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Source:
History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co.
1883 BIOGRAPHIES
WILLIAM
FARABEE was born Sept. 4, 1794, in
Pennsylvania, and moved from there about 1843 to
Vinton County, where he lived until his death,
May 10, 1876. He was married Feb. 27,
1818, to Sarah Hoglen. They had
nine children - Mary, Thomas, Malinda,
William P., Catherine J., Elias, Annie, Silas
and Samuel S. July 11, 1852, he
was married to Charlotte Brada.
They had three children - John M., Nancy E.,
and Benjamin F. Mr. Farabee
has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church for nearly fifty years.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1293 - found in chapter for Madison & Knox
Twps. |
JAMES
FAULKNER, deceased, was born Dec. 11,
1824, in Loudon County, Va., a son of Kemp
and Elizabeth Faulkner, both natives of that
State. They reared a family of six
children, of whom Elizabeth, wife of
Leonard Shull, is the only living
representative of the family. The children
were - Lucy Ann, Sarah, Thomas, James,
William and Elizabeth, born in
Virginia. Two other children were born in
Ohio but died in infancy. In 1834 Kemp
Faulkner with his family moved to Ohio and
located in what is now Vinton County. He
purchased land in Swan Township in the woods,
and in a short time had a log cabin erected, a
part of which is still standing. It is now
in the possession of James Faulkner's
widow. Kemp Faulkner was born July
1, 1795, and died Mar. 14, 1875; his wife died
about nine years previous. Thomas
died in Swan Township; Sarah, James and
William died on the homestead, and
Lucy Ann died in Missouri. James
Faulkner took the principal charge of his
father's place and remained with him till his
death. He was married Sept. 27, 1861, to
Mary Elizabeth Kaler, who was born in
Hocking County (now Vinton), July 28, 1840, a
daughter of Samuel and Amelia (Slaughterback)
Kaler. The Kalers are old
settlers in this region. Of a large family
but four daughters are now living in Vinton
County; four sons are living in the West.
Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner had a family of
seven children - Elizabeth Ann, wife of
Joseph Linn; Sarah Jane, wife of Eli
Sonders; Ephraim, married Lydia Anderson;
William, deceased; Amelia C., Lucy
Florence and Irene V., all living in
Vinton County. Mr. Faulkner died
Mar. 16, 1878.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1314 |
WILLIAM
FEE is one of Swan's most worthy
citizens, and the largest land-owner in the
township. He was born in Gallia County,
Ohio, six miles from Gallipolis, Sept. 16, 1821.
His father, Thos. Fee, was born Sept. 14,
1782, and was nearly grown when he with his
father, John Fee, came across the Ohio
River from Virginia into Ohio, and located in
Gallia County. He was married Aug. 11,
1803, to Sarah Collins, who was born Dec.
24, 1788, in Greenbrier County, Penn. Her
father, Jesse Collins, was an early
settler in Gallia County. In September,
1827, Thos. Fee moved his family to
Hocking County, and located in what was then
Starr Township, but is now Brown Township,
Vinton County. His brother, Wm. Fee,
was then living in Hocking County, and the
brothers traded farms, Thomas coming into
Hocking County and William going to
Gallia County. Thos. Fee
made this farm his home till the time of his
death, Aug 11, 1846. His wife survived him
a number of years and died at the residence of
her son, Wm. Fee, Sept. 5, 1865.
They reared a family of seven children -
Mary, John, Margaret, Jane, Sarah, Christinia
and William. Wm. Fee was six
years old when his father came to this county.
He was married July 7, 1842, to Clarissa
Johnson, who was born in Jackson County,
Feb. 12, 1826. She died Oct. 24, 1849.
They had a family of four children - John V.,
born July 24, 1843, died in infancy; Thos.
Jackson, born June 17, 1844; Sarah Jane,
born Mar. 8, 1846; and George M., born
Nov. 24, 1847. July 25, 1850, Mr. Fee
married Mary Engle, who was born Feb. 18,
1820, in Hocking County, Falls Township.
To them the following children were born -
Elizabeth, born May 9, 1851; Maria,
born Apr. 20, 1854; Mary, born Mar. 22,
1857, died Apr. 17, 1861; Jacob, born
Oct. 8, 1860, and Wm. Sanford, born June
28, 1863, died Aug. 29, 1865. Mr. Fee
moved to the farm where he now resides November,
1855. He owns 1,211 acres of land, all but
209 acres in Swan Township. Politically he
has always adhered to the Democratic party.
He has served four years as County Commissioner.
The first year was appointed to fill vacancy
caused by his brother John resigning
to take a representative position.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1315 |
W.
W. FIERCE is a native of Athens County,
Ohio, born Jan. 28, 1840. He received his
literary education at Valparaiso College,
Indiana. He left the college in 1862, and
Aug. 9 of the same year he enlisted for three
years in Company H, Eighty-seventh Indiana
Infantry. He participated in the battles
of Perryville, Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma and
Chickamauga, and all the skirmishes on to
Tullahoma, Tenn. During the war he
contracted rheumatism of the heart and was
obliged to leave the service. He was
finally discharged at Louisville, Ky. He
then returned home and a year later commenced
the study of medicine. He took one course
of lectures at the University of Michigan in
1865, and graduated in medicine and surgery from
the Cincinnati Medical College, after which he
practiced his profession in Bloomfield, Iowa,
for three years. In 1874 he came to
Wilkesville where he has practiced most of the
time since then. Jan. 16, 1868, he was
married to M. Josephine Bishop, a native
of Wilkesville, Ohio, born July 1, 1850*.
They have one child - Manda M. born Jan.
11, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Fierce are
members of the Presbyterian church. He is
a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 23, at
Bloomfield, and is Commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, Fearing Post, No. 179.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1358 - Wilkesville |
E.
FISCHER was born Jan. 13, 1839, in
Germany. He came to this country, landing
at Ironton, Lawrence, Ohio, about the 4th of
July, 1857. He remained there about three
yeas, when he took a trip down through Indiana,
and came to Zaleski in 1864, where he has since
resided. Mr. Fischer was educated
in Germany until he was fourteen years old.
He is a butcher by trade and runs a first class
shop on Second street, Zaleski, Ohio, where he
has been engaged for several years. Mr.
Fischer was Township Treasurer for ten years
at Zaleski. He has been a member of the
Masonic order for eleven or twelve years and is
now a Master Mason. He was married Feb.
19, 1868, to Miss Margaret Gardner,
daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Smith)
Gardner. They are the parents of six
children, five of whom are living - William,
Philip, Fred, Mollie and Lenora.
Catharine, a lovely little daughter, died
at the age of seven years, three months and
sixteen days.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1293 - found in chapter for Madison & Knox
Twps. |
EDWARD
FLETCHER was born Jan. 22, 1826, in
Pennsylvania. He left his native State in
1839, and came to Athens County, Ohio, with his
father, where he lived on a farm for three
years. The following five years he was
engaged in farming in Lee Township, near Albany.
He then moved to Wilkesville Township, Vinton
County, then Gallia County, living on section 4
for seven years. In 1855he moved to his
present farm, situated on section 10,
Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, where he
has 298½ acres of
good land. May 20, 1848, he was married to
Malinda Liston, born in Jefferson County,
Ohio, Feb. 11, 1821. They have had five
children - William E., born May 30, 1849;
Thomas, born Dec. 8, 1850, and died Sept.
6, 1882; Elmer H., born Aug. 3, 1852;
George W., May 12, 1854; John J.,
Feb. 28, 1856. Mr. Fletcher and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. His parents, Edward and
Dorothea Fletcher were natives of Ireland.
They came to America and settled in Wilkesville
Township, Ohio, where they died. They had
ten children, our subject being the fourth
child. Ebenezer Liston, the father
of Mrs. Fletcher, was born in the State
of Delaware in 1777 and died in 1852. Her
mother, Mary Frazy was born in New Jersey
in 1787 and died in 1868. Mrs. Fletcher
was the ninth child of a family of fifteen
children.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1359 - Wilkesville |
THOMAS
FLETCHER was born in Greene County,
Penn., Feb. 18, 1832, but left there with his
father at the age of four years, for Alexander
County. After living there three years he
went to Lee Township, New Albany, and remained
for five or six years. His next move was
to Wilkesville Township, Gallia County, now
Vinton County, where he has resided since 1845.
He has 182 acres of well-cultivated land and
makes stock-raising a specialty. His
residence is on section 11. He was married
Aug. 29, 1858, to Narcissa Filkil, born
in Morgan County, Ohio, Nov. 8, 1835. He
and wife are members of the Presbyterian church.
Edward Fletcher, father of Thomas,
was a native of Ireland, being born Nov. 17,
1781. He died Apr. 17, 1868. The
mother of Thomas was Dorothea Fletcher
also born in Ireland, April, 1797. Her
death occurred in 1857. They were the
parents of ten children, six of whom are living
- Mary, Eliza, Edward, Isabella, Thomas
and Sarah.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1359 - Wilkesville |
JOHN
T. FOREMAN, ex-County Auditor, McArthur,
is a son of David Foreman and was born in
Noble County, Ohio, in 1847, but his parents in
1854 became residents of Swan Township, Vinton
County, where he was reared to farm life and
received a common-school education. He
took a selected course in the Ohio University at
Athens, where he completed his study. From
1871 to 1875 he engaged as teacher. During
1875 he was elected County Auditor, and entered
upon duty in November of the same year.
Two years later he was re-elected. During
the first term the State Legislature passed a
bill for Auditor's term to cover a period of
three years, hence his second term was
accordingly. As an officer he was zealous
and much esteemed. While residing in the
county he was a member of the elk Township Board
of Trustees, and since in McArthur, has been
identified with the Town Council. In 1868
he became a member of the Masonic fraternity in
which he has filled various official capacities.
His wife was Cynthia A. Gustin, of Vinton
County. They have three children.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1244 - Elk Twp. |
LEMUEL
FULLER, was born in McArthur, Vinton
County, April 1, 1837, and on March 10, 1859, he
was united in marriage with Amanda Reasonor,
who was born in Grundy County, Ohio, Jan. 9,
1840, and died March 17, 1880. Their
family consisted of four children - Josiah,
Celesta, Irene, and Celia Ann. Mr.
Fuller has been a resident of Vinton County
all of his life, and at present owns a good farm
of eighty acres of section 23, Brown Township,
where he is engaged in general farming and
stock-raising. On March 15, 1865, he
enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and
Ninety-fourth Ohio Infantry, in the late war,
and served until its close. Mr. Fuller
has been a member of the United Brethren church
for eighteen years.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 1301 |
LORENZO
D. FULLER, farmer, as born in Vinton
County, Ohio, Apr. 2, 1842. He was reared
a farmer and now has 353½
acres of good land, his residence being on
section 29. He is engaged in general
farming and stock-raising. He was married
in 1862 to Melissa Lillabridge, a native
of Hocking County, Ohio, born in 1845. She
died in 1865, leaving one child - Phoebe M.,
born June, 1863. In 1869 Mr. Fuller
married Elizabeth Swift, a native
of Athens County, born in 1848. They have
six children - Rhoda Jane, born in 1872;
Mary E., in 1873; William F., in
1876; John S., in 1878; Lemuel F.,
in 1879, and Flora B., in 1881.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 1301 |
WILLIAM
FULLER was born in New Hampshire, Sept.
7, 1814, and came with his father to Ohio in
1817, locating near McArthur, Vinton County,
where he was reared and educated. He now
has a farm of 180 acres on section 23, Brown
Township, and is engaged in farming and
stock-raising, making a specialty of the latter.
In 1837 he married C. C. Lista Lane, who
was born in 1815, and died in 1842 leaving two
children - Lemuel, born in 1837, and
Lorenzo D., born in 1842. In 1847,
Mr. Fuller married Phoebe Gray, a
native of Pennsylvania, born March 7, 1821.
They have no children. Mr. and Mrs.
Fuller are members of the United Brethren
church.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 1301 |
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