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History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio
By R. S. Dills -
Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio
1881

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Union Twp. - H. L. HADLEY * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 599

Jefferson Twp. - JESSE HAGLER, farmer, Washington, is a son of Isaac and Susan (Stookey) Hagler, who were natives of Hardy County, Virginia, and came to Ross County, this state, in 1814, where they were married in the same year.  Came to this county, in 1815, and located seven miles northwest of Washington, where Mr. Hagler died, July 10, 1880, and where Mrs. Hagler lives with our subject.  He had a farm of four hundred and thirty acres, which was the result of his industry and economy.  There were eight children of the family, our subject being the fifth; three yet survive.      Our subject was born Oct. 22, 1823, and was married, May 1, 1864, to Miss Angeline Rodgers, daughter of Hamilton, who was a pioneer of the county.  He has a family of three children: Howard, Gertrude and Roy; all living.  Mrs. Hagler died Sept. 27, 1874, and was born June 25, 1840.      He has a farm of five hundred and fifty acres where he lives, and one hundred and fifty acres adjoining with it; also, three hundred and eighteen acres about one-half mile east of Jeffersonville.  He is one of the first members of the Patrons of Husbandry of this county. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  683

Perry Twp. - SAMUEL HAINES.  Joseph Haines, the grandfather of Samuel Haines, was a native of Warren County, Virginia.  He was the father of Nathan, Joseph, Vinson, Ebenezer, and Samuel.      Ebenezer married Rebecca Berry, of Virginia, and to this union twelve children, including this subject, were born.  Their marriage took place February, 1799.  Their children were born as follows:  Mary, 1800; Ann, 1801; Elizabeth, 1802; Susanna, 1805; Rebecca, 1807; Sidney 1809; Joseph, 1811; Nathan, 1813; Sarah, 1816; James, 1818; Beulah,, 1820; and Samuel, Nov. 18, 1822.      Ebenezer settled in Perry Township, about the year 1816, and on the same lands now occupied by his son Samuel.  He paid $6. and acre for it at that time.  Ebenezer died Sept. 13, 1850, aged eighty years; his wife died Feb., 1846, aged sixty five years.      Francis Berry, the maternal grandfather of our subject, served in the war of the revolution, and died in Kentucky.      The early education of Mr. Haines was more a matter of muscle than of brains, and much ore of his time was given to clearing away the forest than to storing the mind with book knowledge.  With all these disadvantages our subject obtained a rudimentary education.  He mentions John Moon, Colby Chew, and Isaac Woodward as his early teachers.      He was married Dec. 27, 1849, to Maria Smith, second daughter of Francis and Charlotte (Cochran) Smith, natives of Virginia and New Jersey respectively, but residents of Ohio.  The Smiths came to Ohio from Virginia in 1820.  Francis and Charlotte Smith had seven children, born as follows: Sarah 1826; Maria, 1827; Anderson, 1830; Harriet, 1832; Charlotte, 1835; Henry, 1837; Elizabeth, 1839; John, 1840.      Mrs. Haines (Maria Smith) was born Feb. 27, 1827.  To Samuel and Maria Haines nine children have been born: Albert Berry, born Nov. 15, 1850; married Worthington, and lives in Perry Township.  Martha Ella, born Nov. 13, 1852. Henry Lewis, born Jan. 1, 1855; married Etta Belle Borum, of Clinton County, Oct. 4, 1877.  Francis Marion, born June 17, 1857; married Alvaretta Jones, of Green Township, Aug. 10, 1881.  James Edward, born June 30, 1860; married Nancy C. Worthington, of Green Township, Aug. 10, 1881.  William Addison, born July 23, 1863.  Belle Ann, born Aug. 9, 1865.  Charles Milton born Feb. 21, 1869,  Mary Eva, born Sept. 19, 1871.  The father and all his children were born in the same house in which the family now resides.      Mr. Haines has accumulated a competency by honest, hard labor, and well directed, legitimate trade.  He owns five hundred and thirty acres of land in Perry Township, and has all in a good state of cultivation.  His daughter, Martha Ellen, has attained distinction as a teacher. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  806 (SHARON WICK's NOTE:  This biographical transcription was requested by Nathan Haines of Portland, OR )

Union Twp. - E. C. HAMILTON * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  600

Union Twp. - WILLIAM H. HAMMER * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  600

Jefferson Twp. - JOAB HARPER, minister, Jeffersonville, is a son of John and Mary (Parrett) Harper, and was born, Aug. 25, 1817, in this township.  When nineteen years of age, he went to Paint Township, in 1877, and then returned to this, where he has since lived.  He married Miss Elizabeth Bloomer, Apr. 20, 1839, who bore him ten children; James, Lottie J., John W., Louis H.?, Robert L., Joseph G., Mary, Nancy E., Alice B. and Ida May; five are living.  Mrs. Harper died, Mar. 31, 1877, at the age of fifty-three years, and was an exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which she joined when a girl, and died triumphantly.      Mr. Harper has been actively engaged in church services since 1859.  He has held the offices of class-leader and steward, since shortly after he joined the church, and has been in the ministry since 1875.  He was an exception of a boy never quarreled in school, nor has he quarreled with any man since maturity.  His parents were members of the Presbyterian Church.      Our subject is a firm temperance man, and was a member of the Patrons of Husbandry; but after his society surrendered its charter, he has not joined another.  He had a farm of one hundred acres, situated about five miles east of Jeffersonville; but lost it in going security for a friend who failed to meet his obligations.  His son, John W., served three years in the late war, Company C, 90th O. V. I.  He now lives in Wabash County, Indiana.  Robert L.,  is a prominent stock dealer in Kansas City, Missouri.  Joseph G., Nancy E. and Alice B., live in this state. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  684

Marion Twp. - JOSEPH HARPER, farmer, deceased, was born in the State of Delaware, Feb. 23, 1809, and came to Ross County, Ohio, with his uncle, Caleb Harper, at the age of twenty-one, his father having died when he was but twelve years of age.  After arriving in this country, it was ascertained that his uncle did not require his services, and for some time he performed day labor on surrounding farms.      In 1834, he came to this township, and settled on a tract of one hundred acres, now owned by James Brown's heirs, where he remained one year, then removed to the land now owned by his heirs, which consisted of two hundred and eleven acres, and was purchased of Horatio Walker.      He married Ann Catharine, daughter of Frederick Parrott, who lived in Ross County, Mar. 21, 1833.  This union was blessed by five children: One infant, John Wesley, Leonidas, Hamlin, Priscilla Ann, and Mary, married to John Rodgers.  John Wesley and Leonidas are deceased.      He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which faith he died triumphantly, June 22, 1878.  His wife was born in Shenandoah Valley, in 1812, and still lives on the old homestead.  She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Holland, and an exemplary Christian.  He was steward and trustee of the church.  The total amount of land now owned by his heirs is five hundred and eighty-eight acres, well improved, and in a good state of cultivation, farming to grain and stock. It is located at the crossing of the Holland and Waterloo pikes, half-way between Holland and Bloomingburg.      Mr. Harper was township trustee for several years, and was administrator of several estates.  Since his death, his heirs have sold an acre of and to the school district, on which the Harper schoolhouse has been located. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  904

Union Twp. - JOSEPH S. HARRIS * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 601

GENERAL BATTEAL HARRISON was born in Warfield, Virginia, in 1780.  His father's name was Benjamin, a cousin to the father of W. H. Harrison, whose name was also Benjamin. Batteal's father was a soldier in the Revolution, fought under Washington; was a descendant of the illustrious Benjamin Harrison, who led the army of Cromwell in his long and bloody struggle. When quite a child Batteal and his parents started for the wilds of Kentucky.  While waiting at his aunt's, in Wheeling, where they were to take the boat, she prevailed upon his parents, on account of the great danger from Indians, to leave the boy with her until the family were located and the danger had subsided. Two years after they returned for him, but he had become so attached to her that he refused to leave her; they even undertook to force him to accompany them, but she persuaded them to let him stay and they returned without him, and he remained with her until he was grown to be a man.  Wishing to see his parents he started, first going to St. Clairsville, Ohio, then to Chillicothe, where, learning that his mother was dead, he abandoned the idea of going to Kentucky, recruited a company and entered the war of 1812, during which, in 1812 or 1813, he married Miss Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Dr. Joseph Scott, of Chillicothe, and after the war, in 1815, removed to the north fork of Paint Creek and settled on a tract of land located by John A. Fulton on a warrant obtained by the services of his father in the revolutionary war, and which during his (Batteal's) services in 1812, he employed Fulton to enter on the best vacant land, and by reason of his failure to do so, he sued him for breach of contract and recovered heavy damages.  This tract of land was situated in Madison Township, on the north fork of Paint Creek near the center of the township on the Columbus pike, now occupied in part by Sheffelbarker.  There were one thousand and forty acres in this body.  He also owned six hundred acres not far from it and other pieces amounting in the aggregate to about two thousand two hundred acres.      He was one of the most prominent men in the county; served gloriously in the war of 1812 (which see), was elected one of the earliest associate justices of the court, at first a colonel, then commissioned a brigadier general of the home militia, and served several terms in the legislature, during which the following anecdote is related of him:      Harrison had one failing; honest and upright in all things, he had a strong liking for whisky.  While he was a member of the legislature, and during a session of the same, Judge Green, then of Chillicothe but now a resident of Columbus, and also a member of  the legislative body, introduced a bill which provided for the employment of a corps of men who were to make a geological survey of the state.  Harrison opposed the measure, giving as his reasons that the general condition of the state and her inhabitants did not justify the commencement of the work at that time. It was discovered by the friends of the bill that it could not be passed unless Harrison was induced to alter his opinion regarding it. Green proposed that five or six of them meet in his room on a certain evening, Harrison was to be invited and liquor was to be furnished in abundance. On the appointed evening all the parties, including Harrison, met at Judge Green's rooms.  After the guests had imbibed pretty freely of the liquor, the possibility of passing the "geological survey bill" was discussed and Harrison was importuned to use his influence in its support. The latter when driven to the wall would say:  "Let's have another round of Judge Green's good whisky."  His request was complied with several times in quick succession. Finally all the occupants of the room became very drunk, Harrison being more sober than his companions.  Again they requested him earnestly to come over to their side of the question, to which he replied: "Well, General Green, let's have a little more of your whisky and then I'll talk about the 'geological survey.'"  The bottle was passed; he took another drink and said: "Gentlemen, this is excellent whisky, and it is certainly very kind in General Green in supplying us with such a good article, but I will see you all eternally d—d before I will vote for that bill."      General Harrison lost his wife in 1851, he following in 1857. Three sons and one daughter are still living. William lives in Washington, this county; Benjamin, in Madison, Ohio, and David in Missouri.  Their sister married Thomas Vance, still survives as his widow, and lives on a portion of the original tract owned by her father. John J., the youngest son, participated in the rebellion and died at Augusta, Georgia. Scott, captain of a regiment in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died in S ____ County, Missouri, October, 1878. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 252

Paint Twp. - BENJAMIN HARRISON * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 1012

Madison Twp. - JOSEPH S. HARRISON * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 949

Paint Twp. - J. M. HAYMAKER.     Mr. Haymaker was born Sept. 12, 1823, in this county, where he has spent his entire life.  He commenced his education in an old-fashioned log school house, situated three miles northwest of Washington, in a school taught by William Devlin, sr., and completed it in the village of Bloomingburg, which at that time was considered the educational point of this county.      After spending four years driving stock to the eastern market, he at length purchased a farm of four hundred acres on the state road, where he located, and upon which he still resides.  Mr. Haymaker takes great pleasure in handling fine stock, and does a successful business on his farm.      On Jan. 2, 1862, he united in marriage with Miss M. J. Klever; six children have blessed this union, of whom five are living; three sons and two daughters: Elmer E., Herman R., Harry K., Cora E. and Lora E.  Levi E. passed to the spirit-land, Dec. 26, 1872, aged four years.      Mr. Haymaker's parents were natives of Virginia, but came to this state in the early part of 1800, and settled in Union Township, this county.  Here his father died, in about 1859, and his other in 1878, at the advanced age of eighty-six years.  His mother was a sister of Colonel Samuel Myers, one of the pioneers of Fayette.  His father, Joseph Haymaker, served in the war of 1812, and was in Hull's surrender.  Mrs. M. J. Haymaker is the daughter of Michael and Mary (Thompson) Klever, of this county.  She was born in Paint Township, Mar. 9, 1842. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 1000

Paint Twp. - CHARLES D. HAYS.     Charles D. Hays was born in Ross County, this state, in 1826.  When about four years of age, he went with his father's family to Pike County, and settled on a farm near the town of Piketon, where he spent seventeen years of his youth assisting on the farm.  In 1847, he came to this county, and for yearly three years lived in Union Township.  In 1849, he purchased a farm three miles north of Bloomingburg, and in 1850 moved upon it, where he still resides.  He has made many improvements; among them the erection of a commodious residence.      He united in marriage, in 1848, with Miss Catherine, daughter of John and Mary A. Parker, of Paint Township, Rev. William Dickey officiating.  Six children blessed this union; three sons and three daughters: John, George, Grant, Mary A., Emma and Margaret; all living at home except John and George, who are married.  George resides in Fayette, and John in Clinton county.      Charles' grandfather was a native of Ireland.  (See biography of Morgan Hays.) *      James, Charles' father, was born in Kentucky.  When ten years old he came to this state with his parents, and to the farm now owned by C. D. Hays.  When about twenty years of age he went to Ross County, and made his home with his brothers-in-law, Charles and John Davis.      In August, 1823, he was joined in marriage, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Robert and Priscilla McGuire.  The result of this union was seven sons and three daughters: D. M., C. D., William C., James W., George L., Peter B., John, Harriet, Margaret L. and Keziah D.; all living in this state at this writing, except William C., who keeps hotel at pueblo, Colorado, and Harriet, living in Washington Territory.  The father died in Pike County, April, 1855.      C. D. Hays and wife own nearly nine hundred acres of land, part of which is in Clinton County.  The farm upon which they live contain two hundred and thirty-eight acres, well improved and beautiful to the eye.      Mr. Hays is a strong Republican, and staunch temperance man.  Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 1000 * Note:  I could find no biography of a Morgan Hays in this Volume, however there is mention of his marriage and the marriage of a daughter in other biographies as follows:   Marriage in Biography of Thomas Larrimer and Daughter in biography of Abel H. Janes.

Union Twp. - D. M. HAYS.     D. M. Hays, agriculturist, Washington, was born in Ross County, Aug. 1, 1824, and is a son of James, jr., and Margaret Hays, and grandson of James Hays, sen., who was grandfather to President Hayes.  Grandfather James jr's father was a native of Kentucky, and his mother of Ohio.  They had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, all living.      The subject of our sketch is the eldest of the family, and was married, in 1848, to Miss Rebecca Mann, daughter of David and Harriet Mann of this state.  They have a family of six children living:  Harriet E., Joseph A., Addison N., Margaret M., John B., and Alice D.; and six dead: James D., John W., George W., and two who died in infancy.      Mr. Hays is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge No. 449, F. & A. M., and also a member of the Grange, No. 599; he is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His wife was called from him by death last August, after living together for thirty-three years.  He now owns a farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres in this township, well cultivated, and is one of the thorough-going and enterprising farmers of the county.  He received his education in Pike County where his youth was principally spent.  He is now extensively engaged in the agricultural implement business, and is doing his full share of the business in Washington. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 601

Marion Twp. - J. H. HAYS, farmer, and breeder of short-horn cattle, was born in Paint Township, June 30, 1822, and is a son of William Hays, sen., born in Kentucky, and now deceased.  His mother was born in Kentucky, and still lives, at the advanced age of eighty-six.  He was born and reared on the farm now owned by his son, George D. Hays; was married, Feb. 19, 1846, to Amanda, daughter of Nathaniel Squire, who bore him eleven children, of whom seven are living: William, George, Henry, James, Ellen, Martha, and Elmira—all married save James and Elmira.      Mrs. Hays died Jan. 24, 1867, and Oct. 12, 1869, he married Mrs. Salinda D. Carder.  She had one child by her first husband, which is deceased.  She is a consistent member of the German Baptist Church.      Mr. Hays participated in the Morgan raid.  He is a Republican, formerly a Whig; no office seeker.  Three years ago he came to his present farm, located between the Holland and Waterloo pikes, two miles southeast of Bloomingburg, containing two hundred and twenty-two acres, well improved, and farms to grain and stock, also breeds hogs and short-horns.  He has divided a one thousand acre tract, in Paint Township, which embraces the homestead, among his children. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 904

Paint Twp. - J. W. HAYS, is a son of John and Catherine (Winebright) Hayes, and was born in Paint Township, this county, Aug. 20, 1838.  They early part of his life was spent on the home farm, laboring and caring for the stock that was constantly on hand, often in great numbers; acquiring his education during the winter when he could be spared from home.  His time at school was limited, as his father was a driving business man, with always sufficient work on hand for all the force he could rally.  It may be said in truth of J. W. Hays, that, although the son of a rich man, he never ate any "idle bread."  He is now, however, reaping the reward of early toil, having inherited a large estate from his father.      On April 5, 1860, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Able and Jane (Kirkpatrick) Armstrong, of this county.  Two sons and four daughters blessed this union: Nora, Alta, Frank, Cora, Dora and Ellis; all are living except Nora, who passed to the spirit-land when very young.      Mr. Hays lives five miles north of Washington, on the Lewis pike, where he owns five hundred and twenty acres of rich and beautiful land.  Like his father, he is very fond of fine and fast horses, and has in training four or five that will tell on the track the coming season.      John Hays, our subject's father, was born in Kentucky, Dec. 28, 1788, coming to this state in an early day, and finally settled in Paint Township, this county, where he died Aug. 10, 1860.  In many respects Mr. Hays was a wonderful man.  He commenced life poor, and at the time of his death was the owner of more than three thousand acres of as fine land as cold be found in the county.  He possessed controlling power even those with whom he associated.  Had he been a man of letters and early mental training he could have stood beside the Nation's ablest statesman.      An incident may serve to illustrate the style of man he was:  A. neighbor had made a large purchase of land in Missouri, and spent the summer in improvements.  When he came home in the fall, Mr. Hays called to see and hear about his Missouri purchase, when the following conversation ensued: "Well Jack!  I have built several hundred panels of fence and put a stone under every corner."  "What kind of a stone?"  said Mr. Hays.  "A flint stone," he replied.  "Your land aint worth a damn!" was the response.  Time proved his rought expression to a great extent rate.      He married for his second wife, Kate Winebright, by whom he had six children: Willis, Coleman, Letitia, James W., Crosby, and Lucinda  All lived to have families; only three living at this writing:  Willis, Letitia and James W.      Mrs. John Hays died Dec. 4, 1872.  Mrs. J. W. Hays' father died in Clinton County, Indiana, in 1864 from a hurt, received in defending his son, who was a Union soldier, from a mob of rebel sympathizers.  Her mother preceded him many years before. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 998

JAMES HAYS, a native of Virginia, came to Kentucky in an early day, where he was wedded to Letta Rankins. In the first days of this century, the family came to the mouth of Big Belly, Pickaway County, and presumably in 1805 to this county. They settled on a two hundred acre tract in Paint Township. The sight is now owned by Charles Hays. Three of his sons were in the war of 1812. When the family first effected a settlement, there was no habitation between their humble cabin and Frankfort (then called Oldtown). Hays died in 1850. The family consisted of twelve children, of which Benjamin, the youngest, alone is now living. Mr. Hays was township trustee for a number of years. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 247

Jefferson Twp. WILLIS HAYS, farmer, Jeffersonville, is a son of John, who came to this county, from near Cynthiana, Kentucky, in the fall of 1806.  He was married, in 1808, to Miss Mary Parrett, who died September, 1821; she bore him two children: William and John J.; William is deceased.  He married Miss Catherine Webrigh, in 1823, our subject's mother.  Mr. Hays was one this county's early pioneers.  He enlisted as a captain in the war of 1812, and served during the entire war.  He lived to be ninety-nine years of age, and was a large and strong man.      Our subject was born in Paint Township, this county, July 15, 1827, where he was reared, educated, and married Miss Margery J. Janes, daughter of William Janes, Apr. 20, 1854; eleven children are the result of this union: Amy, Ann, George L., Catherine, Lucy, Laura, Ellen, Grant, Noah, Callie and Jessie.     Mr. Hays has a farm, of five hundred and five acres, situated about one and one-half miles, east of Jeffersonville, on the Washington pike.  He farms to both grain and stock, and is very successful.  He is a well and favorably known citizen, who has many friends throughout his acquaintances. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  684

Wayne Twp. - ALMER HEAGLER * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 853

Jefferson Twp. - JOSHUA G. HEIRONIMUS, farmer, is a native of Virginia.  He came to Fayette County in the fall of 1854, and located on Paint Creek, in the Hida Neighborhood, and has since lived in this county.  He was born Feb. 18, 1833, and married to Phoebe Hutchinson in October, 1855.  He had, when he came here, a sum of money equal to about three hundred and fifty dollars, but was taken sick, and confined to his bed till the money was gone, and he in debt.  By industry and good management he has accumulated enough to purchase a good farm of one hundred and fifty acres, in an excellent condition, situated on the north line of this county, a portion being in Madison County.  The Fayette County portion is in the Washington survey, sold by Washington to Mr. Thomas.      Our subject has a family of ten children: John, Laura, Joshua, Vallandigham, Emma, Walter, James, Forest, Dean and George, all living.      Having paid close attention to his affairs, he has been quite successful, dealing largely in hogs.  He is a good neighbor, and model citizen.      Laura was married Sept. 5, 1875, to William S. Ervin of this county.      Our subject's parents were John and Elizabeth (Coe) Heironimus.  The mother died in August, 1845, aged about thirty-five years, and the father is still living at the advanced age of ninety-three years.  They had a family of three children, John being the second.  The father was married to Elizabeth Null prior to his marriage to our subject's mother.  The third wife was Susan Mauzy, who died in 1860.  The first wife bore him two children, the second none.  The last two wives were members of the Baptist Church. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  685

Paint Twp. - MRS. REBECCA HEMPHILL * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 101

Union Twp. - EPHRAIM HENKLE * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 602

Union Twp. - MICHAEL HERBERT * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 604

Jasper Twp. - JACOB HERSHAW.  In about the same year (1814,) Jacob Hershaw came from Virginia to this township, and located on the Coile claim, having traded a farm in Virginia for one hundred and sixty acres of this land; the larger portion of which is within the present limits of Jasper Township, now the property of Wayne Wright.  In 1818, he removed to Indiana and settled on land owned by his father-in-law, Cullop. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 708

Union Twp. - BOMEN HESS * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 602

Union Twp. - JOSEPH HIDY, attorney-at-law, Washington, was born in this county, Aug. 23, 1854.  He is a son of Urban and Mary A. Hidy, natives of Ohio, who reared a family of five children, two dead and three living.      Joseph, the subject of our sketch, is a member of the Jeffersonville lodge of Freemasons.  He received his education at the common school, and then took a philosophical course, receiving the degree of bachelor of philosophy at Buchtel College, Akron, this state.  He then went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and took a collegiate course, graduating in the spring of 1878.  He was admitted to the bar in April, 1878, and commenced practice the following May, under the firm name of Savage and Hidy. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  605

Paint Twp. - MRS. PAMELA HIDY was born in Clarke County, this state, in 1822.  She came with her father's family to this county, in 1831, when they settled in Jefferson Township, on what is well known as the Higbee farm.  Her father, Samuel Higbee, was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother of New Jersey.  They were married in September, 1810, and came to this state, March, 1818.  Mr. Higbee died December, 1857; Mrs. Higbee, May, 1863; both were members of the Baptist Church.  Their family consisted of four sons and seven daughters: Obadiah, Kourtland K., Joseph, John, Jane, Annie, Pamelia, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah and Martha.  All, except Annie and Mary, lived to be over twenty-five years of age; none but Pamela and Elizabeth live at this writing.  Elizabeth married Crum Creamer; Jane married Henry Parrett; Sarah married Dr. Dettler; Martha married Dr. Heard; C. K. married Elizabeth Morris.       Pamelia, our subject, united in marriage with Humphrey Hidy, of this county, in 1844.  The result of this union was eight children. Emily died when about eighteen years of age.  The living are Louisa L., Sarah, Volney, Samuel, Alfred and Lincoln.  Luisa married Mr. Trumper; Sarah married Thomas Green; Martha married Tallie McCallip; Volney married Rose Gains; Alfred married Ida Hoffman; and Lincoln married Viola Porter; Samuel is single, living with his mother at the homestead.      Immediately after his marriage, Mr. Humphrey Hidy moved on the farm where his widow now resides, and where he died in April, 1879, having lived a sober, quiet and industrious life.  He has a member of the Masonic fraternity.  His father, Joseph Hidy, sen., was a native of Virginia, and came to this state in 1800.  He was married three times.  By his second wife he had two sons, Jacob and Isaac; by the third wife he had four sons and six daughters: Joseph, Humphrey, Irvin, Volney, Sidney, Margaret, Mary J., Olive, Louisa and Clara.  Joseph Hidy, sen., died September, 1878, leaving a large fortune to his children.  He was the first man in this county that refused to furnish liquor to his harvesters, claiming that they were better without it.  He suffered great persecution, many men refused to work; but he stood firm, and always managed to save his harvest.  Time has proved Mr. Hidy's theory to be the true one. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  1002

Jefferson Twp. - HENRY L. HIRE, farmer and stock dealer, is a son of Jackson Hire, a native of this county, and Ann (Kesler-Hines) Hire, a native of Virginia.  They were married in this county about 1846, and had a family of two children—Henry and Sarah.  Sarah died Dec. 23, 1869.  He came to this township in 1840, and bought one hundred acres of land, where our subject now lives, on which the old "Douglass Mill" was built in an early day, paying ten dollars per acre for it, which is now worth at least seventy-five.  He died, Mar. 22, 1875.  He and his wife were members of the Christian Church.      Mrs. Hire was previously married to Henry Hines.   They had two children.      Our subject was born in this township, Nov. 6, 1849, and was reared on the farm where he now lives.  He was married, Feb. 14, 1869, to Miss Angle Brock, of Madison County, daughter of Jackson and Sarah (Little) Brock.  He has a farm of one hundred and ninety -five acres where he lives, three miles northwest of Jeffersonville, and one hundred and fifty-seven acres half a mile north of his residence.  Farms to both grain and stock, and deals rather largely in Poland-China hogs.  His hogs have taken first premium at the leading fairs, including the Ohio State Fair, Tri-State Fair of Toledo, Hamilton, and Northern and Southern Ohio fairs.  He has sold his stock in several states, for breeding.  He also raises the Merino sheep, and deals only in good stock. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 686

ELIJAH HOPKINS.  Our subject was born, Oct. 25, 1837, on the farm he now occupies, in an humble log cabin, which was vacated when he was eighteen months old.  He was reared and educated on the farm.  In 1869 he went to Greenfield, Highland County, and ran a flouring mill; remained two years, then came back to the farm on which he has since resided.  In Mar. 1, 1850, he married Lucinda, daughter of John Gibson, who bore him six children: James Herbert, Lillie Florence, Harry Vernon, Emma Ethel, Hannah Leah, and Louis Frank, the latter departed this life at the age of twelve years.      He and wife are members of the German Baptist Church, at Fairview, and are exemplary Christians.      Politically, he is a Republican; has held the office of township trustee, and is at present a member of the township board of education; is Sabbath-school superintendent, and church deacon.  He occupies a part of the Milton Heagler farm, and farms principally to grain. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  852

JOHN E. HOPKINS.  A substantial farmer and stock raiser of Madison township, Fayette county, Ohio, is John E. Hopkins, who was born June 25, 1862, near Linden, Ross county, Ohio.  He was the son of Levi and Rachel (Kintz) Hopkins, natives of Ross county, Ohio.  Levi Hopkins was the son of Matthew and _____ (Sarah was penciled in) (Harper) Hopkins, natives of Pennsylvania and early settlers of Ross county.  Levi Hopkins came to Fayette county and settled one mile east of Madison Mills, where he and his wife reared a family of five children, Selah, Ella, John E., J. W. and H. L.  Of these five children, Selah and H. L. are deceased.      John E. Hopkins was educated in the schools of his home township and later attended the high school at Washington C. H. and the Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio.  He then taught school for a few years during the winter months and worked on his father's farm during the summers.  At the age of twenty-four he began renting land and has been farming since.  A few years after his marriage he bought his present farm of two hundred and fifty acres one mile west of Madison Mills on the White Oak pike and now has one of the finest farms in his township.      Mr. Hopkins was married in 1883 to Sarah Jane Taylor, the daughter of Phillip and Sarah (Bennett) Taylor, and to this union three children were born, Clem, Morris B. and Ruth Ann.  Clem married Eliza Cook and has two children, Frank E. and Margaret.      Politically, Mr. Hopkins is a stanch Republican, but has never been an applicant for any public office.  Fraternally, he holds his membership with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page  733

Jefferson Twp. - DAVID HORNEY, farmer, is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Calaway) Horney, natives of North Carolina, who came to Greene County, Ohio, at a very early date, and remained there until after their marriage, coming to Fayette County about 1808, and locating half a mile north of Jeffersonville, where our subject was born, Oct. 19, 1832, and now lives, and has a farm of one hundred and seventy-seven acres, a part of six hundred acres owned by his father, who knew this neighborhood in the wilderness, and would go to Oldtown, Greene County, to mill with a sack of corn on a horse; would take two days to make a trip; would take his gun and dog, and camp by the path at night.  One night, as he was returning, he stopped between here and Jamestown, when, after he had fallen asleep, his dog began a fight with a bear that came too near.  By and by the bear got the advantage of the dog, when Mr. Horney stabbed the bear, killing him instantly.  Mr. Horney died Nov. 28, 1865.  Mrs. Horney died in August, 1855.      Our subject was married, Mar. 18, 1858, to Miss Rebecca J. Wright, daughter of James and Louisa (Troxell) Wright, who bore him live children: Adda E., Delia O., Thurman P., Clarence H., and Loren R.   Mrs. Horney is a member of the Christian Church.      Mr. Homey remembers seeing some of the farming implements his father used in an early day, which were the wooden plow, wooden-toothed harrow, harness made of rope and elm bark, and sickle for cutting grain. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 686

Jefferson Twp. - FORRIS HORNEY, farmer, West Lancaster, son of Jefferson Horney, whose biography appears in this work, was born in this township, Aug. 15, 1833.  He was reared, educated, and married in this county.  July 29, 1858, he wedded Miss Esther A. Williams, daughter of Jesse and Margaret (Botkins) Williams.  Her father died July 18, 1866, aged seventy-one years.  Her mother lives with our subject.      Mr. Horney has a farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres, well improved, situated one mile west of West Lancaster, and farms to both grain and stock.  During the war of the rebellion he served about three years in Company C, 90th O. V. I.      Mr. Horney and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church.  Both are members of reputable pioneer families, and are respected citizens.  They have a family of three children Frank A., Mary F., and Otto C., all living. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 577

Jefferson Twp. - JEFFERSON HORNEY, farmer, Jeffersonville, is the eldest son of Daniel Horney, (an account of whose life appears elsewhere) who came to this township, at an early day, from North Carolina.      Our subject was born in this county, where he was raised, and where, on the 19th of September, 1878, he married Mary (Carr) Mahoy, a sister of the late Colonel S. F. Carr, of Washington.  She was previously married to Archibald Mahoy, who died Dec. 20, 1866.  He, too, had been married previously, (Sept. 30, 1832,) to Miss Margaret Griffith, who bore him five children—four of whom are living.  Mr. Horney, Mr. Maboy, and both wives were members of the Methodist Protestant Church.      Mr. Horney came to the farm he now occupies, and which contains one hundred and fourteen acres, in 1834, and has changed it from a wild and chaotic tract to a high state of cultivation.  The elder Mr. Horney gave to each of his three sons one hundred acres of land, and offered them fourteen acres additional at two dollars.  Jefferson, fearing that he would, because of the prevailing scarcity of money, be unable to pay for the land, did not accept the proposition until he had well considered the matter.  He finally bought the land, and has, in late years, frequently refused seventy-five dollars per acre for the same. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 688

Jefferson Twp. - JOHN HORNEY, farmer, is a son of Jeffrey Horney, and was born in this township, Jan. 7, 1846, where he was reared, educated, and married Miss Nettie Bush, daughter of Abraham Bush, Sept. 21, 1871.  Two children are the result of this marriage — Charles A. and Catharine, both living.      Mr. Horney is trustee of this township at present.  He has a farm of two hundred and six and a half acres, situated four miles northwest of Jeffersonville.  This is the farm where his parents located at an early day, and where they died. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 687

Jefferson Twp. - OLIVER E. HORNEY, farmer, is a son of Jefferson Horney, whose biography appears in this work.  He was born Jan. 31, 1837, and was reared and twice married in this county; first, to Miss Elizabeth McKillip, Oct. 20, 1859.  Two children were the result of this union: Viola A. and Elizabeth A.  After Mrs. Horney's death, he married Sarah Underwood, who has borne him eight children: Henry E., James S., Alpha, Eber J., Maywood, Leander H., Esther, and Lillie, all living.      Mr. Horney has a farm of thirty acres, situated two miles northwest of Jeffersonville.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He enlisted in Company C. 90th O. V. I., in August, 1862, and served until Sept. 30, 1863.  Received a wound in the left ankle at the battle of Stone River, for which he was discharged. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 687

Jefferson Twp. - W. J. HORNEY - See page 605. (below here_ * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 689

W. J. HORNEY, county commissioner and farmer, was born in Jefferson Township, this county, on the 20th of February, 1831, and is a son of Jeffrey and Catherine Horney.  He was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to this county, in 1805, she of Virginia, and came here in 1815.  The family consisted of nine children.      W. J. Horney, our subject, was married, in 1853, to Sallie A. McMillen, daughter of John and Martha McMillen, of this county.  The marriage has been blessed with four children: Edwin E., Ida F., Eugene W., and Mary C., all living, two others dying in infancy.      He, during the "late unpleasantness," assisted in driving Morgan back to Kentucky.  He was first lieutenant of Company G, 168th O. V. I., and is a member of Pleasant View Baptist Church.  He received his education in this county, where his youth was spent, and is now serving his second term as county commissioner, and owns three hundred and twenty-five acres of land near Jeffersonville.  (See Jefferson Township.) * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 605

Jefferson Twp. - WILLIAM T. HOWARD, saddle and harness-maker, Jeffersonville, he was born in Warren County, Ohio, Oct. 15, 1821.  At the age of fourteen he went to Virginia, where he remained one year, and then returned to Ohio.  He remained unsettled until 1838, when he located in Washington Court House, where he remained until February, 1840, when he settled in Jeffersonville, and engaged at his trade, which he continued until 1875, when he sold his stock and shop to his son, J. W.      Mr. Howard was married, Oct. 30, 1841, to Miss Elton Sexton, who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, May 22, 1816.  The result of this marriage was five children: Sexton, Seperepta A., Jurad W., and two who died in infancy.      Jurad is the only child living.  He was married, Aug. 6, 1874, to Miss Mary Johnson.  One child, Flora, is the result of this union.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Jeffersonville.  His wife and mother are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 689

Jefferson Twp. - JOSEPH HURLESS, hotel keeper, Jeffersonville, was born, July 23, 1826, in this county, where he married Miss Ellen Fent, daughter of William and Delila (Bodkin) Fent, June 16, 1850; six children are the result of this union: Joseph S., William F., Mary J., Glide E., Hattie M. and Viva Blanch.  All deceased save Joseph and Hattie.      Our subject was elected justice of the peace of this township, in 1860, and has held office ever since except one year.  He has been successful in his official duties and in business.  He remembers when this place was very thinly settled, and the school house where he first attended school, stood where the village cemetery now is; it was log with puncheon floors, window made of greased paper, and heated by means of a fire-place, perhaps nine feet long.  Mr. Hurless is a highly respected citizen, and a worthy member of the I. O. O. F., of Jeffersonville Lodge. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 689

E. J. HOUSE,   Mrs. Eliza Jane House widow of John House, deceased, is he daughter of Samuel Goodnight, who at the age of twelve years removed with his parents from the State of Virginia, to the state of Ohio, and settled near Buena Vista, this county, In the year 1827, at the age of nineteen, he was married to Miss Eveline Rittenhouse of the same neighborhood.  His father having died when he was quite young.  The son, Samuel, so managed as to become the owner of the farm, on which he lived and farmed until the year 1866, when he removed to the State of Indiana where he still lives.  He had twelve children; four dead and eight living.      Our subject, Eliza Jane, was born Oct. 11, 1835, and was married to John House, Jan. 10, 1856.  She with her husband commenced housekeeping, on a farm, a few miles north of Washington, in the year 1859, from which they soon removed, however, to a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, purchased by Mr. House, know as the Higgins farm, in Concord Township, on the east bank of Rattlesnake Creek, about on-half mile south of Wilmington pike.  Mr. House died here Jan. 2, 1866.  The widow assumed the management of the farm affairs, and continued the same with marked ability.  She and her children still own the same farm.      Mr. House had been breeding short horned cattle, and in October, 1875, Mrs. House sold at public sale, the most of these for $4,300.000. She still has quite a number remaining, however.  There are but few men who could manage a farm with so much skill and success as she. Mrs. House has four children living and one dead: Linley F., who is a young man now engaged in the tailoring business in Washington; Clara E., who is married to Mr. Edward Seaborn, who owns and lives on a farm in the neighborhood; Aria A, married Mr. Frank Langdon, who is a farmer and lives on his own farm in the neighborhood; Ulysses S. is a promising lad living at home with his mother; Carrie died in infancy.      Mrs. House has been reading a course of medicine for some twelve years, and has recently completed a full course of instruction and lectures at the American Health College of Medicine at Cincinnati, of the Vita Pathic System, from which institution she is now a graduate, holding a diploma as such.  She expects as soon as she can manage her farm affairs to devote the greater part, if not her entire time to the practice of medicine on the Vita Pathic System.  Mrs. House is a woman of much force of character, and is calculated to make a success of whatever she undertakes. * Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio & State of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 747

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