Simon Cline
Mrs. H. Shidler
Charlotte Wiloz
John Crites
George Kettering
Thomas Henderson
Leander Weaver
H.W. Livingston
J.V. Davis
Elias Stone
N. Kochenderfer
James E. Shockey
M. R. Smalley
Simon Cline
John Camp
Frederick Stem
Cassius Evans
Curtis E. Kiplinger
John Weaver
Hartman Shidle
Surnames of our Members
STAHL – SHAW – FARVER
Sandy Kicker, 13100 E Hwy H, Stockton
MO 65785 [[email protected]]
BACHOR – KOZDRON – HLAD – LUTHER – HOLLAND – SOLKOSKI –
NALOPA – SCHULTZ – CROZIER
Sandra L. Hlad, 1148 Doc Loy Rd, Grandview TN 37337 [[email protected]]
BUNTON – SHRIVER – DEVIES –
MOORE – BROWN – MONTOOTH –
NEWMAN – MASON – FLICKINGER –
FRY
Sheila Shriver, 4035 W 166 St, Cleveland
OH 44135 [[email protected]]
MILL(S) – NEFF – GEBHART – RECARD – SULSER – SHARICK – BEAVERS – GAMBLE – AMBROSE
Brenda C. Spier, 305 N Mt Vernon Ave,
Loudonville OH 44842-1137.
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Unidentified Brethren Church Member
Maple Grove Brethren Church
OCHSENREITER – OXENRIDER – OXENDER – POORMAN – BERRY – JONES –
BAUGHMAN – HUMRICHOUSER –
HOVERSTOCK – RAKER – KAUFFMAN
Robert G. Oxenger, 1705 Saunders Crescent,
Ann Arbor MI 48103.
BREITENBUCHER – DREYER – HARSCH
– LONG – McGUIRE – POWELL –
SCHARR – SCHNEIDER – SCHNITTKE –
WOLFF – WORKMAN – ZEITER
Barbara Kostelnicek, 609 Bayou Crest Dr,
Dickinson TX 77539 [[email protected]].
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The Mowery Brothers—Ashland Funeral Director and Photographer
Willard L. Mowery, director of the
Mowery Funeral Home, and his
brother, H. A. Mowery, Ashland photographer, are mentioned in many of the
records we save as genealogists. Thanks
to Anne Budd for providing these obituaries from the Ashland Times-Gazette.
The photographs in the paper are too
poor to reproduce here.
Willard Mowery
Ashland Times-Gazette, 27 Aug 1953.
W. Mowery Dies Here Wednesday
[photo].
W. L. Mowery, a funeral director for nearly 60 years, who resided at
435 Sandusky St., died at Samaritan
hospital at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday at the
age of 84. He had been in failing health
for several months.
Born in Wayne county Jan. 15,
1869, he was the son of Michael and
Mary Steward Mowery, and resided in
Ashland county nearly all of his life.
Although he was forced to retire after
many years of active service in his profession, he still retained his funeral director’s license, and was believed to be
the oldest holder of such a license in the
state of Ohio.
[ILLEGIBLE] his first funeral.
The funeral home was then located in
the Opera House building.
He later moved to the old
Mowery homestead on Sandusky St
building the present home where he
resided. With the aid of his farm hand,
he cut down the native logs of oak, cypress, red beech and maple. He assisted
the carpenter and did much of the building and finishing himself. The house
was begun in 1899 and finished in 1900.
After moving to town Mr.
Mowery set up his business in the old
telephone building, where he stayed for
25 years, moving at that time to 52 W
Third St., across from the Presbyterian
church, where he remained until his
retirement.
He was preceded in death by
his first wife, Carrie Reed Mowery
[relative of your editor]. His second
wife, Lydia, survives him; also one
brother, H. A. Mowery, and two sisters,
Mrs. Cora Balch and Mrs. Jessie Mansfield, all of Ashland.
He was a member of Trinity
Lutheran church, where services will be
held Saturday at 2 p.m., conducted by the
Rev. Nathan F. Harter. Burial will be
made in Ashland cemetery.
The family will receive friends
at the Denbow and Bear funeral home
Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. The body will lie
in state at the church for one hour preceding the services.
Harvey A. Mowery
Ashland Times-Gazette, 12 Jun 1956.
H. A. Mowery, 92, Well-Known Photographer, Dies Following Illness.
H. A. Mowery, 92, well known
city photographer, died at 4:40 p.m. Sunday at Samaritan Hospital following a
lingering illness.
For more than three generations,
Mr. Mowery was known as Ashland’s
leading photographer. When he retired
from his studio at 58 Main St in 1948 he
had the distinction of having been in business longer than any other businessman in
the city.
In 1889 he purchased a part interest in the Shoemaker and Stevens pho-
tographic business and in 1901 he became sole owner. His artistry with the
camera brought him honors and acclaim.
For 60 years he served as Commercial
photographer for Myers. He also played
the violin in the Ashland Orchestra for a
time and became adept at trap shooting
and archery.
He was the son of Michael and
Mary Steward Mowery. Mowery was
born in Fostoria, Oct. 13, 1864. He had
been a resident of Ashland the last 70
years.
Mr. Mowery was married Dec.
30, 1891 to Eva Ferrell, who survives
him. Other survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Marguerite Neal of Ashland; a
granddaughter, Mrs. Robert Cranston of
San Antonio, Tex.; two greatgrandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Cora
Balch and Mrs. Jessie Mansfield both of
Ashland. A son Donald and a brother
preceded him in death.
He was a member of the Trinity
Lutheran Church and of the IOOF Lodge
No. 83 for 65 years.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Gilbert
Funeral Home with the Dr. Robert
Kinsey officiating.
The family will receive friends
from 7 to 9 p.m. The IOOF services will
be held at the funeral home at 8:30 p.m.
Burial will be in Ashland Cemetery.
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