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Ed Patchell


E. C. Patchell Residence,
Stonelick Twp.,
Clermont Co., OH

EDWARD PATCHELL was born on Oil Creek, Venango Co., Pa., Feb. 19, 1801.  His paternal ancestors were French Huguenots, who emigrated to the southern part of Ireland in 1568, four years before the massacre of St. Bartholomew.  As early as 1515 the principles of Luther and Zwinglius  had gained an entrance into France (especially that part bordering on Switzerland), also the doctrines of Calvin, which were embraced by the Patchells, a very numerous and influential family living near Vassey.  In the struggle between the Bourbons and the five princes of Guise they espoused the cause of the former.  But it was not until 1560 that there was anything like an armed opposition to the tyranny of the latter.  A plan was agreed upon by the Huguenots to seize the Guises on a certain day, when a number of them were to present a petition to the king in person (who then lived at Blois), asking him to grant them the right of the free exercise of their worship.  The plan was betrayed, and twelve hundred Huguenots were executed.  Of that number seven were Patchells, where the name first occurs in French history.  Bloody scenes were the result, and the massacre of Vassey in 1562 was the immediate cause of a continued civil war between the Catholics and protestants in that part of France for over a century.  In leaving France and settling in Ireland in Patchells did not better their condition, for the same bloody scenes were there enacted, though of a local and not a national character.  His great-great-great-grandfather was one of the gallant few who served under that famous Protestant clergyman, George Walker, in the heroic defense of Derry against King James.  For bravery in the battle of Boyne he was presented with a gold medal, now in the possession of John Barr, of Monterey, Ohio.  His grandfather, Edward Patchell (after whom he was named), was keeper of the forest under Lord Fitzgerald.  This nobleman was killed by the Catholic tenantry in the insurrection of 1788 in Derry County.  He also owned a large farm five miles from Londonderry, and would have shared the fate of his lordship had he not been secretly released by a man by the name of Dunbar, whom he had befriended in several ways.
     In 1792 he emigrated to America, settling in Pennsylvania.  In 1800 he bought a farm on Oil Creek, on which are some of the largest oil-wells in the United States.  He died in 1814, aged ninety-seven years.  His father, James Patchell, was next to the youngest of a family of two sons and three daughters, and was born in the county of Derry, Ireland, in 1772, and married Elizabeth Cannon in 1800.  She was also a native of Ireland, and was born in the county of Tyrone in 1783.  By this union there were eight children, - Edward, William, Mary A., Jane, Eliza, Jemima, James, and Joseph, - all of whom are now dead but James, who resides in Butler Co., Ohio.  In the war of 1812 he was a major in the Pennsylvania militia, and during the winter of 1814 was stationed at Erie.  His brother Edward was a brigadier-general in the Pennsylvania line during the war  of 1812, and was appointed by President Jackson as issuing commissary-general of the Army of the Southwest, with headquarters at New Orleans, which position he held for three years, when he resigned on account of ill health.  At the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Pittsburgh.
     In the spring of 1816, James Patchell, in company with several other families, descended the Alleghany and Ohio Rivers to Neville, Clermont Co., Ohio, in a keel boat.  A short time after he purchased a farm on Indian Creek, in Monroe township, where he resided until 1832, when he removed to Butler County, where he died in 1844, and his wife in 1846.  He was a man of great energy and strong will-power.  These, combined with a good judgment, made him a man of more than ordinary ability.  In the barrens of Pennsylvania Edward almost arrived at manhood's years, where the wildness of the scenery, the purity of the water, and the salubrity of the climate gave him a constitution well fitted to stand the hardships of pioneer life.  Imbued with the spirit of his ancestors, he started out in life with the determination of being honest, industrious, and to live within his means, all of which he faithfully did during a long and eventful life.  Strong, active, energetic, and willing, he soon acquired the reputation of being one of the best men in the neighborhood in which he lived.  At that time there was a great demand for wood at Cincinnati, and hence for choppers, of which he was one of the best in his day and generation.  He would not unfrequently cut and cord five to six cords in a day, and split from five to seven hundred rails in the same length of time  He not only chopped during the winter but also the heated term.  On the 2d of November, 1826, he married Sarah Ann Brown, who was born near Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 7, 1803.  The following children were given them:  William W., born Nov. 7, 1827; Elizabeth J. born July 16, 1830; James M., born July 11, 1832; Sarah Ellen, born Aug. 6, 1834; Angeline, born May 15, 1837; Mary E., born Mar. 22, 1844; and Martha E., born Jan. 23, 1847; all of whom lived to man and womanhood but Mary E., who died at the age of four years.   In 1832 he moved on the farm now owned by P. F. Swing, and in 1836 he purchased the farm now owned by the heirs of William Patchell, deceased, and in 1855 he bought the farms now owned by E. C. Patchell, T. C. Teal, and Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, then one of the largest and richest in the county.  In December, 1864, James M. who never married, died in Illinois of typhoid fever.  He was a pupil of Prof. Stevens, of Milford, for several years, and graduated from Nelson's Mercantile College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1854.  In 1857 he went to California, where he remained two years.  In 1863 he was unanimously chosen captain of a company of home-guards, and in September of that year was commissioned major by Governor Tod.  Dignified in his bearing, gentle in his manners, conscientious in the discharge of his duties, both public and private, he was one of the most popular and efficient young men in the community in which he lived.  In December, 1865, W. J. died.  He was a man of warm and generous impulses, of industrious and economical habits, and left to his widow and children quite a competency.  Of the sons, Edward C. is the only one now living, who resides on the homestead at Stonelick, and is one of the largest farmers in Clermont County.  Of the daughters, Mr. S. E. Roudebush resides near Boston, and Mrs. T. C. Teal, Mrs. Angeline Haworth, and Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter near Stonelick.  Sarah Ann Patchell, wife of Edward, died Jan. 17, 1866.  She was one of those wives and mothers who made home what it should be, - what it was intended to be,- the most attractive place on earth.  Zealous in the cause of truth, faithful in the discharge of duty, upright in her conduct, an affectionate wife and loving mother are but few of her noble traits and elements of character.  In 1866 he married Mrs. Anna J. McDonald, who survived him, and is the present wife of  Roland Boyd.
     On the 11th of February, 1876, he died suddenly of heart-disease, while visiting a neighbor.  Commencing life with nothing but his hands to earn his livelihood, he soon rose to wealth and distinction.  Austere in his manners, with a well-balanced mind; temperate in his habits, with an acute observation; close in his dealings, with a sympathetic heart for suffering humanity; a patron of colleges, with little if any education; a quick temper, but not malicious, are some of the characteristics of him, in whom the fire of the French, the sympathy of the Irish, and the exactness of the Scotch were all united in perfect harmony.
Source: 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, Publ. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts - Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia - 1880 - Page 544

 

 


 

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