|
|
OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
 |
WELCOME to
ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO
HISTORY & GENEALOGY
|
|
BIOGRAPHIES
< CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX >
|
|
JAMES
TAYLOR GASTON. The origin of the name is French.
In that language, it is properly spelled "Gastineau."
The ancestors of our subject came from France and located in
South Carolina. They were French Protestants or
Huguenots. His father was James Gaston and his
mother's maiden name was Margaret Patton, who was a
daughter of Thomas Patton, a native of Rockbridge
County, Virginia, though he emigrated to Ohio, settled on West
Fork and died there. His grandfather Gaston was
from Charleston, South Carolina. His grandmother
Gaston was a McCreight, born in South Carolina.
His paternal grandfather came to Ohio in 1800 on account
of his antagonism to the institution of slavery. He
settled on a farm near Tranquility, now owned by our subject.
His grandfather, and himself were all members of the United
Presbyterian Church of Tranquility, and he has lived near that
place all his life. He went to the District schools
until he went in the army. He enlisted in Company G, of
the 129th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at the age of eighteen, on
the eighteenth of July, 1863, and served until the eighth of
March, 1864. On the fourth of February, 1865, he
enlisted in Company K, of the 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and was made a Corporal. He was mustered out in
September, 1865. After the war, he attended the North
Liberty Academy until 1867, and in the Fall of 1868, he
engaged in the profession of school teaching and has followed
that consecutively for twenty-eight years, having only given
up the profession in 1896.
He was married on March 21, 1871, to Sarah Wallace.
They have four sons: Roscoe, born in 1873, is
principal of the schools at Donavan, Illinois; Carey,
born in 1875, a teacher in the Weaver Academy at Media,
Illinois; John M., born in 1876, attending school at
Danville, Illinois, and Homer, born in 1882, at home
with his parents.
Mr. Gaston was a clerk of his township for eight
years and Township Trustee for three years. He was
elected Infirmary Director in 1867 and still holds that
office. He is a man of the highest character and
universally respected.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
ROBERT ARTHUR GLASGOW, of Cherry Fork, was
born on the farm now owned by his brother, J. G. Glasgow,
near seaman, Ohio, May 28, 1861. He is a son of
Robert A. Glasgow, and Jane Smiley, both natives of Adams
county. Robert Arthur Glasgow, our subject, was
reared on a farm and received his education in the District
schools. He was married by Rev. John S. Martin,
of the U. P. Church, at Cherry Fork, October 6, 1881, to
Miss Lurissa Jane Caskey, who has borne him five children,
four daughters and one son. He and his family are
members of the United Presbyterian Church at Cherry Fork.
Mr. Glasgow owns a fine farm and is one of the most
intelligent farmers of Wayne Township. His wife is a
most estimable woman and is a descendant of one of the old and
well known families of Adams County.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
| |
| |
| |
THE
GRIMES FAMILY came from Northumberland County,
Pennsylvania, to the mouth of Brush Creek, in Adams County,
between 1795 and 1797. So far as we can learn now, the
family was composed of the mother, Elizabeth Grimes,
and her children, as follows: Sons, Noble, Thomas,
and Richard; and daughters, Hannah, Barbara, Mary,
and Effa. Noble Grimes appears to have
been the most prominent among the sons, and was probably the
oldest of the children. The family is said to have
come from Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War. Noble
Grimes procured a patent to one thousand acres of land
on the Ohio River, just west of the mouth of Brush Creek.
The patent to his survey was dated Oct. 28, 1799.
Noble Grimes never married. He was appointed by
Gov. St. Clair one of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas of Adams County in Dec., 1799, and served until 1801.
He was evidently a Federalist of pronounced type. In
1800, he laid out the town of Washington at the mouth of
Brush Creek. It was composed of eighty-four lots,
eight of which were reserved for public buildings. He
expected it to be the county seat and become a great city.
A log courthouse and jail were erected there and were used
from March, 1798, until West Union was selected as the
county seat. Among the persons residing in the town of
Washington were Gen. David Bradford, Major John Belli,
Willialm Faulkner and Henry Aldred. All
three of the last named were Revolutionary soldiers.
After the selection of West Union as the county seat,
Washington began to go down, and not a vestige remains.
The Grimes family purchased all the lots.
Noble Grimes was one of the assessors of Iron
Ridge Township in Adams County. He died in 1805, and
was buried on the river hill on the Grimes farm.
By his last will and testament he provided for his mother,
Elizabeth, and his sister Hannah, who never
married, and gave all his other estate, real and personal,
to his brother Thomas. He seems to have been a
successful man for his time. Richard Grimes,
his brother, never married. Thomas Grimes, a
brother of Noble Grimes, married Miss Mary Brown,
Feb. 10, 1801, and had three sons, Noble, Greer Brown,
and Richard C. He died shortly prior to Sept.
28, 1807.
Barbara Grimes, the
sister of the first Noble Grimes, married Gen.
David Bradford about 1790. they had two sons,
Samuel and Daniel. Samuel lost his
life in the War in 1812, and David was at one time
famous about West Union. Mary Grimes, sister of
the first Noble Grimes, married Moses Smith,
of Kentucky, as her second husband. Her daughter
Sarah married Governor Thomas Kirker, and her
daughter Mary married John Briggs. She
had a daughter Betsey who married Samuel Davis
and a daughter Rebecca who married Robert Edmiston.
They had two sons, Jarret and Charles.
Effa Grimes, a sister of the first Noble,
married John Crawford, a brother of Col. William
Crawford, Nov. 30, 1797. this is the same
William Crawford who was burned by the Indians at
Tymochtee. John Crawford had four sons and two
daughters.
Effa Grimes, a sister of the first Noble,
married John Crawford, a brother of Col. William
Crawford, Nov. 30, 1797. this is the same
William Crawford who was burned by the Indians at
Tymochtee. John Crawford had four sons and two
daughters.
Noble Grimes, the son of
Thomas Grimes, was born Jul. 7, 1805, and died May 31,
1868. He married Harriet Briggs, a daughter of
John Briggs, above mentioned. She was born Sept.
6, 1806, and died Feb. 8, 1874, without issue.
Richard Grimes married Charity Grimes of another
family, but a distant kinswoman, and died without issue.
Greer Brown Grimes, the son of Thomas, was born
Oct. 23, 1803. He was married in 1827 to Miss
Sophia Smith, of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Her
father, John Smith, was from Maryland, and was a
farmer and surveyor. Mrs. Sophia Grimes was
born Apr. 7, 1805. Greer B. Grimes died on the
eighteenth of Feb., 1888, and his wife, Apr. 18, 1893.
Greer B. Grimes owned four hundred acres of fine land at
the mouth of Brush Creek. He was a successful farmer,
and made and saved a great deal of money. He was in
the banking business at West Union with his son Smith
and the late Edward P. Evans from 1865 to 1878, but
gave it no personal attention. He lived a quiet and
retired life on his farm devoted to his family. He and
his wife had the following children who lived to maturity;
Ann, who married _____ Hensley; Harriet, who
married John McKay; Smith Grimes; Louis A. Grimes;
Sophia, who married Frank C. Williams; Adelaide,
who died unmarried; Byron Grimes; Blanche, who
married John Perry, and Grace Grimes.
Dr. Louis A. Grimes was born Nov. 6, 1839, the
sixth child of his parents, the two preceding him having
died in infancy. He attended school at the Ohio
University, at Athens, Ohio, in 1855 and 1856, and in 1857
and 1858 he attended the Indiana University at Bloomington,
Ind. He studied medicine under Dr. David Noble
at Sugar Tree Ridge in Highland County. He attended
lectures and graduated at the Starling Medical College at
Columbus, Ohio, in 1863, and at the Jefferson Medical
College at Philadelphia in 1864. He began the practice
of medicine at Rome, in Adams County, in 1864 and 1865.
In 1866, he located at Concord, Kentucky, where he has since
resided. He was married October 10, 1866, to Miss
Amanda T. Stout, daughter of James A. Stout, of
Kentucky. There were two children of this marriage; a
son, Claude B., lately engaged in gold mining, and a
daughter, Mary. The mother of these children
died Sept. 14, 1879.
Dr. Grimes married a second time, June 27, 1883,
Miss Mary Magruder, of Baltimore, Maryland, a
daughter of Dr. Archibald Magruder. There is
one son of this marriage, Archibald Greer Magruder,
aged fifteen years. Dr. Grimes was a pension
examining surgeon in Lewis County from 1884 to 1894.
He has been a surgeon on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
for three years. He is a member of the Episcopal
Church. In politics he has always been Democratic.
He was a friend of the late Governor Goebel, of
Kentucky, who referred to him in all matters relating to
Lewis County. He is a member of the Board of Election
Commissioners for his county, and of the County Board of
Health.
After the death of his father, he bought out the other
Grimes heirs, and is the owner of 282 acres of fine land
at the mouth of Brush Creek, in Monroe Township. He
has established a reputation as an able physician and
surgeon, and as such commands the confidence of the
community.
A brother physician says of Dr. Grimes: "He is a
man of ability and research, and occupies the first rank in
his profession. He has been a general practitioner of
medicine in the full sense of the term, and has successfully
taken care of all kinds of cases both medical and surgical.
He is a gentleman of cultivated tastes, and his home is a
social and intellectual center. He is an Odd Fellow,
Knight Templar, Mason, and a member of the Elks. He is
a member of the American Medical Association, State Medical
Society, and International Railway Surgeons' Society."
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 666) |
| |
|
NOTES:
|
|
|
|
|
|