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BIOGRAPHIES
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1798
PIONEER and GENERAL HISTORY of
GEAUGA COUNTY
with
SKETCHES OF
some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men.
Published by
The Historical Society of Geauga County,
1880
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Burton -
ASAHEL
BARNES,
Sold his property in East Haven, Connecticut, fitted
out a wagon, often called a stage, when on the road, hitched to it
three dark gray horses, and on the 18th of September, 1814, set out
for the west. Being first to start from that place, near New
Haven, some of the wise people, who had not enterprise to go
themselves, called him crazy.
The maiden name of his wife was Patty Ives.
The children, Eliza, 10 years old; Julia, 8, and
Elias, 6, walked much of the way, while little Charley, 3
years old, sat in the wagon, and oftentimes sang the hours away.
Henry was a baby in his mother's arms. On the
mountains the quakers helped their team, when offered pay, said
"Nay; when thou seest thy brother in like condition, help thou him."
At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, they found Judge Kirtland with
his wife, who was sick of consumption. In the house opposite
where they stopped she died that night. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes
went to render the Judge all the aid they could, and brought the sad
news back to Poland and Burton. From Warren, it was woods, and
the teams mired. A pair of stags, from a cabin in the woods,
pulled the wagon out, and the family staid with the owner, a Mr.
Walden at the cabin, that night. Coming on to Young's
six miles from Burton, the next day, they put up, and on the day
following were met by a team, from Burton, to help them through.
Ephraim Cook and his wife came to meet them, and Julia
rode behind her "Aunt Sukey" on horseback; one of the hardest
rides of her life. They visited with "Uncle Ephriam's"
people a while, then moved into John Ford's old house, for
the winter, and finally settled, in the spring, on the Dr. Miner
place, lot 55, towards the West branch and Oak Hill. It was
also called the Noyes place - where T. Brown now
lives. The log house had part of a floor laid in it, and no
chimney, until after plowing and planting, when there was time to
finish the house. They set out flowers, and soon had bloom on
the hillside. Julia remembers hearing that Dr. John
Miner, who was killed at Chester, often said he hoped to die
suddenly.
It has often been sold, that the children saw so few
white people in the west, that when a stranger came, they hid away
under the bed. Samuel Hughes and Mr. Atwater
called at the open door one morning, on their arrival from the east,
and began looking under the bed. Mrs. Barnes understood
their motions, saying with a laugh, as she met them, you won't find
my children under the bed.
Mr. Utley and Mr. Riddle are
mentioned as men of fine appearance, and very intelligent, with whom
the family formed friendships. Esquire Riddle worked in
harvesting for Mr. Barnes. Grists went to mill
those days, with two of the girls, holding the ends of the bags, and
walking beside the horse to balance them, 5 miles in the
woods to Punderson's. So they would go with wool
cardings to "Hauchet's" in Parkman. Harriet and
Meritta Cook often went with them.
The little boy, Charles, shelled some rye in the
field one day, and swallowed a beard, choking badly.
Everything was done for his relief, but it was only for a time.
He coughed, and a year afterwards, in August he died. He would
have to die then."
Other children were born here - Addine,
Caroline, Charles and Lucius.
Mrs. Barnes was a woman of fine, social
and intellectual qualities, and the children's love was great for
her. In the sickly season of 1823, she fell ill, and died
September 16th, and was carried to rest by the river, east of their
house.
Henry and Caroline went to live with
Eliza, who had married Anson Ford, whose house was
always a home to the children. After a time Mr.
Barnes married again. He did the first shop work in
coopering, in town, in the ground floor, side hill part of his
house. Elias was a manly youth. He went with
Esquire Hickox as clerk, to Coshocton, where the canal
job was being worked. He died there. Henry became
a millwright, finally moved west, and was lost on a steamer he was
taking to St. Paul, being blown upon Lake Peoria, Illinois. He
was much loved by all his friends. He was a fine mechanic, and
obtained a patent on tools for mortising and tenons on timber, in
1838.
Lucius fell from a building in Munson, and was
killed.
Charles was a captain on the Ohio river boats,
and went into the war of 1861. He was, at one time, a colonel
of the famous Pennsylvania Bucktails, a regiment of athletic men,
and was breveted brigadier-general for gallant service in the
eastern campaigns. His body carries scars from the fields of
battle. A brave soldier arid a generous hearted man, he
resides with his family in Pittsburg.
Julia married Langdon Chase, of Concord,
and moved to Painesville. She now lives with her daughter,
Rosalie, in Hastings, Minnesota, and has, at the age of 73,
furnished valuable written memoranda for history.
Adaline married Merwin Hoadley, and they
live in Garden Grove, Decatur county, Iowa.
Caroline married Andrus Durand, a
blacksmith in Burton, for some time, but who finally moved to
Minnesota, where she survives him. He died in 1864.
Mr. Barnes died at Mottville, St. Joseph county,
Indiana, Mar. 29, 1851.
Source:
1798 Pioneer and General History of Geauga County with
Sketches of
some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men. -
Published by
The Historical Society of Geauga County, 1880 - Page
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Burton -
GEORGE BOUGHTON
Source:
1798 Pioneer and General History of Geauga County
with Sketches of
some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men. -
Published by
The Historical Society of Geauga County, 1880 - Page
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Troy Twp. -
LEONARD PERKINS BARROWS
The pioneer settlers of the Western Reserve, as is
generally known, were directly or indirectly "New Englanders."
Among others, who emigrated to the then "New Connecticut" in 1828, we
find the name of Spencer Barrows, a man who was born in
the State of Maine, and reared in sight of Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts,
from the age of six to nineteen years, when fortune placed him in the
"Old Granite State," in a township known as Grantham, and where,
at the age of twenty-two, he married Lydia, daughter of Jacob
Thrasher. Two years later, we find him located in Crown
Point, New York. Here he lived until 1828, additions from time to
time having been made to his household, until nine children made up the
sum of his family circle. With these he made his way to the then
"far west," (except one, who died in infancy), and took up his abode in
Shalersville, Portage county, Ohio. Here he remained until the
spring of 1831, two daughters having, in the meantime, been added to
those imported, when he came to Troy, and settled on the northeast
quarter of section eight, known as the "Mead section," and here, on the
12th of May, 1833, the subject of this sketch was born. Passing
over his childhood and early youth, which was mostly spent in what is
known by the general name of "devilty," we find him, at the age of
eighteen, a carpenter's apprentice, and which trade he followed until he
was master of its details. January 1, 1857, he married
Caroline, daughter of Ziba and Charlotte
Harrington, and this event, as with thousands of others, proved the
turning point of his life. The spring following, he was elected
constable, and in performing the duties of that office, he first turned
his attention to the study of law, and this, together with the advice of
friends who were following that profession, led him to take up the study
in earnest. Farming some, and studying more, we find him in the
winter of 1859-60, in the Ohio State and Union Law College of Cleveland,
intending to enter the graduating class of 1861-2. This
arrangement was frustrated by the Fort Sumter affair, and its
consequences. In the first call for three hundred thousand, the
Ninth Ohio battery was organized, in which, at the instance of Gen.
W. B. Hazen, he was commissioned first lieutenant, was mustered
into the United States service Oct. 11, 1861, and received his
commission the 20th of November following. Remained in the service until
Aug. 3, 1862, when he resigned, and returned to Troy. He occupied
his time on the farm until the call for five hundred thousand in
January, 1864, when, although offered a commission, he again enlisted as
a private in the same battery, in which he had previously held command.
He was appointed corporal June 9, 1864, and promoted sergeant Nov. 20,
1864. He was one of the renowned "squirrel hunters" called by
Governor Tod, to defend Cincinnati in September, 1862,
having command of a company, and was first sergeant of the company of
State militia organized in Troy, July 4, 1863. Was finally
discharged from the United States service, July 25, 1865, when he
returned to the pursuit of farming, and study of law.
At the fall election of 1867, he was elected justice of
the peace, commissioned as such by Governor Cox, October
23d of same year, for the term of three years.
At a term of the district court of the State of Ohio
held in Chardon, on the 21st of August, 1868, he was admitted to
practice law in the several courts of the State of Ohio, as
attorney-at-law and solicitor in chancery. Continuing the practice
and study of the law on the farm and over the cheese vat, he was
admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, and solicitor
in chancery; and as proctor and advocate, in the circuit court of the
United States, for the northern district of Ohio, said commission dating
at the city of Cleveland Jan. 14, 1875.
A post of the G. A. R. organized in 1871, elected him
as its first commander.
From 1872 till 1876 inclusive, he was proprietor of the
Maple Grove cheese factory.
When the "Murphy wave" reached here, in the spring of
1877, he became an ardent advocate of the principles of temperance, and
at the organization of the Murphy society, was made chairman of the
executive committee, which position he yet holds.
Mr. Barrows is also a respected member of
the Masonic fraternity, is an Odd Fellow, and an ardent granger.
In summing up this sketch, we find a strange anomaly.
We find a man fitted by nature to do honor to his constituents in the
legislature, shoving the bench plane. We find a man of a logical
turn of mind, compounding rennet, anatto, and milk. We find a man
who might, if he should choose, step into the front rank of his
profession, engaging himself in agriculture. We have no word to
offer against his occupation as a farmer (he is a good one), if that
occupation is congenial to his taste. Yet it seems almost
wasteful, that the talent of which no one denies to him the possession,
should be allowed to remain, comparatively, inactive.
In person, Mr. Barrows partakes largely
of the Thrasher type; straight and tall, standing over six feet in his
stockings; eyes black, to the assistance of which, he usually calls a
pair of spectacles. Hair nearly black, now well sprinkled with
frost.
Having reached the age of nearly forty-six, he,
doubtless, has no aspirations toward the judicial bench, but will be
content to spend his days in the town of his birth, known by the
familiar name of "Perk," respected and confided in, by his townsmen and
acquaintances at large, and lending aid to every good work.
W. H. C.
Source:
1798 Pioneer and General History of Geauga County
with Sketches of
some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men. -
Published by
The Historical Society of Geauga County, 1880 - Page
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Newbury -
WELCOME BULLOCK,
was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, May 12, 1775. He was a son
of David and Mary Bullock. His mother died
when he was three years of age. She was the daughter of Maturen
Ballou, and sister of Hosea Ballou.
Welcome, when a lad of fourteen, was bound out
to Joel Kendal, of Athol, Massachusetts, until he was
twenty-one, and served his time. In the year 1798 he was married
to Miss Grace Fay, who was born at Athol. He
was one of the first to enlist from South Orange, Massachusetts, in the
war of 1812, and served as orderly of his company during the war.
Immediately after the war he moved his family to Ohio. He was
forty-one days on the road, and arrived at the cabin of Solomon
Johnson, in Newbury, October 5, 1815. He took up land and
built a log cabin on what is now known as the William Munn
farm. In the fall of 1817 he sold his farm to
Jonas Ward. The coming winter he built a cabin about
one mile east of the center of Newbury, where he spent the remainder of
his days. He was six feet high, of heavy build and powerful
strength, dark hair and dark blue eyes, and light complexion. He was a
great hunter; killed hundreds of deer, and a great many elk, bears,
wolves, and made it a point to shoot every wildcat he came across, as
they carried off lambs.
In early days he adopted his uncle's religious views,
and sometimes expressed them in public. He was an ardent hater of
Great Britain, and a staunch Democrat. In 1855 he was appointed
postmaster of Ford post-office, at Newbury center, by Franklin
Pierce, which position he held until his death, which occurred in
1858.
The last twelve years of his life he was afflicted with
rheumatism, and the last two years he was nearly helpless.
He was obliged to go from Newbury to Warren, a distance
of thirty-five miles, to make payments on his land, and never failed to
meet the payments when due. He went on foot from Newbury to Warren
and back, a distance of seventy miles, in one day.
Mrs. Welcome Bullock was a daughter of
Solomon Fay. The Fays were among the early
settlers of Athol, and their descendants are now among the first
families for moral and intellectual worth.
Bullock's family consisted of seven
children. Hiram A., who never married, was an ingenious
mechanic; Susannah married Dudley Loveland;
Sabra died at the age of twenty-one years, and was much beloved by
all who knew her; Mary B. became the wife of Syrenus Hawley;
Luceba was the first wife of Roswell Jones. All
these have long since passed away. James M. Bullock, the
last and only survivor of the family, was born in Newbury, Nov. 1, 1817.
He became the owner of the old homestead; married Grace Ann
Bittles, May 6, 1842; sold the old farm in 1860, and moved to
Chagrin Falls, where he now resides.
Source:
1798 Pioneer and General History of Geauga County
with Sketches of
some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men. -
Published by
The Historical Society of Geauga County, 1880 - Page 244-245 |
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