Fallsbury -
JOHN W. GARDNER, farmer, a son of George D. and Sarah Gardner.  He was born in Fallsbury township, Apr. 5, 1843.  Soon after arriving at the age of manhood, he enlisted in the United States service under captain Lemert, in company A, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Woods command.  Mustered into the service Oct. 5, 1861; they first encamped near Newark, on the fair-ground where they were drilled till about the fifth of February.  They were then moved to Fort Donelson, Tennessee, where they were engaged in a fight for about twenty-four hours, from there to Nashville, Tennessee, where they had another fight with the rebels; next the Snake Creek Gap fight, in Georgia; from there they marched to Taylor's mountain, they there had an engagement with Hood; from there to the Mississippi river.  Their next engagement took place at Helena, Arkansas, with Bragg; next was at Shiloh, Tennessee, again with Bragg, which took place May 31, 1862; the next fight took place Jan. 11, 1863, at Arkansas Post; next at Chickasaw bayou; were engaged up to Vicksburgh; there they fought General Pemberton, remaining forty-seven days, the regiment being there when the rebels surrendered, July 4, 1863; their next fight took place at Warrington; next Jackson, Mississippi; next Cherokee, Mississippi; from there to Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and Ringgold; these fights took place in 1853.  He then re-enlisted at Woodville, Alabama, February 3d.  He then returned home on a thirty days furlough.  Soon after his arrival home he was taken sick and delayed his getting back to his command till the tenth of May following; they were then engaged in the Kenesaw Mountain fight.  The next battle took place at Chickamauga creek; next Pigeon Mountain, where the subject of this sketch received two wounds; their next fight was Atlanta, Georgia; next Sand Town battle, where he received another wound; there he received a sixty days furlough and came home.  When the time expired he again rejoined his command at Hilton Head, South Carolina; from there to Goldsborough, North Carolina; there they had an engagement with General Johnson; from thence to Raleigh, North Carolina, while there Johnston surrendered; from there they marched to Richmond, Virginia; from there to Washington where they passed the review and camped a few days; they then boarded the train for Parkersburgh, West Virginia; there took a boat for Louisville; there remained until discharged.  They were mustered out at Columbus, Ohio and paid off.  He then came home; after being home a while he then proceeded to buy and ship stock; this he continued one season.  He then gave his attention to farming which he has continued since that time. Jan. 1, 1869, he married Leonora Denman, a daughter of P. R. and Susan Denman.  She was born in Perry township, June 26, 1851.  After his marriage he engaged in farming for William Tilton, where he remained three years.  In 1873 he made a purchase of a farm of ninety acres known as the McQueen farm, where he moved and now resides, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are the parents of four children: Fredie, born Oct. 5, 1869; Carrie, Feb. 15, 1871; Eddie, Dec. 29, 1873; Minnie, Sept. 22, 1878.  The subject of this sketch was also engaged in the Grand Gulf, Hilton Head, Black River battles.
Source: 1798 - History of Licking Co., Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ. Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 – page 674

Bowling Green Twp. -
JOHN V. GOLDSMITH, born in Saxony, Germany, in the village of Kaltensundhime, Sept. 13, 1830.  His father, John, was a shoemaker by trade, but by occupation a tax collector and farmer.  Determined to seek his fortune in the new country, he embarked alone on a vessel and landed at New York, where he was robbed of seventy-five dollars in gold, almost all that remained of his patrimonial estate, so that he was compelled to borrow from a friend a part of his fare to Newark, Ohio.  Arriving here without a cent, and in debt, unable to speak the English language, he worked for a month on the railroad, then went to Lancaster, Ohio, where he learned the tanner's trade with Louis Philippi & Co.; he then worked at his trade awhile in Chillicothe, and afterwards moved to Portsmouth, where he took the chills and fever and was obliged to quit work; he successively visited Steubenville, Canton and Massillon, remaining a short time in each place, then located at Canal Dover, where he clerked for a few months in a grocery, then resumed his trade, working at it for three years, during which time he saved three hundred and twenty-five dollars.  Returning to Lancaster, Mr. Goldsmith there married Caroline Walter, daughter of Jacob Walter.  He purchased the tannery he now owns in Linnville, and moved here in 1853.  He has several times invested in real estate and to-day owns property to the value of fifteen thousand dollars, including the Parr farm near Linnville.  He has five children, Jacob, Ellen, Jane, Edward, and Andrew J.
Source: 1798 - History of Licking Co., Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ. Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 – page 673

Bowling Green Twp. -
JACOB S. GRIFFITH, born Feb. 14, 1814, in Washington county, Maryland.  When a year old he came with his father's family to this township.  His mother, Sarah Swope, was a native of Maryland.  His father, Daniel, born in Virginia, and subsequently moving to Maryland, was a millwright, and upon his arrival here in 1815, bought the northwest quarter of section fourteen, this township, which he farmed and carried on his trade at the same time.  He was a man of positive character, well known and popular, which is attested by the fact that he, being a Whig in politics, was frequently elected to office in a strong Democratic township.  A hater of strife and contention, he was never a party to a suit in court.  In his youth he worked in his father's grist-and saw-mill, the first erected in the township; was married Sept. 14, 1841, to Sarah Smith of Belmont county, Ohio, and has subsequently engaged in farming.  He has four children, William, Josephine, wife of Daniel Mohler, Frank, and Charles.
Source: 1798 - History of Licking Co., Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ. Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 – Page 673