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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 XXIX.
MONROE
TOWNSHIP
pg. 320
Monroe township
was cut from Jefferson township in April, 1818. It is
on the north line of the county, and bounded on the east by
Washington township on the south by Jefferson on the west by
Wheeling. It is five miles square and hence contains
about twenty-five sections of land. It is a well
watered and drained portion of the county, devoted mostly to
farming and stock raising. New Birmingham is the only
village platted within the borders of the township.
This was an early-day platting, but was re-platted in 1860,
for assessment purposes. It is located on section 11,
township 4, range 2. Here a postoffice and a few
business houses were erected and maintained for years.
It is now an inland place of little, if any, business
importance.
As one passes through this portion of the county,
today, in search of historic facts concerning the early
settlement of this particular township, he cannot fail to be
impressed with the fact that time changes all things
earthly, and that none are now living who witnessed the
first efforts at making a home within this part of Guernsey
county; the pioneer has completed his mission and rests from
the cares of life. However, as late as 1876, when a
census was taken of the oldest persons in this township, the
following were found still residents, and none were then
less than seventy-six years of age: Thomas, Sarah
and Thomas I. MOORE, Jane MOORE, Hezekiah MOORE, Mary
ENGLE, Benjamin CULBERTSON, Solomon COLLEY, Lydia COLLEY,
Aneas RANDALL, Annie McDONALD, Archibald LITTLE, Delphi
GRIMSLEY, Sarah WHITE, William WORNICK, Jane WORNICK, Sidney
LITTLE, William THOMPSON, Sarah THOMPSON, Sarah ANDERSON,
Daniel CLARK, James NEIL, John NEIL, Sarah RICHARDS, Amos
RICHARDS, Sarah GRAY, Elizabeth CLARK, Isaac BEAL, Andrew
THOMPSON, Margaret WILLIS, Nancy VIRTUE, Martha Aiken, Lydia
LANNING, Sarah EDWARDS, James CROSSGROVE, J. HOLLINGSWORTH,
Margaret SHAW, John SMITH, Eleanor CAMPBELL, Rebecca
BURNWORTH, Matthew JOHNSON, and Pleasant TEDRICK.
OAKLEY LANNING moved to this township from Monroe
in 1834 and became a prominent, permanent citizen of the
precinct.|
ISAAC M. LANNING was born in New Jersey in 1788
and bought land in this county, but had the misfortune to
lose it by reason of a defective title. He married
Lidie FULLER and moved to the farm he had selected
here. He died in 1867. He had held the office of
justice of the peace for more than twenty years in this
township, hence was well known and highly popular.
FREDERICK BRANINGER, a native of Maryland, was
born in 1788 and after his removal to Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, he married Susannah HAYES, and fifteen
years later located in this township. He was a devoted
member of the Protestant Methodist church.
SAMUEL VIRTUE was born in Ireland in 1775, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. He settled in Ohio county, West
Virginia, where he lived for fifteen years, then located in
Monroe township, this county, and spent the balance of his
days here on a farm. He raised a large and highly
interesting family, who have gone forth to different
callings in life.
ISAAC BEAL, a native of Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, born in 1796, lived there until he married
Martha TODD, and then removed to this township, where
the remainder of his days were spent. Eight children
were born of this union, who survived to manhood and
womanhood. Osborn, the sixth child, was born in
1828 and married Amanda M. RANDALL and they then set
up another household within the township. He was a
trustee of Monroe township a number of years and held other
offices. When he settled here Beymerstown had only one
house. |
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