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Source:
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
by
Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated
- Vol. I.
B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
1911
CHAPTER XXIV.
KNOX
TOWNSHIP
pg. 296
Knox township,
taken from the north end of Westland and a part of Wheeling
township in March, 1819, is now a five-mile square civil
precinct of Guernsey county, bounded on the west by
Muskingum county, on the north by Coshocton county and
Wheeling township of this county, on the east by Liberty and
Cambridge townships and on the south by Adams township.
There are no towns of any commercial importance within this
township and, without railroads or large water courses, it
depends largely on Cambridge as its trading place.
This township is devoted largely to agricultural pursuits
and has a number of excellent places, well improved, which
yield up their annual harvests.
At the time of the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia, in 1876, a canvass of the old settlers was
made which resulted in the showing of the following list of
pioneers who had attained the age, or passed the age, of
seventy-six years, then residing in the township: Jared
TERRELL, Margaret TERRELL, Jane PATRICK, George ECKELBERRY
and wife, Mrs. Sarah A. ESTEP, William YOUNG, Jane YOUNG,
James BLACK, William SCOTT, Jacob MERLAT, Hugh DYER, James
CULLEN, Benjamin HAWTHORNE, George ESTEP, Edward BEAL
and John ZIMMERMAN. These old settlers nearly
all came to Knox township at an early time and reared large
families which have one by one taken their places in the
great busy world, in one capacity or another.
WILLIAM KENWORTHY came from
England in 1841, and worked for ten years in a cotton
factory in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, but in 1851
located in Knox township and cleared up more of the old
homestead found there today.
WILLIAM HAMILTON CLARK was four years old when his
parents came from Ireland. In 1840 he married and
settled in Knox township, this county. Eleven children
were born to this worthy couple. Mr. CLARK was
school director in this township for many years.
FRANCIS KILPATRICK came from Ireland in 1850,
and effected a permanent settlement in Knox township, where
he and his interesting family spent the remainder of their
days.
JOHN CLARK (father of Elizabeth WEIR) was
a native of Ireland and a blacksmith by trade. Ten
years after his marriage he emigrated to America and they
were the parents of seven children. They lived five
yeas in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, then located in Knox
township, this county, and the family have become scattered,
but all widely known as men and women of rare industry and
integrity.
WILLIAM P. ROSS, son of James ROSS, of
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was quite an early settler
in Knox township. He was school director for twenty
years and lived on and owned the farm known as the "Old
Still House Farm," as at one time it had a still on it.
JACOB MARLATT was born in Maryland in 1803.
Five years after his marriage he settled in Knox township
and became the father of thirteen children, including
Josephus, who served as a soldier in the One Hundred and
Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, and was badly wounded at the
battle of the Wilderness.
WILLIAM ADDY, born in 1781, in Virginia, and
John KENNEDY, an Irish weaver, born in 1779, were both
early pioneers in Knox township.
The biographical volume of this work will give the
sketches of many who located, at a later date, in this
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