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History of Madison County, Ohio
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.
1883
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  Pike Twp. -
CORNELIUS VANNESS, farmer, P. O. Mechanicsburg.  The subject of this sketch was born May 15, 1806, in Butler County, Ohio.  He was a son of George Vanness, a Revolutionary soldier, and Elleanor Vanness, who emigrated from New Jersey to Butler County at quite an early day.  To his parents were born eleven children, four of whom are now living, viz.:  Daniel, George, Judith and our subject.  When eight years of age - with his parents - he came to Madison County.  On their journey his mother died, which was an irreparable loss to the family.  Having arrived here, they settled in Pike Township, near where our subject now resides, and where his father died in March, 1832.  In February, 1830, he married Rebecca Bower, born Apr. 8, 1805, and daughter of Jacob and Polly Bower.  To them have been born seven children, six of whom are now living - Mary E., born Apr. 30, 1832; Lucy J., born Feb. 21, 1834; George B., born Sept. 6, 1836; Jacob C., born Dec. 2, 1838; Sarah E., born Sept. 14, 1840, and died Jan. 4, 1863; Rebecca A., born Aug. 11, 1843; and John L., born Nov. 23, 1848.  Mr. Vanness has, since the date of his arrival here, been a citizen of this county.  He has served as Constable and School Director.  He is a member of the Christian Church in which he has for several years officiated as Deacon.  He is the owner of 155 acres of land, and resides in the northwestern portion of Pike Township.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1883 - Page 1062
  Deercreek Twp. -
CHRISTIAN VOLKA, merchant, P. O. La Fayette, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 25, 1837; he is a son of John and Catharine Volka, natives of France, who emigrated to America while young; they grew to maturity and were married in Columbus, Ohio.  He was a shoe-maker by trade, which business he followed in Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis.  He died of small-pox in Cincinnati.  They had three children, two now surviving - Catharine (wife of David M. Bradley), and Christian, the subject of this sketch, who was principally raised in Madison County, brought up to farm labor and was married, Jan. 8, 1863, to Lucetta Bell, a native of this county, where she was born May 12, 1844, and a daughter of Daniel Bell, a native of Virginia, and his wife Rebecca (Wagoner) Bell, a native of Ohio.  Dr. Bell was a practicing physician for many years, commencing his profession in Coshocton County, Ohio; thence coming to Madison County and practicing in Somerford Township.  He was an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and gave freely of his means for the erection of the church edifice, and also for the schoolhouse that was built near it, in honor of which the place was called Belleville.  He purchased a farm in that township, upon which he resided a short time; then he removed to Champaign County, and there brought a farm, where he resided about twenty years; then he removed to London, this county, and entered upon the mercantile trade, but after a few months he removed to La Fayette, where he died Dec. 8, 1869, aged sixty-nine years.  His wife died Nov. 29, 1858, aged thirty-nine years, dying on her thirty-ninth birthday.  They had thirteen children, five now surviving - Lucy, Rachel, Lucetta, Laura, Ellen and Charles.  Mr. Volka and wife have had five children, two now survive - Nettie, born Oct. 3, 1865, and John C., born Aug. 14, 1878.  Mr. Volka first located in La Fayette, and has spent most of his life in London and La Fayette, and the greater portion of it has been devoted to the mercantile trade.  He was employed as a clerk in London for several years; then he entered as an assistant with Dr. Bell to the time of his death, when he took possession of the store and as since continued the business, conducting a general grocery and drug trade, and has a good established business.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1883 - Page 1029

 

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