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BIOGRAPHIES:
Source:
HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY
together with
Historic Notes on the Northwest
and
The State of Ohio.
Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts,
Private and Official Correspondence and
all other Authentic Sources, Ohio - Publ. 1881
By R. S. Dills
Illustrated.
Dayton, Ohio
ODell & Mayer, Publishers.
1881
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Cedarville Twp.
JAMES JEFFREYS, furniture
manufacturer, Cedarville, was born in Greenville County,
Virginia, Jan. 30, 1821. Is the son of Silas and
Susan (Pruit) Jeffreys. Silas was a
descendant of the Catawba tribe of Indians. James
was married Sept. 7, 1852 to Miss Nancy Wooten, who
bore him six children, three of whom are now living,
Salathiel A., Elmer, and Emma. His first
wife dying, he again, Jan. 24, 1865, married Elizabeth
Crone, daughter of Levi born by the last
marriage, U. H. W. O., and Ernest. James is the
senior member of the Jeffreys Furniture Manufacturing
Company salesroom, No. 9 Greene Street, Xenia, where can be
found the latest patterns in furniture.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
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Cedarville Twp.
MASON JEFFREYS, furniture
manufacturer, Cedarville, was born in Cedarville, Sept. 8,
1835, and is the son of Uriah and Caroline Jeffreys,
who were born in North Carolina, and came to this county
about the year 1830. Uriah was a descendant of
the tribe of Catawba Indians. Mason, the
subject of this sketch, remained at home with his parents
until he reached his majority, receiving his education in
the common district schools. In 1860, he married
Miss Decatur and Emeline Heithcook. Three
children have been born to them, two of which are now
living, John R. and Freddie.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
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Silver Creek Twp. -
SMITH JENKS, farmer and stock dealer,
Jamestown, is a native of this county; was born Jan. 1,
1845, and is a son of Levi and Elizabeth (Sanders) Jenks,
residents of Fayette County, where they were married in
1822. They had a family of eight children - our
subject being the third - seven still living. Our
subject was married in Fayette County, to Miss Rebecca,
daughter of Enos and Eunice (Ross) Harper, Oct.
1845. Two children, Alice J. and Levi E.
both living, are the result of this union. Mr.
Jenks has a farm of fifty acres, well improved, situated
three miles east of Jamestown, where he lives. He is
one of Silver Creek Township's prominent stock dealers -
trades in all kinds of stock. He served three months
in the rebellion in Company C, Fifth Ohio Cavalry. Was
in several heavy battles, and came home without a wound.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
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Jefferson
Twp. -
ROBERT JOHNSON, farmer, Bowersville, is a native of
this township, where he was reared, and married Miss
Eliza J. Ogan. Ten children were born to them:
Fadona, Solomon, Euphemia, Elma, Victoria, Ida May, Alonzo,
Lora and Cora; Victoria and Ida,
deceased. Mr. Johnson's father, Thomas,
was born in Maryland, Sept. 5, 1781; his mother, Margaret
(Stewart), in West Virginia, in 1790, where they were
married. Of this family there were six children:
William S., Elizabeth J., Robert, and Mary A.,
living; Joseph and Margaret, deceased.
Mr. Johnson came to this county in 1814; he and his
wife died here, and were interred in Bowersville cemetery.
Mrs. Johnson jr.'s parents, Evan and
Susanna (Wikel) Ogan, were natives of West Virginia' he
died in Missouri, she in Illinois. They were parents
of eighteen children, all living; the youngest is about
thirty years of age. Mrs. Johnson, the oldest,
was born Apr. 6, 1825. Our subject has a farm of
eighty acres, well improved, on which he lives, situated one
and one-half miles northwest of Bowersville. He had,
at one time, two hundred and eighty acres here, but lost two
hundred acres through the failure of a brother.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
842 |
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Jefferson
Twp. -
W. H. JOHNSON, wagon and carriage maker, Bowersville,
is a native of Ross County, and came to this county with his
parents in 1849, where he has since resided, except five
years which he spent in Indiana. William and
Margaret (Cox) Johnson, his parents, were married in
Ross County; he was a native of Ohio, where he died, she of
Indiana, where her parents died. They owned the land
where Indianapolis now stands. There were nine
children of this family, eight living: Elizabeth,
Malinda, Martha, Mary, John, Maria, William H., and
Elijah; Melissa died about 1860, aged about thirty-five
years. Our subject was married, Aug. 15, 1878, to
Miss Elizabeth F. Stevens, of Xenia; one child,
Melvin S., who was born May 1, 1879. Mr.
Johnson is a good workman, and does a thriving business.
The receipts for work done in his shop last year amounted to
about $3,000.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
842 |
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Miami
Twp. -
WILLIAM S. JOHNSTON, general business,
Yellow Springs, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the
year 1815, and is a son of Thomas and Margaret Johnson,
the father a native of Maryland, and the mother of Virginia.
They immigrated to Ohio in the year 1814, with a family of
six children, three boys and three girls. W. S.,
the subject of our sketch, was married in 1836 to Miss
Nancy A. Stevens, daughter of Andrew and Ann Stevens,
of this county. His first wife died in 1853, by whom
he had seven children: Margaret A., Joseph S., Martha J.,
Abner, William E., and Nathaniel Was again
married in 1854, to Miss Jane A. Cameron, daughter of
Eli Gaskil of Clinton County, Ohio, and had two
children by her, Emma May, now dead, and Josephine.
He is a member of Yellow Springs Lodge No. 421, F. and A. M.
He had been real estate and personal assessor for over nine
years. Received his education in Greene County, where
the principal part of his youth was spent. He is
now on the shady side of life and is uncommonly active, with
a whole-souled, lively and genial disposition, that bids
fair to carry on for many years to come.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
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Xenia Twp. -
C. B.
JONES, physician, Xenia, was born in 1849. In
1833 his father George W. Jones, immigrated to this
county from Virginia, and his mother came from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1818, when but a child. They reared a
family of nine children. The subject of this sketch
received his education as a physician in 1872, in
Cincinnati, and commenced practicing the same year.
Was married to Miss Alice Ewing in 1874, and has two
children, Florence and Ewing, who are
both young, and living with their parents. Is now
physician at the Soldier's and Sailors' Orphans' Home, near
this city, which position he had held for over five years.
Is master of the Masonic lodge in this city, and is a young
man who, by his gentlemanly deportment, has gained the good
will and a fair portion of the patronage of the people of
his county.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 -
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