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PHYSICAL FEATURES
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SETTLEMENT
This part of the county was occupied as early as
1806, by pioneers, who came from Kentucky.
Jackson township below was rapidly filling up with
settlers from the south, and very naturally the
settlement extended northward and beyond the Jackson
township line The first settlement in
Jefferson was small, made up of not more than four
or five families. In the infancy of this
century Indians were very numerous, and one of their
favorite camping places was in this township near
Cedar springs, their favorite resort. But the
white man soon reached this territory, and the
Indians were pushed across the adjoining State line.
There may have been a few venturesome squatters in
advance of the pioneer, but no trace of any can be
found.
The States of Kentucky and Tennessee have the honor of
having furnished Jefferson township with its
earliest settles. Among these original
settlers were the Flemings, Irelands,
Purviances, Morrisons and Mitchells.
The first settlements were made about the year 1806.
Many of the pioneers of Jefferson, like those of
Israel and other townships, left the south because
of their hatred of slavery.
Bourbon county, Kentucky, from which many emigrated, is
ofgen called the garden of the State, and even at an
early day the region was very productive.
Through the labors of such men as David and
John Purviane, B. W. Stone, Andrew Ireland,
William Caldwell and others, churches had been
founded, and with Paris as the center the community
was the most promising in the State. But led
on by the spirit of emigration, whose impulse was
the bettering of their condition, a number of
families started for Ohio, and after weary days of
travel their wagons stopped in the vicinity of the
east fork of Whatwater, where to-day their
descendants are enjoying the fruits of their of
their labors. The representation of these
first families is very limited, and from them only
could any account of the settlement be obtained.
John Purviance was
born Apr. 12, 1793. He married for his first
wife Margaret Woods, who was born in 1799 and
died in 1824. One of the two children born by
this marriage is living. In 1838 he married
Cynthia Adasm, who was born in Wilson county,
Tennessee, in 1810, whose parents emigrated to Ohio
in 1816. To Mr. and Mrs. Purviance were
born six children, four of whom are living.
Mrs. Purviance is still living on the old place
in section thirty-one.
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One of the earliest
settlers in Jefferson township was David
Purviance, the pioneer preacher of the New Light
church, and the founder of many of the societies of
that denomination in Preble county. He was
born in Iredell county, North Carolina, Nov. 14,
1766. His parents, who were strict
Presbyterians, reared him in that faith and drilled
him in the Westminster catechism, larger and
shorter. He received the rudiments of a
classical education under the tutelage of Dr.
Hall, a Presbyterian preacher who was compelled
to cease study on account of ill health. He
taught for a while, and wrote in the clerk's office
in Salsbury, North Carolina. When twenty-three
years of age he was married to Miss Mary Ireland,
daughter of John and Mary Ireland, a sister
of David Ireland, who was among the first
settlers in Jefferson township. Soon after
their marriage they removed to Tennessee and settled
on the Cumberland river, near Nashville. But
the Indians were bad then, and killed his brother
John, besides committing numerous depredations.
David Purviance moved to Kentucky and settled
three miles south of Caneridge meeting-house.
His land, covered with a thick forest growth and a
thick canebrake, was hard to clear. Here
Mr. Purviance toiled, and it was not known until
he entered the Kentucky legislature in 1791, that he
was a great man. HE made his debut in public
life in a speech against the courts, which were ably
defended by the eloquent John Breckenridge.
He won in this, his first effort, and his victory
was but an index of his future success. In
1807 Mr. Purviance emigrated to Ohio and
settled in section thirty-one of Jef-reason
township. His efforts in establishing the
church at New Paris are noted below. He could
not live in Preble county long before the fame of
his powerful speeches in the Kentucky legislature
overtook him and became known to his friends.
In the fall of 1809 he represented the people of
Montgomery and Preble counties in the State
legislature, and served one term of two years.
In 1812, the district being changed, he was elected
to the senate by the counties of Preble, Darke and
Miami, which counties he served four years.
His labors in the legislature were incessant.
He was in the senate at the time that Columbus was
made the capital of the State. He was
instrumental in securing to Oxford the location of
Miami university, and for many years was a trustee
of that institution. His vigorous support of
the bill introduced for the repeal of the "Black
laws of Ohio" made him for the time unpopular.
His defence of the black people was very strong.
He was again elected in 1826, and always took a strong
interest in political affairs. He served the
legislatures of Kentucky and Ohio fifteen sessions.
He was also on the federal ticket in 1812, when
James Madison was re-elected.
David and Mary Purviance were the parents of
seven children, of whom but one, Mrs. Margaret
Day, who resides in Paxton, Illinois, is living.
David Purviance died in 1848, and is buried
in the old cemetery at New Paris.
Elder Levi Purviance was the oldest son of
Elder David Purviance, and was born in Iradell
county, North Carolina, Nov. 7, 1790, and died in
1873, aged nearly eighty-three. He moved with
his parents to Tennessee, and thence to Kentucky.
At the age of sixteen he came with his father to
Jefferson township, and assisted him in the work of
clearing his land. During the first year
Levi Purviance cleared six acres of land, and
put it in corn. In 1811 he was married to
Sophia Woods of Wayne county, Indiana. In
1812 he volunteered and served in the army of Fort
Nisbit, under the command of Captain Silas
Fleming. In 1823 he was ordained a
minister of the gospel and continued in his work
until the time of his death. All this time,
except ten years spent in Illinois, was spent in
Ohio; five years in Miami county, five in Warren,
and the remainder in Darke and Preble counties.
Elder Purviance married for his second wife
Mrs. Eliza Adams, of Darke county.
After her death, in 1865, he married Mrs.
Elizabeth Cox, of Covington, Miami county, Ohio.
Elder Purviance was the constant attendant of
his father, and when David died, Levi
took up the mantle. About 1852 he moved to
Morrison, Illinois, and after ten years returned to
Ohio. After preaching for some time in
Covington, and Franklin, Ohio, he accepted a call to
Eaton, and died there Apr. 9, 1873, in his
eight-third year.
Elder Purviance published a biography of his
father, and brief sketches of nine other Christian
ministers, together with the history of the great
Kentucky revival, and the formation of the Christian
church.
Patterson Purviance was born in Jefferson
township about the year 1828. He married
Dorcas Porterfield, whose parents were among the
early settlers of this township.
Eli Purviance, the only surviving child of
Patterson Purviance, resides with his parents
three miles north of New Paris.
David Ireland was
born in 1765, in the State of North Carolina.
His parents were John and Mary Ireland.
His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother
was of Irish descent. They emigrated to
Tennessee, whence they came with their son, David,
in 1808, to Preble county. David Ireland
was born in North Carolina, and with his father
removed to Tennessee. He was a Revolutionary
soldier, being only seventeen years of age when he
volunteered, and was elected captain. He was
married to Miss Nancy Mitchell, who was born
in 1766, and died in 1875. Four daughters and
five sons were born to them, but one of whom
James, is living. He was born in
Tennessee, in 1805, and in 1808 came to this county
with his parents, who located in section seventeen
of Jefferson township, at which place his parents
died. David Ireland died in 1847.
James Ireland married Miss Ursula
Purviance, daughter of Colonel John Purviance,
who was born in 1807. To them were born five
children, three of whom are living: Mary Jane,
widow of Jacob P. Jones, resides with her
father and mother; Louisa, widow of
Thornton P. Thomas, lives at New Paris; and
David P. Ireland resides at home. The
latter was in the war of the Rebellion, and fought
in twenty-four battles. He was wounded at
Chickamauga, suffering injuries from which he has
not fully recovered.
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James Ireland is
one of the oldest residents of the township.
He now lives on the slope of the hill overlooking
New Paris form the south, whence can be obtained one
of the finest views in the township.
John Harvey
migrated to Ohio from Tennessee, about the year
1808, and settled in Jefferson township, on the farm
in sections four and fie, near the old mill.
John Wasson, who
came in 1810 from Kentucky, settled in section
twenty-nine.
About this same time
Andrew Morrison came to Preble county, and
settled in this township, on the farm now owned by
Eli Brawley.
James Fleming
came from Kentucky about the year 1808, and settled
in Jefferson township. He was during his whole
life identified with every enterprise tending to
increase the welfare of the community. He was
one of the founders of the town of New Paris.
His brother, Judge Peter Fleming, who was
closely identified with every interest of Jefferson
township, settled about the same time, just beyond
the confines of the township, between Richmond and
New Westville.
John Mitchell, a
native of North Carolina, born in 1784, emigrated to
Kentucky, and in 1810 came to Ohio and settled in
Jefferson township. He died in 1845. His
wife, Elizabeth Bilbee, was born in 1789, and
died in 1870. She was a native of New Jersey.
Of their ten children Sarah, Mary, John, Franklin,
and Samuel are living.
Sarah Mitchell was born in 1809, in Adams
county, Ohio, and the other eight were born on the
old farm of John Mitchell, where his son
Samuel now lives.
John Mitchell
entered eighty acres, living in a pole shanty until
their log cabin was done. John Mitchell
was a justice of the peace in Jefferson township for
several years, and was for a number of terms
township trustee. He was one of the oldest
pioneers of Jefferson township, and was identified
with the early enterprises of the new community.
In 1855 Samuel Mitchell married Miss Margaret
Simpson, who was born in Twin township in 1838.
Her father lies four miles north of Eaton. Of
their four living children, Estella and
Merrill Edgar are at home; Flora Ellen is
the wife of William Alford of Jackson
township, and Francis Alonzo is the fourth.
Franklin Mitchell was born in Jefferson township
in 1829, and in 1854 was married to Miss Cynthia
Ann Mikesell, who was born in Gasper township.
They have three children. His farm of one
hundred and twenty-seven acres of land is situated
in section sixteen. He was assessor of the
township for one term, and still holds the office.
Lewis Mitchell was born in 1796, in Kentucky,
and died in 1857. He emigrated to Ohio in
1807, with his parents, Elijah and Sarah
Mitchell, who settled in Jefferson township.
His father died in Indiana, and his mother in
Jefferson township in 1825.
Lewis Mitchell was
the father of ten children, and all are dead.
Adam Reid was
born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, about the year
1788, and settled in this township about 1810, where
he died in 1840. His wife, Hannah Buchanan,
was a native of Virginia. Of their five
children William B. Reid is the only
survivor. He was born in Warren county, Ohio,
in 1807, and came to Preble county with his parents,
and settled on the farm now owned by Michael
Reid. Mary Ann Jones, whom he married in
1832, was born in Maryland in 1813. Nine of
their ten children are living. He was
councilman at New Paris for one term. He owns
eighty-two acres of land.
John Curry
Thomas W. Porterfield
Hugh Marshall
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Michael Hahn
John Brinley
A. P. Johnson
James Norris
John McD. Norris
Gideon Garretson
William Stockton
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Andrew Scott
Samuel King
Peter Bilbee
John King
John Swerer
Jacob Kimmel was born in Pennsylvania in
1805, from which State he came to Ohio, and in 1826
settled in Jefferson township. He died in 1854
in Monroe township. In 1826 he married
Julia A. Gephart, who was born in 1808, and who
died in 1847. Seven children were born to
them, four of whom still survive, viz: George,
Jacob, Peter and William. Mr. Kimmel
owned eight acres in Jefferson township. He
was a carpenter by trade. His son, George
was born in 1827, and in 1849 married Letitia
Harshman, born in 1830. They have seven
children. He owns three hundred and forty-five
acres of land, part of which is in Monroe and part
in Jefferson township.
John M. Kimmel
was
born in the year 1850, in Washington township,
Preble county. In 1876 he married Saraphine
Ritnour, who was born in Darke county, in the
year 1853. They have one child. Mr.
Kimmel commenced business in Eldorado in the
year 1879, keeping a clothing and gents' furnishing
store. In the first twelve months he did a
business of ten thousand dollars. His house is
the only one of the kind in the township.
James Harvey Young,
who was born in Augusta county, Virginia, emigrated
to Ohio in 1831, and settled in section twenty-two,
Jefferson township, where he resided until his
death, which occurred in 1852. Mary Brown,
his wife was born in 1802, and died in 1870.
They had four children, of whom Margaret J.
and Caroline R. live in New Paris, Mary
is dead, and Cyrus N. resides on the home
place. He was born in 1838, and in 1874
married Mary McMahon who was born in Monroe
townshpi in 1855. To them have been
born two children, both of whom are at home.
In Augusta county,
Virginia, in 1794 John
McFadden was born, and in 1834 he emigrated to
Ohio and settled in section twenty-four, Jefferson
township. His wife, Elizabeth Wehrly
whom he married in 1819, was born in 1797, in
Augusta county, Virginia. Of their nine
children five are living: Sarah in
Nebraska, Margaret, Tracy, and Susan
in Indiana, Catharine, wife of R. G. D.
McKemy of Eaton, and George, who resides
on the home place, and was born in 1837. In
1863 he married Mrs. Rabecca Jane Pence, by
whom he had two children. His first wife died
in 1874, and in 1876 he married Mrs. Mary E.
Detrow, widow of John Detrow. Two
children
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blessed this union. He farms about sixty-two
acres of land.
James Woofter
James Graham
Thomas Miller
Arthur Duffield,
John McKee
William McKee
Andrew McKee
John Harshman
Darius Jacqua
Samuel Smith,
who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in
1802, emigrated to Ohio in 1838, and settled in
section twenty, of Jefferson township. For
thirty-three years he was engaged in the milling
business. In 1840 he bought the mill at NEw
Paris, formerly owned by Peter Fleming.
He was also engaged in the stone and lime business,
and always attended to the interets of his farm of
one hundred and eighty-three acres, which he owned
at the time of his death. His wife, Mary
Jones, was born in 1812, and died in 1860.
To them were born ten children, seven sons and three
daughters. Of these six are living, one in
Philadelphia and five in Jefferson township.
Thomas
J. Smith, born in May, 1841, married Miss
Millie McPherson in 1863. Mrs. Smith
was born in
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1843. To them four children have been born.
Mr. Smith is engaged in the stone and lime
business, and has the largest business in the
township. In 1870 he bought the north quarry,
and in 1873 the one south of New Paris. Having
no time to attend to agriculture, he owns but
twenty-two acres of land.
William C. Smith
was born in New Paris in 1845. In 1868 he
married Sarah E. Rudy, who was born in 1841.
To them have been born five children, two of whom
are living. In 1870 Mr. Smith engaged
in the lime business, and after nine years sold out
to James Smith his brother. He and
James have rebuilt and are running the old mill
north of New Paris, built by Silas and Peter
Fleming.
James
S. Smith was born in 1843, at
New Paris, and in 1866 married Miss Amanda J.
Wieland, born in 1848. Four of their five
children are living. In 1870, he engaged in
the lime business with his brother Thomas,
and is also in the milling business with his brother
William.
John
Smith was born in 1850, on the
old farm where he now lives. In 1874 he
married Miss Isabella A. Porterfield,
who was born in 1855. Their three children,
Mary Eliza, John Wesley, and Anna Laura,
are living. Mr. Smith’s farm,
of one hundred and three acres of well cultivated
land, is situated in section twenty-one, quarter of
a mile east of New Paris. Mrs. Smith’s
parents, Leander and Sarah Porterfield,
reside in New Paris.
Saul Thomas
was born in Greene county,
Pennsylvania, in 1789. From this State he
emigrated to Virginia, and afterwards moved west,
settling near New Madison, in 1817. From that
period until his death he has lived in western Ohio,
a period of sixty-three years. The most of
that time was spent in or near New Paris, wehre he
died in 1880. For seventy years he was an
active business man, and in every department of his
work proved himself a man of sterling character.
He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and lived under
every administration of the Government from
Washington to Hayes. "He has lived in the
grandest period of history, and has witnessed
triumphs of science, art and industry, that
challenge, for their description, the most graphic
pen." At the time of his death MR. Thomas
left a wife by a second marriage. During his
life he was, for forty years, a member of the
Masonic fraternity, by which order he was buried in
June, 1880.
Edmund Kincaid
James Paul
James
Nancy,
James H. Paul
Dr. Albert Hawley
John Adams
Israel B. Adams was born in 1828, near Westville,
Preble county. In 1854 he married Nancy C.
Smith, who was born in section one of Jefferson
township in 1831. Two of their three children
are living, both at home. Mr. Adams
owns eighty acres of land in section one.
Dural Swain
William Swisher
came to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1805, and
settled about half a mile east of Win-
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George Crubaugh
David A. Wehrly
Peter Mikesell
Isaac McDonald
Guy Bloom
Richie, Samuel S.
John Coblentz
Benjamin Demire
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Hannah Brown
was born in
Jefferson township in 1816, and in 1837 was married
to James, the son of James and Margaret
(Smith) Brown. Mr. Brown, sr.,
represented Wayne county in the Indiana legislature
in 1814, but died soon after his election.
James Brown, jr.,
was born in 1814, and died in 1871.
To Mr. and Mrs. Brown have een born four
children, of whom William, John M., and
Ella J. are living. Mrs. Brown owns
ninety-six acres of land in section thirty, of
Jefferson township, where she resides.
Clinton Brown
enlisted the first day of April,
1864, in company F, Ohio volunteer infantry, and
served until September 1864, on account of the loss
of his left arm while transferring prisoners across
the Ohio river at Cincinnati. James M. and
Susan Pitman were the parents of Mrs.
Clilnton Brown.
David Sherer
Isaac Allen Tyler
Mitchell and Lydia
Murray
Frederick Ferris
Dr. Allison B. Ferris
W. A. McWhinney, son of the late Thomas
J. McWhinney, of Jackson township, was born in
1838. In 1862 he married Margaret Cail,
who died in 1876, leaving one child, Nancy R.
In 1878 he was married to Mary Wisenbaugh who
was born in 1842.
Mr. McWhinney started in the dry goods business
at New Paris in 1874.
Josiah F. Clawson
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Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith, whose many
charities will long be remembered by the
poor families of Jefferson township, was
born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, July
28, 1802. Naturally of a mechanical
turn of mind, his early life was spent in
the shops and factories in the neighborhood.
His father, Joseph Smith,
whose family consisted of six children,
Ann, Hughes, Hannah
Hood, Elizabeth Rieley,
Easter, John and Samuel,
died in 1821. After the death of his
father, Samuel, always attentive to
the wants of his mother, shared with her his
earnings, until her death in 1831.
The man who takes care of his parents will prosper, was
a favorite adage which in later years he
often repeated to his neighbors. In
1827 he was married to Nancy
Bunting, of Lancaster county. This
union was terminated by the death of the
wife in June, 1828. The offspring of
this union, one child, died in infancy.
He was married to Mary Jones,
of Chester county, in 1833. They had
ten children -Joseph C., born Dec. 5,
1833; Anna E., born Mar. 10, 1835;
Jacob J., born Aug. 20, 1837; Nathan
J., born June 20, 1839;
Thomas J., born May 31, 1841;
James S., born July 31, 1843; William
C., born Jan. 28, 1845; Phebe E.,
born Nov. 29, 1846; John, born Dec.
15, 1850; Mary E., deceased.
Of these ten, four are dead. Anna E., died
Apr. 10, 1875; Jacob J., died in the
army Oct. 25, 1862; Nathan J., died
in the spring of 1864. Three of the
sons were in the army. Joseph C.
was a member of the Fifth Ohio cavalry;
Jacob J. and James S. volunteered
in the Nineteenth Indiana battery.
Samuel Smith resigned his
position as superintendent of the cotton
mills on the Brandywine, and emigrated to
Ohio in 1838. He purchased the farm of
one hundred and three acres now known as the
Smith homestead, near New
Paris. About 1844 he engaged in
milling, and personally attended to the
business until shortly before his death,
when his sons, James and William,
assumed control. He was engaged in the
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ness a few years, but the bulk of his estate
was accumulated from the productions of the
farm and mill. He was a man of
uncommonly good business sense, his great
and only fault being inability to deny the
requests of his friends, who frequently
involved him in heavy losses. His
disposition seemed at times to be
passionate, abusive and selfish, but the
many charities to which his books and his
neighbors testify, prove him to have been a
kind-hearted and benevolent man. No
poor man ever asked for a sack of flour and
went away with out it. He was known
among the poor families in the community as
a present helper in time of need.
Mr. Smith always attended
personally to his business and
followed a favorite maxim, “Never do
business on a slate.”
In politics he was an old school Democrat, and
frequently boasted of having voted for
Jackson three times. In his family
he was always exacting, but liberal.
He was a natural mechanic, able to do
anything to which he turned his hand. In
this particular, he was somewhat like his
illustrious cousin, Robert Fulton,
the inventor of steam navigation.
Fulton, when a youth, was a frequent
visitor at his uncle Smith’s
residence in Pennsylvania, and his boyish
pranks are now family tradition.
Early in 1879 Mr. Smith became affected with slow
paralysis, which caused his death on the
twenty-second of September of the same year.
He met death as he met every crisis in
business, calmly and philosophically.
To do right had been his religion, and there
was not a twinge of conscience to disturb
the peace of his dying day. He is
remembered as an honest, straightforward,
outspoken and benevolent man.
The mill is now conducted by James and
William, who have inherited much of
their father’s business tact, and “are held
in high esteem by the community as up right,
honest men.” The whole family revere
their father’s memory, which will live as
long as gratitude holds a place in the human
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stealing horses and driving off cattle, made it very
dangerous for those who remained in the township and
stood their ground.
During the late civil war the soldiers of Jefferson
township were forthcoming and the provost marshal
very seldom had the chance to "draw a bead" on a
scared renegade who hailed from Jefferson.
EARLY SCHOOLS.
EARLY MILLS.
NEW PARIS
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ADDITIONS
INCORPORATION.
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THE SCHOOLS OF NEW PARIS
FELLOWSHIP LODGE, NO. 108 FREE
AND ACCEPTED MASONS.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD
FELLOWS, LODGE NO. 303.
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CHURCH HISTORY.
NEW LIGHT, OR CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
THE PUBLIC CHURCH.
THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
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METHODIST CHURCH.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
THE TEMPERANCE WORK.
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THE PRESS
PHYSICIANS.
QUARRIES.
CEDAR SPRINGS.
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BUSINESS HOUSES.
THE OLD CEMETERY.
The grove
just north of the corporation line of New Paris, in
which the first religious services were held, was
chosen as the city of the dead. The first
burial was that of Levi Moore, who was buried
about the year 1810. Alexander Penland,
a lad who was drowned in a neighboring spring, was
the second person buried in the old cemetery.
Since then more than a thousand citizens of
Jefferson township have laid down to rest in this
silent city, for this old graveyard has long been
the storehouse of death. Herein are buried the
first fathers of the community, those stanch old
leaders who moulded the social and religious
character of the township. They do rest from
their labors, but a glance from their tombs, up and
down the surrounding valley proves, that their works
do follow them. When the pioneers were slowly
threading their way through the mountains to their
new homes, they little though t that one day
they would sleep on either side of that great
thoroughfare - the railway. But it happened
that the old cemetery was in the path of the
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locomotive, and now many tiems a day do the trains
rush through the "silent" city, for the track of the
Dayton & Western road is directly through the
graveyard. Here sleep such men as Elder
David Purviance, John Adams, John H. Cottom, Drs.
John C. and Peleg Whitridge, Drs. Ferguson and Knox,
Andrew, David, William, and John F. Ireland,
Robert McGill, Samuel R. Chadwick, the
Flemings, Mitchels, and Morrisons, and
very many others.
THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
is
just west of the old burying ground, and is used
exclusively by the members of the church whose
belief will not allow Catholics to be burried in any
but "consecrated ground." The cemetery is new
and there are not many buried in it.
THE NEW PARIS CEMETERY,
as well as the north cemetery, is
under the control of the township trustees.
About ten years ago, inasmuch as the old cemetery
was about full, and inasmuch as it was cut up by the
railroad, it is deemed advisable to establish a new
cemetery near New Paris. Accordingly a
committee of citizens was appointed to examine the
several pieces of ground offered for the new
graveyard, and the instructions were to select the
one thought to be the most desirable. The
committee, after due consideration, reported in
favor of the ten acres just south of New Paris not
far form the lime kilns. David Culton,
who was a member of the committee, was the first
person buried in the new cemetery. Quite a
number were removed from the north cemetery, and
many have been buried there since. It is now
the main burying ground of the township. It is
laid off with broad gravel drives, bordered with
smooth lawns, and presents a very attractive
appearance. Many handsome monuments have been
erected, and the people of New Paris may well be
proud of their cemetery.
GETTYSBURGH.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
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EDWARD STOTLER and PORTRAIT
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CEMETERY.
The Gettysburgh cemetery was started
as soon as the church was organized. The first
person buried therein was Robert Curry who
died in 1816. This cemetery contains the ashes
of most of the settlers of the part of the township
in which it is situated. Herein are buried
James Norris, John Curry, William Thomas, Elder
Rufus Harvey, John McCord, David A. Wehrly, James
Melling, J. S. Preble, Alexander Barr, and many
others, whose graves are unmarked.
BRINLEY'S STATION
PLEASANT HILL UNITED BRETHREN
CHURCH.
THE FACTORY,
which was started in 1878. It
is owned by James Baker, and a very
large business is carried on. The land in
Jefferson township has been greatly improved by
draining during the last few years, and great thanks
are due to both this factory and the one at
Gettysburgh, previously mentioned.
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