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BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
HISTORY OF
BELMONT and JEFFERSON COUNTIES,
OHIO,
AND
INCIDENTALLY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PERTAINING TO
BORDER WARFARE AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
of the
ADJACENT PORTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY,
By J. A. Caldwell
with Illustrations
Assistant, G. G. Nichols
Managing Editor, J. H. Newton
(Assistant, A. G. Sprankle.
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WHEELING, W. VA.
PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1880
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Goshen Twp. -
WILLIAM DAVIS - The subject of this sketch was
born Dec. 25, 1815, near Dublin, Ireland, and was brought by his
parents to America when about one year old. They lived in
Wheeling and St. Clairsville about eighteen months. From this
last place they removed, in 1818, to Goshen township and settled
near little Captina creek, where Dr. D. resided till about
1862, when he removed to his present residence, near Burr's Mills.
He owns a farm of 143 acres, all cultivated but nine acres. He
has a beautiful dwelling-house and all the necessary farm buildings,
and now in his old age, is enjoying the comforts obtained by an
industrious and well spent life. He is a quiet, honest, good
man, respected by all who know him. He was married Dec. 28,
1837, to Miss Julia Hunt. This excellent lady, in her
younger days, used to card and spin wool and flax and manufacture
them for family use. She made the thread buttons of the early
times, and yet has in her house many articles of these early
manufactured goods, among them a coverlet made more than one hundred
years ago by her grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Cravens, of Loudon
county, Va.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 406 |
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Pultney Twp. -
JAMES DIXON - The subject of this sketch was the only son and
youngest of twelve children. He was born near McMahon's
creek, four miles west of Bellaire, in the year 1797, and was the
first white child born in Pultney township. He received a
limbers well the many incidents connected with the pioneer schools
of the county, where reading, writing and arithmetic were taught,
and the dispensers of knowledge were thoroughly imbued with
Solomon's idea, that "whose spareth the rod spoileth the child."
Mr. Dixon was reared on a farm from early life, was inured to
toil and hardships, and grew up to mankind amid the trying times of
the early history of the county. He has always been identified
with and interested in all public and private enterprises that had
for their end the welfare, prosperity, growth and development of the
township that has always been his home. He married
Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Neff, of Belmont county,
Ohio,) in 1823. He is still living on the farm on which he was
born, at the advanced age of eighty-two years, where he is
surrounded by kind friends ever ready to administer to his temporal
wants.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 281 |
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Goshen Twp. -
WILLIAM DOUDNA - The parents of this gentleman
emigrated from North Carolina to Belmont County in 1805, and
settled near where Barnesville now stands, but which was then a
dense forest; they had to cut a road from St. Clairsville, through
the wild woods, to their new home. Their son, William,
who is the subject of this sketch, was born in Warren township, May
6th, 1806, and grew up to manhood in that vicinity. In 1829 he
was married to Miss Lydia Bailey, who died in 1869.
After his first marriage he removed to Beaver township, Guernsey
county; engaged in farming till about 18651; then removed to Goshen
township, and bought land on which he has since continued to reside.
Mr. Doudna married for his second wife, Sarah Ann Smith.
Mr. Doudna married for his second wife, Sarah Ann Smith.
He is a well read man and posted in the literature of ancient and
modern times - an honest, upright man, and is a member of the
society of Friends. By his first wife he had eight children -
four sons - Joseph, George, Elisha, and Benjamin; and
four daughters Mary, Anna, Hetty, and Elisha, and have
since deceased. Joseph is engaged in farming, George
and Benjamin are engaged in manufacturing machinery at
Dayton, Ohio. Lydia Jane married William Osborn,
who is engaged in good mining in Central America, and Hetty
is married and lives near Dayton, Ohio.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 405 |
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Goshen Twp. -
WILLIAM DOWDELL - The subject of this sketch
was born in Loudon county, Va., Aug. 9, 1808, where he resided till
1832, receiving a good common school education. In that year
he emigrated to Belmont county, and settled on a farm a mile and a
half west of Morristown. In December, 1834, he married Miss
Rebecca Taylor, daughter of Noble Taylor, Esq., a pioneer
who came to Belmont county in 1881. His wife died in 1871.
He has four children, two sons and two daughters. The sons
live in Belmont county, one daughter is in Missouri, and the other
died a few yeas since. He married a second wife, Artemissa
Burns, in November, 1872. In his earlier years he taught
school, and after his marriage taught in winter and farmed in
summer. He united himself to the M. E. Church in Loudon
county, Va., Sept. 30, 1832, and afterwards engaged in the ministry
of that church, and is still recognized as such. His eyesight,
which was always week, gradually failed, and for the last eighteen
years he has been unable to read. Devotedly attached to the
principles of human rights, he was an anti-slavery man from
conviction, and in 1836, fully identified himself with the great
anti-slavery movement that finally convulsed the nation and
overthrew the institution. Mr. D. has always been
prompt and decided in his ideas of truth of justice and of right,
and never flinched in expressing them on all proper occasions, and
although he may occasionally in the heat of a discussion have
engendered bitter feelings in an opponent, yet when the impulses of
the moment had given way to the cooler judgment of his adversary,
all feelings of anger have given place to a respect for the sterling
integrity and honest sincerity of Mr. Dowdell. Although
far past the meridian of life, he is still as active in mind and
body as ever, and takes a lively interest in all that pertains to
the welfare of his county and to the common good of his fellow man.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 406 |
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