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| Source #1 - History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902
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| RUFUS
O. ELLIOTT, one of the worthy farmers of
Washington township, was born May 13, 1840, son of
Charles Elliott, who was for many years a
well-known and popular citizen of Highland county.
Charles Elliott, was a native of
Pennsylvania, and reared in that state. Being
a poor boy, he was bound out in childhood, but when
he came of age he determined to embrace the
opportunities of the west and came to Highland
county, where he found employment during the
remainder of his life as brick and stone mason and
plasterer. He also gave considerable time to
farming, and after living for fifteen or twenty
years on the place now owned by E. Mullenix,
bought a farm of 111 acres in Washington township,
where he died at over seventy-five years of age.
His widow, eighty-nine years of age, is now living
with her son Henry. She was Nancy
Smith, daughter of Jeremiah Smith, and
was born and reared in Liberty township.
Charles and Nancy Elliott, had four children:
Angeline, now living in Dakota; Clarinda,
wife of John Sanders, of Concord township;
Henry M., of Liberty township, and Rufus O.
of Washington township. The latter, whose name
heads this sketch, was reared on the home farm,
where he has continued to live to the present time,
and educated in youth in the district school.
In early manhood he married Hannah A. Vance,
who was born and reared in Newmarket township,
daughter of David J. and Eliza Vance, and
three children have been born to them:
Eliza, deceased; Ella M., wife of
Edward J. Muntz, and David H., of
Hillsboro. The death of Mrs. Elliott,
depriving the family of a devoted wife and mother,
occurred April 24, 1900. Mr. Elliott is
a member of the Methodist church, and a Democrat in
politics and is held in high esteem by his
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| GEORGE L.
EVANS, of Clay township, one of the younger
landholders of the county, is particularly well
known as a breeder and owner of trotting horses.
He is the son of Milford Evans, a native of
Brown county. These parents, Milford and
Zarilda Evans, had nine children, Melissa
and Jane, deceased; William, now
living in Missouri; Sylvester, of Dayton,
Ohio; George L.; Charlie, of Hamilton, Ohio;
Ida, of Cincinnati; Ulysses, of
Chicago, and Thomas S., of Dayton.
Milford Evans was a gallant soldier of the Union
in time of the great rebellion, was on duty
throughout nearly the entire period of Hostilities,
and received two honorable discharges. He died
about 1869 and his wife passed away in 1865.
George L. was born at the Brown county home
of his parents October 18, 1855, and at the death of
his mother, being ten years of age, he started out
to make his own way in the world. Four years
later he came to Highland county and worked at
farming by the month for several years. Thus
the years passed until he reached early manhood,
when he had the good fortune to win the hand of
Margaret A. Harris, daughter of A. P. Harris,
a prominent farmer of Salem township. Four
years afterward he ought a small place in Brown
county, and after three years' residence there he
purchased 33½ acres
where he now lives, an area that he has increased to
115 acres. He continued farming, prospering in
this occupation and winning the esteem of his fellow
citizens, until about ten years ago, when he gave
his attention mainly to the rearing of horses.
He now has a half mile track at his home, has been
quite successful in the training of valuable horses,
and is the owner of Blackthorn, with a record of
2:30, Aradill, a trotting mare with a record of
2:19¼, and several promising colts that have not yet
achieved fame. His home is one of the most
pleasant in the county, and he is a popular and
influential citizen. Mr. Evans is a
member of the lodge of Odd Fellows at Buford, and a
Republican in politics. |
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