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1803
History of Knox County, Ohio
It's Past and Present,
containing
A Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the North-
west; A complete History of Knox County; It's Townships, City, Towns, Villages,
Schools, Churches, Societies, Industries, Statistics, etc.; A Record of Its
Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of its early settlers and
Prominent men;  Views of Its Finest Buildings;
Miscellaneous Matter; Map of the
County; Biographies and Histories
of Pioneer Families, etc.
Compiled by N. N. Hill, Jr.
- Illustrated -
Mt. Vernon, Ohio:
A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers
1881
 

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  URIAH BAILE, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Frederick county, Maryland, Oct. 11, 1812; came to Ohio in 1845, and was married July 15, 1838, to Susanna Nicodemas, who was born June 26, 1816; they have the following children, viz.: Sarah E., born Sept. 1, 1839; Abraham O., Mar. 3, 1842; Augustus E., Feb. 25, 1844; Emory R., Sept. 7, 1845; Charles W., July 1, 1848; Martha C. Nov. 18, 1851; Bascom C., Sept. 21, 1854; Morgan, Apr. 27, 1856; and Eugene E., July 1, 1860.  The following have deceased; Sarah E., died Aug. 22, 1840; Charles W., June 26, 1851; Abraham O., Feb. 3, 1863.  Abraham was a soldier of the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry.  His death occurred from sickness contracted in the army.  Augustus and Emory R. reside in Louisville, Kentucky.  Martha was married to Albert Tobin, and lives in Republican county, Kansas.  Bascom C. was married Deborah Zolman; they reside in Morrow county, Ohio.  Mr. Baile owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 589
  WILLIAM R. BAILEY, farmer, Jefferson township, post office, Jelloway; son of John R. and Mary A. Bailey, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Nov. 10, 1846.  He was educated by his parents, and on the twenty-third of March, 1869, at the age of twenty-three yeas, he married Miss Lucy E. Whitney, third daughter of Ebenezer J., and Sarah A., Whitney, born in Brown township, Knox county, June 5, 1844.  After his marriage he located on a farm in Jefferson township, owned by J. R. Bailey, his father, two and a quarter miles east of Jelloway, where he now resides.  He has made farming a specialty all his life.  He is now holding the office of trustee in said township.  Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the parents of four children, viz.:  William A., born Jan. 12, 1871; Whitney J., June 5, 1872; Henry C., Feb. 10, 1875; Oliver E., July 5, 1879; all of whom are living.  Mrs. Bailey is a consistent member of Wesley chapel, of Jefferson township.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 589
  BAKER BROTHERS, druggists, Mt. Vernon.  George R. and S. L. Baker, sons of Samuel Baker, were born near Uniontown, Muskingum county, and devoted the early years of life in working on their father's farm.  George R. enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry, and was in the service during the war, serving part of the time in the capacity of hospital steward.  After his return from the army he engaged in the drug business at Tarlton, in which he continued until he came to Mt. Vernon  S. L. Baker enlisted in the Ohio National guard, and after the close of the war engaged in general mercantile business in Adamsville,in which he continued until he came to Mt. Vernon.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 589
  JAMES W. BAKER, farmer and stock-raiser, Jefferson township, post office Greersville, son of Philip and Sarah Baker; born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Dec. 7, 1841; was raised by his parents, and received a common-school education.  Soon after he arrived at the age of twenty-one yeas he purchased a portion of the home place, where he now resides, and is the owner of four hundred and seventy-five acres of land - three hundred and seventy-five acres in the home place.  Mr. Baker has held quite a number of township offices viz:  Clerk, assessor, and land appraiser, and is now justice of the peace.  He was also census enumerator for 1880.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 589
  PHILIP BAKER (deceased), Jefferson township; born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 22, 1794.  In 1808 he was brought to Ohio by his parents, who located near Danville, Knox county, where he was married July 19, 1821, to Miss Sarah Butler, a daughter of John Butler, born in Virginia, Mar. 20, 1800.  After his marriage he located in Jefferson township, one mile north of Greersville, on the farm now owned by James W., his son, where he raised his family, consisting of ten children, viz.:  Allen R., born July 6, 1822; Druzilla, Aug. 5, 1824; Hester, Apr. 29, 1826; Oliver, Apr. 1, 1828; John, Sept. 4, 1832; infant, a girl, June 22, 1834; Caroline, Dec. 26, 1835; infant, a girl, Sept. 19, 1838; Jackson, Aug. 27, 1839; James W., Dec. 7, 1841; four of whom, namely, Oliver, James W., Hester, and Caroline, are still living.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 589
  ELISHA S. BALCOM, Gambier, retired, was born in Rhode Island on the third day of June, 1803.  In 1824 he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk, and continued about two years.  In 1826 he was engaged by Stanley Mann, in the counting room of his factory, and remained with him one year.  In 1827 he commenced working at the cabinetmaking business, which he followed as his vocation about five years.  In 1832 he engaged in farming, and continued in that business about twenty years.  In 1852 he worked in a boot and shoe factory about four or five months, and then moved to Vermont, where he spent three years as clerk in an iron manufactory.  In 1855 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Gambier, this county, where he at once commenced work again at his trade as cabinetmaker, and continue4d in the business until 1877, when he retired from business and is living a quiet life in Gambier.
     He has been married twice; first in 1829, to Miss Lydia Jillson, of Cumberland county, Rhode Island, who was born January 13, 1808.  Their union resulted in two children - one son and one daughter.
     Mrs. Balcom died Nov. 25, 1832.  His little daughter died a few months prior to the death of its mother, and the son died a few months later.  The death of his wife and two children occurred within the space of nine months' time
     Mr. Balcom consummated marriage with Miss Clarissa Blake, Dec. 1, 1833, born June 3, 1806.
     They remained in Vermont until 1855, when they emigrated to Gambier, this county, where she deceased Nov. 8, 1879.  Their union resulted in one son, Roger, who graduated at Kenyon college, and is now engaged as an Episcopal minister at Norwalk, Ohio.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 589
  JOSEPH L. BALDWIN, attorney and counsellor at law, Fredericktown, Ohio.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 590


Zenas Ball

 AARON T. BALL, farmer, post office, Fredericktown. - He was born in Morris township, Dec. 19, 1820, and has always resided here, on the same farm where he was born; he was married in 1846 to Miss Sydney Ann Clay who was born at Newmarket, Frederick county, Maryland, Apr. 2, 1820.  They have nine children, all living and enjoying good health, viz.: Webster C., Nellie S., Nettie A., Walter L., Anna M. Julia Z., Oliver T., Willard E. and F. Grant.
     Aaron T. received a liberal education, attended the Martinsburgh academy, after which he attended Mt. Vernon academy, taught by Professor R. R. Sloan.  After completing his education he engaged in teaching for five terms.  Mr. Ball and family are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He has been identified with the Republican party since its organization.
     Webster C. resides in Cleveland, Ohio, and is engaged in the wholesale and retail jewelry business at No. 233 Superior street.  He was married Oct. 15, 1879, to Miss Florence I. Young, of Kenton, Ohio.  They have one son, Sidney, born Sept. 19, 1880.
     Walter L. resides in Cleveland, is reading law, and expects to engage in that profession.
     Nellie S. and Nettie A. have been engaged in teaching - the latter instrumental music.
     Mr. Aaron T. Ball has always resided in this township, is a farmer by occupation, and owns a well improved farm, which was owned and improved by his father.  His father, ZENAS BALL, (deceased), was born in Essex county, New Jersey, Nov. 15, 1892, and was married Mar. 19, 1819, to Sarah Taylor, who was born May 24, 1796.  They had two children: Aaron born Dec. 19, 1820; David, born July 5, 1829 (died June 29, 1830.
     Mr. Zenas Ball died Oct. 3, 1860.  Mrs. Sarah Ball died Mar. 30, 1860.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 590
  ANDREW J. BALL, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in Morris township, this county, in 1832, and was married in 1858, to Rebecca McFadden, who was born in Mt. Vernon, in 1831.  They had six children: Henry, born Jan. 19, 1860; Elmer E., Oct. 16, 1861; William C., Aug. 19, 1863; Minnie Blanche, July 13, 1865; Charles, Sept. 5, 1867; Ida May, Jan. 7, 1869; Fred.  Clifton, Aug. 25, 1870; and May Frances, Feb. 5, 1874.  The following are deceased: Elmer E., Charlie, Ida May, and William C.
     Andrew J. Ball is the son of Silas Ball, who was born Mar. 15, 1795, in New Jersey, and was married Aug. 12, 1819, to Ann Broadwell, who was born in New Jersey, June 20, 801.  They had six children, viz.: Elizabeth, born Sept. 30, 1820; Sarah J., Nov. 19, 1824; William B., Feb. 16, 1826; Lydia A., Aug. 25, 1827; Louisa M., Dec. 10, 1829; Andrew J., Feb. 20, 1832; Harriet N., Sept. 9, 1835; and Alfred P., Sept. 30, 1844.
     Silas Ball died Jan. 8, 1864; Mrs. Ann Ball died June 3, 1873; William B., died Aug. 1, 1826; Harriet N. died Dec. 2, 1839; and Lydia, Apr. 30, 1862.
     John Ball, father of Silas, was born Feb. 14, 1746, and had the following children: John, Uzziel, David, Daniel, Silas, Elias and Mahlon.
     The Ball family were among the first settlers of Knox county.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 590

 		   DAVID BALL, (deceased).  He was a native of Essex county, New Jersey, a descendant of Timothy Ball born in 1756, and came to Ohio in 1803; purchased a military section of land (one thousand acres), of Lemuel Cobb, for three shillings per acre.  He came to Ohio in company with a Mr. Douglass on horseback and landed at Zansville.  The only road from Zanesville to Sandusky was was an Indian trail. He met and conversed with the chief of the Wyandot Indians, and asked him if he would allow his boys to come here; he answered, "yes, if they behave themselves."
      David Ball was married Jan. 12, 1779, to Mary Baldwin.  They had four sons, Hiram, Cyrus, Zenas and Timothy.  Zenas Ball was born Nov. 15, 1792, and was married Mar. 16, 1820, to Sarah Taylor, who was born May 24, 1796.  They had two sons, Aaron T., born Dec. 19, 1820, and David, born  July 5, 1829, and died June 25, 1830.
     Zenas Ball came to Ohio in 1819, and made arrangements to have some land cleared, on the farm where his son, Aaron T.  now resides.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving over three months.
     Mr. Ball was a strong advocate for the cause of temperance, and had the first log rolling in the neighborhood where they dispensed with strong drink.  Several of the neighbors became offended and returned home without supper, but Mr. Ball was temperance all the same.
     The first Sabbath-school organized in Morris township was at his house, superintended by his sister Lydia, who was a great worker in church, and a pioneer missionary.  She is yet living and resides in Newark, New Jersey, aged ninety years.  There were two married women who learned to read at this Sabbath-school.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 590
  SCHUYLER C. BALL, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1840, and was married in 1865 to Diana Ink, who was born in Knox county in 1839.  They have one daughter, Stella, who was born in September 1869.
     Mr. Ball has always resided in this county, farming being his chief occupation.  His parents are pioneers of this county.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 591
  THOMAS J. BALL, Fredericktown, brickmaker; was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1840.  He came to Ohio with his parents in 1850, and was married in 1866 to Margaret Brawner, who was born in the same county in 1844.  They have one daughter, Effie May, who was born in 1867.
     Mr. Ball is engaged in burning brick, and supplies the brick that are used for building purposes in Fredericktown, owning the only brick yard in this vicinity.  He was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment O. V. I. under Colonel Vance, and continued in the service for three years, participating in the engagements at Arkansas Post, Vicksburgh, Jackson, Mississippi, Sabine Cross Roads, Grand Coteau, Louisiana, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, Fort Spanish, and Mobile and was honorably discharged.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 591
  UZZIEL BALL, Morris township (deceased), was born May 8, 1790, in Morris county, New Jersey, and was married Nov. 9, 1816, to Peninah Lyon, who was born Jan. 10, 1797, in Morris county, New Jersey.  She was a daughter of Simeon Lyon.  Mr. Ball came to Knox county in 1814.  Mrs. Ball came with her parents in 1806.  They had the following children:  Martha, Amanda, Eliza, Mahlon, Susan, Albert Judson.  The following are dead: Amanda, Eliza, Mahlon.  Uzziel Ball died in Morris township, Knox  county.  Mr. Ball was justice of the peace of Morris township about fourteen years ago.  He was a worthy member of the Baptist church, and has done much for the general improvement of this county.  He was an honest and upright man, through his industry, economy and frugality he acquired considerable property.
     Mr. Ball has a clear recollection of pioneer life.  She remembers quite distinctly of seeing Johnny Appleseed, also many Indians, and well understood their ancient customs.  She remembers about the forts or block-houses, into which they would flee for refuge in time of danger.  She also remembers the first Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches of this country.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 590
  CHARLES BANBURY, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, oldest son of the aforesaid Richard Banbury, was born in Devonshire, England, Oct. 17, 1815.  He emigrated with his parents to America in 1832, who located in Jefferson township, Knox county, Sept. 16, 1841.  He married Miss Barbara Robeson, born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio, Jan. 18, 1819, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Robeson.  They settled in Jefferson township on a forty acre tract of land, where they lived a few years, when Mr. Banbury purchased and moved on a seventy acre lot of land in the same township, remaining five years.
     In 1853 he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living.  He has made farming and stock raising his vocation.  They raised a family of nine children, viz.: Sarah A., Solomon, John R., Mary E., Richard, Martin F., Martha F., Charles F., and Albert L.  All are living.  Solomon served three years and three month in the civil war.  He enlisted in company A, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in October, 1861, and was honorably discharged in January, 1865.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 591
  JOHN C. BANBURY, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, son of Richard and Mary Barnbary, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1832.  He lived with his parents, in said township, until 1852, when he married Miss Eliza Caldwell, who was born in Germany i the year 1831, and emigrated to America in the year 1843.  Mr. and Mrs. Banbury became the father and mother of twelve children, all of whom yet survive.  Mr. Banbury is now living about one mile north of where he was born.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881
  RICHARD BANBURY, deceased, Jefferson township; was born in Devonshire, England, in 1791.  He married Miss Mary Cornish in 1814, who was born in Devonshire, England in 1795.  He, with his wife and four children emigrated to America in 1832, and located in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio.  His first purchase of land was from William Starner, June 26, 1832.  The farm is now owned by his three sons, Charles, Richard and John C.  By the new township line that was run a few years since, the farm is now in Union township.  He lived on the same farm and followed farming and stock raising as his vocation until his death.  Mr. Banbury and wife raised a family of six children, four born in England, viz.: Charles, Mary A., Elizabeth and Richard.  Two were born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, John C. and Hannah.  All are living, married and have families.
     Mr. Banbury was father of six children, grandfather of forty-two children, and great-grandfather of forty-two children.  He departed this life in 1875, aged eighty-four years.  His companion survived until July 3, 1877, when she died, aged eighty-one years.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 591
  ANTHONY BANNING, deceased - Among the old settlers whose names have figured conspicuously in the history of Knox county, was Anthony Banning.   Connected with the business the growth and prosperity of the county at every period of its history after the first, and concerned as he was in various industrial pursuits, in commercial operations, in temperance movements, in church affairs, in political actions; as his name ahs been widely known in legal history, his memory is worthy of more than a passing notice.
     "Judge" Banning as he was called more frequently than "Parson," notwithstanding his monument states that he was a Methodist preacher sixty years, was born in Talbot County, Maryland, May 13, 1768, and was the only son of James Banning, a proprietor of much consideration and influence, who had but two children- the son, James Mansfield Anthony Banning and a daughter who married Benjamin Chew, of Philadelphia, chief justice of the State of Pennsylvania, a lawyer of much distinction and a man of great wealth, who was a bosom friend of Washington, and whose family were his most intimate associates.
     His parents died when he was very young, and he was consigned to the care of an uncle, Henry Banning, a bachelor, who was a sea-captain and took Anthony with him several voyages.  The family were members of the Episcopal church, but in his fourteenth year Anthony joined the Methodists.  When about eighteen he went to preaching as a circuit rider in Greenbrier, Virginia, and the wilderness mountain region.  IN consequence of the great length of his name and its inconvenience in writing, he dropped a portion of it in early youth.
     July 30, 1791, he married Mrs. Sarah Pierce, daughter of one of the first settlers on Redstone, near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, who was also a native of the eastern shore of Maryland, and had been reared near Elliott's Mills.  The children by this marriage were  Sarah, wife of Daniel S. Norton; Jacob M., who died in 1835, and whose widow and children reside in Hardin county; Rachel, wife of Rev. Elnathan Raymond; James S.; Mrs. Mary Caswell; Elizabeth, Mrs. Bronson; Priscilla; and Anthony.
     Priscilla Banning was born May 1, 1807, and on November 2, 1835, married Sewall Gray, of Massachusetts, who was born April 9, 1806, and died of paralysis, at Mount Vernon in May, 1862, without issue.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 847
  GENERAL HENRY B. BANNING, attorney at law, Cincinnati, Ohio. - The subject of this sketch was, on his father's side, of Maryland stock, and his mother's family were Virginia people.  Shortly before the Revolutionary war both his father's and his mother's families emigrated from their native States and settled near old Fort Redstone, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.  They were pioneers in that then new century.
     In 1812 the Rev. Anthony Banning, a pioneer Methodist preacher, the grandfather of General Banning, a pioneer Methodist preacher, the grandfather of General Banning, settled on the banks of the Kokosing, having traded a lot of iron, leather and saddlery for an interest in the then small village (now prosperous town) of Mt. Vernon.  James S. Banning, the father of General Banning, was then twelve years old.  When he grew to manhood he revisited his native town of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and married Eliza Blackstone, the mother of Henry.  the Banning family has been actively and conspicuously identified with the growth and prosperity of Knox county from its organization.  In religious they are al Protestants.  His mother was one of the principal organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of which sect she was then a communicant, although at her death she was a member of the denomination known as Christian.  In politics the Bannings were originally Jackson Democrats, afterwards Whigs.
     Henry B. Banning was the sixth child of is parents and was born November 10, 1836.  His childhood was passed at Banning's Mills and on the old Banning farm at Clinton.  He first attended school at the Clinton school-house, in 1842, when Father Mott was the teacher.
     Among the children attending that school with him were the Coopers, the Curtises, the Drakes, the Lovages, the Johnsons, the Brookses, and the Montises.
     At the age of seventeen he commenced the study of law in the office of Hosmer, Curtis  Devin, in Mt. Vernon, and was in due time admitted to the bar, and began the practice.  He became the partner of William Dunbar, esq., the firm being maintained a large practice, and was succeeding finely when the war began in 1861.  He was one of the first to volunteer to put down for seventy-five thousand troops.  He was at once elected captain by his company, which afterwards became company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, a regiment which made one of the most gallant records of the war.
     He was afterward, upon the recommendation of General Shields, appointed major of the Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, but never joined that command, being placed in command of the Eighty-seventh, a three months' regiment.  At the expiration of the term of this latter regiment, he was made lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served as such until the spring of 1863, when he was made a colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio.
   The regiment was in a badly demoralized condition, but the new colonel soon restored the esprit de corps, gained the confidence of the officers and men, and by a thorough system of discipline made it one of the best drilled regiments in the service. 
     It took part in the Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns, showing such signal instances of gallantry in action as to call fourth frequent mention in the official and unofficial reports of its engagements.  At the battle of Chickamauga, in a bayonet charge, the regiment under lead of Colonel Banning, captured the battle flat of the Twenty-second Alabama regiment, the only Confederate colors taken by our troops upon that bloody and disastrous field.   At the battle of Kennesaw Mountain an eye witness in describing the fight said: 
     "Yesterday was a bloody day of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio, more bloody in numbers than Chickamauga.  More than one-third of her gallant sons were killed or wounded.  History's page will recall the deeds of her fallen heroes:  and the command of the gallants Banning:  'Lie down,, One Hundred and Twenty-first, and don't retire one inch until I order you,' when the storm of battle was at its highest, will make for him an imperishable record, and the stubbornness with which the regiment obeyed the order, unsupported, and exposed to a galling fire from both flanks and front, of artillery and small arms, for more than four hours, will be rehearsed in story and in song in after years."
     In the spring of 1865, after the fall of Atlanta, on the recommendation of General Jeff. C. Davis, approved by Major General George H. Thomas, General Banning was promoted to be a brevet brigadier general, for gallant and meritorious service during the Atlanta campaign.
     After Atlanta had been taken, General Banning, still in command of the One Hundred and Twenty-first, accompanied General Thomas and the Army of the Cumberland, and took a gallant and conspicuous part in the fierce and decisive battle of Nashville.
     In the spring of 1865 he was placed in command of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio infantry, and served in the valley of Virginia.  He was commander of the post of Alexandria, Virginia, until December, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service with the rank of brevet major general, a rank which his gallant conduct had won for him, enlisting as a private in 1861.
     In the fall of 1865, while he was still in the service, the people of his home elected him to represent Knox county in the general assembly.  Stepping from the field to the forum, he became a leading spirit in that legislative body.  He was made chairman of the house committee on military affairs.  He devoted his attention to the wants of the laboring classes, and though his efforts much good was accomplished for them. After the expiration of his term in the general assembly, General Banning removed to Cincinnati, where he resumed the practice of law, with his usual success.
     In 1872 he was nominated by the Liberal Republican convention as the candidate to represent the Second district in Congress.  His opponent was R. B. Hayes, now ex-President.  After an exciting canvass General Banning was returned by a handsome majority.  He was reelected twice to the same office as a democrat, beating successively Job E. Stevenson in 1874, and Stanley Mathews in 1876.  In 1880 he was again a candidate, but was defeated by a small  majority.
     General Branning, in all his relations in life, has been a true representative of American manhood of the highest type; modest in assuming responsibility, but when assumed from faithful and energetic in the execution of a trust.  In all his career, both public and private, there is not an acct can sully his name or stain his honor.  A good won, a good husband, a good father, a gallant soldier, a faithful and industrious representative, in all a worthy citizen, he is one of the sons of whom Knox corny can point with pride as a part of her history.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 848
  JAMES S. BANNING, Morris township, deceased, was a son of the Rev. Anthony Banning, who emigrated from Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.  He was born in 1800.  In 1822 he returned to his native town, where he found the little girl, Eliza A. Blackstone (with whom he had played when a child at the foot of the mountain, on the banks of the river), grown to be a beautiful and accomplished woman.  Mr. Banning, then only twenty-two years of age, wooed and won the heart of his early playmate, then only seventeen years of age.  The were married on the morning of Mar. 12, 1822.  The same day they started on horseback for their new home in Mt. Vernon, distant more than two hundred miles.   It was a novel wedding trip, far different indeed from the modern bridal trips.  It was eight days' hard horseback riding, across a new country, with such entertainment as the country tavern afforded in that early day; but it was bravely performed by this delicate and refined lady, who, with her true and noble husband, journeyed to their new home, where they lived a life of usefulness.
     James S. Banning was a native of Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.  He came to Mt. Vernon in 1812, and resided in that vicinity until his death.  In former years he carried on the mercantile business, but latterly he attended to farming and milling, a short distance north of Mt. Vernon.  He was a useful and enterprising citizen, a kind and peaceful neighbor, and an affectionate husband and father.  His death occurred at an early hour Wednesday May 22, 1867, at his residence near Mt. Vernon.
     Mrs. E. B. Banning, died in 1878 in the seventy-ninth year of her age.  She was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania in 1804, and was married in 1822.  She lived in Mt. Vernon fifty six years, and was identified more or less with every interest in the growth of this city.  She was a woman of fine culture and more than ordinary attainments.  Her home was for many years the popular resort of the literary and musical people of the place.  She was of a modest and retiring disposition; always ready to assist in every good work.  She was specially devoted to her family, yet endeared herself to her neighbors, and was characterized by true Christian deportment.  She was one of the early, if not one of the original members of St. Paul's church, but afterwards hearing and learning the gospel presented by the Disciples, she severed her connection with the Episcopal church and united with the Disciple church, and continued faithfully until her death.  She was the mother of ten children, all of whom are now living except Anna, who died in infancy.  The others are as follows:  Sarah, who resides at the old home; Blackstone, of Clinton; Anthony, of Pennsylvania; Priscilla, wife of J. D. Thompson, of Mt. Vernon; William D., a farmer north of town; Hon. Henry B., of Cincinnati, Eliza, wife of William Brown; ex-Mayor Thomas D., who resides on the old place; Mary, wife of Frank Watkins - all of whom are good and respected citizens, and owe much of their success in life to their excellent parental training.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 591
  C. C. BARBER, Pike township, merchant, post office Democracy, born in Monroe township, this county in 1853, and was married in 1876 to Jennie C. Patten, who was born in Brown Brown township, this county, in 1854.  He has been engaged in the mercantile business from boyhood.  Since the death of his father he has taken charge of the store, which compares favorably with those of larger towns.  He keeps constantly in stock a complete line of goods, consisting of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, etc.  Mr. Barber was appointed postmaster of the Democracy post office in 1873.  He is a popular man in this vicinity and is transacting the business of the post office very satisfactorily.  He is a young man, enterprising and ambitious, and is meeting with success in business.
     His father, Thomas Barber, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was married in 1848 to Mary A. O'Bryan who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1828.  They had five children: Francis L., deceased, born in 1850; Arminta B.; deceased, born in 1851; Cornelius C., born in 1853; Eva E., deceased, born in 1860, and John T., born in 1864.
     Thomas S. Barber died in 1872.  He came to Ohio in 1830, was engaged in farming till 1861, then moved to Amity and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued until his death.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 592
  HENRY BARKER, Monroe township, farmer and stock-grower, born in Monroe county, New York, Feb. 19, 1815.  In 1837 he emigrated to Ohio with Asa Patterson and family, and located on the farm in Monroe township where is now living.  In 1839 he married Lovina Pealer, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1820, and came to this county with her parents, Jacob and Eleanor Pealer, in 1824, who located in Pike township, near Amity.
     Mr. and Mrs. Barker settled on the farm where Mr. Barker had located when he came to this county, where they have since resided.  In 1861 they erected their present frame residence.  They reared a family of six children, five sons and one daughter.  Their son, Patterson Barker, died during the late war at Memphis, Tennessee, July 31, 1863.  He had served one year in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 592
  JOHNSON A. BARKER, Fredericktown, grocer, was born in Morris township in 1836 and was married in Mt. Vernon in 1857, to Sarah A. Little, who was born in Stark county in 1831.   They had five children, all of whom have deceased.
     Mr. Barker learned the carriage trade and worked at that business for twenty-three yeas.  He was for a time a member of the firm of White, Stephens  & Co.  His health became impaired and he was compelled to abandon the carriage business.  He then engaged in the grocery trade, continued for seven years, and then went to New York and attended the Eastern Business college.   In 1880 he returned to Fredericktown and resumed the grocery trade.  He occupies a room in King's block, and has an entire new stock of every variety of goods in his line.  His past experience and ability qualify him to make a success of business, and he is known in this community as an honest and upright man.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 592
  JOSEPH N. BARKER, city barber; shop, cigar and news department, Peterman block, first floor, Main street, two doors north from Gambier street, Mt. Vernon.
     Mr. Barker is a native of Delaware county, Ohio, born on the ninth day of October, 1841, and when eight yeas old his parents removed to Fredericktown, in this county.  Joseph remained with his parents until 1861.  When sixteen years of age he engaged in learning the blacksmith trade, which he followed until the commencement of the Great Rebellion.  On the nineteenth of October, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Lorin Andrews, in which he served for three years.  At the close of his term of service he returned home and remained a short time, and then went to Nashville, Tennessee, and engaged in blacksmithing  for the Government, but in consequence of his health failing, he quit the business and engaged in barbering for a short time, and then went to Atchison, Kansas, where he stopped about eight weeks, and then engaged with Howe & Byram, of Atchison, in hauling Government freight to Fort Union, New Mexico.  He then engaged with the Government at blacksmithing for one year, when he returned home in 1867.  In consequence of his mother's poor health, he started a barber shop in Fredericktown; and continued the business there a short time when he came to Mt. Vernon and bought out the business of Otto Martin, and continued it until 1872, when he went to Mansfield and engaged in the same business for one year.  He then opened shop at Newark, and continued there two years and a half.  In 1876 he returned to Mt. Vernon and established his present business.  He runs four chairs, and makes hair cutting a specialty.  He is also a dealer in fine tobacco, cigars, etc.  He has lately added to his business a news department, in which he keeps all the leading daily papers as well as the city papers.  His shop does an average business of forty dollars per week in barbering and hair dressing, and about ten dollars per week in tobacco and cigars, thus making his establishment the most extensive and complete in the city.  All his appointments are first-class, an his business is rapidly increasing.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 592
  HENRY BARNES, Mt. Vernon, retired, son of Henry Barnes, deceased, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 24, 1807, and was brought to Ohio by his father in 1817, who located in Coshocton county.  He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation through life.  In 1833 he came to Martinsburgh, this county, and made his home with an older brother for a few years.  In October, 1837, he married Miss Grace A., daughter of Simon and Ann Sitzerberg, then of Morgan township, this county.  Miss Sitzenberg was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania.  Oct. 8, 1813, and came to this county with her parents in 1829.  Mr. and Mrs. Barnes settled on a  farm in Morgan township, this county, and remained on the same farm until 1873, when they sold it and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they are now living a retired life.  Three children were born to them - Melissa A., Hiram P. and Charles E.  Melissa A. deceased July 23, 1872.  Hiram P. married Miss Julia Huntington, of Cleveland, Ohio, and now resides in Portage county, Ohio.  Charles E. married Miss Rose Robinson, of Akron, Ohio, and is now living in Plymouth, Ohio.  He served about four months in the Ohio National Guard during the late war.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 592
  JOSEPH BARRINGTON, Middlebury township, (deceased) was born in Ireland in 1804, married to Elizabeth Sharp, who was born in York county, Pennsylvania.  He died in July, 1878, in Middlebury township.
    GEORGE A. PALMER (born in 1844) from a child eighteen months old made his home with and was raised by Joseph Barrington.  He was marrried to Mary Farquhar, and they had one child, Joseph, born in in October, 1867.  Mrs. Mary Palmer died in 1873.  Mr. Palmer's second marriage was to Labina Painter.  They had three children - Rosa (deceased), George, born February, 1877, Louis, born February, 1879.  Mr. Palmer was engaged in the late war in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National Guard.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 593
  JAMES BARRON

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  E. H. BARTLETT, Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this townships in 1833, and married in 1860, to Anna Eliza Randolph, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1836.  They have two children, namely, Jennie E., born in 1863, and Willie R., in 1868.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 593
  JOHN D. BARTLETT, Fredericktown, carpenter; was born in Pennsylvania in 1813; came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and to Knox county in 1831, locating in Mt. Vernon.  In 1855 he removed to Fredericktown.  He was married to Anna Conger, who was born in Knox county.  They had three children, all of whom died in infancy.  Mrs. Anna Bartlett died in 1854, in Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Bartlett afterwards married Sophronia Page, who was born in Knox county.
     Mr. Bartlett has been identified with this country for sixty-seven years.  When he was a young man he learned the carpenter business, and has been engaged in that several years; he was also engaged in the drug business in Fredericktown seven years.  He has always taken a great interest in hunting and shooting, and makes an annual visit to the hunting grounds in northwestern, Ohio.  He is still a resident of Fredericktown, and is engaged in selling farming implements.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 593
  TIMOTHY M. BARTLETT, proprietor of livery, feed, and sale stables, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Bartlett was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 27, 1810, and when about eight years old his parents emigrated to Ohio, stopped awhile in Zanesville, and then located on a farm in Delaware county, where they resided ten years, and then came to Knox county and settled on a farm on Granny's creek, three miles from Mt. Vernon.
     Mr. Bartlett came to this city in 1838.  In his early life he followed farming, and then engaged in the carpenter and joiner trade, in which he continued for twenty-five years.  He then took up peddling drugs, medicines, dry goods, and notions, which he followed with great success for seven years.  In 1853 he engaged in the livery business in which he still continues.  He carries an average stock of three thousand dollars, comprising twelve head of horses, and ten vehicles, consisting of single and double carriages, buggies, sleighs, etc.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 593
  WILLIAM BARTLETT, Monroe township; farmer; a native of Knox county, and son of David Bartlett, was born in Morris township on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1816.  He has worked at several trades, viz.: carpenter and joiner, and cabinetmaker, but the most of his mechanical work has been on threshing machines and plows.  In 1848 he married Miss Evaline Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans, of Mt. Vernon.  They settled in Mt. Vernon, and remained several years.  In 1872 they purchased and moved upon the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living.  He then turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 593
  CHARLES P. BARTON, Berlin township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia in 1841; came to Ohio in 1850, locating in Richland county, and remained there till 1857, when he came to Knox county, and located in Morris township.  He afterwards moved to Iowa and remained four years.  He then returned to Ohio, and carried on farming in Wayne township, and remained there three years; then sold it, and purchased twelve acres in the same township.  He lived on that land two years.
     In the spring of 1880 he purchased twenty-five acres of land in Berlin township, on which he now resides.
     Mr. Barton was married in 1868, to Jane Silliman, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1841.  They have two children: Allie Belle, born Jan. 4, 1877, and Ann Luella, Jan. 24, 1880.  He has also an adopted son - Samuel R. born June 15, 1870, and is a studious boy.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 593
  JACOB BAUGH

Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 594
  CHRISTIAN BAUGHMAN

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  J. B. BAXTER, farmer, Fredericktown; was born in Middlebury township in 1848.  He was married in 1877 to Ollie Gleason, who was born in Morrow county in 1855.  They have one daughter, Laura, born in 1878.  Mr. Baxter is one of the leading citizens of Fredericktown.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 595
  JOHN W. BAXTER

Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 594
  ALLEN J. BEACH, Mt. Vernon, was born in Livingston county, New York, Sept. 23, 1830, and is a son of Allen and Amanda Beach nee Root.  He received his education in the common schools of Knox county, and was early trained in habits of industry.  When twenty years of age he began business on his own account as a butcher and victualler, and carried it on very successfully for twenty years.
     He has taken a great interest in political matters, and has been an unwavering and consistent Democrat, serving as a member of the county Democratic committee for a number of years, and has repeatedly been a delegate to various conventions of that party.  In 1862 he was elected sheriff of Knox county on the Democratic ticket, and as renominated in 1864, but failed of an election.  In 1868 he was again nominated and received a majority of the votes cast, and was reelected in 1870, thus serving in that office for the period of six years in all.  In 1873 he was elected to the lower branch of the State legislature, and during the sessions of that body served on the committee on Federal Relations, and also on that of the Penitentiary, being chairman of the latter.  His earnest manner and sterling honesty gained him many friends, and he had a decided influence in the House while he was a member.  In the winter of 1876 he was elected sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, and served for two years.
     He was married Jan. 1, 1850 to Matilda Buckland of Knox county, by whom he has had five children, all of whom have died.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 -  Page 595
  BENNETT BEACH, deceased, was born in Rutland, Connecticut, in 1774.  He married Miss Sallie Sweet in 1796, of the same state, who was born in Rutland in 1774, and was the daughter of Bennett Sweet.  They remained in Connecticut a few years then moved to Vermont, and in 1824 they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, purchased and moved on a farm in Liberty township, now owned by Mr. Flack, where they passed the remainder of their days.  He deceased May 25, 1850, aged seventy-six years.  His companion survived him until Feb. 3, 1853, when she died, aged seventy-nine years.  they were constant members of the Presbyterian church for many years.  He followed farming as his vocation.  They reared nine children: Lauren, Abigail, Warren, Allen, Bennett, Esther, Sarah, Martin and Rollin, four of whom are now living, Esther, Bennett, Martin and Rollin.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 595
  MRS. NANCY BEACH was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July, 1816.  She is the fourth child of James and Mary Murphy, who came to Hilliar township about 1830, and settled near where the village of Centreburgh is now located.  When the Murphy family came there was no house within the limits of there present town.  The first house which was built was by a Mr. Hendricks, and used for a number of years as a hotel.  About the same time there was also another house built near the first one, and it was also used as a hotel.  They were both frames, and are yet standing.  The first not occupied.  In this family were twelve persons - ten children and the two parents.  The parents died where they first settled.  Thus Mrs. Beach saw the site of Centreburgh when it was but little marred by the hand of the settler.  Mrs. Beach has spent her days near where she now resides, and it was here that she was married to William Beach, May 10, 1845, who was a native of Jersey City, New Jersey.  As a result of this marriage they had two children, both of whom are living.  Mrs. Beach is an early settler, having been in the vicinity of a half century.  Mr. Beach died some years ago.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 595
  ROLLIN BEACH, farmer and gardner, youngest child of the aforesaid Bennett and Sally Beach, was born in Vermont, Nov. 7, 1817, and came with his parents to Knox County, Ohio, in 1824.  He married for his first wife, Miss Mary Bricker, in 1840, born in Knox county in 1818, and daughter of Solomon Bricker.  They settled on his father's home farm in Liberty township, which he purchased at his father's death.  In 1861, he sold his farm and purchased the property where he is now living, near Mt. Vernon on the Columbus road.  Formerly he followed farming as his vocation, but since living near Mt. Vernon, he makes gardening his principal business.  they have had one son, John S.  His wife deceased Feb. 5, 1852.  In 1853 he married Miss Sarah Graham, born in Liberty township, Knox county, in 1825.  By this marriage he had six children, four sons and two daughters; one of the sons has deceased.  His son John S., served four years in the Eleventh Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 1861.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 -  Page 595
  THOMAS BEACH, farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1814, is a son of Joseph Beach, was brought to Coshocton county when a child, where he was raised, remaining at home farming on the shares, for his mother, until her death, which occurred in 1841.  He then became the owner of the old homestead farm, where he remained until 1853, when he sold it and purchased a farm in Harrison township, Knox county, where he then moved, and at present resides.  During the time he lived in Coshocton county he married Margaret J. Moar, Oct. 12, 1858.  She was a daughter of John Moar, and was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 22, 1822.  They have nine children, as follows: Camella, Elmer J., Charles H., Mary E., Milo, Gehiel, Jerusha, Ella and Alla eight of whom are living.  Jerusha died Oct. 12, 1865.
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  DANIEL BEAL, farmer, Pike township, post office North Liberty; born in Jefferson township, Richland county, in 1831, and was married in 1854 to Leah Rhodes, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1832.  They have seven children - Jacob, Asa R., Charles, Harvey, Ellen, Ida, and John.  Mr. Beal; is a farmer, who came to Knox county in 1870.
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  JACOB R. BEAL, merchant, post office, Shalers Mills.  He was born in Richland county in 1854, he was married in 1876 to Mary E., daughter of Rev. H. Keller, of Pike township; she was born in 1856.  They have two children: Linney Viola, born Aug. 9, 1877, and Howard M., born May 3, 1879.
     Mr. Beal received a liberal education, engaged in teaching school in Richland county.  In 1876 he came to North Liberty, engaged in the mercantile business, continued till 1879, then came to Ankenytown, and opened a new store.  He is doing a successful business.  He is ticket, express, and freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at this station.
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  MICHAEL BEAL, farmer, Butler township, post office address Zucks; born in Southampton township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 9, 1821.  He married Feb. 5, 1842 to Margaret Albright, who was born in Londonderry township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, Oct. 27, 1823.  He came to Butler township in 1842.  Their children were Edward, born July 22, 1845; Charles H., born July 2, 1847; Levi, born Feb. 22, 1849; George, born July 29, 1850; Mary M., born Oct. 12, 1852; Martha E., born Aug. 31, 1854; Lucy, born Apr. 12, 1856; Christian, born July 6, 1860; Sarah J. born Feb. 20, 1863; Michael, born Feb. 12, 1854, and two children still-born.  Edward died Mar. 29, 1851; George died Mar. 12, 1852.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 595
  FRANK L. BEAM, queensware goods, South Main street, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Beam is young man of  promise; although scarcely past of his majority he has manfully started out in the race of life, and at an age, too, that is usually frittered away in seeking bubbles.  Mr. Beam is a native of this city, born Nov. 14, 1858, and has not yet reached his twenty-second birthday.  From our efficient public schools he received a through education.  His first business engagement was with Borgardus & Co., hardware dealers, with whom he served six years.  On the twenty-second of March, 1880, he opened the business he is now engaged in.  He carries a complete stock of crockery, chinaware, glassware, lanterns, lamps, looking glasses, house furnishing goods, wall paper, window shades and fixtures, pocket and table cutlery, plated ware, etc., etc.  He is located in a part of the old Woodbridge property, now Rogers' Arcade, South Main street, east side.
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  J. W. BEAM, manufacturer of tinware and dealer in glassware, West High street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, is a native of this city, born Feb. 28, 1847, and was educated in the city public schools.  He enlisted in August, 1862, in company A, Ninety sixth Ohio volunteer infantry,  Captain Mitchell, being but fifteen years old when he enlisted; served until Feb., 1863, when he was honorably discharged.  He again enlisted in May, 1864, in Ohio National guard, where he served during the full term of service, after which he came home and engaged to learn the tinning business with Byers & Bird, and completed the trade with H. Everett, after which he engaged in business for himself, which he continued a short time, when he travelled and did journeymen work for different firms in various parts of this State.  In the spring of 1877 he established his present business, in which he has been successful.  He manufactures all kinds of tinware in his line, also deals in table glassware, which is sold from wagons, four of which he keeps on the road.  He trades his goods for scraps and produce, doing in business of from four to six thousand dollars a year.
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  WILLIAM BEAM, Mt. Vernon.  His father, John Beam, came from Green county, Pennsylvania, to this county in 1807, locating in what is now Morgan township, where he resided several years, and where his son, William, was born.  When he was about eight months old his father moved to a farm he had purchased in Clinton township, about three miles south of Mt. Vernon. 
     When the War of 1812 came Mr. Beam served in the army under General Harrison, as a teamster.  William received as good an education as the schools of that date afforded; but by diligent study fitted himself for teaching.  He assisted his father on the farm and followed the same occupation until 1838,when he was elected sheriff, and served two terms.  He then engaged in the wholesale grocery business, establishing the first wholesale house in Mt. Vernon.  When he sold his interest in this business, he went to Buffalo and Oswego in the interest of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.  Quitting this, he engaged in the dry goods trade several years; then in the business of patent rights, and in various pursuits until the present.
     William Beam was married in 1836, to Miss Emeline Willett.  They are the parents of eight children, six of whom (four daughters and two sons) are now living.
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  JOHN BEARDSLEY, pioneer of Milford township, was born Sept. 26, 1792, in Fairfield county, Connecticut.  He came of Revolutionary stock, his father having served during the war, and was at the Battle of Stoney Point.  while in the service he received an injury which caused the loss of his hearing.  His mother's father, Burns by name, was a marine during the war.  His parents had seven children, and so far as is known he is the only one living.  He was raised on a farm.  At about the age of fifteen he learned cabinetmaking, and worked at it while in Connecticut.  In 1812, he was a member of a militia company and stood guard along the shore of Long Island.  In 1818 he started for Ohio, came by boat to New York, thence on foot to Bristol, Pennsylvania, thence to Philadelphia by boat on the Delaware river, from thence to Pittsburgh on foot; from thence by way of Wheeling to Knox county, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in what is now Milford township.  He paid the balance, or one half on the other piece of one hundred and sixty acres of land which another man had entered, which gave him two hundred and forty acres.  In the spring of 1819 he returned to Connecticut, and in September, 1822 he was united in marriage to Miss Fitch in Connecticut, and shortly started for Ohio in a one horse wagon, coming by the way of New York city, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wheeling and Zanesville.  In coming over the Allegheny mountains he was upset and came near losing his horse and effects.  After six weeks' journey he arrived at his destination.  He remained with his brother William Beardsley, who came some time previously, until he built his cabin.  He cleared up the land and made for himself and family a pleasant home.  He was one of the organizers of Milford township.  He worked at cabinetmaking considerably, and there are many pieces of his handiwork in the county yet.  He was spending the evening of his life in his comfortable home, respected and esteemed for his many good qualities.  By his marriage they had six children: Charles is in the Treasury Department of the United States, Henry in Nebraska, Mary A. lives at home.  Mrs. Beardsley was born Oct. 9, 1800; died Aug. 13, 1879.
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  PLATT G. BEARDSLEY, Milford township, pioneer farmer, was born in Massachusetts, Aug. 6, 1806.  He is the son of William Beardsley, who was born Mar. 20, 1783, at Old Stratford, Connecticut.  He married Miss Eunice Gardner, a native of Massachusetts, who was born July 18,  1786.  They had nine children - Platt G., Mary G., born Mar. 3, 1808; Job G., Sept. 10, 1810; Betsey M., Aug. 12, 1812, died July 21, 1813, William B., born Sept. 3, 1814; Betsey, July 20, 1818; Catharine M., July 24, 1820; Adaline, Jan. 11, 1823!  John B., Feb. 20, 1825; Mary G. (deceased, married to W. Hildreth); Betsey, married to George Benedict; Catharine M. (widow of Erastus Rouse); Adaline wife of A. Bostwick.
     The Beardsley family are of English origin.  Three brothers came from England at an early date, whose descendants are scattered over many of the States and territories, Mr. Beardsley the elder learned the shoemaking trade while in Connecticut.  About two years after his marriage he moved to New York, where he resided until about 1814, when he came to Granville, Ohio, where he remained until 1818, then moved to Homer, where he remained for a short time.  He purchased a forty-acre tract of land in what is now Milford township.  He then cut a road from Homer to this tract, on which he lived for many years.  He was one of the organizers of the township and always took an active interest in public affairs.  He was an influential and leading member of society, a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, and a representative to the Grand lodge in 1817; and at his death was the oldest living member in the State.  He lived to see his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the number of eighty.  Twelve of his descendants entered the army for the suppression of the Rebellion, seven of them losing their lives.  His father was a soldier of hte Revolution.  He always followed his trade, and by it made considerable property.  About five years before his death he removed to Brandon.  He died Jan. 28, 1863, nd was interred with Masonic honors.  His wife survived him until July 8, 1876.
     The subject of this notice (P. G. Beardsley) being the oldest child, it naturally devolved upon him to assist his father in clearing up their new home.  He worked at the cooper trade for a short time, but preferred the farm.  His education was that of the schools of those days.  He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of hte county, and was a leading citizen of the township and county.  He was a justice of the peace for nine years, during which time he married over thirty couples.  He was infirmary director six years and always took an active interest in military affairs.  He was elected lieutenant of militia and was successively captain, major and colonel, and at one time knew most of the men in the county.  He was successful in acquiring for himself a very pleasant and comfortable home.  He was social, hospitable and pleasant in his manners.  He was married twice, first to Miss Mary M. Miller, June 1, 1837, daughter of James Miller, a pioneer of Miller township.  They had four children, two of whom are living.  The children were Emily N. (married to L. H. Burgess); Charles S., who was killed july 22, 1865, at Atlanta while serving in the army; James M., died young, and Mary M., who married W. V. Wright.  His last wife was Elizabeth Burns.  He died Jan. 30, 1881, aged seventy-four years.
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  WILLIAM BEAVER

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  ENOCH BEBOUT

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  WILLIAM BEBOUT

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  ANDREW BECHTEL

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  JACOB J. BECHTEL

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  MARTIN BECHTEL

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  SIMON BECHTEL, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Berlin township in 1854, he was married in 1871, to Mary Ellen Swank, who was born in Pike township in 1856; they have one son living; Dora, born in 1878, and Sylvia B. (deceased).   Dr. Bechtel has always been identified with this township;  he is a model farmer.
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  JOHN BECK, farmer, Union township, post office, Danville, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 2, 1818, and lived there until 1829, when he came to Union township, Knox county.  In 1844, he was married to E. J. McDonald, and settled on a portion of the old homestead where he has since remained.  They have the following children, viz.:  Sarah, born in 1846, Mary, in 1848, Newton, in 1850, Theresa Ann, in 1853, Eliza Ellen, in 1856, and Nancy Jane in 1860.  They have lost three children: Sarah, Grant, and Rebecca.
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  SYLVESTER BEDELL

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  ISRAEL BEDELL, M. D.,

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  SAMUEL BEEMAN, of Brown township, chairman of the county board of commissioners, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, June 6, 1820.  He received his education in the common schools of the day.  His youth was spent on the farm of his father, William Beeman.  His father, with his family, came to Ohio in 1820, settling in Wayne county, where he resided until 1833, when he removed to Knox county, and located in Jefferson township, remaining there up to the time of his death, in 1872.
     Samuel Beeman, the subject of this sketch, in 1855, married Miss Mary Withrow, daughter of Hon. James Withrow, of Jefferson township, until whom five children were born - three sons and two daughters - two of whom are dead, one son and one daughter.  The names of the living children are, James, Mary A., and Chester F.  James married Miss Lovina Gardner of Brown township.  In 1851 Mr. Beeman engaged in the mercantile business of Brownsville, this county, and conducted it successfully up to 1867, a period of sixteen years, when he gave up the business and retired to the farm, where he and his family live a happy and contented life, with all the comforts within their reach.  In 1875 Mr. Beeman was elected county commissioner, and was in 1878 reelected to the same position.  AS a merchant, as a farmer, as a county official, and as a citizen, Mr. Beeman has occupied a high  and prominent position.
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  JOSEPH BEENY, farmer, a native of England, was born Oct. 8, 1802.  He came with his parents, James and Sarah Beeny, to America in 1822, and located in Knox county, Ohio, in Clinton, a small village one and a half miles north of Mt. Vernon.  Just before sailing from England he married Miss Hannah Wright in 1822, who came with him to America.  They lived in Clinton about three years, then his father, James Beeny, purchased and moved on a farm in Clinton township, three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, where he lived until about 1855, when he moved to Licking county, Ohio, where he deceased in November, 1860, aged seventy-two years.  His companion survived him until 1870, when she died, aged eighty years.  They reared a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters.  He and his family lived with his father until 1825, when he moved to Liberty township, Knox county, and located on a farm, where they lived several years, then bought several other farms, and finally, in 1850, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road.  He has followed farming as his vocation.  They reared a family of ten children, July, 1871.  He then married Mrs. Jane G. Maxwell, nee Ryan, in 1872, born in Pennsylvania in 1816, who is still living, to take care of him in his old age.

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  ASHER L. BEERS, stone mason, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1830, and married in 1852 to Mary E. Coleman, who was born in Knox county in 1832.  They have the following children, viz.: Lawrence A., born in 1856; Clio M., in 1862.  Mr. Beers is a stone mason by trade, and has worked at this business over fourteen years.  He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, being a very efficient worker, especially in Sabbath-school.
  ASHER BEERS

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  JOSEPH BEERS

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  BENJAMIN BELL, Morgan township, is one of the largest land owners in Morgan township, and, in fact, in the county.  He is a native of Green county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, May 17, 1813.  His father was a well-to-do farmer of the same county.  The Bell family were early settlers of that part of Pennsylvania.
     The subject of this notice was raised on a farm, and received such schooling as was customary in those days.  He remained in Pennsylvania until about 1843, when he came to Ohio and purchased a part of the farm on which he now resides, and settled upon it.  For this one hundred acres be paid one thousand four hundred dollars, but having no money, he went in debt for it.  He succeeded by hard work and economy in paying for this farm, and was soon enabled to buy more.  He thus was fairly started in life, having laid a foundation for his future success, before he received any portion coming from his father's estate.  He now owns one thousand and twenty-nine acres of land.  Mr. Bell has always been punctual in the payment of all contracts made by him.  He is engaged quite extensively in sheep raising.  He was married to Miss Mary Woodruff, a native of Knox county, in 1844.  They had a family of seven children: John, Ella, (deceased, who was married to L. B. Mantouya), two infants, Lucilla, (who married D. W. Archer), Morgan and Edison.
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  HIRAM BELL, Hilliar township, farmer, born in Knox county, Oct. 16, 1833.  He spent his youth in Licking county on a farm, receiving a common school education.  In 1858 he moved to Clay township, Knox county, and in 1864 he purchased the farm on which he now lives, and moved on it the same spring.  His principal business is the raising of sheep.  Mr. Bell is a quiet and influential citizen; has been elected several times to fill the different offices of the township, and has the confidence of the community and the esteem of all who know him.  He was married to Miss Mary A. Hughes, of Clay township, Dec. 17, 1856.  She was born Jan. 1, 1836.  As a result of this union they had three children, two of whom are living viz., Florence E., married to Augustus M. Wolf, and resides near them; John E. at home.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 599
  JAMES BELL, Pleasant township, deceased, a native of Green county, Pennsylvania, born on the fifteenth day of April, 1818.  He was brought to this country by his parents, Benjamin and Elizabeth Bell, when but a small boy, who located in Morgan township, where he grew to manhood.  ON the twenty-second day of November, 1838, he was united in marriage with Miss Rowena Robinson, of Coshocton county, Ohio.  By this marriage he had six children, only two of whom are now living, viz, Edwin W. and Benjamin T.  They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, where his companion deceased Mar. 12, 1856.  On the sixteenth day of August, 1857, he was married to Phoebe J. Wright, of Coshocton county, born Aug. 24, 1832, daughter of Willis and Anna E. Wright.  They settled on his farm in Coshocton county, remained until Jan. 23, 1863,when he purchased and moved on his farm in Pleasant township, this county, now owned and occupied by his heirs, where he deceased Apr.9, 1879.  His last marriage resulted in four children, one son and three daughters.  Farming was his vocation.
  JAMES BELL, farmer, post office Bladensburgh, is a native of Clay township, born here Sept. 20, 1839, and has lived in Clay most of the time since his birth.  He was married to Sarah Paul, May 14, 1866, two children being the fruits of this union, viz., Iva Olive, and Ottie S.  Mr. Bell is in very comfortable circumstances, financially, and is a highly respected citizen.
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  JAMES W. BELL, farmer, Pike township; post office North Liberty; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was married in 1874 to Bessie Price, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1850.  They have one son, Edward Austin, born in 1875.  Mr. Bell came to Knox county in 1875.  He is a farmer by occupation.  He has been engaged in some interesting and lively debates in this county - the first an Advent question, "Will the wicked be eternally punished?"  Affirmative, Mr. Bell and Mr. Scarbrough; negative, Jesse Nichols and William Romine.  They had five judges.  Universal decision for affirmative.  He was engaged in a second debate with the Dunkard question, "Is the bread and wine the Lord's supper."  Affirmative, James W. Bell and Levi Marshall; negative, Joseph Barnard and Mr. Workman.  Decision in favor of affirmative.
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  MORGAN BELL, farmer, Morgan township; was born in Morgan township, May 6, 1852.  He is a son of Benjamin Bell, of this township, and of whom mention is made elsewhere.  He was raised on a farm and received a common-school education.  He was married to Miss Jennie E. Horn, daughter of Jacob Horn, July 8, 1875.
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  JEREMIAH BELT, farmer, Pike township; post office Democracy; born in Monroe township in 1850, and was married in 1875 to Permelia Fields, who was born in Pike township in 1856.  They had two children - Clara Belt, in 1876; Permelia (deceased).  Mrs. Permelia Belt died in 1877.  Mr. Belt was subsequently married to Ellen Fields, who was born in Pike township in 1852.  They have one daughter, Izora Blanche, born in 1880.  Mr. Belt is a farmer of this township.
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  TRUMAN BENEDICT, a native of Vermont, and son of Solomon and Laura Benedict, was born in Bennington county, on the twenty-ninth day of April, 1823.  In 1837 he accompanied his parents to this county, who located in Pleasant township, near the Hurford mills, remained until 1851, then moved to clinton, one mile north of Mt. Vernon, where, in 1868, Solomon Benedict died.  His companion survives him, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years.
     In 1852 Truman Benedict married Miss Lorain, daughter of Samuel B. Bassett, born in Bennington county, Vermont, Feb. 1, 1821.  She came to this county in 1851.  They settled in Clinton, remained about seven years.  In 1859 moved to Monroe township, this county, remained until 1873, then moved upon the farm where they now reside in College townships, north of Gambier.  Farming has been his principal vocation through life.
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  ZIBA BENEDICT, Morris township, deceased, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1784.  He came to Ohio in 1818, settled in Mt. Vernon, and remained there until 1820, when he located in Fredericktown.  He was married in 1815 to Hannah Keeler, who was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, in 1787.  They had three children: Nancy Jane, born in 1816; Clarinda, born in 1818; Lucian. born May 15, 1820. Mr. Ziba Benedict died May 6, 1833, in this county.  Mrs. Hannah Benedict died June 11, 1850.  Clarinda died July 21, 1840.
     Mr. Benedict was one of the earliest settlers of Knox county.  He came here when it was in its wild state and all in timber.  He cleared the farm where his son Lucian now resides.  Mr. Benedict was a hatter by trade and worked at that business in Mt. Vernon two years, and also in Fredericktown.
     Nancy Jane Benedict was married July 4, 1833, to Joseph Barker.  They had nine children.
     Lucian Benedict was married in 1847 to Sarah Trimble, who was born in Morris township in 1815.  They had three children:  L. G. Benedict, born Sept. 12, 1851; Orien, born Dec. 19, 1852; Charles, born Oct. 6, 1856.
     L. G. Benedict was married Feb. 21, 1878, to Arabella Randolph.  They reside in Fredericktown.
     Charles Benedict graduated from the Business college at Poughkeepsie, New York, in July, 1880.  He is a young man of promise, and is well educated.
     Mrs. Sarah Benedict died Oct. 21, 1878.
     Orien Benedict died Mar. 10, 1879.
     Mr. Benedict has always been identified with this county.  He is a farmer by occupation, and is one of the leading en of the township.
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  CLARK L. BENNETT, livery, feed and sale stable, West Gambier Street, near Main street, Mt. Vernon.  Clark L. Bennett was born in the State of Vermont in the year 1804.  When less than a year old his father moved to Ticonderoga, Essex county, New York.  In 1824 he came to Ohio and located in Licking county.  In 1825 he removed to Knox county.  In 1832 Mr. Bennett came to Mt. Vernon, where he has resided ever since.  Prior to settling in this city he followed the occupation of farming.  His first occupation in Mt. Vernon was brick making, which he followed several years.  In 1849 he opened a livery establishment, in which he still continues, assisted by his son, George S. Bennett who was born in this city, and was educated in our public schools. 
     George read medicine with the late Dr. Matthew Thompson and then attended the university at Cleveland, where he graduated.  After graduating, young Bennett located at Chesterville, Morrow county, where he practiced for years.  In consequence of his father's failing health he gave up his practice and returned to Mt. Vernon, and assumed the management of his father's establishment.  This establishment in a large and complete one, comprising horses, single and double carriages, barouches, phaetons, and sleighs.  Here the travelling public find first-class accommodations at all hours, as the horses are in fine condition and the vehicles all in good order.
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  JOHN BENNETT, Monroe township, farmer, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bennett, nee Stratton, was born near Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, Apr. 7, 1826.
     Thomas Bennett, late of Gambler, and father of John, was born in Maryland, Jan. 20, 1805, and emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, where he married Miss Elizabeth Stratton, born in June, 1805.  In 1828 they came to this county, located in Danville and remained until 1832, then moved to Gambier, where he deceased in May, 1880.  For several years after their settlement in the village he was engaged in clearing on the college land, then turned his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation until 1858, when he engaged in running a hack line and carrying the mail from Gambier to Mt. Vernon, which he continued until the completion of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad.  He then turned his attention to farming again, which he followed until his death.
     John Bennett, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation. On the twenty-ninth day of March, 1853, he married Miss Eliza Conley, a native of Ireland, born Apr. 19, 1830, and came to this county in 1852, settling in Monroe township. In 1873 they purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Monroe township.  They raised a family of four children:  Thomas, George W., Emma J., and Isabella.
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  GEORGE BENSON, Monroe township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Mt. Vernon, son of Lyman and Emery Benson, was born in New Milford, Connecticut, on the twenty-fifth day of June, 1815.  In 1831, at the age of sixteen years, he commenced working at the cabinet-maker's trade, and served as an apprentice about four years.  In 1835 he accompanied his parents to this county and located in Monroe township, on a farm now owned by John Hardesty, were his father and mother remained until 1851, when they moved to Illinois, where they passed the remainder of their days.  His father died at the age of eighty-five years.  His mother deceased when eighty-four years of age.  He continued at his trade for about three or four years after his settlement in Monroe township, and then turned his attention to farming and stock raising, which business he has since been engaged in.  He owns a farm of one hundred and sixty and one-half acres in Monroe township, which is in a good state of cultivation.
     In 1836 he married Miss Rebecca Spry, of Monroe township, daughter of William and Sarah Spry who was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 20, 1816, and came to this county with her parents in 1820, who located in Monroe township, on a farm now owned by Edwin Scott.  Shortly after the marriage of Mr. Benson they settled in Monroe.  They have lived on three different farms in the same township.  They moved on the farm where they now reside in 1855, and have raised a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters, one  son and three daughters have deceased,
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  BEST FAMILY.  The, Hilliar township.  Peter Best, the father of this family, was born in New Jersey, May, 1797.  In 1823 he married Miss Mary Trimmer who was born in New Jersey in 1802.  They remained in New Jersey until 1839, when they immigrated to Hilliar township, Knox county, Ohio, settling on a farm.  They lived and died in this township being much esteemed.  They had eleven children, nine born in New Jersey an two in Ohio; nine are yet living.
     John Best, born in New Jersey Oct. 3, 1823, was married to Mary Ann Yeocom, in Champaign county, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1849.  He is a plasterer by trade, which he followed for a number of years, and then settled on a farm on which he is yet living.  William was born in New Jersey, June 9, 1825, married Nov. 18, 1846, to Sophia Huock, a daughter of one of the pioneers of this township.  After his marriage he settled on a part of the Houck farm in Hilliar township, where he closed his days.  He died Sept. 12, 1877.  His wife still resides on the farm.  Jesse was born in New Jersey Jan. 7, 1827, and was married to Mary Spaur in Butler county, Iowa, Nov. 30, 1856.  He was a wagonmaker by trade, but now owns a farm in Woodson county, Kansas, and is engaged in agriculture.  Jacob was born in New Jersey Jan. 14, 1829.  When a young man he emigrated to Illinois, where he dealt in stock for many years.  He married a lady in Lexington, McLean county, Illinois, and settled down in the lumber business, at which he is still engaged.  Mary E., born in New Jersey, Oct. 25, 1830, married Lemon Chadwick, with whom he still lives in Kansas an a farm.  David T. born in New Jersey, Jan. 5, 1832, married Susannah Addleman Jan. 4, 1855, in Hilliar township.  By trade he is a plasterer.  After his marriage he purchased a farm in Hilliar township, where he still resides, engaged in farming and breeding Aresican Merino sheep, of which he has a fine flock.  He has three children, John T., born Sept. 23, 1855; Lydia Ellen, born Dec. 9, 1857, and Wilbert Irvine, born July 21, 1868.  Mr. Best is an estimable citizen.  Lydia Ellen, born May 20, 1834, in New Jersey, married Oct, 1880, to John McGuier, a plasterer, residing at Centreburgh, Ohio.  Ananias, born in New Jersey July 10, 1836, married in Iowa to Miss Kate McCrary.  He is a wagonmaker, but is now engaged in farming in Butler, county, Iowa.  Peter, born in New Jersey Sep. 5, 1838, lived until fifteen years of age, dying in Hilliar township.  James, born Oct. 25, 1840, in Knox county, Ohio.  He obtained a collegiate education at Waynesburgh, Pennsylvania, and took a theological course at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is now a minister of hte Cuberland Presbyterian church at Bradford, Ohio.  He married Narcissa M. Conner, of Cumberland, Ohio.  Sylvester was born in Hilliar township, Jan. 30, 1843, remained on the farm until Sept. 22, 1862, when he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment O. V. I.  He participated in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he received a gunshot wound in the left hand June 27, 1863.  He was discharged Oct. 10, 1864 by reason of disability caused by his wound.  After his return home he finished his education at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  He was married to Miss Martha Annett of Centreburgh, Ohio, May 19, 1866.  He followed photography for seven years, after which he engaged in farming near Centreburgh, Ohio, at which occupation he is still engaged.  They are the parents of the following children:  Carrie Bernice, born at Centreburgh Mar. 29, 1869, died at Lock, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1870; Sylvester Robert, born at Lock, Ohio, Apr. 5, 1872; Jesse Taylor, born at Sunbury, Ohio, Feb. 10, 1876.
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  MRS. SOPHIA BEST, Hilliar township, was born in Hilliar township in 1823.  She is the daughter of Henry and Rhoda Houck, nee Jennings.  Her parents were among the first settlers of Hilliar township  They came in 1811.  She spent her youth at home.  She was married to William Best Nov. 10, 1846.  They had a family of five children, two of whom are living.  Mr. Best died Sept. 12, 1877.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 601
  JAMES BIGGS, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county.  His mother died when he was a small child, and was given to his uncle with whom he lived fourteen years.  He then went to Coshocton county, Ohio, and learned the shoemaking trade, and followed it five years.  Then after two years of farming life he married and settled on his present farm, where he has lived twenty-one years.  He has four children: Carrie, Maggie, Jackson and Olive.  His wife died in 1877, and was buried in the Millwood cemetery.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 ~ Page 601
  L. O. BINGHAM, Middlebury township, mason, post office Levering, born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1849, and was married in 1874 to Amanda Gaumer, who was born in Knox county in 1850.  They have two children: Bessie O., born in 1876, and Henry L., born in 1877.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 601
  GEORGE W. BIRD, farmer, Hilliar township, was born in Liberty township, Knox county, Dec. 18, 1828.  He is the seventh child of Elisha and Susan Bird nee Haggerty), who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio.
     The youth of Mr. Bird was spent on a farm, and like boys or his day, he attended school during the winter.  He was married to Miss Lucinda Abbott, in June, 1853.  She was born in Licking county.  The following spring they moved to Hilliar township, on the farm on which he now resides, and began the improvement of their future home.  He has succeeded in beautifying his home and adding considerable land to his first purchase.  He is a careful farmer, a good citizen, and has the confidence of the community.  He is hospitable and agreeable in his manners.  The raising of cattle is his principal business.  The marriage of Mr. Bird was blessed with six children, three sons and three daughters, four of whom are living, viz.:  Joel A. (farmer, Wyandot county, Ohio), Sarah E., Dora M., and George M.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 ~ Page 601
  JOHN H. BIRD, Liberty township, farmer, born in liberty township February 23, 1843, being the son of John and Keziah Bird, of whom mention is made in this work.  He was raised on the old homestead farm, doing the ordinary work of a farmer's son.  He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio, volunteer infantry, and was in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky; taken prisoner, and parolled on the field.  In May, 1853, he returned to his regiment and purticipated in the battle of Kennesaw Mountain and Mission Ridge, and marched with Sherman to Savannah, thence to North Carolina and Washington, and was discharged with  his company at Columbus, Ohio.  After his return home he engaged in farming, which he  has since followed.  On Sept. 7, 1865, he was united in marriage to Miss Carrie A. Brokaw, daughter of John A. Brokaw, and of whom mention is elsewhere made.  They have one child, Edith W., born Nov. 25, 1870.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 ~ Page 602
  MRS. KEZIAH BIRD, Liberty township, born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, November, 1802, being the daughter of Abner and Abigail Johnston, who had a family of nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  The sons died when young.  The daughters all grew up and were married.  The parents died in Pennsylvania.  The subject of this notice was married to John Bird, Aug. 11, 1824.  He was a native of New Jersey, and was born Jan. 16, 1801.  Shortly after their marriage they settled upon the farm on which she still resides.  Mr. Bird had been here two years previous, having come with his father, Sylvanus Bird, who emigrated with his family about 1822, and settled on this farm.  Here John Bird died Sep. 11, 1878.  He was a good citizen and an exemplary man.
     There were born to them nine children, viz.:  Oliver P.,  died in Delaware county; left a family of ten children; John A., farmer, in Delaware county; Ellen S. resides with her mother on the old homestead; Milton, farmer, a resident of Liberty township; Charlotte H., wife or Henry Strickler deceased, and resides in Iowa; Esther Ann, wife of John McAllister, in Union county, Ohio; Corinda, wife of John D. Higgins, of Liberty township; Mary E., wife of George Hull, of Morrow county, Ohio; and John, a farmer, and resident of Liberty township.
     Mrs. Bird is spending the evening of her life on the old homestead, where she and her husband settled fifty-seven years ago.
     The children are all doing well, and have the esteem of the community in which they live.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 ~ Page 601
  MILTON BIRD, farmer, Liberty township, born there Nov. 14, 1831, and his the son of John and Keziah Bird, of whom mention is made in this volume.  He spent his youth on the farm and attended the common schools, and has always followed farming as his occupation.  HE married Sarah M. Robertson, daughter of Hezekiah K. Robertson, of Liberty township, Nov., 1855, and has a family of five children, viz: Eva M. (wife of Dr. W. Merriman, of Centreburgh, Ohio), Elmer M., Flora M., Alfrata M., and Orville M.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 601
  MORGAN BIRD, Wayne township, farmer, postoffice, Fredericktown, born in Morris township, this county, in 1849, and was married in 1871 to Sarah McCutchen, who was born in Morrow county in July 1849.  They have the following children: Leroy, born in 1872; Etta, 1875; Daisy, 1878, and George, in 1880.  Mr. Bird has always resided in this county.  He is one of the intelligent and active farmers of Wayne township.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 602
  WILLIAM BIRD, JR., hardware dealer, Mt. Vernon, son of William Bird, sr., was born at Catawissa, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, Feb. 10,1835, where he resided until Mar. 28, 1859.  He then emigrated to Ohio and located at Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, where he resided seven years, during which he was in the boot, shoe,  and leather business, after which he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the hardware, stove, and tinware business, in which he still continues, and has been successful in.  He carries a stock of from eight to twelve thousand dollars.
     He married Miss Marie E. Kreigh, Feb. 4, 1854, and has a family of five children:  Charles A., Daniel K., Kate S., Annie E., and Bessie M.


Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  ARNOLD BISHOP, Milford township, farmer, was born in Milford township Feb. 1828; is the son of Gardner and Millie Bishop, nee Young, who were natives of Rhode Island, and early settlers of Milford township.  Mention is made of the Bishop settlement of Milford in the general history of the township.
     The subject of this notice was raised on a farm.  He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry; was second sargeant of the company at its organization, and about a year after commissioned orderly which he held until he was discharged.  He participated in most of the battles in which his company and regiment was engaged.  He did not participate in the campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, and was with it from that time until the discharge of the company.  After his return home he resumed farming, at which he has since been engaged.  Politically he is a zealous Republican; is a good citizen; was married to Miss Sarah A. McClelland December, 1854.  They had two children (one of whom died in infancy), Leulla, is the wife of Aaron W. Gearhart.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  JOHN L. BLACK, physician, Pike township; post office Democracy; born in Union township, this county, in 1846, and was married in 1869 to Dora J. Sapp, who was born in this county in 1850.  They have three children - Aurilla, Robert R., and Eva A.  Dr. Black attended school at the academy at Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, and studied medicine with Dr. C. Sapp of Danville.  He attended lectures at Cleveland, in the medical department of the University at Wooster, (formerly called Charity Hospital Medical college).  He graduated in the spring of 1869, and commenced the practice of medicine the same year in Amity, where he still remains.
     Dr. Black  has been successful as a physician, has accumulated considerable property, and stands high in his profession in this county.  He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company K, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth regiment, independent volunteer infantry, continuing in the service for about six months.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  WILLIAM B. BLACK, farmer, Pike township; post office Corning, Adams county, Iowa; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1823, and was married to Margaret Cornell, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1827.  They had eight children - Ransom b., John L., Mary E. (deceased),, Alvin S., Sarah R.,  (deceased), Martha A., Irena M., and Harriet.
     Mr. Black came to Ohio with his parents at the age of four years, who located in Union township, this county.  His father, George Black, remained on ten same firm they purchased until his death.  After marriage  W. B. Black located in Danville, and engaged in manufacturing wagons and buggies for some years, after which he moved to Gann, this county, and continued in the same business till 1869, when he moved to Iowa, where he still resides, engaged in farming in that State.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  WILBUR BLACKBURN, farmer, Middlebury township; post office Fredericktown; born in Middlebury township, July 19, 1842, and was married Feb. 6, 1866, to Elvina Keyes, who was born in Middlebury township, July 15, 1849.  They have one daughter, Effie, who was born Mar. 26, 1879.  Mr. W. Blackburn was a soldier in the war, a member of company A, Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service over three years.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  WILLIAM BLAKE deceased.  The subject of this sketch was one of Knox county's pioneers.  He was born in Ireland in 1761, migrated to America, located in New York, remained married to Miss Hannah Sprague, born in Connecticut in 1778.  they moved to Clinton township, on the farm now owned by John Guy, where they passed the remainder of their days.  He died in 1848, aged eighty-seven years.  His companion survived him until 1850, when she died, aged seventy-two years and five months.
     they reared a family of seven children - Sarah, Hannah, William, Mary, Richard, James and Emily J.  Two of the children, Hannah and Richard are dead.  When Mr. Blake came to Clinton township it was comparatively a forest, and settlers were few and far apart.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  HUGH BLAKELEY, Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty, born in Clinton township, this county, in 1809, and was married in 1827 to Catharine Wallace, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1803.  They had the following children:  James W., born in 1828; Zephaniah and Joel, born in 1830; Isabella in 1832; Hugh H. in 1836; Rachel in 1834; Thomas C., born Aug. 19, 1839; Margaret A. in 1841; Lyman P. in 1844; and Mary C. in 1848.
     Mrs. Catharine Blakeley died Apr. 21, 1866.  James Blakeley is dead.  Joel died in Jasper county, Iowa, in 1875.  Catharine E. died in 1871.  Thomas C. and Lyman P. have deceased.  Mr. Blakeley moved to Pike township in 1871, and has since been engaged in farming.  He is numbered among the pioneers; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and one of the good citizens of this township.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 602
  MRS. SARAH BLUBAUGH, post office Rosstown, was born in Jefferson township Knox county, Dec. 9, 1839, and was married Jan. 1, 1860, to H. Blubaugh; settled on a farm, lived there one year, and then moved to their present farm.  In 1874 Mr. Blubaugh was killed by falling from a tree.  They had three children: Henry, born Oct. 22, 1864; Clinton, born Aug. 20, 1867; and Charles, born July 3, 1870.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 603
  PETER BLUE (deceased), was born near Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 1, 1825, and removed to Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio at an early age, residing there until his demise, May 8, 1868.  He was married Aug. 2, 1849, to Mary McCamment, who was born in Jackson township, Feb. 3, 1829.  They had nine children: Laura J., Henrietta E., Ella M. Alice E., Susan M., Wilbur M., James O., Emma B., and  Maggie L.  Alice died Mar. 7, 1865; Henrietta  died May 21, 1879; Laura was married Sept. 16, 1869, to Franklin Giffin, and resides in Coshocton county.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 603
  EVERHART BOGK, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Hesson, in Europe, in 1804.  He lived in the old country until 1822, when he came to New York.  He came to Maryland in 1832, and then went to California in 1860, and remained there fourteen years.  He then came to Knox county.  He came from California poor and worked on the canal from Rosco to Rochester two years, made some money and bought a farm.  He married his first wife in the old country, but she died the first year of their marriage.  He married his second wife in Knox county.  He has five children.  His wife died in 1860.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 603
  JOHN BONAR, deceased, Morris township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and was married in 1826, to Lucinda Cooper, who was born in 1805, in Washington county, Pennsylvania.  They had three children: Josiah, born in 1827; Catharine, in 1829, and Belle, in 1837.
     Mr. John Bonar died in 1860, in Morris township, Knox  county, Ohio.  He emigrated with his parents, to Knox county, in 1812, who located in Morris township, on a farm that was all in timber, and the country was in its infancy.  He was a member of the Congregational church.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 604
  JOSIAH BONAR, Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in 1826, in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio.  He was married in 1854, to Margaret A. Swan, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1836.  They had two daughters: Anna B. and Ada.  Ada died in 1865.
     Mr. Bonar has always been identified with this county, and owns one of the best improved farms in the county with modern style buildings.  He is a model and enterprising farmer, and has done much to promote the general interest of schools and public enterprise of the township.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 604
  MOSES C. BONE, Miler township, farmer, was born in the county of Cornwall, England, about 1832, and was reared on a farm.  In 1852 he emigrated to America and worked at wagon making for some time.  He them worked by the month for some time until he had earned enough to set himself up on a rented farm.  On account of failure in crops he lost all his previous earnings; but being determined to succeed he struggled on until he succeeded in being able to make a purchase of six acres of land.  A few years after, he purchased the farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres on which he now resides, and subsequently purchased adjoining land until he now has two hundred and seventy-three acres, and is a one of the leading farmers of Miller township.  He farm is improved, having a commodious, new, and substantial dwelling, with all other necessary farm buidings.  Mr. Bone is a leading citizen, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities.  He was married March 18, 1858, to Miss Martha White, a native of Pennsylvania.  They had nine children, eight of whom are living, viz.: John H., Lovilla C., Mary Jane, Frank E., Alta Amelia, Charley C., Anna Dell, and Martha M.  Burnella has deceased.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 604
  F. P. BONER, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in 1877 to Amanda Cooper who was born in Knox county in 1855.  They have two children- Mary, born in 1878, and Olla, born in 1880.  Mr. Boner has been a resident of Wayne township about fifteen years.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 604
  MATTHEW BONE, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1831, and was married in 1854 to Hannah Dalrymple, who was born in Knox county in 1831.  They have one daughter, Avarilla, who still resides with her parents.  Mr. Boner is one of the leading and enterprising men of this township, and one of the official members of the Baptist church.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 604
  SAMUEL BOYD, of Fredericktown, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1864, and was married to Matilda Hastings who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1820.  They had the following children, viz.:  Sarah J., now Mrs. John W. Leedy; and William who married anna B. Mane; they reside on the home place.  Mr. Samuel Boyd died in 1874.  He was a farmer by occupation.  Mrs. Boyd still resides on the home place.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 606
  EDWARD BOYLE, dealer in tobacco, cigars, etc., was born in Mt. Vernon, June 14, 1859, and was educated in the public schools.  When seventeen years of age he commenced selling papers as a newsboy, which he followed until he was twenty years old, when by economy and industry he had enough money to buy out J. M. Roberts' cigar star.  He now carries a large stock of cigars, tobacco, confectionery, daily papers, etc.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881~ Page 607

John S. Braddock		 JOHN SELLERS BRADDOCK, dealer in land warrants and real estate, Mount Vernon, Ohio.  The name of Braddock (Saxon Broad-Oak) at once suggests a chapter in colonial history inseparably connected with that of the country, and to trace the history of that family, connecting the past with the present, is the object of this sketch.
     Major General Edward Braddock was born in England about 1650, served with distinction under George II, and won for himself the name of an "honest, brave old gentleman."  He died at Bath, June 15, 1725, and left one son, then about thirty years of age.
     Edward Braddock, jr., was born in England about 1695.  On the eleventh day of October, 1710, he entered the army with the rank of ensign in the grenadier company of the Cold Stream guards, "the flower of the British army."  Promotion followed rapidly, until, on the twenty-ninth of March, 1754, he was made major general, and in the September following was appointed to the command of all the troops to be sent against the French in America.  On the twenty-first of December he sailed for Hampton Roads, in Virginia, where he arrived Feb. 20, 1755.  His military career in America, and especially his unfortunate defeat at Braddock's Field, on the ninth of July, 1755, and his tragic death four days later, are too well known to require repetition here.
     His cousins, John and Raphael Braddock, came to America about the same time, located in Baltimore county, Maryland, served in the Revolution, and after the close of the war, or in 1789, they moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania.  Raphael Braddock had four sons - Frank, David, Cyrus, and Harvey.  David was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died i n1814.  Joshua Braddock, son of David and grandson of Raphael, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 19, 1781, married Susanna Sellers (born Oct. 15, 17830 in 1807, by whom he had ten children - Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, David, Susanna, Joshua, Mary, Arena, Anna, and Robert M. Braddock.  He moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814, and located temporarily in Morgan township, on the Jacob Sellers farm, where he remained until 1816 when he entered six hundred and forty acres of Government land on Schenck's creek, in Morris township.  He was one of the early settlers in that section of country.
     Possessed of Christian character and high moral worth, he was greatly beloved by his neighbors and friends; he was fond of sport and enjoyed hunting, having killed during his residence in Morris township fifty-four bears, and deer in numbers.  He died Jan. 9, 1837.
     David, the fourth child and oldest son of Joshua and Susanna Sellers Braddock, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 8, 1813; and Catharine Headington was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, Mar. 6, 1817, and they were married on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1836.  David Braddock and Catharine H. Braddock had twelve children, six sons and six daughters.  Joshua C. and David W. reside in Sacramento, California; J. Thomas, Rebecca H., Eliza A., Arena E., and Ruth A. reside near Charleston, Illinois.  Two sons and two daughters died in infancy.
     John S., the sixth child and second son is the only member of David Braddock's family residing in Ohio.  He was born at the old homestead in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1844, and received a common school and practical education.  He was sent by his father at the age of nineteen to Illinois, where he farmed two years.  Upon attaining his majority he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and engaged in teaching school during the winters of 186-7-8-9 and 1870, and travelling the summer months, hunting up, and purchasing and selling land warrants.  In July, 1870, he went to Nebraska and entered three thousand five hundred acres of land, and in October of the same year located in Mt. Vernon and engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, together with the land warrant and scrip business; where, by industry, integrity and promptness he has built up a successful and prosperous business.  On the fourth of March, 1869, he married Miss Maggie Burson, daughter of Edward Burson, esq., of Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, who was born Jan. 16, 1851, in Parke county, Indiana.
     John S. and Maggie B. Braddock have six children:  Orrinda Kate, born Sept. 19, 1879; Edward Burson, born Dec. 3, 1872; Walter David, born Mar. 6, 1875; Maggie May, born May 8, 1877; John Sellers, born June 17, 1879; Alice Anna, born Feb. 23, 1881.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 617
  BRICKER FAMILY, Liberty township.  Ludwig Bricker, the grandfather of the original Brickers of Liberty township, was a soldier of the Revolution.  He entered two thousand acres of land in what is now the northeast corner of Liberty township.  He was a resident of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he lived and died.  Banning Norton, in his History of Knox county, says that Lewis Bricker came to Liberty township about 1810; but David Bricker says he came prior to that time, as Lewis Bricker, his brother, was born in this township in 1807.  Ludwig or Lewis Bricker induced his son, Peter, and George Lewis, a relative of the family, to come out and settle the land he had entered.  Accordingly they brought their families.  They remained one night, by noon the next day they were on their way back to Pennsylvania.  They saw many Indians, heard the wolves howling, and the owls hooting.  They agreed with their wives to let the land go to the devil and they would return to Pennsylvania, as they thought no one would or could ever live in the Owl Creek country.  He however induced some of his tribe to settle this land.  He finally got Peter, George, Jacob, David, Solomon, Lewis, Catharine, Rachel, and Mrs. Lewis, to come here.  From these have descended the Brickers of this county, mostly.  David went to Morgan township.  All the original Brickers remained in this township but David.
     The Bricker family became quite numerous, and it is not our purpose to write or follow up the family of each, but give such an outline of the family that it will be preserved to their descendants.  Among these is David Bricker, grandson of Peter Bricker, and son of Peter Bricker, one of the first of the family whom came to Ohio.  He was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 1805.  His parents came, April, 1806, to Ohio.  David was raised as were pioneer children, with but few educational advantages; he, however, acquired sufficient to transact business.  On the twelfth day of October, 1830, he married Sarah Beam.  They had nine children, five living - Malinda, Jacob, Wilson, Marshal, and Jerome.  Lewis P. Bricker, one of this family was born Nov. 5, 1807, in what is now Liberty township.  It is said he was the first white child born in this township.  Dec. 6, 1832, he was married to Sarah White.  She was born July 7, 1809.  They had a family of eight children - Abigail, born Nov. 24, 1833, married Nelson Bidwell; Margaret E., born Jul. 6, 1836, married Nicholas Darling; Ann Rebecca, born Apr. 19, 1839, married Mortimer Hayatt; Mary Sophia, born June 5, 1841, married William Gray; Sarah E., born Mar. 24, 1844, married John Creamer; Viola M., born July 21, 1846, married L. B. Lewis; Peter, born Dec. 28, 1848; Alexander, born Nov. 29, 1852.
     We might go on and follow up this family, tracing the different branches, but it will suffice to say that our work does not admit of so much space being occupied by one family.  The Bricker family are good citizens, industrious and well-to-do people.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 609
  DEMAS BRICKER, Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Mar. 7, 1828.  He youth was spent on the farm, and he attended the district schools and spend about two years at an academy at Martinsburgh, where he was a classmate of William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury, from Minnesota.  Mr. Bricker taught school for several terms.  His principal business, however, has been farming and the raising of stock.  He gave up farming in 1875, and removed to his present home in Rich Hill.  He is a man who is well informed; has a remarkably retentive memory; is a ready and interesting talker, and takes an interest in teh questions of the day.  He was married to Miss Cinderella Miller April 1, 1857.  They have a family of two children.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 610
  DOUGLASS BRICKER, Wayne township, farmer, postoffice, Fredericktown, born in Clinton township, Knox county, and was married in 1874 to Hannah Brachling, who was born in Ireland.  They have three children - Fannie - born in 1875; Edward, born in 1876; and Olive, born in 1878.  Mr. Bricker came to Wayne township in 1877, and is a farmer by occupation.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 610
  HIRAM BRICKER, Morgan township.  The name Bricker is of Dutch origin.  Tradition says there were three brothers came from Europe, but at what date is not exactly known.  They settled in Maryland.  One of the branches of the family went to eastern Pennsylvania, where quite a numerous progeny sprang up; and subsequently a number of their descendants settled in Richland county, Ohio, near Shelby.  Lewis, or Ludwig Bricker, the paternal grandfather of Hiram Bricker, moved from Maryland to western Pennsylvania shortly after the Revolutionary war, in which he was a soldier.  He raised a large family.
     Some time in the early part of 1800 he came to what is now Liberty township, Knox county, and located two thousand acres of land, and subsequently induced a number of his children to become settlers on it, although he never moved upon it.
     David Bricker, father of Hiram, and son of Peter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1799.  He married Indiana Cox, in 1818, who was born Mar. 8, 1798, and is yet living.  Soon after their marriage they came to Liberty township, but did not remain long.  About 1821 they located and settled on the farm in Morgan township, which he cleared up, and became one of the well-to-do citizens of the community.  He died September 14, 1878, in Utica, where he had resided some time prior to his decease.  By his marriage they had six children, viz: Elizabeth (deceased); she was the wife of Jesse Bell; Christopher and Emeline (deceased); Anna B., wife of Samuel Elliott; Hiram and Demas are living.
     Hiram was raised on the farm, was educated at the common schools, and has farmed and dealt in stock as his occupation.  In April, 1853, he moved to Licking county, where he remained for twenty-years.  He was lieutenant of company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth regiment Ohio National guard, and subsequently was captain of the same.  February 17, 1853, he married Mellissa Bell, daughter of Isaac Bell, of Morgan township.  They had a family of twelve children, viz: David A., Isaac, (deceased when about seven years old), Catharine, (wife of R. McWilliams), Anna B., Elizabeth, (wife of Hugh Harrison), Jennie, James F., Emeline, Cary F., Laura, Charley C., and Nellie M.  Mr. Bricker is well informed upon general matters, is a good farmer, and one of the substantial men of Morgan township.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 610
  MARSHALL BRICKER, Milford township, thresher, son of David Bricker, a pioneer of Liberty township.  He was born June 13, 1844, was raised on a farm, and remained at home until he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer Infantry.  He participated in the engagements at Perryville Duck river, and Franklin, after which he taken sick and was in the hospital for some time.  He spent about eleven months at Indianapolis.  He endeavored, with several others, to return to his retirement, but was retained.  After his discharge he returned home, and has been engaged at farming and running a separator.  Mr. Bricker is social and pleasant in his manners, and has the reputation of a good fellow.  He married Mrs. Amanda Lewis, of Liberty township, Nov. 29, 1866, and they have one child - Clara, born Apr. 10, 1868.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881-Page 610
  WILLIAM M. BRICKER.  Mr. Bricker was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 12, 1844.  When about nine years old his parents emigrated to Ohio and located in Wayne county, where he resided until Jan. 26, 1880.  His first business was in the dry goods and grocery line, under the firm name of Paul Bricker & Co.  In this he remained two years, when he sold out his interest and continued as a salesman in the same house for one year more.  He then engaged in the hotel business, and became proprietor of the American house, in Shreve, Wayne county, in which he continued four years.  In January, 1880, he removed to Mt. Vernon, and became proprietor of the Philo House, in which he did a successful business for one year, since which he has been engaged with a nursery, selling all kinds of fruit and ornamental trees.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 610
  HARRISON BRODRICK, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Ohio, and married Martha J. Smith, who was born in the county in 1851.  They have four children, viz:  Cora May, born in 1875; Jesse Belle, in 1877; Nellie G., in 1879; and Lulu, in 1880.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 611
  SYLVANUS P. BROOKS, Wayne township (deceased), was born in Timpkins county, New York, June 15, 1817, and was married to Amarilla Hewett.  They had five children, viz: Phylena (deceased), Cyrena Jane, Cyrus Hewett, John Wesley, and Sarah Amarilla.  Mrs Amarilla Brooks died Apr. 8, 1867.  He was married in 1841 to Mary Angeline Cocharan, who was born in Newark, Ohio.  Their children are: Squire Sylvanus, born Apr. 5, 1861; William Emulus, Sept. 14, 1866; Carrie, Oct. 15, 1868; Waitie; Orphy; Rosa, June 24, 1873; Streby Deso, Nov. 28, 1875.  Sylvanus P. died in Liberty township, Apr. 15, 1879, aged sixty-one years and ten months.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881
  JOHN A. BROKAW, Liberty township, retired shoemaker and farmer, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, July 4, 1804.  The Brokaw family are of French extraction.  The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Caleb Brokaw, had two brothers, Abram and Isaac, who married in New Jersey.  Isaac had a family.  Abram was twice married, but had no issue.  There are quite a number of this family still residing in New Jersey.  Caleb Brokaw married a lady of the same name, Jane Brokaw.  They had a family of three sons and two daughters.  The sons names were Isaac, Abram, and Caleb; the daughters were Ann and Polly.
     Abram, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in New Jersey in 1773.  He married Mariah Stryker, a native of New Jersey, about 1791.  She was born Mar. 12, 1775.  They had a family of fifteen children: Mariah born Aug. 8, 1792, married James Dehart, and raised a family; both are now dead; Jane, born June 8, 1794, died Aug. 17, 1794; Peter, born Aug. 6, 1795, deceased; Caleb, born Dec. 11, 1797.  He came to Ohio when a young man, and yet resides in North Liberty, this county.  He has a family: Simon, born Feb. 22, 1799, emigrated to Ohio, thence to Nebraska, where he died in 1880.  He left a family:  Abram, born Mar. 24, 1801, married in New Jersey, emigrated to Ohio, and died in Morrow county in 1870.  He left a family: John A., born July 4, 1804; he is the subject of this sketch; Jane N., born Oct. 5, 1806, married Gabriel Devaul, and died near Mt. Liberty, Feb. 24, 1881.  He left a family: Cornelia and Elizabeth, born Mar. 15, 1809.  Cornelia married Henry Stillwell and resides in New Jersey; Elizabeth, deceased.  She married George Maloney and died in Bethany, Virginia.  A son, born Aug. 23, 1810, deceased Sept. 2, 1810.
     Isaac, born Sept. 20, 1818; he resides at Centreburgh, Ohio; Henry, born Feb. 10, 1816, resides at Centreburgh, Ohio; Peter, born Mar. 31, 1818, died in Indiana; William C., born Jan. 16, 1820, deceased Apr. 21, 1821.
     Caleb Brokaw, grandfather of this subject, and Isaac, his brother, were soldiers of the Revolution, Caleb holding a lieutenant's commission.  They both served during the war.
     Abram Brokaw, father of the subject of this sketch, came to Ohio about 1822 or 1823, with his family and settled in Jefferson county, Ohio, where he died about 18267.  His wife returned to New Jersey, where she lived and died.
     John A. was raised on a farm.  At about the age of seventeen he began to learn the shoemaker trade.  He came to Ohio with his parents, remained about eighteen months, and returned to New Jersey; remained about a year and again came to Ohio, and remained until after the death of his father, when he returned with his mother to New Jersey, and married Caroline Bush Oct. 22, 1827.  She was born June 20, 1809.  They remained until the spring of 1831, came to Ohio and remained one year in Jefferson county, and then came to Morris township, this county; thence to Liberty township; thence to Bloomfield township; thence to Chester township (now Morrow county), where he remained until 1876, when he came to Mt. Liberty, where he has since resided.  He followed farming and shoemaking, by which he gained a competence for his old age.  Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw started poor in life.  When they arrived in Knox county he had a horse and wagon, with a few household effects and three dollars twelve and one-half cents in cash.  They had thirteen children, all of whom did well, thus showing that they were carefully and judicially trained:
     Sarah, was born in 1829; married Henry Slack and died in 1852; Maria, born Feb. 21, 1831; married Peter Spracklen in 1851, and deceased in 1855; Effa, born Feb. 26, 1833, married George Barr n 1853, and resides in Shelby county, Iowa; Elizabeth, born Nov. 22, 1834, married D. L. Brackenridge in 1855, and died in Tama county, Iowa, Dec. 23, 1872; a daughter, born Jan. 25, 1837; Phoebe A., born June 17, 1838, married Frank Lambert, May 10, 1859, resides in Jasper county, Iowa; Caroline, born Jan. 27, 1842, married John Bird Sept. 7, 1865, resides in Liberty township; Mary L., born Feb. 11, 1843, married Smith Gearhart, of Milford township, June 10, 1865; Andrew J., born June 6, 1845, farmer in Jasper county, Iowa; William B., born Aug. 8, 1847, is a farmer near Richwood, Ohio; Abraham G., born Feb. 4, 1850, farmer, Shelby county, Iowa; John B., born July 25, 1852, dealer in buggies; he is a good salesman, and a young man of good qualities; Marcus, born July 8, 1855.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 611
  JOSEPH C. BROWN, farmer, Pleasant township, was born in Cork county, Ireland in 1827, where he grew to manhood.  In 1856 he emigrated to America and located in Clermont county, Ohio.  In 1861 he came to Knox county, Ohio, where he married Miss Mary Clark, of College township, March 31st of same year.  They returned to Clermont county, where they lived a year, then, in 1862, they moved to this county and located for three years in College township, and in 1865 he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township where they are now living.  They have a family of seven children, three sons and  four daughters.  He has followed farming as his vocation.  Miss Clark was born in county Cork, Ireland, November 23, 1833, daughter of Thomas and Mary Clark.  She emigrated to America in 1852; lived in Hamilton county, Ohio, three years, and in 1855 came to Knox county.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page
  LUTHER M. BRUBAKER, Berlin township, carpenter, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Hanover township, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1853; learned the trade of carpenter with his father; works at his trade in this county, and is a first class mechanic.  He has filled the offices of constable, clerk, and trustee, and is an enterprising and industrious man.
 Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 613
Sharon Wick's NOTE:   Found Luther Brubaker in Knox Co., Ohio Census Records in 1870 Ashland Co., Hanover Twp., - Perrysville P. O. , aged 17 yrs. and unmarried; in Family # 10 with his parents and siblings - Luther aged 26 yrs. & not married;  1880 in Family with parents & siblings; 1900 in Dwelling #123 with wife Emma, both aged 46 yrs.; 1910 with wife Emma, both aged 56 yrs. & 1920 with wife Emma, he being 66 yrs and she being 65 yrs.   In these census records there were no children listed for Luther & Emma Brubaker.
  CASSANDER E. BRYANT, M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Knox county, Ohio, Mar. 3, 1826.  He spent his youth on a farm, attending school in the winter at the country schools, and at the schools at Fredericktown. When about twenty-one years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Lewis Dyer, of Fredericktown, and with Dr. T. R. Potter, his uncle, of the same place.  He attended two courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, graduating in the spring of 1850, and began practice the same year in Fredericktown, with his preceptor, Dr. Potter.  He remained there one year and then came to Mt. Vernon.  He practiced with Dr. W. F. McClelland about five years, and with Dr. J. N. Burr for some four years, being in partnership with them.  In the spring of 1868, on account of failing health, and in order to get out of practice, he went to Europe, and travelled extensively, remaining there during the summer.  He has given up practice. 
     June 2, 1857, he married Miss Caroline L. Scott, daughter of the late A. G. Scott, of Gambler, Ohio.  They have two children, both daughters, and at home.  His parents are both living.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 617
  DAVID BRYANT, farmer, post office Lucerne.  He was born in Knox county in 1832; married to Abigail Struble in 1858.  They had three children, Naomi Maud, William, and Samuel.  Mrs. Abigail Bryant died in 1875.  Mr. David Bryant subsequently married Abigail Foote, who was born in Knox county in 1847.  Mr. Bryant is a farmer by occupation.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 617

G. BRYANT		  
  GEORGE M. BRYANT, proprietor livery, feed, and sale stables, South Main street, adjoining the Philo house, Mt. Vernon, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, June 12, 1825.  Up to the year 1853 he followed farming and contracting on railroads.  In 1853 he came to Ohio and engaged in railroading in Cincinnati and neighborhood, which he followed eighteen months.  He then came to Mt. Vernon and went into building and contracting.  This business he continued in up to 1875.  His next venture was the establishment of a livery and feed store, in which he is still engaged.  His stock in trade is valued at two thousand dollars, consisting of twelve horses and fourteen vehicles, among which may be found single and double carriages, barouches, phaetons, and all in good order ready for instant use.  His establishment affords first class accommodations for the travelling public.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618
  GILMAN BRYANT, Mt. Vernon, deceased, was born in Peacham, Vermont, July 27, 1784, and died in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, June 10, 1859.  The history of Knox county would be incomplete without a record of the good and extensive influence yielded by this pioneer in its early settlement and prosperity.  He was also a remarkably early pioneer in the settlement of the state, having emigrated with his father, Lieutenant David Bryant, in 1797, to the Northwest Territory.  He was engaged in boating on Lake Erie until 1799, and visited the sight of the large and populous city of Cleveland when containing but two or three inhabitants.  His father purchased and cleared five acres of ground at two dollars and fifty cents per acre and made a corn field on a spot which is now in the heart of the city.  It is believed that Lieutenant Bryant never parted with the title of this land.  Years afterwards the papers were lost which would have proved his claim, and at that early day its value was so little the claim was lost sight of and fell into other hands.  This ground at the present day, now covered with magnificent buildings, is worth millions.  He was also engaged with his father in getting out grind-stones near Newburgh, and they made the first pair of millstones used in Northern Ohio, which are to-day kept as relics in the Cleveland park.  In 1799 Mr. Bryant left the Lake region and made journey to Marietta, by way of Erie, French creek and the Alleghany river, in a canoe or flat-boat.  Marietta was settled by many of the old Revolutionary officers and soldiers. In December, 1799, news came of the death of General Washington, when a solemn procession took place composed of his old companions in arms.  Mr. Bryant was a witness of that impressive scene, and listened to the funeral oration pronounced by Return J. Meigs.  While in that region, Mr. Bryant assisted in making the brick used in the construction of the celebrated mansion on Blennerhassets' Island, around which Wirt has thrown the charm of enchantment by his eloquence.  In 1800 Mr. Bryant returned to Cleveland and spent five years along the lake between that point, Detroit and the river Raisin, from whence he went to Lanesville in a canoe by the Cuyahoga river, hauling his canoe across the portage from Akron to the Tuscarawas, by oxen, and arrived at Lanesville in April, 1805.  Here he was taken with the ambition of becoming a merchant; and upon the recommendation of James Loveridge, concluded to settle in Mt. Vernon.  He accordingly procured a scanty outfit and with a cargo of goods, consisting principally of whiskey and salt set sail in a canoe up the Muskingum and its branches.  He navigated Owl creek and landed in Mt. Vernon Mar. 4, 1807.  In these days of railroads it would seem a novel mode of transportation to go by river from Lanesville to Mt. Vernon, but at that time when the wild forests were almost impenetrable except through narrow bridle paths, and the streams presented a larger volume of water than at the present time, it may, after all, have been the best route of travel, and this enterprising first merchant of Mt. Vernon took advantage of the spring freshet and successfully steered his vessel into the new and inviting haven.
     He found but three families within the boundaries of this embryo city.  The village of Clinton was then of more importance; and it is surmised that Mr. Loveridge was anxious that the young merchant would add to its population, but Clinton was not situated on a navigable stream.  Mr. Bryant, having been somewhat of a sailor, could not be induced to go so far from as good a harbor as Mt. Vernon presented.  However, his foresight must have been almost prophetic, as the sequel proved.  He lived to see his chosen settlement grow to the dimensions of a city, and Clinton go to decay.
     No citizen contributed more to the early growth and prosperity of Mt. Vernon than did Gilman Bryant.  It was not expected that a dozen families of whites in and about the settlement would contribute much to his traffic.  The settlers' wants were few, and with the exception of whiskey and salt the forest and small patches of corn ground provided them with the necessaries of life—luxuries they knew not nor desired—but the Indians came in great numbers from long distances with their furs, pelts, cranberries, ginseng, and maple sugar, and returned with the wares of the merchant.
     The Indians had their peculiarities in their mode of trading which Mr. Bryant respected and adhered to.  They came in bands of ten to fifty, their numbers greater in proportion to the distance travelled.  They would encamp for several days on the bank of the Kokosing, and when they had disposed of their produce and provided their wants departed in peace to their hunting grounds.  A number would file into Mr. Bryant's little log store—as many as the benches would seat—and one at a time commence trading, the others wailing their turn.  As soon as one article was purchased it was paid for before another was offered.  If the price did not suit, the Indian passed it by and did not parley for a better bargain.  When the cranberries were measured—which were carried in bark baskets—the Indian's squaw received in her hand a berry for every measure until all was done.  The maple sugar was also measured in bark baskets, and Mr. Bryant returned cornmeal, measure for measure, to the entire satisfaction of his customer.  The furs and pelts were valued by the standard of a buckskin, which represented the dollar.  Mr. Bryant's customers were mostly of the tribes of Wyandots, Shawnees, and Delawares, and he soon became familiar with their different languages.  His success, however, may be more attributed to the knowledge he obtained of their peculiarities, which he so thoroughly respected, together with his honesty and fairness which attracted towards him a large traffic from great distances.  Mr. Bryant commanded the respect and love of a large portion of the tribes and chiefs who then occupied the northwestern part of the State.  Knox county was remarkably free at that time from the outrages perpetrated in other parts of the State by the savages, and the peaceful demeanor of these red men towards the early settlers may be attributed in a large measure to Mr. Bryant's influence.  His kindness and honesty warded oft, many times, any hostile intention that may have lingered in the breasts of the natural enemies of the whites.
     As time passed and the flood of emigration rapidly filled up the new county, the Indians grew less in numbers. Mr. Bryant then bent his whole energy towards the development of the county, and finding an outlet for its products.  At his death a writer of his biography says of him:
     "His history shows him to be a man of great coolness and fortitude.  The scenes of his latter days bring those truly great characteristics out in striking and impressive lustre.  Few fully realize how large and extensive was Mr. Bryant's influence upon the prosperity which marked the early settlement of Knox county.  He was the first, and long maintained the position of the prominent merchant in the county.  His unaffected simplicity of manners, his frankness and urbanity made him a common centre for counsel and advice, to the most humble as well as to the most exalted; and to his sound judgment may be attributed, to a considerable degree, the sober, steady and substantial cast which so clearly marked the character and operations of that noble race of men, the pioneer settlers of Knox county.
     Mr. Bryant never initiated any novel or wild speculations to dissipate and destroy the energy and labor of our people.  His influence always went to promote the practical and useful pursuits of life.  Industry and economy were the great virtues he ever practiced and strove to foster and encourage.  Three great and unestimable virtues flourished in strength and beauty among that remarkable people, to whom he for a long time sustained the relation of coworker, friend and adviser.
     He also, for a long time, aided the people in securing a market for the surplus produce of the county.  In this he was distinguished for most valuable pecularities.  His efforts seemed ever to be to keep the market steady, not to speculate by either inflating or depressing it, but to secure to the people the best market they could have, after paying to him a reasonable reward, by way of profit, for his agency in the matter.
     The value of such a man can hardly be fully estimated in any producing community, much less can it be in a community such as that in which he had chosen his lot.  Many a gray-headed veteran in those arduous but interesting scenes of our past history have alluded to these excellencies of Mr. Bryant's life with feelings of undisguised emotion.
     He was not what, in this flashy age, is called a brilliant man.  Yet he was possessed of qualities of mind and heart which much more justly and deservedly gave him distinction.  Plain good sense, and sound judgment, unbending integrity, and sincere kindness, traits now too lightly esteemed, constitute the sole foundation on which his excellent character rests.  Few men ever carried on so large and promiscuous a business as he did with so few differences with his fellow-men, and still fewer without more litigation.  If the legal profession esteem him, as in truth they do, it is for something better than creating business for them.  Such was his reputation for integrity and veracity that those well acquainted with him, never thought of caviling at his word.
     Such was his universal kindness, too, that he seems to have been regarded as a kind of common ancestor to the early settlers.  This is strikingly manifest from the large number of children throughout the county, by worthy and grateful parents, honored with his name.  His own family and friends, however, know best and most highly appreciate this crowning virtue of his character.
     His religious views, though somewhat peculiar, he never obtruded upon others, but quietly acted out the sterling virtues which he considered the great and good Creator of man required of him as a condition of his being.  And it must be confessed by those who knew him well, that in the ordering of his moral conduct Mr. Bryant set an example worthy the imitation of all, and one from which most Christians might find suggestions for their own improvement.
     In his political views he was also conciliatory; while he adhered very decidedly to one party he was never known to proscribe a man for mere difference of opinion on these matters.  In early life he belonged to what was known as the Democratic party.  In 1828, when the contest arose between President Adams and General Jackson, he espoused the side of Mr. Adams.  To the party then organized he adhered, in the main, till his death.
     Gilman Bryant was the first postmaster of Mt. Vernon, and the first recorder of deeds in the county of Knox.  He built the first frame and brick dwelling house in Mt. Vernon, the former on Main street, and the latter on the corner of Vine and Gay streets, which last is still standing, and at present occupied by Mr. Byers as a residence.
     Mr. Bryant continued in business in Mt. Vernon until about the year 1850, and accumulated a large estate.  He was the owner of two flouring and saw-mills, one located on Centre run just east of Mt. Vernon, and the other on Dry creek, where he also owned the farm now occupied by the county infirmary.  He moved his family to the latter place in 1819, and returned to Mt. Vernon in 1822.  He established a large tobacco warehouse in the rear of his building on Main street, where he packed and shipped large quantities of leaf tobacco— a considerable product of Knox county at that day.  He shipped principally to the Baltimore market, the only mode of transportation then being by wagons.  He owned at one time considerable of the property on and near Main street, which has since become very valuable, among which may be mentioned the corner of Main and Vine streets, now occupied by the First National bank and post office, running back to Gay street.  He also owned and built upon the lot upon which now stands the Curtis house, also the hill in the rear and the ground east of Gay street to the alley; also the hill which was cut down and now occupied by the Kremlin block; also owned property on the west side of Main below Vine street.  He built the large market house on the southwest corner of the square for a ground lease of forty years which was granted by the town.
     Later in life he owned a farm two miles east of Mt. Vernon on the old Gambler road. The large brick residence he built on the hill, now standing in the rear of the Curtis house, was the finest mansion at that time in the county.  Here Mr. Bryant, for many years, extended the most generous hospitality to friends at home and abroad which his wealth enabled him to do in a manner quite beyond the means of the average pioneer.  It became quite a resort for New York merchants and the students and professors of Kenyon college, many of whom have become distinguished in later days.
     Mrs. Bryant was of an old Virginia family, and dispensed the hospitalities of her house with a dignity and courteousness of manner characteristic of southern people.
     On the second day of March, 1809, Mr. Bryant married Elizabeth Thrift, who was a daughter of the Rev. William Thrift, of Fairfax, Virginia, the first minister of the Gospel who settled in Knox county.  Mrs. Bryant was born Nov. 18, 1792, in Leesburgh, Virginia, and came to Mt. Vernon with, her father in 1807.  She died at Sparta, Dec. 17, 1865.
     Twelve children were born to this worthy couple, three died in infancy and nine were reared to manhood and womanhood. Seven of the number are living at this day. Their descendants number ninety, of which sixty-eight are living, but scattered in four States. The following is their family record:
     Nancy, born Oct. 18, 1810, married George Browning, and had eight children and seventeen grandchildren. She died July 23, 1860.
     Timothy Burr, born July 17, 1812, married Elizabeth C. Reeve.  He died July 23, 1855.
     Mary Gilman born June 24, 1814, married James Warner Miller, and had ten children and twenty-nine grandchildren.  They now reside in Newark.
     William Thrift, born Dec. 1, 1816, died Mar. 8, 1817.
     David, born Apr. 19, 1818, died Aug. 16, 1818.
     Hannah Jane, born May 18, 1819, married Dr. Joseph Brown and had four children and one grandchild.  She now resides in Mt. Vernon.
     Cassondra, born Oct. 18, 1821, died Dec. 12, 1821.
     James Gilman, born Sept. 8, 1823, married Mary P. Swetland, and has one son.  They reside in New York city.
     Charles Grandison, born Mar. 22, 1826, married, first Elizabeth D. Smith; second Louisa Harrison, and had six children and two grandchildren.  He resides in Rock Island, Illinois.
     Hamilton Thrift, born Aug. 27, 1829, married Mary E. Cornell.  They reside in Richland county.
     Edwin Douglass, born Dec. 26, 1831, married Lucy V. Inscho.  They reside in Sunbury.
     Elizabeth Ellen, born Sept. 30, 1834, resides in Mt. Vernon.
     Of the many descendants of Gilman Bryant, there only remain living now in Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Dr. Brown and son Charles, Dudley Browning, Mrs. Emma Sperry (with one child), Bessie and Lawrence children of Elizabeth (Browning) Taylor, and Frank W. Miller, son of Mary (Bryant) Miller, with two children.
     The following is a record of the paternal and maternal ancestors of Gilman Bryant.  His father, Lieutenant David Bryant, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, about the year 1755, and is supposed to be a descendant in the fifth generation of Stephen Bryant, of the Plymouth colony, who lived about the year 1620-90.  David was a cousin of William Cullen Bryant, the poet.  The mother of Gilman Bryant was Mary Gilman, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Gilman, who commanded a regiment of the New Hampshire line during the Revolution. Lieutenant David Bryant served in his father-in-law's regiment. 
     The history of the Gilmans is thus narrated:
     "In May, 1638, Edward Gilman, with his wife, three sons, two daughters and three servants, came from Norfolk county, England, in the ship called the Delight, of Ipswich, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts.  Moses, the third son of Edward Gilman, lived in New Market, Xew Hampshire, and had six sons— Captain Jeremiah, born in 1660, had Thomas, Andrew, Joseph and others.  The last two sons were captured by the Indians, in 1709, and taken to Canada.  St a war dance, Joseph was burnt.  Andrew was sold to the French, and imprisoned, but obtained favor of the governor and was permitted to work for wages until he earned a sum sufficient to purchase his freedom.  He returned to his old home, married, and had one son, Jeremiah, and three daughters.  Jeremiah was born about the year 1721.  When the Revolutionary War broke out he was commissioned a colonel and commanded a regiment in the New Hampshire line.  His daughter, Mary Gilman, married Lieutenant David Bryant, who served in his father-in-law's regiment during the war.  Lieutenant Bryant was the father of the subject of this sketch.
     The genealogical successions of the seven generations in this line, therefore, stand as follows: First, Edward Gilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1600; second, Moses Gilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1630; third, Jeremiah Gilman, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1660; fourth, Andrew Gilman, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1690; fifth, Jeremiah Gilman (second), born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1720; sixth, Mary Gilman, born in Vermont, about 1760; seventh. Gilman Bryant, born in Vermont, 1784.
     Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Bryant lived to celebrate their golden wedding, which proved to be a rare and interesting occasion.  It was celebrated in Mt. Vernon, at the residence of their son-in-law, Mr. James W. Miller, Mar. 2, 1859.  The following, as taken from the published account of the affair at that time, will be interesting to their descendants and friends:
     "The occasion was the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of our old, well known, and esteemed fellow citizen.  Gilman Bryant, and his respected lady, as it was also the thirtieth anniversary of the marriage of their eldest daughter, Mrs. George Browning, the oldest native of this city now living within the county.  The highly interesting and affecting ceremonies were heralded to the guests by the following card:

Married:  March 2, 1809,
GILMAN BRYANT,
ELIZABETH THRIFT.
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Golden Wedding.
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J. W. Miller and Lady, Compliments.
Wednesday Evening, March 2, 1859."

     The party was composed almost exclusively of relatives, numbering some seventy persons, and embracing five generations, viz; The remarkable mother of Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. Coleman, a spirited old lady of eighty-seven years; the bride, Mrs. O. Browning; Mrs. S. L. Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Browning, and the four children of Mrs. Taylor, Emma, Fannie, Georgie, and Eddie.
     At a giving signal the company repaired to the dining-room to partake of the wedding supper, which was rich, rare, and abundant.  Upon several cakes were beautifully iced names, devices, and dates, and on the bride's cake a pair of delicate little doves in the act of billing.  The company being seated the Rev. Charles Hartley, of Utica, chaplain of the occasion, arose and pronounced a beautiful and appropriate blessing.
     After feasting upon the good things, all returned to the parlors, where the parties directly participating were grouped in a semi-circle as follows: The bride and groom in the centre, Mr. and Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Coleman on the right, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and their daughter Emma on their left; thus presenting in the eldest born of each family an unbroken chain of five generations, the eldest and youngest occupying the extremes of the figure.  Thus placed, and with the guests standing around them, the Rev. Mr. Hartley presented himself to the centre of the group and invoked the blessing of heaven upon all present in a very impressive prayer, after which, in a most eloquent and feeling manner, delivered an appropriate address.  The address closed, Mr. Hartley advanced to Mr. and Mrs. Bryant and requested them to join hands, when the marriage ceremoney was re-enacted in a most solemn and beautiful manner, the parties renewed their pledges of love made fifty years ago, and the gallant groom placed upon the finger of his bride the golden ring as an emblem of the unending duration of his affection.  Then followed the congratulations and a general kissing of the happy pair, in which ancient custom the whole company participated with a zest that smacked loudly of the olden time.
     Hannah Moffett, the great-great-grandmother, was born in Leesburgh, Virginia, Feb 27, 1772, four years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and at the time of the golden wedding it was ascertained by an enumeration that her lineal descendants reached the extraordinary number of one hundred and sixty, of whom only twenty-nine had deceased, and of these but four adults.
     Quite a host of other relatives, husbands and wives, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, were present, including five generations in another line of descent through Mrs. J. W. Miller, her son, J. B. Miller, and his little daughter, Jennie May.
     Mr. Bryant did not long survive the golden wedding.  There seemed to have settled upon his heretofore jovial disposition an air of sadness.  To the solicitous enquiry of family and friends he expressed the strange belief that the event just celebrated had some connection with the close of his earthly career.  The frailities of age reminded him of an inability for further usefulness, and on the tenth day of June, the same year, he passed away, greatly lamented by all who knew him.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 613
  SAMUEL BRYANT, was born in Morris county. New Jersey, Oct. 15, 1799.  His father, James Bryant, moved with his family to Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and remained there until 1804, when he came to Ohio and located in Wayne township, this county, bringing only a part of his family with him, but the same fall he returned and brought the younger members of his family.  Mr. N. M. Young, Mr. Bryant's brother-in-law, came with him.  At that time the country was very thinly settled.  They located on a farm in the west part of Wayne, where they attacked the forest and cleared up a home on which they lived four years.  They  then purchased a farm near Fredericktown where they began anew.  Mr. Bryant went to the district schools and received an education such as that day afforded.  His time was mostly spent in converting the forest into a harvest field.  When about twenty years old he taught school some, and practiced surveying for a number of years.  He resided on the home farm until 1866, when he came to Mt. Vernon where he still resides.  He was married Apr. 4, 1822, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Samuel Potter, by whom he had a family of three children, Ellen B. Headley, now dead; Cassander E., a physician and surgeon of Mt. Vernon, and Orlando, a farmer, two and one-half miles east of Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Bryant is now in his eighty-first year, and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, settlers in the county.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 616
  WILLIAM BRYANT, Wayne township, deceased; born in New Jersey in 1795, came to Ohio in 1810, and was married to Elizabeth Norton.  They had three children, Anna, born in 1819, James in 1821, and William m 1830.  Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant died.
     Mr. Bryant afterwards married Maria McGinis, who was born in 1810.  They had three children, David, born in 1832; Jacob, born in 1837, and Rebecca, in 1839.  Anna Bryant is dead; William died in 1877.
     Mr. Bryant located in this county at an early day, when the county was mostly in timber and the howl of the wolf, panther and wild-cat could be heard in the forests.  He assisted in clearing up the county and building up society and establishing churches.  Jacob Bryant was in the late war, a member of the
Twentieth O. V. I., remained in the service three years and received an honorable discharge.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 617
  CORBIN W. BUCKMASTER, Liberty township, was born in Charlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, .April 24, 1798.  His father died about a year after, and his mother, who married again. died about six years after.  He was then taken by his grandfather, with whom he remained until the sixteenth year of his age, when he went to learn the trade of hatter with his uncle, with whom he remained about two years.  In 1816 he came to Zanesville, Ohio, and remained three years, being then twenty-one years of ago.  He then travelled as a journeyman in Kentucky, thence to St. Louis.  In the spring of 1821 he wont to New Orleans, took passage thence to Baltimore, and thence to his old home in Virginia, where he married Miss Catharine Davis, Nov. 28, 1822.  She was a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, born July 29, 1803.  He remained in Virginia until 1827, when he came to Zanesville, where he followed his trade for a number of years.  He held the office of constable for seven years and justice of the peace for twelve years.  While justice of the peace he filled nine civil dockets and one State docket.  He was considered by all a man of sound judgment.  They had a family of nine children, three of whom are living— William, in Nebraska; Henrietta, wife of J. P. Wintermute; and Catharine, wife of Hiram Fisher.
     Mr. and Mrs. Buckmaster are spending the evening of their lives at the residence of their son-in-law, J. P. Wintermute, Mt. Liberty.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618
  JOSHUA BUCKWALTER, farmer, Berlin township; post office Fredericktown; was burn in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1823, and came to Wayne county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of ten years.  He was married to Rachel Nelson, who was born in Ohio.  They had five children: Jehiel, Benjamin, Ann (deceased), Mahala, and J. C. Mrs. Rachel Buckwalter died in Knox county, Ohio, in 1864.  Mr. Buckwalter's second marriage was to Rachel Buckholder, who was born in Knox county in 1834. They have four children— Herman, William B. (deceased), Rachel, and Philip.  Mr. Buckwalter located in Berlin township in 1856, is engaged in fanning, and is one of the leading men of the township.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618
  ANDREW BULYER, carpenter, Pike township; post office North Liberty; born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1832, and was married in 1854 to Martha Grice, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1830.  They have two children, Samantha and Byron, both living with their parents.  Mr. Bulyer learned the carpenter trade in this county, and has been working at it in different parts of the county.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618
  DAVID BULYER, farmer, Middlebury township; post office Fredericktown; was born in Pike township February 4, 1836; married in 1864, to Amanda Reep, who was born March 2, 1846. They have two children—Henry Wairy, born January 7, 1865, and Lucy, born January 1, 1866.  Mr. Bulyer is engaged in farming in Middlebury township.  He has lived in this township for nine years, and is one of its active and energetic
citizens.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618
  GEORGE W. BUNN, Mt. Vernon; was born in Mt. Vernon on the seventh of July, 1839, and attended R. R. Sloan's academy, where he received a good English education.  When but eleven years old he commenced to learn the painter trade, working during the summer and going to school during the winter.  In this way he served nine years at the trade, after which he engaged in business for himself, in which he has continued ever since, and in which he has been highly successful.  His business, like his trade, has been ascending the ladder round by round until it has become quite extensive.  He employs from  twelve to twenty hands per year.  He was married to Miss R. M. Crandell, daughter of Russel Crandell, of this city, and had a family of four children, three of whom are living.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618
  LEVI S. BURGER, farmer, Pike township, post office North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and was married, in 1858, to Catharine Wohlford, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1837.  They had eleven children:  Allison P. (born in 1859), George W. (in 1860), James L. (in 1861), Priscilla A. (in 1864), John E. (in 1865), Catharine L. (in 1867), Jacob A. (in 1869), Joseph H. (in 1871), William A. (in 1873), Edward F. (m. 1876), and Lomorie Blanche (in 1878).  The deceased members of the family are George W., Joseph H.,  and John E.
     Mr. and Mrs. Burger are worthy members of the German Baptist church.  His father, Jacob Burger, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and was married to Susannah Rush, who was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, in 1793.  They had ten children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan (deceased), Catharine (deceased), Levi S., Hannah, Joseph, Abraham, and Maria (deceased)  Mrs. Susannah Burger departed this life in 1848, Jacob Burger  in 1880.
     Mr. Burger emigrated to Knox county in 1835, and located in this township on the same farm where his son Levi now resides.  He was a very industrious man, and by his industry, economy, and perseverance, he succeeded in clearing and improving one of the most beautiful farms of the township.  He was a deacon of tlie German Baptist church, of which he was a member for many years, and remained firm in his religious faith until his death.
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881- Page 618

Dr. J. N. Burr
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  ELIZABETH OGLESBY BYERS, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 11, 1788, and died at her late residence, corner of Gay and Vine streets, Wednesday morning, Aug. 4, 1880, aged ninety-two years five months and twenty-four days.  Her husband, the late Samuel Byers, died in 1832.  Her son, Joseph M. Byers, came to Ohio, and located in Newark, in 1841, and in 1842 went back to Pennsylvania and brought his mother to his Ohio home.  In 1854 the family came to Mt. Vernon, and located in the house at the corner of Gay and Vine Streets, where they have remained up to the present time.  The deceased, was the mother of seven children.  Four children, Mr. Joseph M. Byers, of  this city, Mr. James D. Byers and Mr. John H. Byers, both of California, and Miss Margaret Byers, of this city, survive her.  Some sixty years ago Mrs. Byers associated herself with the Presbyterian church, and up to 1838 retained her membership with that organization, but on account of being removed from church privileges by a change of residence, she joined the Methodist Episcopal church by letter, and remained a member to the close of her life.  Besides her four surviving children, deceased leaves sixteen grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren, with a large circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her departure.  An intimate acquaintance with Mother Byers for nearly thirty-five years enables the writer to say that the beauty of a blameless life and been shown in her every act, as a wife, as a mourning widow, and as a mother mourning for the loss of her children; and the cheerfulness with which she patiently waited for long years the call to meet those members of her family who had gone before her, evidenced a life free from guile.
     "Who seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands, who riseth while it is night, and giveth meat to her household."
Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
 


 

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