BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas
of
Adams County, Ohio
Publ. 1880
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ZEPHANIAH WADE.
Zephania Wade located a farm that is now owned
by John Morgan. On this farm is a splendid
spring, and on that account, Mr. Wade and Jacob
Yocum both wanted this particular lot of land. To
decide which should have it, they agreed to shoot at a
"mark" for choice. They placed the target against a
white oak tree, that stands in the boundaries of the road,
that passes near this spring and house. This tree is
yet vigorous and healthy and still plainly shows, though
healed over, the scars where the bullets were chopped
out, that lay embedded in the wood. Mr. Wade
won the choice, and built his house near the spring.
Here on the 20th of November, 1795, was born his daughter
Christiana, now Mrs. Trenary, of Manchester, who
was the first white child born in Monroe township.
Here Mr. Wade cleared up his farm, reared his
family, one of whom is now the venerable Capt.
William Wade, of Wrightsville, and here he lived
the remainder of his life. Since his decease, his old
farm and home have passed into the hands of
strangers, and the memories of those early years, with their
incidents, that would now be so full of historic interest,
are entombed in the endless night of oblivion.
Source: From Caldwell's Adams County, Ohio Atlas 1880 - Page
19
NOTE: Zephaniah was spelled both ways in this
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Jefferson Twp. -
JESSE WAMSLEY - The grandfather of our subject of
this sketch, Isaac Wamsley, was born in Germany and
came to America sometime previous to the Revolutionary war.
At the same time he embarked, a brother took passage on
another vessel for this country. This last ship was
lost at sea, and nothing was ever heard of it, or its crew.
The vessel that Isaac Wamsley came in landed at New
York, and Mr. Wamsley settled near that city and
worked at the sail making trade. After the war was
over, he removed to Horsehead, N. J., and engaged in farming
where he remained about twelve years, then removed down the
Ohio and settled opposite the mouth of Brush creek on the
Kentucky side of the river. In 1795 or '96 he settled
on Olds Brush creek in Adams county, near the old Brush
creek forge where he lived and died. The farm he
settled is now the property of Wesley Satterfield.
Sometime after Mr. Wamsley's arrival in this country,
he married Leah Stout. They reared a family of
five children, four sons and a daughter. One of the
sons, named William, married Sarah Wikoff, of
Kentucky, nad settled about a mile east of where the village
of Wamsleyville has been since located. Here he
remained until 1817, when he came to Jefferson township and
settled the farm now owned by his grandson, J. P. Wmsley.
He reared a family of eight children - all sons, who grew to
manhood, married and raised families. They all became
members of the M. E. church, two of them ministers of that
denomination. But two of this family now survive,
Jesse and Christopher. The latter lives in
Meigs township. Jesse Wamsley has lived in
Jefferson township all his life. At the age of
fourteen, he united with the M. E. church at Wamsleyville,
was licensed to exhort at sixteen, and at the age of
twenty-one, was licensed by the Presiding Elder, James
Quinn, to preach, and was regularly ordained at
Chillicothe, in 1836, by Bishop Soule. He
traveled in the ministry about three years, the first year
as junior preacher with Rev. Cherington; next year he
had had charge of the circuit. He continued as a local
preacher until the war, when a division occurred in the
church, with which branch he united. He married
Mary McClintock. They have reared a family of two
children - both sons, James Pincher and William
Finley Wamsley.
Source: From Caldwell's Adams County, Ohio Atlas 1880 -
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Wayne Twp. -
T. C. WASSON - The subject of this
sketch is of Irish descent. His grandfather, John
Wasson, was a native of Ireland, and married in that
country. At an early day, he emigrated from there with
his wife to America, and settled in Rockbridge county,
Virginia, where he raised a numerous family. Among his
children, was a son named Thomas, who married
Rebecca Cowan. This Thomas Wasson and wife
removed from Virginia to Ohio in 1804, and settled first one
and a half miles east of Winchester, which was then a part
of Wayne township, where he lived a year or two. He
then removed to Cherry Fork and settled near North Liberty,
on the farm now owned by his son, T. C. Wasson,
Esq. He and his wife both united with the U. P.
church at Cherry Fork, soon after its organization in 1805,
of which they remained honored and consistent members
through life. Mr. Wasson cleared up his farm
and lived on it, until his decease, Dec. 3, 1851, aged 73
years, 2 months and 24 days; his wife died Aug. 5, 1838,
aged 60 years, 9 months and 2 days. They __ in Cherry
Fork graveyard. They reared a family of six children,
three sons and three daughters, who all grew to years of
maturity and married. After the death of his first
wife, Mr. Wasson entered into a second marriage with
Elkiah Spencer. By this marriage he raised a
son named William F., who was born Aug. 29, 1845.
This son enlisted in the war of the rebellion in Co. H.,
Capt. D. Urie, 173d Regt., O. V. I., Col. J. R. Hurd.
He died of disease at Johnsonville, Tennessee, Aug. 29,
1865. Mr. Wasson's surviving children by his
first wife, were named Samuel C., John F. T. C., Ellen
Q., Rebecca and Polly Wasson, all of whom grew to
years of maturity and married. Samuel C., the
oldest, married Jane Young, of Adams county.
They both fell victims to the cholera in 1849, Mr. Wasson
dying on the 11th and Mrs. Wasson on the 13th of
August. Ellen Q., married Matthew Campbell,
who has since deceased. She now lives a widow in
Promise City, Wayne county, Iowa. John F.
married Sarah McComas. They live in Tippecanoe
county, Indiana. Rebecca married James M.
Campbell who died, and she now lives a widow in Tipton
county, Indiana. Polly married Joshua
Matthews. They live in Missouri. T. C.
Wasson, the third son, whose name stands at the head of
this article, and a sketch of whose home adorns the pages of
this volume, was born on the old homestead, that he now
owns, May, 20, 1812. Here he grew up to manhood.
He married Miss Martha P. Campbell, Feb. 9, 1832.
They are the parents of eight children; one died in infancy;
two, Margaret Ann and Rebecca M., died in
early years. The other five, named T. S. Wasson,
Matilda Jane, James P., Martha M., and S. Y. Wasson,
grew to years of maturity and married. T. S. Wasson,
the oldest, was born Feb. 22, 1833; was married to Miss
E. J. Askren, Oct. 19, 1853. He is engaged in
farming in Wayne township, and is a ruling elder in the U.
P. church at Cherry Fork. Matilda Jane, born
Mar. 17, 1836, married B. F. Pittenger, Sept. 10,
1857. They live near Minneapolis, Ottawa county,
Kansas. Martha M., was born Feb. 8, 1840;
married J. S. Glasgow, Oct. 18, 1860; lives in North
Liberty. S. Y. Wasson was born Nov. 5, 1851.
He graduated at Oxford College. He followed the
mercantile business in Gallipolis ten years, and represented
Gallia county in the Legislature two terms. He married
Miss Jennie Henderson, of Butler county, Ohio, Sept.
3, 1867. He is now engaged in farming in that county.
James P. was born Dec. 18, 1837; married Martha
McIntire, Sep. 8, 1859. He is now engaged in
farming in Douglas county, Kansas. In August, 1863, he
enlisted in Co. G, Capt. Urie, 129th Regt., O. V. I.
Col. John commanding; served mostly in Kentucky and
Tennessee; was in the fight of Cumberland Gap, and several
smaller engagements, and was honorably discharged at the
expiration of his time. These children were all
baptized in the U. P. church at Cherry Fork, of which they
became members. Two of them, Matilda Jane and
Samuel Y., having removed outside the bounds of any
U. P. church, have united with Presbyterian churches in
their neighborhoods. T. C. Wasson and his first
wife, both united with the U. P. church at Cherry Fork, soon
after their marriage, she remaining a member until her
decease, and Mr. Wasson still continuing.
Mr. Wasson married for a second wife, Mrs. Eliza J.
McNeil. This lady was born in 1818, and was, in
her infancy, baptized in the U. P. church at Tranquility.
She was married to Jesse McNeil, Oct. 20, 1836.
Soon after their marriage, they united with the U. P. church
at Cherry Fork, of which they lived honored and consistent
members. Mr. McNeil was born Oct. 24, 1914, and
died Sept. 4, 1852. By this marriage Mrs. McNeil
became the mother of eight children, four of whom died in
infancy. The four survivors who grew to years of
maturity, were Mary Ann, John W., James G., and
Jesse McNeil. Mary Ann was born Dec. 3, 1837, and
died Feb. 1, 1856; never married. John W. was
born June 10, 1841. Enlisted in the service of his
country, July 4, 1861, in Col. I., 4th Regt., Iowa Volunteer
Infantry. He participated in many of the hard fought
battles of the war; was at the battle of Springfield,
Missouri; at Pea Ridge, Arkansas; was through the whole
siege of Vicksburg; was at the battles of Chattanooga; at
Mission Ridge, etc.; was finally captured in March, 1864,
while with a scouting party, somewhere in Georgia, and
carried to Andersonville where he died June 16, 1864.
James G. was born Jan. 16, 1847; enlisted in the 46th
Regt., Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Co. H., in May, 1864, and
died of disease, brought on by taking cold after an attack
of measles, at Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1864. Jesse
was born Feb. 14, 1853; married Jennie May in
March, 1873. He resides in Wayne county, Iowa; engaged
in farming; has two children, both boys. In the fall
of 1856, after her husband's death, Mrs. McNeil's
parents, with her brothers and sisters, emigrating to Iowa,
she accompanied them. Upon their arrival there, they
located in Wayne county, Mrs. McNeil settling in
Promise City, while her parents located in the country
adjoining the town. Here she united with the U. P.
church, by letter from Cherry Fork. Here she lived,
taking a lively interest in church affairs, and working
actively in the Sabbath Schools, until 1872, when she became
the wife of Mr. Wasson, with whom she returned to the
neighborhood in which her earlier years were passed, again
uniting with her old Cherry Fork church. Now in the
afternoon of life, Mr. Wasson and his lady, in their
pleasant home amid the scenes of their early years, blessed
with an abundance of this world's goods, are enjoying the
fruits of their well spent labors, with the respect of all
who knew them.
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