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Willshire Twp. -
FREDERICK SHEETS was
born in Columbiana County in 1830. Came to Van Wert County in
1853. Married Nancy A. Merica, 1862. They have
six children.
Source: History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio,
publ. 1882 - Page 259 |
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Union Twp. -
DANIEL SNYDER was born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1834.
He married Miss Mary A. Smith, of Allen County, in 1855, by
whom he has had five children, three of whom are living.
Mr. Snyder came to Van Wert County in 1862, and settled on
section 23, in Union Township, where he now resides. When he
settled in this township there were but forty voters, there was no
road near his place, and but little cleared land on his farm.
He has now 107 acres of improved land under cultivation, which he
has acquired by his own industry.
Source: History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio, publ.
1882 - Page 222 |
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Jackson Twp. -
PETER SNYDER, a native of Pennsylvania, was
born in Washington county, in 1832. When four years old he was
brought to Richland County, but moved to Morrow County in 1851.
From there he came to this township in 1859, but eighteen months
later returned to Morrow, at which place he enlisted in the service
in the spring of 1861. In 1859 he returned to his county,
where he still resides. In 1857 he married Martha Jones,
of whom he was bereft by death in 1862. Seven years later he
married Amelia Snyder, by whom he has reared two children.
By his former marriage he also reared two children. When he
first came here there were but ten voters, and not a road opened in
the township.
Source: History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio, publ.
1882 - Page 212 |
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Union Twp. -
WILLIAM H. SNYDER was born in Allen County in 1856, and came
with his father's family to Van Wert County in 1862. He
married Miss Margaret Utter in 1877. They have one
child, and are comfortably located on section 24, Union Township.
Source: History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio, publ.
1882 - Page 222 |
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Washington Twp. -
JOHN SUMMERSETT, a
native of Ross County, Ohio, came to this township in 1840, since
which time he has applied his attention to farming and stock-raising
near Middlepoint. He was born Oct. 15, 1825. May 2,
1851, he married Mary A. Clendenning, a native of Vermont,
where she was born in the year 1833. They have reared a family
of five children, named as follows: John Wesley, born
June 17, 1852; Elizabeth Ann, born Oct. 10, 1862; Henry L.,
born Sept. 30, 1867.
Source: History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio, publ.
1882 - Page 285 |
S. Swineford
Van Wert
pg. 161 |
Van Wert -
SIMON SWINEFORD
Source: History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio, publ.
1882 - Page 187
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