BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
History of Seneca County : from the close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880 :
embracing many personal sketches of pioneers, anecdotes,
and faithful descriptions of events pertaining to the organization of the county and its progress
Published: Springfield, Ohio: Transcript Print. Co., 
1880

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Edward Tiffin

EDWARD TIFFIN Source:  History of Seneca County : from the close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880 - Springfield, Ohio: Transcript Print. Co., 1880 - Page 196a

Liberty Twp. - MRS. RACHAEL K. TURNER.  This lady is one of the veteran pioneers of the county, spending the evening of her long, eventful life in the shades of Liberty township.      She was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of July 1797.  In 1817 she came to Perry county, Ohio, where she remained one year with friends and in the following year she went to Fairfield county, where, in January, 1818, she was married to Benjamin Turner.  In 1829 they removed to this county and located one mile west of Sandusky street, in Tiffin.      McNeal's store and Smith's tavern were then the principal buildings in town.  Their neighbors were the Ogles, Creegers, Cadwalladers, Millers, Jnnings, Gordons, Arbogasts, Adelspergers and Graffs.  She was well acquainted with Mr. McNeal and Mr. Crissey, and knew Joseph Jenay, the colored cabinet maker.  Crissey was the blacksmith.      In the summer of 1830, when the Senecas prepared for their departure to the west, they came to Fort Ball, where they camped out some two or three weeks and made sale of their ponies and other personal property.  General Brish and Mr. Hart with them to the west.      Mrs. Turner also recollects the excitement occasioned by the accidental drowning of Robert Burns an Bartholomew Kinney, who attempted to cross the river to the Tiffin side for the purpose of buying a yoke of cattle.      In the year 1834 the Turner family removed to the northeast corner of Liberty township, where she still resides.  She says:      When we came to Fort Ball, we bought 19 acres from Smith, the tavern keeper.  We paid him $94 in cash and the other $6 he was to take in game, paying 60 cents for a hind-quarter of deer.      To Mr. C. W. Harris my thanks are due for this statement. Source:  History of Seneca County : from the close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880 - Springfield, Ohio: Transcript Print. Co., 1880 - Page 550