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1818
STOCKWELL
William Stockwell
was in Cleveland as early as 1818, for in July of that
year he was married to Lydia Hall by Horace Perry.
His bride was a widow with a little nine-year-old daughter,
Sarah or "Sally" Hall.
Much research has failed to secure the antecedents
of either husband or wife, or where he came from to Cleveland.
Mr. Stockwell left no descendants so far as can be
learned, and those of Sarah Hall do not know who was her
father nor the maiden name of her mother.
Probably Wm. Stockwell came originally from a
New England state, as the name is a familiar one in that part of
the country, although thus far no genealogy of the family has
been compiled. No advertisement of his business appears in the
early issues of the Cleveland Herald, and it cannot be
ascertained.
The family lived on Superior Street adjoining the
residence of Deacon Moses White, and east of it.
Madam Severance remembered them well, though but a
child at the time, as very nice, refined people.
Mr. Stockwell died in the cholera season of 1834, and
was buried in Erie Street Cemetery. Mrs. Lydia Hall
Stockwell died three years later in Massillon, Ohio, where
she had been living during her widowhood with her daughter who,
at the age of 16, in 1825, had married
Joseph G.
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Hogan. They resided in Massillon some years, but in
1840 returned to Cleveland, bringing with them the remains of
Mrs. Stockwell who was placed beside her husband in Erie
street cemetery.
Two years later, Joseph H. Hogan died. His
widow survived him over 30 years, passing away at the age of 64
years. The family lived near the corner of St. Clair and Ontario
streets.
The Stockwell-Hogan monument stands to
the right of the main drive of the cemetery and near its
entrance.
The children of
Joseph G. and Sarah Hall Hogan:
Romelia
Hogan,
m. Daniel Folsom. He was drowned in Lake
Erie in passage from Buffalo to Cleveland.
William H. Hogan,
married late in life a Chicago lady. He died in
1892, and was buried in the family lot. |
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Maria
Hogan,
m. William Johnson of Wooster, D. S. P.
Mary Long Hogan,
m. John Taylor Strong, brother of C. H.
Strong, Sr.
John Hogan.
Charles Hogan, Died at Harpers Ferry during the
Civil War. |
Mary L. Hogan, a
namesake of Madame Severance, was considered an unusually
pretty girl. Her life was spent in Cleveland. At her
death in 1904, aged 66 years, she left two daughters, Mrs.
William Van Tine of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Nelly T. Gay
of Manchester, Mass.
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1818
BARBER
In the fall of 1818, a
number of Hebron, Conn., families started for the West and
traveled in company all the way to Cleveland. Three of
these were the Watkins, Branch, and Barber
families.
They made quite a cavalcade, as there were horses,
carriages, wagons, ox-teams, ox-carts loaded with
furniture, and in the rear of the procession, patient but
puzzled cows walked all the way to become pioneers of their kind
in Ohio.
It must have been a wonderful experience for the
children of the party, those weeks of journeying and camp-life,
and doubtless, it furnished topic for reminiscence long after
the snows of old age had whitened their locks, and railroad
trains were covering the same route and the same distance in 36
hours.
Josiah Barber was the most important member of
the party. With his brother-in-law Richard Lord
he had purchased a large tract of land on
the west side, extending from the river to Pearl street, now
West 25th, and, with two or three exceptions, from Franklin
Street to the lake. It must be borne in mind that there
were no roads then, simply wide paths cut through the dense
woods.
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Josiah Barber
evidently had an eye for the beautiful in nature; perhaps it was
his wife who possessed it. At any rate, no more beautiful
or
convenient spot could have been selected for their first,
pioneer home. It was on the edge of the bank overlooking
the wide Cuyahoga Valley, with the high, steep banks of
Cleveland, Newburgh, and Brooklyn, all clothed in brilliant
autumn foliage and hemming it in.
The log-house was built to face this wonderful scenery,
and so was the brick residence that supereseded it in
after years.
The writer as a child often wondered why the home
turned its back on Pearl Street, and then little thought that
she would be explaining why over a half century later. It
still stands on the east side of the street but a few steps
south of Detroit Ave.
Josiah Barber was born in 1771, and
therefore was 47 years old when he came west. He brought
with him his wife and four children. His oldest one, a
daughter, was married, and did not accompany her parents to
their pioneer home. His youngest child was about eight
years old.
All the Barber family were devoted
churchmen and when, in 1820, poor Trinity, only three years old
that year, had no home nor rector on the
east side of the river, Josiah Barber opened wide
his door and for six years church services were held off and on
in his home.
He became financially interested in several mercantile
and manufacturing enterprises of an early day. One of
these was the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Co. As one of the
firm of “Lord and Barber” he constantly dealt in real-estate.
In 1836, he was mayor of Ohio City—the West Side.
Josiah Barber married 1st, Abigail
Gilbert. She died leaving a little daughter,
Abigail Gilbert Barber, who married Robert
Russell. He died, and eventually with her three
young daughters she joined her father in this city. Two of
the daughters subsequently became the wives of very prominent
Cleveland citizens. These children of Robert and
Abigail Russell were:
Sophia
Lord Russell,
m. Daniel P. Rhodes
Livania Russell |
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Charlotte
Augusta Russell,
m.
Uriah C. Hatch. |
Josiah Barber
married 2nd, Sophia Lord, daughter of Samuel
Philips and Rachel White Lord.
Their children were:
Epiphras
Barber,
b. 1802;
m. Jerusha Tracey Sargeant.
Harriet Barber, b. 1804;
m. Horatio N. Ward |
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Sophia
Lord Barber, b. 1806, died
unmarried
Jerusha Barber b. 1808; died 1823. |
Mrs. Sophia Lord
Barber, Sr., had a brother and two sisters, who resided in
Cleveland at an early day. They were Richard Lord,
Hope Lord, wife of Seldin Chapman, and Abigail
Lord Randall.
As the only son of Josiah Barber, Sr.,
Epaphras Barber was associ-
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ated in business with his father, and at the former’s death in
1842, it all devolved upon him.
His wife was the daughter of Levi and Rosamond
Harris Sargeant, Cleveland pioneers. She had inherited
many lovely traits of character from her mother, and been raised
in a family of high ideals, and unselfish devotion to principle.
Consequently, her own children, the third generation of the
Barber family, were a credit to their grandparents on
both sides of the house. But one of this generation
remains, Mrs. Sophia Barber McCrosky.
She spends her summers in Cleveland and her winters in
California.*
There is no descendant of the family now living
anywhere in the vicinity of the pioneer home.
The children of
Epaphras and Jerusha Barber:
Richard
Lord Barber,
b. 1827; died 1884 in Kansas;
married 1st, Mary E. Hodgeman of Parma, O.;
2nd, Ella Hale of Collinwood.
Josiah Barber, 2nd, b. 1825; died 1882;
m. Caroline Cook, dau. of Chauncy Cook.
epaphras Barber, b. 1830;
m. Sophia Watkins; died 1898, in Wauseon, O. |
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Sophia
Lord Barber,
b. 1833;
m. James McCrosky.
Tootie Barber, b. 1843;
m. 1st, A. M. McGregor;
2nd, Dr. M. O. Terry of Utica, N. Y. |
Mrs. Terry had
one son who died in his teens. After the death of Mr.
McGregor, she founded the McGregor Home for
the Aged, on Lee Road, East Cleveland.
She was a very bright, attractive woman, and was of
much use to the world. Her death took place in a southern
state in 1912.
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*Since deceased.
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