This township, as
originally organized in 1831, included the east half of
the present Bath township, and a strip one mile wide oil
the north end of Auglaize, and the northeast corner of
Perry.
The present township was organized in 1834, was the
first justice of the peace; the first John
Jameson trustees were: Thomas Nash, William
Reece, and William Watt; and the first clerk,
Joseph Hall.
The earliest settlers were:
A. Allison, M. Allison, Jacob Bressler, Geo.
Balsinger, Geo. Barber, John Barber, M. Belfinger,
Edward Boyd, H. Carlisle, J. Carlisle, John Claybaugh,
James Carter, C. Carter, Jacob Elder, E. Edgecomb, J.
Evans, U. Edgecomb, Jethro Fisher, Silas Faurot, Jacob
Hawk, John Hall, A. Hall, R. Hall, Joseph Hall, James
Hall, John Jameson, Samuel Jameson, E. Jones, Samuel
McCafferty, Benjamin Meek, Joseph Marsh, Samuel McCluer,
Moses McCluer, Aaron Loomis, Geo. May, John Murray,
William Neely, Thomas Nash, Enos Paulan, John Robinson,
William Rumbaugh, Geo. Rumbaugh, David Rumbaugh, William
Reese, William Roberts, Jacob Rumbaugh, James Rumbaugh,
William Rains, Johu
Staley, Jacob STALEY, Peter STALEY, William STALEY,
Peter STALEY, Jr., John Shinneberry, Lemuel Tucker,
Robert Sundgrnss, David Saxton, Samuel Tucker, William
Watt, James Watt, Adam White, J. T. Woods, Samuel Watt,
Joseph G.
Walton, Daniel Woollet, Abraham Ward, William Ward, John
B. Walton, Joseph Ward, Philip Woollet, George White,
Wm. Akerman, Wm. Canler, Christian Erich, Moses
Patterson, and Tobias Woods.
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.
Mr. Nationel McCluer gives the following
sketch of his father, Samuel McCluer, who
originally built a cabin on the west bank of Hog
Creek, in Bath township, Allen County, in 1825.
SAMUEL McCLUER
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MOSES McCLUER
WILLIAM
SUDDUTH was born in Shenandoah County, Va., June
10, 1807, and came to Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1814,
and remained there until 1830, and then removed to Union
County, from thence, 1853, to Jackson township, Allen
County, and settled on section 21, where he remained
until 1878, when he located on lots 7 and 8 in the town
of Lafayette. The first school-house was built on
sec. 21, about 1833, and the first teacher Thomas
Hall. The first church, M. E., on sec. 3;
Disciple on sec. 1; Lutheran on sec. 26, and one on sec.
30 and one on the sec. 23. Mr. Sudduth was
married in Pickaway County to Miss Elizabeth Lee,
in 1877, his first wife having died in 1875. He
has but one living child, a daughter. He has spent
most of his life as a farmer, but has partially retired.
He is mostly employed in little offices about Lafayette
and about home.
MRS. NANCY ANN CUNNINGHAM
JOHN MURRAY was born in
Westmoreland County, Pa., Jan. 30, 1794, and moved with
his father, James Murray, to Highland County, O.,
in 1807. He served in teh war of 1812 in a rifle
company. Camped at the famous spring in Delaware
County, also at or near Crawford's battle ground in
Wyandot Co., and was within hearing of the guns at
Perry's victory on Lake Erie. After serving a
short time, was discharged at Columbus, O.
He was married Nov. 17, 1825, to Dorcas Woodmire,
and in 1834 moved to Jackson township. They reared
a family of seven children, five boys and two girls, six
of whom are still living, one girl having died.
Mrs. Murray was born in Hampshire County, Va., in
1805, and emigrated to Highland Co., O., in 1823.
With her husband she endured the trials and old
homestead, enjoying reasonably good health and strength.
Mr. Murray died Jan. 3, 1866.
Jackson
township has but one village in it, the township being
well adapted to farming. The surface is somewhat
more broken than in Perry, and less difficult to drain
and cultivate. When the forests become removed, it
will be a fine township for agricultural purposes.
It will compare favorably with other townships in wheat,
oats, corn, and in meadow land. The timber is made
up of sugar, oak, ash, walnut, hickory, and the usual
undergrowth found in other parts of the county.
VILLAGE OF
LAFAYETTE.
This village was laid out by
William R. Weyer. It has one hotel, three
dry goods establishments, one grocery, one drug store,
two doctors - Dr. N. Sager, Sr., and Dr. N.
Sager, Jr., - one wagon shop, three blacksmith
shops, one cabinet shop, one harness shop, one shoe
shop, three carpenters, two churches, - one M. E.,
frame, and one Christian Brethren, - one good brick
school-house, kept on the union plan, and 100 scholars,
one flouring mill and steam saw mill, two warehouses,
and a number of good private residences. The
population of the village is about 350.
The population of Jackson township, including the
village, by the Compendium of the Census of the United
States, in 1870, amounted to 1801.
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