BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Clinton County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
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Albert J. Brown, A.M.
Supervising Editor
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With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
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ILLUSTRATED
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B.F. Bowen & Co., Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
Contrib. by Sharon Wick
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3 Generations of Fishers |
COL. CHARLES R. FISHER
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 512 |
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GIDEON MOODY FULLER and his wife,
Amy Solomon Fuller, came to Clinton
county from North Carolina, in 1811, and settled on Wilson's run, about
three and one-half miles from Wilmington. These were pioneer days
and their nearest neighbor was two miles away and they had to go to
Waynesville for their groceries. As soon as the sun went down, the
wolves would begin to howl and would come right up to the house, whereupon
the pioneers would have to bar the doors. There were no such things
as locks then in Clinton county, merely a wooden latch, with a string,
"which always was out." The only way these pioneers had to get to
Cincinnati was by wagon, through the woods most of the way. Most of
the roads were marked through he country by "blazing" trees. These
procedure consisted of scalping off the bark until the white would shone.
By following this trail repeatedly, in time, the pioneer wayfarers created
a road.
Mr. Fuller afterward bought the farm
known as the Fuller farm, one mile from the court house, on the old
Cincinnati road and in 1831 built a brick house considered a mansion in
that day. It still stands in excellent condition.
Benjamin Fuller, a Revolutionary soldier, came
to Clinton county in 1826 and lived with his son, Gideon. He
died in 1848 and was buried in the old Methodist graveyard.
Gideon Fuller's children were, William, John,
Warren, David, Benejah, Mary Ann, Louisa Jane and Milton Riley.
Judge D. B. Van Pelt of Dayton; Cyrus M. Van
Pelt, a Methodist minister, of Madisonville, and Mary L. Geffs,
of Denver, are children of Mary Ann Fuller Van Pelt and Cyrus
Van Pelt. Amy F. Hale and Lulu F. Huffman, Wilmington,
and Mary L. Wright, of New York, are daughters of Milton Riley
Fuller and Margaret Rose Gaither Fuller.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 940 |
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