OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS

 

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Greene County, Ohio

BIOGRAPHIES

ISAAC TAYLOR, (Ross Twp.), farmer, Jamestown, was born on the Atlantic Ocean, near New York.  His parents were natives of Ireland, and were on their way to America when Isaac was born.  They located in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where Mr. Taylor, sen., died about forty-seven years after his arrival at that place.  Our subject was married in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and brought to where Oldtown, Greene County, Ohio, now stands, and were kept there several years, when they were rescued by some white men, and taken back to Virginia, where she lived the remainder of her life.  The marriage of Mr. Taylor and Miss Gilmore resulted in the birth of nine, and the rearing of five children, four having died in early life.  Magdalene, William G., John F., Daniel, and Isaac still survive.  Mr. Taylor came to Ohio in 1827, and located in Preble County, remaining there two years, and then came to this county, residing here ever since.  He has seen this country changed from the wooden, wet country, as it was when he came here, to a pleasant, fertile state, as it is now.  Mr. Taylorhas a farm of two hundred and three acres, on which he now lives, and has given his children four hundred and ninety-seven acres.

JOHN TOWELL, (Ross Twp.), farmer, Grape Grove, was born in this county, May 13, 1818, and has been a resident of the county all his life.  Was married to Catharine Routh June 9, 1839, by whom he had eight children: Evestes F., Mary E., Sarah J. Eliza M., Martha J., John C., Miranda, and Catharine M., five of whom survive.  Of these, all are married except Catharine M., who is still at home with her parents.  Mr. Trowell was elected justice of the peace in 1872, and has held the office since that time, and has held all the offices of the township.  John Trowell, sen., father of John, jun., came to this county in 1810; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died in 1821.  His wife died in April, 1880.  They were both natives of Virginia.  This county was almost an unbroken forest when they came here, and they took an active part in the labor of making this township as productive and pleasant as it now is.

JOHN & ELIZA JANE TURKINGTON, great-grandparents lived in Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio, in the 1850's and 60's before relocating to Kansas in 1867.  John worked as a machinist.  They were married there in 1852 and had 5 children supposedly born there: Charles born in 1853, William Edward born in 1853, Mary Ann Elizabeth born in 1860, John D. born in 1862 and Eleanor Vanetta born in 1864. (Contributed by Larry Steen, descendants of John & Eliza Jane Turkington)

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