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DAVID T, MAYNARD. By J. H.
Donaldson, of Ripley.
David T. Maynard was born in Chenango county, New York, July 29th,
1808. Died Dec. 30th, 1884, in Ripley township, Huron county, Ohio, at
the age of 76 years, 5 months and 1 day.
He was the first born in the family of David and
Mary Maynard. When he was about three years old his parents moved
into Cayuga county, New York, and remained there until 1832, when they came
to Huron county, Ohio, and settled in Ripley township. David T.
remained in New York state after his parents left, until the next year, in
June 1833, when he, too, came to Huron county, in company with James
Hopkins and Walter Holmes. Before taking his leave for New
York state again, which occurred in a week or ten days, he bought one
hundred acres of land in the woods of Ripley township, of Thomas Wallen.
On Sept. 1st, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth
Whiting, of Cayuga county, New York. He returned to Huron county,
Ohio, with his wife, the same fall, and at once put up a log house on his
land in Ripley, in which they began house-keeping. The experiences of
Pioneer life were theirs, but in a few years, by dint of hard work and
economy, the forests gave way to fruitful fields and the log cabin to more
capacious and modern farm buildings.
The health of his wife failed, and on the 12th day of
January, 1863, she died, having shared with him the joys and sorrows
incident to life, for nearly thirty years.
By this marriage there were born to them six children,
three sons and three daughters, as follows: Alanson W., Ira M.,
Anna E., Mary T., Louis J. and George F., all of whom are now living
(March, 1885) except Lois J., who died Oct. 9th, 1859, at the
age of fifteen years. Two of his sons, Alanson W. and Ira M.,
now reside in Greenwich, and George F. in Ripley, Huron county, Ohio.
Of the daughters, Anna E. (Mrs. Frank Grandy), resides in Fairfield,
Lenawee county, Michigan, and Mary T. (Mrs. J. E. Terry), in
Marietta, Washington county, Ohio.
On Aug. 6th, 1865, about two and a half years after the
death of his wife, he married Mrs. Lorinda M. Dickson, nee
Miss Palmer who survives him. By his second union there was born
to them only one child, a daughter, Diana Maud, who now resides with
her mother on the old homestead.
Three brothers also survive him: D. Z., John
and G. C., all of whom reside in Ripley township, Huron county,
Ohio.
He was a man of considerable independence and positive
force, always entertaining and daring to express an opinion, however much it
might differ from the opinions of others.
By his death, the community in which he lived lost a
good neighbor, his wife a kind husband, and his children an indulgent
father.
Source: The Firelands Pioneer Qty. Vol. XIII - 1878 on pg. 103 |
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