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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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WELCOME to
ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO
HISTORY & GENEALOGY
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BIOGRAPHIES
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SAMUEL
R. FIELDS of Wamsley, was born at Sugar Tree
Ridge, Highland County, Ohio April 17, 1845. He is a son
of Richard Fields and Janes Williams. His boyhood
days were spent on Scioto Brush Creek, attending school in the
Winter, and helping on the farm the remainder of the year.
He enlisted at Camp Hamer, at West Union, in the service of
the United States for a term of three years, October, 1861, in
Company B, Capt. Summers, 70th Regiment O. V. I., Col.
Cockerill. At the expiration of his term he
re-enlisted in Company B, O. V. I., Capt. Edgington,
and served till the close of the war. He was at Shiloh
and all the important engagements in which his regiment
participated. Was honorable discharged June 13, 1885,
having never made application until that time.
August 3, 1865, he was united in wedlock to Miss
Annie E. Williams, a descendant of a pioneer family of
Adams County. She has borne him fourteen children, of
which there are two pairs of twins. Each child's name
begins with the letter E. They are: Elmer,
Ettie, Evalena, Effie, Esther and Ezra, twins, Eska,
Elvil, Esla, Edna, Edgar and Edith, twins, and Elry.
Mr. Fields is a Methodist and an ardent
Republican. He has held many local offices, and is a man
of prominence in the community in which he resides. He
belongs to Bailey Post, G. A. R., at Blue Creek.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
JORDEN
L. FOSTER of Manchester, was born December 1, 1824, in
Greene Township, Adams County. He is a son of
Nathaniel Foster and Martha Hayslip, his wife, a daughter
of Richard Hayslip. The grandfather of our
subject was Nathaniel Foster, Sr., who emigrated from
New Jersey in 1796, and settled in Greene Township on Ohio
Brush Creek, opposite the mouth of Beasley's Fork. He
was a Revolutionary soldier and his record as such is given in
this volume under that title.
Jorden L. Foster was brought upon a farm in
Sprigg Township where he resided until his marriage to
Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell
and Mary Keith, February 2, 1854. Mary Keith
Campbell was a daughter of Dr. Joseph D. Keith,
a pioneer physician of Adams County, whose practice extended
from Chillicothe to Cincinnati. He was a Revolutionary
Soldier and a surgeon in a Virginia Regiment.
The children of our subject are Sarah, married
to Wilson A. Russell; Alexander C., who married Iva
Osman, and Hannah, who resides at home.
Our subject enlisted as a private in Company E, 91st O.
V. I., August 9, 1862, and served under Sheridan and Cook in
the Shenandoah Valley. He was at New River Bridge,
Stephenson's Depot, Winchester, Opequan, Cedar Creek, and many
other important engagements. He was honorably discharged
June 27, 1865.
He is an ardent Republican, and a member of the M. E.
Church. He now resides on his farm near Manchester.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
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