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The following is a list of the
residents of Jackson township seventy-six years of age and
upwards in 1876: Henry Woodrow, Lawson Rogers,
Isaac Hoopman, John Fox, James Arbuckle, Joseph Davis,
Bethnel Ables, Isaac Meek, Elizabeth Wilson, Mrs. De
La Rue, Mrs. Reiney, Mary Wright, Thomas Wilson, Solomon
Peter, Simon Dickerson, William Rainey, Benjamin Wells,
Daniel Masters, Mary Woodrow, Prudence Selby, Elizabeth
Wheatley, Jane Clark, Mrs. Whalon.
EUSEBIUS H. NEWNOM
COLUMBUS C.
LARGE
JOHN WIERS
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JOHN FRYE
was born in this county Mar. 26, 1828. He was
united in marriage Aug. 1, 1854, to Miss Rhoda Moore
who was born in September, 1834. They have one child,
Charles W. His parents, Henry F. and Srah (Trenner)
Fyre, emigrated from Hampshire county, Virginia,
to Ohio in a very early day. He was born in May, 1803,
and she in 1804. She died in 1875. He is still
living, and resides in Valley township, this county.
Mr. John Frye is one among the prominent citizens of
Jackson township.. In 1860 he was elected justice of
the peace, which office he held twenty-one successive years.
He also served nine years as township clerk, and two years
as treasurer.
REV. JAMES
SELBY
DAVID BURT
ROBERT N.
WILLIAMS is the son of David R. and Catharine
(Brown) Williams. He was born in Scotland July 15,
1797, and married Catharine Brown in Cambridge, Ohio,
Jan. 13, 1825. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in
1801. He died Dec. 27, 1873. His wife still
survives him, and lives with her son Robert on the
old home place. There were four children born by this
marriage, three of whom are living, as follows:
James P. who resides in Paola, Kansas; Sophia C.;
and Robert N. Mary Ann died Aug. 8, 1860.
David Williams emigrated from Scotland to this
county, in company with his sister and his brother-in-law,
Robert Nicholson, in 1818. He was a weaver, and
did work for his neighbors. In this way he managed to
get his farm of one hundred and twenty acres that he entered
and cleared up. Robert N. Williams was born May
15, 1830, and Mar. 31, 1851, married Miss Mary Cline,
who was born in Maryland July 26, 1831. This couple
had six children: Annie N. H. (deceased); James
M., Eliza C., Mary Eva, John David, and Orwin W.
are living. Mr. Williams bought the old home
place, where he still lives. He purchased forty acres
of land besides the one hundred and twenty of his father's
old farm, and has the old home farm well improved.
ANDREW W.
NICHOLSON
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ELIJAH B. HOOPMAN
NATHAN BURT
MRS. NANCY
NICHOLSON
JOHN F. TRENNER
MARTIN E.
ROBBINS
THOMAS F.
SHRIVER
SOLOMON
PETERS, JR.
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EDWARD LEE
WESLEY M. GORSUCH
JONATHAN S.
GANDER
BENJAMIN TRENNER
LAWSON ROGERS
was born on September 18, 1804, in Harford county, Maryland.
In 1831 he was united in wedlock with Alice MaGaw,
who was born in Maryland on Nov. 1, 1, 1808. In 1842
they came to Ohio and settled on section twelve of Jackson
township, where they have since lived. Five of
their seven children are living, viz: George F.,
born July 27, 1832; Catharine E., Mar. 26, 1843;
Mary M., Dec. 18, 1844; Roland J., Mar. 1, 1848;
and Lucinda S., Sept. 7, 1854. Mr.
Rogers has been township trustee for several years, and
during the war had an enviable record for charity to its
victims. - pg. 495
GEORGE CALE
JOHN A. BLISS
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ISAAC HOOPMAN
WILLIAM M.
GRANT
ELIJAH SHRIVER
MICHAEL
SHRIVER
SOLOMON HUTTON
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ELIJAH
MILLBONE
JOHN SEALS
WILLIAM
RAINEY, SR., in 1837, left Washington county,
Pennsylvania, in company with Andrew Whittier, the
stepfather of his wife. The couple constructed a rude
home for themselves and dear ones on lots Nos. 28 and 29 of
the military lands. Andrew Whittier was a man
well adapted for the stern life of a pioneer. He was
born in Germany in 1716, and emigrated to Baltimore before
the Revolutionary war, when only a few log cabins occupied
the site of that magnificent city. He died at the
remarkable age of one hundred and twenty-four years.
William Rainey, Sr., died July 16, 1880, aged
eighty-four. His wife, Mary Mackey, died Dec.
10, 1878, aged eighty. William Rainey, Jr., was
born July 14, 1823, in Columbiana county, Ohio, and since
1837 has lived on the home place. On Mar. 6, 1846,
Mary A. Williams became his first wife. She was
born in 1827, and died Aug. 8, 1860. Their three
children were: David W., Mary C., and
George H. On Dec. 5, 1861, Mr. Rainey
married Margaret Nicholson. She was born Nov.
10, 1827. Their four children were: John R., Nancy
A., Frank, and Charles. Mr. Rainey is a
justice of the peace and a stock dealer. He has a
well-improved farm of one hundred and fifty acres.
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