Erection, First Election of
Township Officers, Area, Boundaries and
Population by Decades - Physical Features -
Streams and Soil - Pioneers - First Marriage
in the Township - Justices - Grist-Mills -
Religious Societies - Schools - Villages -
Cannonsburg, Rawson and Cory.
JUNE 4, 1832,
the board of commissioners, in compliance
with a petition presented by citizens of
Township 1 south, Range 9, erected Union
Township from territory previously embraced
in Liberty.....................MORE TO COME
Pioneers -
PHILIP CRAMER
NICHOLAS FOLK
and family
GEORGE BURKET
The next
settlers of Union were Jacob fix, sr., and
sons Jacob and William......
WENMAN WADE
DAVID and
CHRISTIAN FOX
HENRY AND
MARGARET DEEDS
The year
1834 ushered in quite a number of families,
Henry Stover, Jacob Huffman, Nicholas
and Dillard Dukes, Joseph Baker, John
Flick, Abraham Watkins, Joseph Sorbie
and Shedlock Pancoast, all coming
during that year. On the 2d of
November, 1833, Henry Stover, of
Crawford County (now Wyandot), entered the
southwest quarter of Section 7, Union
Township, and the following spring located
on his land. He was a native of
Virginia, and his wife, Margaret, of
Ross County, Ohio. In 1842 he was
elected justice of hte peace and served one
term. He resided on his farm in
Section 7 until his death in 1849. His
widow and son, Hezekiah, reside in
Benton Ridge, and two of his daughters in
Union Township. Jacob and Susannah
Huffman, he a native of Virginia and she
of Pennsylvania, located in Liberty Township
in 1833, and in 1834 moved into Union,
locating on Section 15. They reared a
family of ten children, two of whom reside
in the township. The mother died June
6, 1869, and the father on the 7th of
November following, and both are kindly
spoken of by those who knew them best.
NICHOLAS AND
DILLARD R. DUKES
JOSEPH AND
ELIZABETH BAKER
JOHN FLICK
ABRAHAM WATKINS
In 1835
Francis and Amasa Clymer, William Wade,
Timothy Main, Eli Gilpin and Isaac
Clabaugh settled in Union. .... MORE TO
COME
Thomas Dewese,
Isaac Wade, Collis Church, Charles
Vermillion, Daniel Showalter, Daniel and
David Stratton, Eleazur Perrigo, Harmon
Baler and James Clark all located
in the township in 1836. Mr. Dewese
entered the west half of the northeast
quarter of Section22, May 26, 1834, but did
not remove from Wayne County for two years
afterward. His wife, Sarah,
bore him nine children, of whom Flavius
J., of Orange Township, is the only
survivor. Mr. Dewese served one
term as justice of the peace, and died in
1853. His widow married Levi
Showalter, and died in 1881.
ISAAC WADE
COLLIS CHURCH
CHARLES AND ANN
VERMILLION
DANIEL AND SUSAN
SHOWALTER
DANIEL STRATTON
WILLIAM AND
SUSAN GREEN
BENJAMIN AND
JANE MARSHALL
REV. RICHARD
BIGGS
Other Settlers
of this period were James BAurns, Edward
Taylor, Abraham Spangler and James
Watkins........ MORE TO COME
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