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ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO
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J.
MONROE PATTON, of Cherry Fork, is a lineal descendant
of John Patton, of Virginia. His father was
Nathaniel Patton, of Harshaville, who married
Ann Thompson, daughter of Daniel Thompson, of
Adams County. The subject of this sketch was born in
the old Patton homestead at Harshaville, October 13,
1850. Being of strong and robust frame during his
boyhood days, and for over twenty years after his majority
and marriage, he lived the busy and toilsome life of a
farmer. He received the rudiments of an English
education, the best it afforded, in his home district
country school, and later he attended the old academy at
Cherry Fork, in its better days, under the tuition of
Professors Coleman and Smith.
Oct. 8, 1872, he was united in marriage to Miss
Sarah J. Allison, daughter of David Allison, of
Spring Mill, Center County, Pa. This marriage was a
happy one, uniting as it did two old and respectable
families, many of whose descendants are scattered throughout
the Ohio Valley, and recognized as active, honorable men and
women.
In the Spring of 1893, Mr. Patton purchased the
farm implement and hardware business (and drug store) of
Morrison Bros., of Cherry Fork, and removed there with his
family, where he now conducts the above named business.
From his well known integrity and upright dealing with men,
he has built up a business interest reaching into the
country for miles about him.
His family consists of Mary Maud, who married
Frank E. Kirkpatrick; Maggie Anna, who married
Charles H. Morrison; Clyde, a promising young man
engaged in business with his father; and Lorena and
Sarah Helen, yet at home.
In politics, Mr. Patton is a Republican, having
held many offices of trust in his native township. He
and his family are earnest supporters of trust in his native
township. He and his family are earnest supporters of
the U. P. Congregation at Cherry Fork.
(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 836) |
JOHN
PATTON, of Virginia. He is so designated to
distinguish him from his son, John Patton, who
emigrated to Ohio. We find he was from the north of
Ireland. He was one of eight brothers. We do not
know what time he located in Virginia, but it was not later
than 1774. He was born about 1754. he was
married in about 1775. His eldest child, Nathaniel
Patton, born Feb. 22, 1776; was married in Rockbridge
County, Virginia, 1797. Nathaniel Patton
located in Adams County in 1814, on the farm where Ramsey
Duffey now lives. He went to Rush County, Indiana,
1824. His wife's name was Polly Robinson.
He was the father of fourteen children, all of whom but the
eldest, John S. Patton, followed him to Decatur
County, Indiana. He died there in 1844. The
second child of John Patton, of Virginia, was
Martha Campbell. She married James Campbell,
in Rockbridge County, Virginia. They came to Adams
County and settled near Decatur. Brown County.
She left a large number of descendants, among whom are teh
Wassons of Cherry Fork. Thomas Patton,
a son, lived and died on West Fork. The wife of
Gen. William McIntire was his daughter. His other
children removed to Peoria, Illinois, in the forties.
Nathan Patton owned the Sam McNown place in Brown
County. He was a money maker and Adams County was too
slow for him. He left after a few years' residence
with his entire family and located in Iowa. All trace
of him and his family have been lost to the other Pattons.
John Patton, the youngest son, was born in Virginia in
1787, a notice of whom is elsewhere herein. A daughter,
Jane Patton, died in middle age, unmarried.
Mary Patton was born in Virginia in 1789, and was
married to Charles Kirkpatrick in 1806. They
came to Ohio and located on Eagle Creek. Three
children were born to William Evans, and ten children
were born of this union, the eldest of which was Edward
Patton Evans, of West Union, father of one of the
editors of this work. She died Mar. 22, 1830, at the
age of forty-one. Nancy Milligan the fourth
daughter of John Patton, of Virginia, was born in
Rockbridge County, Virginia, about 1791. She married
William Milligan, and they located near Unity in Adams
County. She was the mother of a large family.
J. C. Milligan, her son, was a County Commissioner of
Adams County from 1860 to 1863. Her son, John
Milligan, is living near Decatur, Brown County.
John Patton, of Virginia, died in 1809 in
Rockbridge County. He made his will in July, 1809, and
it was probated in October, 1809. From the tone of his
will, it is judged he was a very pious, God-fearing man.
The inventory of his estate on file indicates he was an
ordinary Virginia farmer. He owned 278 acres of land
in one body, about five and three fourths miles from
Lexington, on the upper Natural Bridge road. Two
hundred acres of his land lay in Burden's Grant, and the
remainder, seventy-eight acres, just outside of it.
The original grant of the
Burden tract was from George, the Second, by the
Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King and
Defender of the Faith, etc., and on condition that one
family for every thousand acres be settled on it within two
years. There were 92,100 acres in the grant. The
land was to be held in free and common socage and not in
capite or by knight service, and to pay a rent of one
chilling for every fifty acres, to be paid yearly in the
Feast of St. Michael, the Archangel (September
29). Three acres out of every fifty were to be
improved within three years. All these conditions were
abolished by the Virginia Legislature during the Revolution.
John Patton bought his two
hundred acres in Burden's Grant, Dec. 3, 1782. That is
the date of his deed, but he probably had it contracted for
long before that. He purchased of James Grigsby,
who died Apr. 7, 1794, and was the first person buried in
the Falling Spring cemetery.
John Patton hated the institution of slavery,
and had intended to remove from Virginia had he lived, but
he charged his children to remove from a slave state, which
they did. His descendants are very much the same type
of man that he was himself; strong, prudent, economical,
honest., careful, despising all sham and pretense, adn
hating oppression and injustice in every form.
(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 806) |
JOHN
PATTON, of Ohio, so designated to distinguish him
from his father, having the same name, but who never resided
in Ohio, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, June 9,
1787. His mother was Martha Sharp, the daughter
of a Presbyterian minister of Glasgow, Scotland. He
was married to Phoebe Taylor in Rockbridge County,,
Virginia, in 1813. While he was courting her, he used
to visit her about every ninety days, riding over the
Natural Bridge, his home being on the opposite side of the
bridge from her. He resided in Rockbridge County until
1816 when he moved to Wayne Township, Adams County, where he
purchased a farm. His wife was aunt of Bishop
Taylor, of the M. E. Church,, so long a missionary in
Africa. She was born Feb. 2, 1794. They joined the
Associate Reformed Church in North Liberty as soon as they
came from Virginia and attended it all their lives.
They had ten children born to them, four sons and six
daughters. Martha, the eldest, was born in
Virginia. She married the Rev. Robert Stewart,
who was pastor of the church at Cherry Fork for nineteen
years. She died in 1852. His second son,
James T., born Oct. 25, 1815, died in 1835. He had
been attending Miami University, and was expecting to become
a minister of the Gospel. Another son, John Elder,
lived many years near North Liberty on the Winchester road.
Nathaniel C. Patton, one of the principal
farmers of the county, lives near Harshaville.
Henry Patton died unmarried. Of the daughters,
Larissa married Alexander Caskey and had a large
family. One of her sons is John P. Caskey, of
the firm of Harsha & Caskey, at Portsmouth, Ohio.
A daughter, Elizabeth married Robert Morrison,
of Eckmansville; Phoebe Caroline married S. D.
McIntire, and Nancy and Margaret each
married a Kirkpatrick. they also had a adopted
child, Phoebe C. Finley.
John Patton died Oct. 7, 1853, aged sixty-five
years. His wife died Oct. 7, 1863, aged sixty-nine
years.
John Patton and his wife were the very strictest
Presbyterians. there was family worship morning and
evening, grace before meals, and a returning of thanks
after, and Sunday was devoted entirely to public and private
worship, including the catechism. When anyone visited
their house, he was not asked if he were a member of any
church, but he was called on to say grace or take part in
worship, and if he was not in a condition to do so he was
put in the position to be asked to be excused. In
those days religion was a severe and awful matter, and they
made it a part of their every day life. Sunday was a
day when only public or private worship, reading of the
scriptures or catechising, and nothing else, was to be
thought of. They believed that the promises were for
them and their children, and acted on their belief.
their lives were models for all the world, but alas, how the
world has changed since that time. The severity of the
religion of the Pilgrim Fathers was no greater than that of
Rockbridge County, Virginia, Presbyterians, but with all
their religious severity, they did not forget to make and
save money and had all that thrift which belonged alike to
the New England Puritan and the north of Ireland Protestant
Irishman.
(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 807) |
REUBEN
PENNYWIT was born May 31, 1817, the fourth child of
Mark Pennywit, who reared his family on Gift Ridge in
Adams County. He had six brothers and each of them was
more than six feet tall. In youth,, he delighted in
feats of strength. He united in the Methodist
Episcopal church at Quinn chapel at its dedication, Dec. 20,
1842, a church built on the old Pennywit home, and
largely by the contributions of the family.
On April 3, 1839, he married Miss Jane Cooper,
of Brown County, Ohio, who survived him. They had nine
children, eight of whom were living at the time of the death
of their father. They were Captains Wylie and
Alfred; George and Mary of Manchester;
Captain Samuel Pennywit, of Natchez, Mississippi;
Mrs. Edward McMillan and Mrs. J. P. Duffey, of
Cincinnati, and Joseph W. Pennywit.
He died Feb. 10, 1892. In his Christian
character, he was pre-eminent.
(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 811) |
ALFRED PENNYWITT
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 834) |
HENRY PENNYWITT,
third son of John Pennywitt, was born on the old homestead on
Gift Ridge, Adams County, Ohio, on Dec. 13, 1851. He
attended the common schools and assisted his father on the
farm until he was a young man, when he left his home and went
to Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, to learn the trade of
printer. In 1872, he went to Washington, D. C., and
worked at his trade until the Spring of 1874, when he entered
the United States Weather Service, and his remained almost
constantly with that service until the present time. He
served as observer of the weather at Leavenworth, Kans.;
Burlington, Iowa; Pittsburg, Pa.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Norfolk,
Va.; Sanford, Fla.; Titusville, Fla.; Jupiter, Fla. (at which
place he superintended the construction of an observatory);
Knoxville, Tenn.; New Orleans, La., and Washington, D. C.
He now holds a responsible position in the Climate and Corp
Division of the Weather Bureau at Washington, having charge of
the statistical work of temperature and rainfall data and the
collection of reports pertaining to the condition of the
different crops of the country. He has always taken a
deep interest in scientific investigations, particularly the
study of meteorology and kindred subjects.
On Nov. 12, 1890, in Knoxville, Tenn., he was married to
Miss Jennie L. Hessee, of Abingdon, Va.
He has one boy, John Edward, six years of
age, and one girl, Louise Mary, now nearly
three years old.
(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 831) |
WM. CLINTON PENNYWITT,
the eldest son of John Pennywitt, was born on
the bank of the Ohio River, opposite the head of Manchester
Island, July 11, 1839. (He has recently adopted the
spelling of the family name here given, having been convinced
that such was the original and proper method.) He
received all his schooling in a log schoolhouse on the old
homestead near the present site of Quinn Chapel. At the
age of eighteen, he began teaching in the Public schools.
At twenty-one, he "went West." When Fort Sumpter was
fired upon and President Lincoln made his first call for
defenders of the flag, he was one of the first to respond.
He enlisted in April, 1861, at Newton, Iowa, in Company B,
Fifth Infantry Regiment of Iowa Volunteers. His command
was in action at New Madrid, Mo., the siege of Corinth, the
battle of Corinth, Luka, Jackson, Clinton, Champion's Hill and
Vicksburg, Miss., Missionary Ridge, Tenn., the Atlantic
Campaign, and in many minor engagements. During his
entire army service he was never in the hospital, never absent
from his command, and he never missed a tour of duty. On
the battle-field in front of Vicksburg his comrades chose him
by an almost unanimous vote to be their company commander.
This action of the men was ratified by all the field officers
of his regiment, and Governor Kirkwood commissioned him
Captain over the heads of both Lieutenants, and the First
Sergeant of his company. This is the only instance of
this kind in the history of the war. He remained with
his command until it was mustered out.
In civil life he has been at different times bookkeeper for a
large manufacturing establishment in Cincinnati and for one of
the largest lumber companies in Chicago; clerk in the U. S.
Treasury, Interior and Postoffice Departments; Chief of
Division of Railroad Statistics of the Tenth Census; rate
clerk of the C. B. and Q. Railroad; statistical clerk of the
Chicago Fire Department; editor of the Manchester Gazette,
the Maysville (Ky.) Republican and Round's
Printers' Cabinet, Chicago; and Washington correspondent
of a large number of newspapers. At the present time he
is serving as law clerk of the Department of Agriculture.
He was married Aug. 28, 1878, to Anna Rebecca Frow,
of Winchester, youngest daughter of Archibald and
Eliza Frow. They have two children and reside
in their pleasant home, "Seven Gables," at Glencarlyn, Va., a
beautiful suburb of Washington.
For several years, Captain Pennywitt has been devoting very
special attention to the Subject of a great national
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 832) |
GEORGE W. PENNYWITT
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 833) |
WILEY DANIEL PENNYWIT
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 833) |
SAMUEL
PFEIFER, (deceased) son of Philip and Hermena
Pfeifer, was born in Buda-Pesth, Hungary, Oct. 12, 1824,
and died Feb. 28, 1899, at Blue Creek, Ohio. In
boyhood, he clerked in a dry goods store in his native city,
and when the Rebellion of 1847 came on, he enlisted as a
soldier in the Army of Freedom. After this he fled to
Germany to save his head, and joined the German army.
In 1849, he came to the United States and took out
naturalization papers in 1856. He enlisted in the
service of the United States, Oct. 30, 1861, First Ohio
Light Artillery, Sergeant of Battery L, and was honorably
discharged Oct. 31, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Va.
He married Laura Jane Freeland, daughter of
Edward and Sarah Wales Freeland,Jan. 25, 1859. She
was born July 87, 1841, and died Mar. 30, 1887. There
were born to this union Edward W., Minnie, James
A., Fannie B., Frank who died in infancy, and Clara
F.
James A. Pfeifer, born Sept. 5, 1865, son of
Samuel Pfeifer, is now in the general merchandising
business with his brotehr-in-law, Albert Jones, at
Blue Creek. He is an active, thorough going business
man, and the firm is doing a thriving business.
Samuel Pfeifer and wife are buried at Moore's
Chapel.
(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 835-36) |
HENRY
PILE born in Somerset Co., Pa., married there
Rebecca SAMPLE; came to this county in 1800. He
was a soldier of the War of 1812.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
JOHN
FREDERICK PLUMMER, liveryman, of West Union, born
Dec. 28, 1857, is a son of Frederick Pflaumer, as the
name was originally written, who was a native of Wurtemburg,
Germany, and who came to America at the age of eighteen
years. He first worked as a blacksmith and afterwards
became a prosperous farmer near the Mt. Leigh Church in
Scott Township, this county.
John F. Plummer is one of the best and most
widely known citizens of Adams County. He was reared
on a farm, where he was taught industry and frugality, and
after attaining his manhood, he followed the occupation of
farmer till his thirty-fourth year, when he disposed of his
farming interest, and removed to Winchester, at which point
he conducted the well known hostelry- the Plummer
House - formerly old Parker House. In November,
1895, he took up his residence in West Union, where he
conducts a large livery and feed stable. In 1898, he
also engaged in the undertaking business with O. C.
Robuck. He is at present a trustee of the
Wilson Children's Home. In politics, he is a
Democrat of the old Jefferson school, in accordance with his
ideas of simplicity, frugality and honesty. He and his
accomplished wife, formerly Miss Nettie E. Custer, a
near relative of the gallant Gen. George Custer, are
both devout members of the Presbyterian Church of West
Union. Mrs. Plummer began teaching school at
the remarkably early age of thirteen, and was one of the
first in her profession until her marriage, Dec. 28, 1887.
She is one of the brightest mathematicians in the county.
Mr. Plummer is a member of Adams Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, No. 484, of Winchester. He has one son,
Harry C., born Sept. 12, 1897.
(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 836) |
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