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Source:
History of Highland
County, Ohio
by Rev. J. W. Klise -
Publ. Madison,
Wis.,
Northwestern Historical Association
1902
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ISAAC OATES,
as he looks over his well improved farm of 355 acres
in Paint township, may enjoy the satisfaction of
reflecting that it represents the expenditure
of much hard labor and is the just reward of
industry and good management. He was but a
poor boy, only fifteen years old, when his parents,
Peter and Rachel (Lupton) Oates, he arrived
in Highland county after a weary journey from
Hampshire county, West Virginia. The children,
consisting of eight sons and a daughter, every one
of whom grew to maturity, were taken to Liberty
township where a temporary home was found, from
which in after years they branched off in different
directions. The father was a blacksmith by
trade, and pursued this strenuous calling until his
death, which occurred when he was forty-eight years
old. His wife survived him ten years, and it
is an unusual circumstance for a married couple that
their births occurred on the same day of the same
year. Isaac Oates was born in Hampshire
county, W. Va., June 7, 1840, and picked up a
little schooling before leaving his mountain home,
having but scant opportunity to increase his
education after he arrived in his adopted state.
He decided to marry as soon as he became of age, and
Oct. 24, 1861, was united in wedlock to Catherine
M., daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Parker)
Rhodes, after which important event in his life
Mr. Oates immediately went to housekeeping.
HE spent three years in Liberty township, but seeing
a better opening elsewhere, he removed first
to Washington and later to Paint township, where he
rented and worked land until 1886. In that
year he bought and removed to a farm of 123 acres in
Buckskin township, Ross county, where he remained
until 1891, and then purchased the place in Paint
township which has since been his home. This
farm consists of 355 acres, all in one body, lying
on the Petersburg pike eight miles from Hillsboro,
in one of the most desirable localities in the
county. It was a good piece of property when
he bought it, but has been greatly improved by
Mr. Oates and made to yield fine results in the
way of agricultural products and stock. As
previously remarked, it has all been earned by his
own "hard licks," as he started life as poor as
Job's famous turkey and had nothing to
rely on but himself. He is a Democrat in
politics and has served a term as treasurer of Paint
township, but loses no time seeking office and
cannot be classed with the "practical politicians."
Mr. and Mrs. Oates have had five children, of
whom William and Annie, who married
Anderson McKenney, have passed away. Those
living in Laura, wife of Marion Williams;
Gertie, now Mrs. William Tompkins; and
Philip, a resident of Paint township. The
family are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which Mr. Oates has been a member
for some years.
(NOTE: See
George Sams
for his daughter Mary married an Isaac
Oakes)
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 423 |
JAMES S. OLDAKER, a prominent stock-breeder in
the vicinity of Lynchburg, bears a name which
recalls early days in Highland county, as his family
have been connected with its history and development
almost from the beginning. Isaac Oldaker
and his wife, Lucy Pugh, accompanied by two
sons named Henry and Isaac, started from
Virginia, for Ohio in 1817. In the autumn of
that year they reached Milford, on the Little Miami,
tarried there a few months and next year made their
way to Union township in Highland county, where they
settled permanently. In 1819 John W.
Oldaker, a third son, followed his father and
brothers and bought land near to that previously by
themselves. He was born in Winchester,
Virginia, in 1780, served in the war of 1812, and
married Elizabeth Miner, by whom he had
eleven children. One of these, Roxaline, who
was born June 19, 1809, resides at present on the
old homestead that her father settled upon in 1819
or eighty-three years ago. She is ninety-three
years old and expects to end her days at the old
home and in the same house where she spent her
girlhood days. The other two surviving
children are Mary A. Eenner, of Illinois, and
Isaac W. Oldaker. The latter was born
on the Big Kanawha river, in West Virginia, July 2,
1811, and was consequently about eight years old
when his parents settled in Highland county.
After he grew up he cleared 132 acres of land and
from that time until the present day he has been
closely identified with the agricultural, religious,
fraternal and social interests of Union township.
He has held various offices, such as justice of the
peace, township trustee and member of the school
board, and is the oldest member of the order of Odd
Fellows in Highland county, having been initiated at
Russell, in 1858, and he now belongs to the
Lynchburg lodge. He joined the Methodist Episcopal
church in 1834 at Russell, was licensed to exhort in
1840 and for many years has been a local preacher of
the Gospel. In short., throughout his long and
blameless life he has been a man of most exemplary
character and has exercised a great influence for
good on all those with whom he came in contact.
Though now ninety-one years old, he works every day,
is in full possession of all his faculties, enjoys
excellent health and looks after his own affairs.
He married Eliza B. Russell, born in
Buckingham county, Virginia, Nov. 23, 1813, and up
to the time of her death in 1894 she was to him a
most devoted wife and excellent counsellor.
Her father, William Russell, was an officer
in the revolutionary army and an extensive owner of
land and slaves in Virginia. Like her husband
Mrs. Oldaker was of deeply religious
disposition and joined the Methodist Episcopal
church in 1832. Of their ten children eight
are living, among the number being James S.
Oldaker, who was born in Union township,
Highland county, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1857. He was
the youngest of the family, reared on the paternal
homestead, educated in the schools of Russell and
when he reached manhood embarked in farming on his
own account. At present he owns a place of 153
acres three miles from Lynchburg which he cultivates
by modern methods and pays a good deal of attention
to breeding the Shorthorn Durham cattle. For
the last nine years he has held the office of
justice of the peace and gives entire satisfaction
as a settler of litigated cases and other judicial
business. He takes considerable interest in
fraternities and holds membership in the Lynchburg
lodges of the Masons and Odd Fellows, the Camp of
Modern Woodmen of America and Russell lodge, No.
706, Knights of Pythias. In 1885, he was married to
Laura Josephine Britton, one of the most
substantial of Highland county families. Her
grandfather, Jonah Britton, came with
his wife and six children from Frederick county,
Virginia, in 1832, and four years later bought a
farm in Union township, where he died in 1865.
His son Jonah, who married Annie
Kibler and settled a short distance north of
Willettsville, was the father of Mrs.
Oldaker and one of the most popular citizens of
the township. The household of Mr. and Mrs.
Oldaker includes two adopted children, to whom
they have given the names of Eddie and
Jennie Oldaker. The family’s
religious affiliations are with the Methodist
Episcopal church at Russell.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 424 |
GEORGE
E. OREBAUGH, M. D., a popular young physician
at new Petersburg, is regarded as one of the rising
professional men of the county. With the
exception of the absence made necessary in the
acquirement of his professional education he has
spent his whole life within the limits of Highland
county. his place of nativity is Dodson
township and his birth occurred in the vicinity of
Lynchburg, Ohio, July 25, 1871. He attended
the public schools of the village and in addition
took a special course in Latin under Professor
Williams. In early manhood he was engaged,
in association with his brother, in conducting a
printing establishment at Lynchburg. When
twenty-four years of age he entered the office of
Dr. Theodore F. Scott, at Lynchburg, where he
spent three and a half years in preparatory medical
studies and learning practical details connected
with the professional work. After this
preliminary, he matriculated at Starling Medical
college, in Columbus, where he spent the session of
1895-6 in attendance upon lectures. This was
followed by entrance as a student at the famous
College of Medicine and Surgery, at Cincinnati,
where he was graduated with the degree of doctor of
medicine in the class of April, 1898. During
his residence in Cincinnati, both before and after
graduation, Dr. Orebaugh did considerable
work at different hospitals as interne, which proved
valuable as a practical addition to his college
course. In the spring of 1898, he settled at
new Petersburg, where he has since been actively
engaged in the practice of his profession and has
met with flattering success. He is a member of
the State Medical association, Knights of Pythias
lodge No. 337, at Lynchburg, and the Modern Woodmen
of the World. June 24, 1897, he was married to
Hattie N. West, of Clinton county, and they
have one child, Rebekah Mary. The
family are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
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