BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
The Pioneer History of Meigs County
by Stillman Carter Larkin
One Volume with Illustrations
Columbus, Ohio:
The Berlin Printing Company
1908
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ALLEN OGDEN was
born in Maryland, April 13th, 1775. He was in Marietta in
1788. In June, 1795, he married Miss Hannah Keller,
with whom, in April, 1804, they moved to what is now known as
Columbia township, Meigs county. He purchased land,
cleared up a farm, where he made his home and reared a family of
ten children. He served many years as a justice of the
peace, and filled other responsible township offices.
Mary Ogden was married to Joshua Wood,
the first couple married in Columbia township. They had
nine children. Mr. Wood was a justice of the peace
and Whig politician.
Margaret Wood married Elias P. Davis.
She died, leaving two children. Nancy Wood was
married to Nehemiah Bobo. They had eleven children,
twenty-nine grand children and five great-grandchildren.
William Wood married Sarah Rutherford,
and reared four children, with a number of descendants.
Elizabeth Wood was married to Eli Vale,
and they had a large family of children and grandchildren.
Joshua Wood married Elizabeth Forrest,
and they had one child.
Rachel Wood was married to J. Q. A. Vale,
a physician. Their home was in Minnesota. Dr.
Vale has been a member of the legislature of that state.
They had six children.
Mary Wood married Levi Whitlock, and they
went to Minnesota and had a large family of children.
Adah Ogden, daughter of Alvin Ogden and
wife, was born Mar. 7th. 1799, and was married to John Conner.
They moved to Indiana. To them were born six children.
Sabert Ogden was born Oct. 3d, 1801, married
Eliza Forrest, and settled in Salem. They had seven
children. Sabert Ogden died Feb. 10th, 1874.
Mrs. Ogden died Dec. 24th, 1896, aged eighty-five years,
six months, eighteen days.
Alvin Ogden, Jr., married Nancy Jordan,
and resided in Salem. They had two children, and several
grandchildren.
Herbert Ogden had three sons in the Civil war,
Alvin, John, and Hugh. John was in
Company I, Fifty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in
service at Camp Denison, Ohio.
Hugh Ogden, the second son of Alvin Ogden,
Sr., was born Mar. 11th, 1804. He never married.
He died in 1872 in Salem township.
Nancy Ogden, daughter of Alvin Ogden, Sr.,
and his wife, was born May 18th, 1806. She was married to
William Green, and they both lived and died in Columbia
township. They had five children. Albert Green
was a soldier in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
died in the service.
Lovina Ogedn Green married Miles Graham,
a member of the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who died
shortly after the close of the war.
Cynthia Green married William Graham, who
was a soldier and died in the service the first year of the
Civil war.
Elizabeth Ogden, daughter of Alvin Ogden, Sr.,
was born Jul. 25th, 1808, and was married to Daniel Caleb,
and moved to Hardin county, Ohio, where they died. They
had four children and numerous descendants.
Noah Ogden, a son of Alvin Ogden, Sr.,
was born Mar. 16th, 1811. He married Dorcas Graham
and settled in Salem township and had four children, and
numerous descendants. He died in 1890.
Alvin Ogden, Sr., died Jan. 4th,
1867, aged nearly ninety-two years. He was a son of a
Revolutionary soldier, himself a pioneer of Meigs county.
When he died he left ten children, 129 grandchildren, and seven
great-grandchildren. No race suicide in his posterity.
The foregoing sketch is copied from a history of the
Ogden family, as a part of that interesting narrative
published in the "Telegraph," Jan. 28th, 1898. S. C.
Larkin.
Source: The Pioneer History of Meigs County
by Stillman Carter Larkin -
One Volume with Illustrations - Publ.
Columbus, Ohio:
The Berlin Printing Company -
1908 - Page 54 |
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WILLIAM PARKER,
second, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, July 4th, 1775,
and came to Marietta with his father, William Parker,
first, in 1798. He married Betsy Wyatt, daughter of
Deacon Joshua Wyatt, of Athens county, May 13th, 1802,
and they came to Rutland, Ohio, in 1804, and settled on a farm,
which has been owned and occupied by a Parker for more
than one hundred years.
The children of William Parker, second,
and his wife were: Eliza, who was married to Samuel
Halliday, and lived in Meigs county. They had a family
of sons and daughters; Alexander died when a child;
William Halliday; Jane was Mrs. Robbins; Samuel Halliday
married Elizabeth Remington, of Pomeroy; Eliza, Henry,
Thomas, Edwin, and Mary left Meigs county with their
parents in 1850.
William Parker, third, married Lovina Stout.
Their children were: William Parker, fourth,
Mary, Ida, Sophronia, Edwin Parker, Barton and Sarah -
Mrs. Green, who died early, leaving one daughter. Edwin
married and lives in Cincinnati. Ida Parker was a
successful teacher in the public schools in Middleport, Ohio.
Two brothers and two unmarried sisters live together in the
homestead.
Silas Parker, son of William Parker, second,
studied medicine and went to the West when quite a young man.
Mary Parker was married to Buckingham Cooley,
who died early, leaving a widow and one daughter. Mrs.
Cooley was married afterwards to William Bartlett, of
Athens Co., Ohio.
Sarah E. Parker became the wife of Tobias A.
Plantz, Esq., and lived in Pomeroy. They
had two children, Mary E. Plants, who died young, and
George Wyatt Plantz, banker and prominent citizen of Pomeroy
for many years, identified with all good enterprises for the
prosperity of the town. He married Mary G. Daniel,
daughter of H. G. Daniel, banker and an esteemed business
man of Pomeroy. They have one son, who bears the family
name, Wyatt Garfield Plantz, and is one of the bankers -
"First Citizens Bank," of Pomeroy.
John Wyatt Parker, son of William Parker,
second, and his wife, was born in Rutland. He married
Eliza McQuigg, and lived in Gallipolis for several years,
was auditor of Gallia county, but removed to Dubuque, Iowa.
Daniel Parker, son of William Parker, second,
and his wife, was born Oct. 22d, 1809. He married
Catharine E. Gillespie, of Dayton, Ohio, in 1847. They
had three sons: George G., Daniel Herbert, and Frank
H. Parker, all noted physicians and specialists in surgery.
Mr. Daniel Parker owned and occupied the homestead, and
died Jan. 19th, 1893, aged eighty-three years, two months and
twenty-eight days. Mrs. Parker died in 1908, in her
eighty-fourth year, a woman of rare accomplishments, one who
never grew old.
The Parker homestead is occupied by Dr. Frank
Parker, the only surviving member of his father's family.
Source: The Pioneer History of Meigs County
by Stillman Carter Larkin -
One Volume with Illustrations - Publ.
Columbus, Ohio:
The Berlin Printing Company -
1908 - Page 57 |
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