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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Richland Co., Ohio
Past and Present
Illustrated
Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co.
1807 - 1880
Blooming Grove Twp. -
ABRAHAM LAMER was born in Cumberland Co.,
Penn., on the 16th of January, 1818, where he resided until
March, 1839; then he removed to Venango Co., Penn., where he
remained until August, 1844, when he removed to this township,
where he has since resided. Mr. Lamer is by
occupation a carpenter and joiner; he commenced his trade in
1836, and has always followed that as his vocation, and now has
a shop in Rome. In the year 1842, on the 10th of August,
he was married to Miss Mary Ann Cassiday; they have had
thirteen children, nine of whom are living, viz.: Sarah,
Catherine, Climenia, Franklin P., Cynthia L., Celina A., Nietus
Zula Z., Juliet E.; those dead are Bergenetta, aged 9
months, and Francis, aged 4 months ; the other two
died in infancy. Mr. Lamer is among the
surviving pioneers of this county, having lived in this township
over thirty-six years.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 755 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
FRANKLIN P. LAMER was born Jan. 28. 1853,
in this township, where he has since resided, with the exception
of about three years and eighteen months, which he spent in
Pennsylvania, and eighteen months in the western part of the
State. Mr. Lamer is by profession a
carpenter and joiner, although for the past year he has been
farming, and intends to follow that vocation in the future, in
connection with his trade. He was married, Jan. 10, 1879,
to Maggie E. Wilson; they have one child—Zettie
Olive.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 755 |
Franklin Twp. -
GEORGE W. LANTZ, farmer; P. O. Mansfield;
he was born in Washington Co., Md., Dec. 9, 1809. Married
in 1839, to Rebecca Pickings, who was born July 21, 1819;
they had the following family - Jacob, born Aug. 21,
1840; Catherine, July 6, 1842; John, Mar. 19,
1844; Susan, Jan. 20, 1846; Margaret, Sept. 8,
1851; William, Oct. 25, 1852; George, Sept. 14,
1855; Samuel, Aug. 2, 1857; James, Sept. 5, 1859.
Mr. Lantz came to Ohio in 1844, and has become one of the
prominent citizens of this township. Jacob Lantz
enlisted in the 102 O. V. I., Co. D,; he died in Athens, Ala.,
Sept. 8, 1864; Margaret died Nov. 10, 1851; Henry
Lantz died Nov. 16, 1847; John married Lucinda
Morthland; they reside in Jackson Township, this county.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 787 |
Franklin Twp. -
WILLIAM LANTZ, farmer; P. O. Mansfield; he
was born in Jackson Township. He was married to Jennie
Small, Dec. 17, 1876; they have one daughter - Mertie L.,
born Mar. 24, 1878. Mr. Lantz is engaged in
farming, and is one of the prominent young men of the county.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 787 |
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MRS. NANCY LATIMER was born Aug. 13, 1813,
in Westmoreland Co., Penn., where she resided until the age of
10 years, when her parents removed to Wayne Co., Ohio, where she
lived until the 19th of August, 1834, when she was married, and
came to this county, where she has since resided. She is
the widow of the late William Latimer, who died
Feb. 12, 1850, aged 44 years; he was born in Pennsylvania April
25, 1805; they had seven children, six of whom are living, named
Elizabeth Jane, George, John,
Mary E., Margery Ann and William S.; one named
Wilson died March 29, 1868, aged 25 years 11 months and 21
days; George, John, Margery Ann and William S. are
married. Her son William S. now carries on the farm
for her, but when her children were small she had the management
of the place herself after her husband's death. She has
been a widow for a period of thirty years, and lived in the
county forty-six years.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 755 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
FRANCIS M. LAZELL was born in New York,
July 2, 1847; soon after, his parents removed to Norwalk, Huron
Co., Ohio, and when at the age of 8 years, they removed to this
county, where he has resided ever since, with the exception of a
few months he spent in Iowa. This subject has bought the
hotel at this place, Rome, where he intends to keep a
first-class house, and also a stable; he understands the
business, as he formerly, with his father, kept the same house.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 755 |
Franklin Twp. -
IRA LIGHT, farmer; P. O. Ganges; he was
born in Franklin Township Sept. 26, 1844. He was married
in 1866, to Margaret Jane Bland; she was born Dec. 22,
1839, in this county; they have four children - Elmore,
born Apr. 20, 1867; Charlie M., Nov. 6, 1868; Victor
N., Feb. 16, 1870; Urith W., Oct. 21, 1877.
Mr. Light owns a good farm, under a good state of
cultivation, with good buildings and all modern improvements.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 787 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
WILSON LINDSEY was born in Cumberland Co.,
Penn., Feb. 24, 1806. When at the age of 11 years, his
parents removed to Columbiana Co., this State, where he resided
until the year 1837, when he came to this county, and where he
has since resided, and in this township. He was married,
Jan. 8, 1835, to Sarah Gilbert, who was born in
Columbiana Co. Nov. 11, 1811; they have had twelve children,
nine of whom are living, named William C, George B., Mary
Ann, Samuel M., Jacob G., Wilson S., Lizzie, Joanna C, Rosa E.;
those deceased are John V., Benjamin F.
and Julius C. Mr. Lindsey is by
profession a brick manufacturer, as well as a bricklayer, but
since his residence in this county he has paid the most of his
attention to farming, and at present he is retired.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 755 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
WILSON S. LINDSEY was born in this
township Oct. 7, 1841, and has principally made this county his
home, and his occupation has principally been that of forming.
In 1868, Jan. 9, he was married to Miss Ellen Perkins;
they have had two children; one of them died, named Neal L.,
aged 9 months; Maud Bell, is still living, aged 5 years.
He has by good mananement and strict attention to
business made for himself and family a good home.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 756 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
ANTHONY LYBARGER was born in Bedford Co.,
Penn., on the 31st day of May, 1800; he resided there until the
age of 30 years, when he removed to Knox Co., where he lived
until 1865, when he went to Illinois, where he stayed about one
year, then went back to Knox Co., where he stayed until 1869,
when he removed to this county, where he has since resided.
He has always paid his attention to farming, although he has
owned and run a grist and saw mill. He had six children by
his first wife, and none by the second; four of the children are
still living; one died at the age of 48 years 1 month and 21
days, the other died in infancy.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 756 |
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EDWIN B. LYBARGER was born in Knox Co.,
near Monroe Mills, on the 16th of August, 1855; he resided with
his parents until the age of 10 years, when they removed to the
State of Illinois, where they remained about eighteen months,
when they removed back to Knox Co., where they stayed about
three years, when our subject removed to this township and
remained about three years; he removed to Knox Co., where they
stayed about two years, when became back to this county, where
they stayed about two and a half years; then he went back to
Illinois again, where they remained about fourteen months; from
there he went to Iowa and located in Wayne Co., where he
remained about five months, and from there he came back to this
township, where he has since resided. Mr.
Lybarger has paid most of his attention to farming, although
he has been in the saw-mill business, as also many other
vocations ; he has from time to time walked the rope from one
building to another at quite an elevation. He is at
present a student of medicine and expects to become a physician
and surgeon. On the 20th of May, 1878, he married Miss
Annie Terman, who bore him one child—a little girl named
Mabel A.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 756 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
JOB LYBARGER was born in Knox Co. on the
18th of January, 1834; he remained there for thirty years, when
he removed to the State of Illinois, where he stayed about
eighteen months; from there he removed back to Knox Co., where
he resided about three years, and from there he went to Richland
Co., where he remained about three years, and then removed back
to Knox Co., where he lived about two years, when he removed
back to this county, where he has since resided. Mr.
Lybarger has paid the most of his attention to farming
during life. In the year 1853 he was married to Miss
Eliza Brown; they have a family of four children, three of
whom are still living and named respectively Emma Jane, Edwin
B., Mary A. and Clarrie I.; by his second wife, whose
maiden name was Sarah Jane Neely, he has nine children,
eight of whom still live, named Margaret S., Anthony A.,
Oliver L., Roderick M., Wilber J., John K., Marcus E., Rollen E.
and the baby. Mr. Lybarger during the late war served
in the 2d O. N. G. as Second Lieutenant as well as Captain.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 756 |
Blooming Grove Twp. -
SILAS C. LYBARGER, M. D., was born in Knox
Co. on the 1st of February, 1830; resided there until the year
1865, when he removed to this county, where he has since lived
and followed his profession as physician and surgeon at Ganges;
the Doctor practiced in his native county previous to his coming
here; in his early days he paid his attention to farming.
In the year 1862, on the 17th of July, he was married to Miss
Hannah Steffe; they have a family of three children, all of
whom are living, named Clement L. V., Silvia May and
Curtis F. Mrs. Lybarger departed this life on
the 17th of December, 1879, lamented by all who knew her.
She was a devoted wife and mother, was a consistent Christian
and beloved by all; and the Doctor, together with his family,
have the sympathy of all in their sad bereavement.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 756 |
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