GENEALOGIES
Source:
Historical Collections of Harrison County in the State of
Ohio
With Lists of the First Land-owners, Early Marriages (to
1841), Will Records (to 1861), Burial Records of the Early
Settlements
and Numerous Genealogies
By Charles A. Hanna
Published New York,
1900
*In the family records given
in the following pages, the names of the children of the
first one of the family to settle in Harrison county are
usually preceded by roman capital numerals (I., II., III.,
IV., etc.); the names of the grandchildren, by arabic
numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.); and the names of the
great-grandchildren by roman lower-case numerals (i., ii.,
iii., iv., etc.)
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WILLIAM WADDINGTON, see Family of
JOHN HARRISON.
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JOSEPH WALKER
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JOHN WALLACE, a native of
York county Penn., b. 1760; d. May 1, 1832; removed to Washington county, Penn.,
about 1804, and a year later to Putney township, Belmont county, Ohio; settled
in Moorefield township, Harrison County, 1822; m. Margaret Anderson, b.
in York county, Penn., 1767; d. Mar. 25, 1848; had issue: 1. William, d.
1842; m. Mary W. ___ (had issue: i. John; ii. Nathaniel S.;
iii. William A.; iv. Samuel M.; v. Wilson E.; vi. Sarah
Ann; vii. Eleanor S.; viii. Margaret J.); 2. Allen, b.
in York county, Penn., Apr. 15, 1793; settled in Moorefield township, where he
d. Feb. 21, 1880; m. in Belmont county, Mary Brown (had issue: i.
John; ii. Andrew; iii. William; iv. Mary; v.
James; vi. Elijah R., b. Mar. 16, 1828; m. Jan. 23, 1868,
Elizabeth Brokaw, b. Mar. 25, 1842, daughter of Abraham and Mary
Guthrie settled at Wooster, Ohio; viii. Samuel, settled at Wooster,
Ohio); 3. Nancy; 4. Jane.
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THOMAS WALLACE of Scotch-Irish
descent; resided in York county, Penn., about 1775; had issue, among others: I.
John, b. in York county, Penn., May 8, 1774; removed to Warren township,
Jefferson county, Ohio, 1796, where he remained until 1804, thence located in
Green township, Harrison county, Ohio, where he d. June 4, 1863; m. in York
county, Oct. 6, 1795. Elizabeth McCleary, b. Sept. 23, 1776; d.
Feb. 19, 1855; daughter of Abel McCleary, a resident of York county; had
issue: 1. William, b. Oct. 3, 1796; 2. Isaac, . Oct. 9, 1798; 3.
Thomas, b. Sept. 20, 1800; 4. Robert, b. Oct. 26, 1802; 5.
Rebecca, b. June 6, 1804; 6. Margaret, b. July 16, 1806; 7. John,
b. May 5, 1809; 8. Nathaniel-Anderson, b. July 16, 1811; d. Dec. 28,
1892; m. (1st) Mar. 4, 1834, Jane Watson; d. Feb. 18, 1868, dau. of
Robert Watson, of Athens township. Harrison county; m. m. (2d) Sept.
2, 1869, Sarah Goodrich; d. Oct. 9, 1873, dau. of George Goodrich,
formerly a resident of Carroll county, Ohio; m. (3d) June 24, 1875, Elizabeth
Marsh, dau. of Oliver Marsh, a resident of Pennsylvania; 9.
Abraham, b. Aug. 24, 1813; 10. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 22, 1821.
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JOSHUA P. WATSON
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WILLIAM WATSON
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WILLIAM WATTERS
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JACOG WEBB
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JOHN WEBSTER
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JOHN WELLING, d. about 1821; m.
Mima _____; had issue: 1. William, m. Dorcas ____, b. Aug.
15, 1778; d. Apr. 24, 1848; 2. John; 3. David, b. Feb. 1, 1779; d.
June 19, 1864; settled in Athens township before 1817; m. (1st) Margaret
____; m. (2d) Nancy Elizabeth Black, of Guernsey county, b.
1823; d. Feb. 18, 1873 (had issue by first wife, six children; had issue by
second wife: vii. Margaret Jane, m. Finley Butler;
viii. William W.; ix. Nancy Jane; x. Martha A., m.
Joseph White; xi. George W., b. June 15, 1855; xii.
Harriet C.; xiii. John); 4. Thomas; 5. Henry; 6.
Nancy; 7. Mary; 8 Elizabeth. Other Welling
families in Harrison county, are those of the following, most or all of them
probably descended from John and Mima:
John Welling, m. 1821, Mary
McCullough.
John Welling, b. 1814; d. 1887; m.
Jane McFadden.
David Welling, m. 1834, Jane
Sharp, b. 1812; d. 1844.
William Welling, m. 1830, Margaret
Davis.
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DANIEL WELCH,
a native of Ireland, of Scottish descent; emigrated to America and probably
first settled at Carlisle, in Cumberland county (as the name, Daniel Welch,
appears on the carlisle tax-list from 1767 until after 1776; had issue, among
others:
1. Daniel, b. 1763; d. Sept. 7, 1819; settled in
Cecil township, Washington County, Penn., as early as 1786 (probably accompanied
by his father, for the names of two Daniel Welches appear on the tax
lists of that township for 1787 and 1788) m. Elizabeth Waits, b. 1770; d.
Mar. 29, 1844; daughter of John (d. before 1786) and Sarah (d.
1818) Waits; removed to Harrison county, Ohio, about 1801, and settled at
Beech Spring, on the head waters of Short Creek, in Green township; established
here a horse mill, probably the first in Harrison county; organized Beech Spring
Church; had issue 1. John, served at Captain John Allen
Scroggs' company of Colonel John Andrews; regiment of
Ohio Militia in the War of 1812; died in that service, unmarried; 2. Daniel,
b. 1790; d. Aug. 9, 1868; m. (1st) Margaret Bayless, b. 1796; d.
Sept. 9, 1833; m. (2d) 1834, Mary Gray, b. 1806; d. Feb. 5, 1848
(had issue, among others, by first wife: i. Elizabeth, d. aged fifteen
years; had issue by second wife, among others: ii. E. Gray, b. 1842; d.
Nov. 30, 1877); 3. Rezin, b. in Cecil township, Washington county, Penn.,
Apr. 27, 1795; d. at Cadiz, Nov. 24, 1881; where he had settled in 1833; m.
(1st) at Steubenville, 1818, Eliza Bayless, b. 1801; d. Aug. 6, 1842;
daughter of Elias and Margaret Barclay Bayless, natives of Maryland; m.
(2d) 1846, Maria Bayless, b. Sept. 12, 1807; d. Aug. 19, 1886; sister to
his Eliza Bayless (had issue by his first wife: i. Maria B., b.
1822; d. Aug. 10, 1891; m. Walter Butler Beebe, of Cadiz;
ii. Rachel Anne, m. William R. Allison, and settled at
Steubenville; iii. Caroline m. Thomas C. Rowles, and settled at
Topeka, Kan.; iv. David Barclay, b. at Smithfield, Ohio, Nov. 23,
1830; m. 1857, Martha Collins Lyons, daughter of Robert
and Ann Rowland Lyons, of Cadiz; v. Eliza, m. H.
Parks MacAdam, and settled at New York Mills, N. Y.); 4. Benjamin; 5.
Pressley; 6. William, m. 1835, Adaline Phillips,
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Williams Phillips,
of Cadiz; removed to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he died, and his widow removed
thence to Osceola, Neb. (had issue, eight children, four of whom died in
infancy, of the others; i. William; ii. Thomas; iii. Daniel
P., b. 1839; d. May 6, 1864; served in the Civil War, and died in that
service; iv. John Ross, m. Anna Sherwood; settled
near Osceola, Neb.); 7. Jacob, m. Charlotte Pumphrey; 8.
Cyrus; 9. Samuel. m. Martha Moore, b. 1815; d. Apr. 13,
1836; 10. Mary, m. 1829, Dr. Jacob Voorhes; 11.
Rhoda, m. 1828, John Mansfield.
Elizabeth Waits Welch, wife of
Daniel Welch, was the daughter of John Waits, whose
name appears on the tax list of Springhill township, Fayette (then Bedford, and
later. Westmoreland) county, Penn., in 1772, the first year after the
organization of Bedford county, and in 1783; he settled in Cecil township,
Washington County, on the head waters of Chartiers Creek in the spring of 1785;
and died before Apr. 5, 1786, at which date his land was patented to his widow,
"in trust, for the use of his heirs;" he m. Mrs. Sarah Blair,
d. 1818, a widow (who had three grown sons by her first husband living in Cecil
township in 1788 - Joseph, Samuel, and William - who later
removed to Kentucky); had issue: 1. Elizabeth, m. Daniel Welch,
and removed to Ohio; 2. Richard; 3. Reuben; 4. Mary, m.
____ Phillips; 5. Samuel, 6. Jacob.
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JOHN WELSH
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SAMUEL WELSH
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JAMES WEST, b. in Kirkcaldy,
Fifeshire, Scotland, June, 11, 1791; d. in Fox township, Carroll county, Ohio,
1851, where he had located in 1828; son of John West; emigrated to
America, and first settled in Maryland, 1815; removed to Wood county, West
Virginia, in 1817, and thence, in 1825, to Summit county, Ohio, whence he came
to Carroll county; m. in Wood county, W. Va., 1825, in Akeld, Northumberland,
England, daughter of John and Susan Howey Douglass, natives of Scotland
(the latter a daughter of Andrew and Margaret Mitchison Howey; and the
former a son of Anna Davidson Douglas); had issue: 1. Susanna, m.
Robert Philpot, of Humboldt, Neb.; 2. John Douglass, a physician,
b. in Carroll county, Ohio; settled at Hopedale, Green township, Harrison
county, Nov. 1866; m. (1st) 1853, Martha Jane Merrick, b. June 9, 1832;
d. April 12, 1884; daughter of Israel J. Merrick, a native of Maryland
(b. 182; d. 1881), and Sarah Arbuckle (b. 1812); m. (2d) November, 1886,
Mrs. Josephine M. Mansfield, widow of Thomas Mansfield, and
daughter of Isaac Holmes, an early settler in Green township; 3.
Katherine, m. John Hunter, of Delroy, Carroll county; 4. Margaret
Ann, m. John Bebout of Mechanicstown; 5. Isabella, m.
William A. Frater, of Douglas county, Oregon; 6. James D., settled at
East Liverpool, Ohio; 7. Mary Elizabeth, m. (1st) John Smalley; m.
(2d) William Kerr; settled near New Lisbon, Ohio; 8. ____, d. in infancy;
9. ____, d. in infancy.
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JAMES WEST
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JONATHAN WEST, a native of
Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, settled in Cadiz township, Harrison
county, Ohio, 1811; m. Comfort Arnold, daughter of Benjamin and
Comfort Arnold, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania; had issue: 1. Amos,
b. in Pennsylvania; settled in Franklin township, Harrison county; m. 1832,
Margaret Baker, daughter of Ohio Baker, of Archer township (had
issue: 1. Mary; ii. Samuel; iii. Wilson S., b. Aug. 7,
1842; m. 1868, Susannah Renshaw; iv. Sarah; v. Naomi, m.
John Renshaw); 2. Rezin, b. Apr. 19, 1812; m. Dec. 10, 1835, Nancy
Arthurs, daughter of Gavin Arthurs, of Harrison county (had issue: i.
Jonathan; ii. Comfort; iii. Rachel; iv. Amos, m.
Melissa Copeland; v. Japheth, m. (1st) Lucinda Yant, of
Tuscarawas county, Ohio; d. Sept. 21, 1883; m. (2d) Martha J. Baker iv.
Sarah E.; vii. William G., m. Apr. 15, 1881, Rebecca Wright,
daughter of Sylvanus Wright; viii. James M., m. Elizabeth
Rinehart, of Franklin township; ix. Esther); 3. Samuel; 4.
Jonathan; 5. Mary; 6. Esther 7. Actia; 8. James; 9.
Elizabeth; 10. Comfort; 11. Sarah.
Gaven Arthurs, father of Nancy Arthurs West,
was a native of Ireland; settled in Harrison county, where he d. Feb. 1, 1876;
m. Rachel Hall, of Maryland; d. 1845; had issue: 1. Robert; 2.
William; 3. James; 4. Eliza; 5. Mary J.; 6. Amelia;
7. Nancy, m. Rezin West; 8. Sarah; 9. Louisa.
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JOHN WEYANDT, of German
descent, removed probably from Pennsylvania or Maryland to Monroe township,
Harrison county, before 1817; d. 1848; m. Motlena ____; had issue: 1.
Daniel, 2. Jacob; 3. Abraham, b. 1821; d. 1899; m.
(1st) Roxanna Warner; m. (2d) Margaret Gamble (had issue: i.
Amadilla, m. E. M. Long; ii. Eleanor, m. M. Rohan;
iii. Martha Ann, m. William B. Penn; iv. Webster, m.
Ruth Myers; v. Olive, m. L. D. Price; vi.
Melinda, m. Oscar Price); 4. Mary, m. 1837, Henry B.
Heller; 5. Christina, m. ____ Warner.
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JOHN WHAN
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EZRA WHARTON
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JOSEPH WHITE
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WILLIAM WILEY
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ROBERT
WILKIN, settled in Pennsylvania, 1770 removed to near the present
site of Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, about 1802, and a few years later
settled in Londonderry, Guernsey county; m. in Pennsylvania, Mary Hyde;
had issue: I. Elizabeth, II. Nancy, III. Jane.
IV. Rebecca, V. Mary. VI. Samuel. VII.
Thomas. IX. Archibald, b. in Pennsylvania; settled in
Washington township, Harrison county, before 1818, where he d. 1870; m.
Hannah Davidson, d. 1856, daughter of Samuel Davidson,
of Washington township; had issue: 1. Samuel, b. in Washington
township, May 23, 1818; m. (1st) April, !8, 1843, Margaret Foraker,
of Guernsey county; died Oct. 22, 1864; m. (2d) Aug. 6, 1866, Jeanette
McCormick, of Guernsey county (had issue by first wife: I. Ellis;
ii. Mary-Ann; iii. Archibald; iv. Hannah; v.
Samuel; vi. Margaret-S.); 2. Mary-Ann; 3;
Jane; 4, Angelina. X. William, XI. James.
XII. Robert.
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CHARLES WILLISON
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GEORGE WORK Source: Historical Collections of Harrison County in
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THOMAS WORLEY Source: Historical Collections of Harrison County
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MATTHEW WORSTELL Source: Historical Collections of Harrison
County in the State of Ohio - By Charles A. Hanna - Published New York, 1900
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LOT WORTMAN Source: Historical Collections of Harrison County in
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