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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
A Part of Genealogy
Express
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Ashland County, Ohio
History & Genealogy
BIOGRAPHIES |
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 Source:
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County
from The Earliest to the Present Date
by H. S. Knapp
Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- 1863 -
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Milton Twp -
ALEXANDER REED immigrated to Milton
Township in 1814. He was the original purchaser of the
land adjacent to the old Hopewell Church. The body of his
wife, who died Nov. 17th, 1820, was the eleventh that was
interred in the old Hopewell churchyard. In 1821 Mr.
Reed sold to Joseph Marklay his farm above mentioned,
containing eighty acres, of which thirty were cleared, for 550
gallons of whisky. He was also the owner, at different
times, of town lots in Uniontown, (now Ashland,) among which are
some of the most valuable of any now in the town, which he sold
at from $12 to $14 per lot - payment mostly "in trade."
Mr. Reed was an emigrant from Pennsylvania.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 537 |
Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM REED entered
the land he now occupies in Vermillion Township in the year
1811, and removed his family upon it April 14, 1814. He
was originally from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reed enlisted in the military service during the first
year of the war with Great Britain in 1812, and served until
1814, when, from disability, he obtained a furlough-from his
captain (Jack) at Mansfield, and continuing physically unable,
he did not return to the service.
Mr. Reed was eighty years of age 11th June,
1862.
When he removed to his land, (southeast quarter section
5,) it was a wilderness; his nearest neighbors - except the
families of George, William, and Thomas Hughes,
and John Howard - were five miles distant.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 289 |
ADAM
REICHARD emigrated from Centre County, Pennsylvania, and
removed to the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 8,
(which he had previously entered,) in April, 1829. His
family, at this time, consisted of his wife and an infant son,
Jacob. Mr. Reichard is among the very few in
Perry Township who reside upon the place they originally
entered.|
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 467 |
Mohican Twp. -
RICHARD RHAMEY, SEN,
immigrated to Jeromeville from Pennsylvania in 1813, his family then
consisting of his wife and three children.
Richard Rhamey, Jr., who was born in the old
block-house in Jeromeville, in September, 1815, is
the only surviving member of the family now residing
in Ashland County.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 425 |
CHRISTOPHER
RICKETT erected a cabin, upon the place he at present
occupies, in March, 1822. In the following June he removed
his family from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to their new
home. The land had been entered from him by his
father-in-law, John Horn, in the year 1814. His
family consisted of his wife and five children.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 518 |
Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM RYLAND
emigrated from Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and entered at the
land-office at Canton the farm upon which he now lives, in the
autumn of 1815. His family then consisted of his wife and
one daughter, Mary Ann, who is now the widow of
Jonathan Black. Among his neighbors were Robert
Jackman, who lived upon the farm now occupied by
Archibald Gillis; Lemuel Boulter, the only occupant of the
land upon which the flourishing town of Hayesville now stands;
John Vangilderb, who then resided upon the same place he
now occupies; John McCrory, who lived upon the land now
occupied by his descendants; Joseph Workman, who is now a
resident of another portion of the township from that in which
he at first resided; Ephrain Eckley, for an number
of years justice of the peace,) and who resided upon the farm
now owned by Abraham Johnson; George McClure, who lived
upon the land in section 10 now owned by John Scott, Sr.;
and William Karnahan, who resided upon the southeast
quarter of section 23.
Joseph Lake, at this date, was the only resident
of Jeromeville. He was the owner of a small stock of
goods. The block-house occupied during the war was yet
standing, but was only used occasionally for religious meetings.
Lemuel Boulter sold his interest in the land
upon which Hayesville was subsequently built to Linus Hayes.
Mr. Cox's purchase was of John Hersh - the lands
being in the Virginia Military Land District.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 290 |
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