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BIOGRAPHIES:
Source:
HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY
together with
Historic Notes on the Northwest
and
The State of Ohio.
Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts,
Private and Official Correspondence and
all other Authentic Sources, Ohio - Publ. 1881
By R. S. Dills
Illustrated.
Dayton, Ohio
ODell & Mayer, Publishers.
1881
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Jefferson Twp. -
DAVID L. REAVES, farmer, is a son of George and
Mary, who were married about 1817. He was a native
of Vermont, and went to Tennessee with his parents, Asher
and Diana, when at about the age of four years, where
he remained until 1811, when they came to Ohio and spent the
remainder of their lives. George, David's
father, died in 1854, aged fifty-nine years. Mrs.
Reaves is still living with her son David, the
subject of this sketch. She is eighty-one years of
age, and enjoying good health. Our subject was born
Oct. 1, 1822, in this county, where he has resided all his
life, except two years of his youth spent in Madison County,
Ohio, and about two years in Clinton County, then went to
Illinois and spent about seven months. He was thrice
married, first to Mary A., Stewart of this county, in
1843: three children by this marriage, Mary E., James W.,
and Rachel A., two of whom are living.
James died at the early age of about six months.
Mrs. Reaves died May 15, 1849. Mr. Reaves
married Edna E. Short, of this county, Dec. 1, 1853;
no children. She died July 22, 1854. He then
married Mary E. Pownall of Highland County, Ohio,
Dec. 14, 1858, six children is the result of this marriage:
Martha E., Edson C., Morris C., Jonathan P.,
two died in infancy. Mr. Reaves's second wife,
was a member of the Wesley Methodist Church. At
present, he owns no land except two lots in Port William,
having sold his farm of sixty acres, which is well improved,
but is about buying another. Mary E., and
Rachel are married; the others are unmarried and at home
with their parents. Mr. Reaves was elected
assessor, in 1846, served two successive terms, was
re-elected, in 1853. Was elected treasurer of the
township, in 1875, and has served several terms as township
trustee. He was elected assessor, in 1863, again in
1867, and in 1877. His father was a Baptist minister
and known over a great portion of the state. He was
captain of a military company in this county. He was
finally elected mayor. His first school house was of
logs with paper windows, the fire place was in the end of
the house, seats were made of puncheon, etc.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 -
Page 844 |
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Beaver Creek Twp. -
HENRY RIDENOUR, retired farmer, was
born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1803.
When three years old, his parents removed to Maryland, where
young Henry received the rudiments of his education.
At the age of ten, his father went to Virginia, in which
state he remained with his parents till attaining his
majority, when he returned to Maryland, where he was married
in 1829, to Mary Ann Highland, of Washington County.
In the fall of his marriage, removed to Ohio, and settled in
Knox County, where he resided three years, then came to this
county, and located at Harbine's Mill, near which he
lived for three years, then came to where he now resides.
He owns fifty-three acres of land, all under to pass his
declining years. To them five children have been born,
four living, Ann Patience, John R., Thomas J., and Mary
E. Upton was killed by an accident at Beaver Station, in
1862, aged twenty-five years. John R., was a
member of Captain Guthrie's Company, of Colonel
Stephenson regiment, Ohio National Guards, and passed
through some of the engagements at the close of the war.
Mrs. Ridenour died Mar. 1, 1875, aged sixty-eight
years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, having joined when seventeen years old, and lived
and died in consistent, and exemplary Christian woman.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio -
Publ. 1881 - Page 619 |
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Bath
Twp. -
HENRY H. ROCKAFIELD, farmer,
Fairfield, was born in this township, Oct. 6, 1836. Is
a son of John and Susan E. (Cost) Rockafield, the
former a native of Frederick County, Maryland, who spent his
youth in three states, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania,
working in coal mines, chopping wood on the mountains, and
other pursuits peculiar to that country. Came to this
state about the year 1820, and engaged at work with Mr.
Cost, afterward his father-in-law. After some
years he married Susan E. Cost, and went on to a
tract of land belonging to her father, which, in the course
of time, he came in possession of. Here he labored for
many years, and reared his family of thirteen children, ten
of whom are now living. He died in July, 1859, and was
buried on the farm, where he had spent the greater part of
his life. His wife died ten years previous. Our
subject was reared on this farm, and received his education
in the common schools. After the decease of his
father, he farmed the place till 1869, at which time the
youngest heir became of age, and the farm was sold. He
then went to German Township, Montgomery County, where he
purchased land, on which he lived nine years, and then sold
and came back near his birthplace, buying the property on
which he lives. He has been twice married; first in
1857, to Rebecca Carter, who bore him four children,
and died in 1868. The second marriage was consummated
in in 1869, with Mary Ann Haller.
They have one boy as a result of this union. Mr.
Rockafield served his country four months in the One
Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Ohio National Guard.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
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Caesar's Creek Twp. -
ALFRED RODGERS, blacksmith, is a
native of Kentucky, where he was reared and lived until the
close of the rebellion, at which time his master (Abram
Colwell) was compelled to release him from bondage,
together with thirty-nine others. He was born in
March, 1829. In December, 1860, was married to
Lottie Evans. Henry Grant, their only child, was
born Sept. 22, 1869. Mr. Rogers served in the
army two years; came to Ohio in 1864, and has since that
date been a resident of the state. He has a home,
consisting shop, as a workman he has few superiors, as his
increasing business will fully attest. He was taught
his trade in Kentucky. His in parents, Robert,
who died in 1860, and Kittie (Coldwell), who died
1870, were blessed with twenty-one children, Alfred
being the third.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 -
Page 593 |
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Jefferson
Twp. -
JOHN A. ROSS, farmer, is a son of
Robert and Susanna (Alexander) Ross, who came from West
Virginia in 1847, and died in this state. They were
members of the Presbyterian Church. He was born Jan.
17, 1827, and united with that church at the age of
nineteen, and came to Ohio with his parents, where he has a
farm of two hundred and forty-two acres, well improved,
residing on it, and farms to grain and stock, dealing
largely in sheep, keeping from two to three hundred head of
good stock all the time, some thoroughbred; also handles
hogs, mostly of good stock. Is yet unmarried, lives in
a pleasant place, and is, perhaps, as happy as if he had a
family.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 -
Page 845 |
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Jefferson
Twp. -
MATHEW F. ROSS, farmer, is a native of
West Virginia, where he was partly reared, and came to this
state with his parents, in 1847, where he has lived since.
Was married Apr. 3, 1856, to Miss Mary L. Blane of
this county; two children are the result of this union,
Oscar M., and Robert E., both of whom are
deceased. Oscar was born Aug. 27, 1861, died
Aug. 27, 1862. Robert was born Sept. 8, 1863, died
July 8, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are members of
the Christian Church of Bowersville. Her father came
to Ohio, in 1818, where he married Miss Elizabeth
Lockhart, (Mrs. Ross's mother) about the year 1831, and
where they lived the remainder of their lives. Mr.
Ross has a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, well
improved, on which he lives, and farms to both gain and
stock. Of his stock, he makes rather a specialty of
merino sheep. Mr. Ross has thirty-two acres of
land adjoining his on the east.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 -
Page 844 |
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Jefferson
Twp. -
WILLIAM R. ROSS, farmer, is a native
of West Virginia, where he was reared and educated.
Came to Ohio with his parents when he was nineteen years of
age, and married Miss Rachel Moon, Feb. 25, 1864, and
four children are the result of their union: Clement,
Susanna J., Mary F., and John Quincy, all living,
and none married. Our subject has a farm of two
hundred and thirty acres, well improved, resides on it, and
farms to grain and stock, making a specialty of sheep
raising, keeping from two hundred and fifty to three hundred
all the time, of good stock. Mrs. Ross' father
is a married Jane Turner, Mrs. Ross' mother, who died
July 26, 1854. He is yet a resident of this state.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ. 1881 - Page
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