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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
THE
HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO
Volume 2 of 2
containing
A History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns, Schools,
Churches, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of
Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the
Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of
Clinton County; Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co.
1882
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Clark
Twp. -
AMOS R. GARNER, farmer, P. O.
Martinsville, one of Clinton County's oldest and most worthy
pioneers, was born in Dodson Township, Highland County, June 8,
1820. He is a son of John and Eleanor (Ratcliff) Garner,
natives respectively of Blount County, Tenn., and North
Carolina. His father was born June 1, 1795, and his mother
June 11, 1799. Mr. Garner's parents James Garner
and Mary (Moon) Garner, were natives of Randolph County, N.
C. Mr. Garner was born Mar. 9, 1772, and Mrs.
Garner was born Jan. 30, 1775. They removed to Blount
County, Tenn, in 1796, and to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1811,
where they both died the former Mar. 29, 1856, and the latter
Aug. 11, 1840. Mr. Garner, the father of our
subject, died in Clark Township June 8, 1831, and his wife died
July 23, 1834. Mr. Garner, our subject, was reared
on a farm till fourteen years of age, when he began an
apprenticeship at tanning, and at the expiration of the term of
seven years, he engaged in the business and followed it
extensively for over forty years, and it is said that his
leather excelled any other manufactured in Southern Ohio.
In 1874, Mr. Garner retired from active business.
Mr. Garner’s early life was spent in the primitive
forest of Clark Township, whose principal inhabitants were then
but wild animals; and it was not unfrequently that Mr.
Garner would see a drove of forty deer. His
father was a great deer hunter, and Mr. Garner
himself became quite an expert as a hunter, and particularly so
in dispatching wild turkey, which were very numerous.
Mr. Garner’s advantages for securing an education
were very limited. The schoolhouse was built with poles
and furnished with split rail seats, greased paper window lights
and a monster fire-place. Mr. Garner was
married the first time, June 8, 1843, to Susan
Betterton, daughter of Joshua and Mary Betterton,
born in Clark Township, Sunday, Feb. 8, 1818, and died Jan. 30,
1872. Mr. Garner again married, Dec. 12,
1872, to Martha Sewell, a native of Vernon
Township, born Sept. 2, 1835, and a daughter of David and
Martha Sewell. One child was given to bless this
union—Eldon C., born Oct. 13, 1875. Mr. and Mrs.
Garner are consistent members of the Society of Friends.
Mr. Garner’s political affiliations were with the
Whig party till the organization of the Republican party, when
he enlisted in its ranks. He served as a member of the
Board of Trustees of Clark Township for twenty-four years, and
within this period of time he aided in removing to the County
Infirmary 117 paupers, of whom eighty were driven there by
tobacco and strong drink. He also assisted in obtaining
the grant for making thirty miles of township ditch in Clark
Township. Thus Mr. Garner's labors as Trustee were
very efficient.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 -
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Clark
Twp. -
RILEY GARNER, farmer, P. O. Farmers
Station, an early pioneer of what is now Clark Township, was
born near Marysville, Tenn., Mar. 9, 1809. He is a son of
James and Mary (Mason) Garner, who came to Clinton County
the year prior to the last war with Great Britain. Mr.
Garner, our subject, is the fourth son and ninth child of a
family of thirteen children, of whom six are living. He
was reared to manhood in the primeval forests of Clark Township,
and received only such an education as the "the days" afforded.
Mar. 17, 1836, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary
Betterton, the fourth daughter of Joshua and Mary
Betterton, who were among the early pioneers of this
township. Mrs. Garner, a native of Clark Township,
was born Feb. 14, 1815. Of twelve children by this union
seven are living, viz: Rebecca J., wife of Seth
Hoggatt; Joshua B. married Rebecca Connell;
Louisa, wife of John R. Smithson; Sarah E.;
Susan, wife of John Hildebrant; Olive A., wife
of Silas Sanderson; and William H. Mary E.,
Emeline, Margaret, Owen B. and an infant are deceased.
Mr. Garner has served his township as Justice of the
Peace for twenty years consecutively, and has also filled
various other local offices. He is a member of the Society
of Friends and Mrs. Garner of the Methodists.
Mr. Garner is also a member of the Grange, and a stockholder
in the Farmers & Mechanics Joint Stock Company of Farmers
Station. He was a farm of eighty-five acres and has
followed agriculture.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 -
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