Res. of
Nelson Famulener,
Sec. 36,
Pickaway Twp.,
Pickaway Co., OH |
NELSON FAMULENER
was born on the old Famulener homestead in the
southeastern corner of Pickaway Township, April 25,
1835, and has always lived amid the pleasant scenes of
his birth. He is a representative of one of the
old families that came to Ohio in the early years of its
settlement, and ever since he attained manhood has
identified himself with the agricultural interests of
Pickaway, his native county.
The paternal grandfather of our subject, Jacob
Famulener and his father, Jonathan Famulener,
were natives of New Jersey. The grandfather came
to Ohio with his family in a very early day of its
settlement and was a pioneer of Ross County, where he
reclaimed a farm from the primeval wilderness.
There is not one of the original family now living.
The father of our subject was one of the eldest of the
children, and, coming to this county in early manhood to
cast in his lot with its pioneers, he became a
prosperous farmer of Pickaway Township, where he spent
the remainder of his life, which was brought to a close
in 1875, in Famuleners and descended from the old
Quaker stock in New Jersey. The mother of our
subject, who was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 21, 1803,
and emigrated to Ohio with her parents, is still living
at a venerable age. Her maiden name was Anna
Long. She is the mother of five children as
follows: William, a farmer, who is married
and lives in Knox County, Ill.; Jacob, a farmer,
who is married and lives in Warren County, Ill.; John,
deceased; Nelson; and Rachel wife of
Thomas Brundige.
HE to whom these lines
refer grew up on the old farm amid pioneer surroundings,
gaining his education in the primitive log schoolhouse
of the times, which was furnished with slab seats, and
had none of the conveniences of the modern school.
He has always lived on the homestead that belonged to
his father, and since it came into his possession has
kept it up to the same high standard of cultivation and
improvement that it had attained while he as assisting
his father in its management in the years that followed
his majority. The farm, which contains two hundred
and thirty-nine acres of fine, alluvial soil, and is
situated on section 36, Pickaway Township, is well
watered by Kinnickinnick Creek, which runs through it,
and is remarkably productive. On another page will
be noticed a view of the place. It is amply
supplied with buildings of a good class and with modern
machinery, and is well adapted to general farming
purposes, to which Mr. Famulener devotes it,
raising and feeding cattle, and shipping a load or two
each year with good profit. Our subject is not
only of large physical proportions, tipping the scales
at four hundred and fifteen pounds, but he is a whole
man in other directions, well balanced in mind,
big-hearted, open-handed, a true friend at all times,
and one to be thoroughly trusted in all things.
In his political views, he is a pronounced Republican.
Mr. Famulener was married, in 1869, to
Miss Elizabeth Goodman, a native of Hocking
County, Ohio, and a daughter of John and Sarah
(Weaver) Goodman, who were natives of Pennsylvania,
and had come to Ohio with their parents when young.
Her father became a prosperous fanner, and rounded out a
long life of seventy-six years in 1876. His wife
survived him until 1889, and then she passed away at the
age of eighty-three years. She was a Lutheran in
religion, while her daughter of whom we write is a
Presbyterian, and an active member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. She was the mother of twelve
children, of whom ten are living. Mr. and
Mrs. Famulener have had four children, of
whom two are living, Samuel and Jesse.
Those deceased are William, who died Oct. 29,
1890, and Ida.
Source: Portrait and Biographical
History of Fayette, Pickaway and Madison Counties,
Ohio. Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. - 1892 - Page 364 |
