P. G. PALMER,
"The Horseman," was born two miles northeast of Bloomfield, Mechanic
Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, April 6, 1856. From there he
moved, in 1874, to Sugar Grove farm, one mile northeast of
Bloomfield. Mr. Palmer has always been a fancier of
fine stock, and while on the farm made a business of breeding and
thoroughbred stock, including horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.
Of those engaged in this branch of business few here become more
successful than the subject of this sketch. He has been an
exhibitor at the Sate and county fairs for a number of years, and
has been quite successful in carrying off the first premiums.
He had a very good common education, but deeming it necessary to
procure a business training, so that he might be the better able to
meet the requirements of business life, he went, i 1878, to Mount
Union College, and there took a commercial course. After
completing same he returned to the farm. As he still advanced
in age, he thought one of the requisites most necessary for a young
man to possess was a true and loving wife, and he found same in
person of Miss Lucy A. Robinson. They were united in
marriage, Jan. 1, 1884; went to housekeeping in the early spring,
and remained on the farm until the fall of 1884. During the
summer season they bought very find property on Washington Street
(in which they now live) and moved to same in the fall of that year.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are the parents of two children, one
daughter and one son, the names being Pearl and Guy
Robinson. His wife will unite with us in saying that
Mr. Palmer is a very true, loving and obedient father and
husband, and the community known him to be a highly esteemed and
respected citizen.
Mr. Palmer is undoubtedly one of the
best breeders and dealers in standard-bred trotting horses in this
part of the State. He is the son of LANDON and Phebe (Fry)
PALMER, who were the parents of seven children, viz.: Lucinda
Ann (Mrs. J. A. Evans), Rhoda Jane (Mrs. J. C. McKenzie), Phrancinia
(Mrs. Robert Elliott), John Albert, Gabriel Warren, Ellen (Mrs. W.
Farwell) and P. G. Two of these children are dead:
John Albert, who died in the army, Company I, One Hundred and
Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, at Arlington Heights,
July 24, 1864, at the age of eighteen years, ten months and
twenty-four days, and Rhoda Jane (Mrs. J. C. McKenzie), who
died July 6, 1887.
The father, LANDON PALMER,
and aged and highly-esteemed citizen of Mechanic Township, this
county, died at his home, one mile northeast of Bloomfield, May 20,
1886. Mr. Palmer was born near Washington, Old
Virginia, May 6, 1810, and moved from there to Belmont County, Ohio,
in the year 1813. In 1824 he came to Mechanic Township, near
Bloomfield, and was a citizen of that township up to his death.
He was married Feb. 16, 1837, to Miss Phebe Fry. He
united with the Clark Presbyterian Church in the noon of life, and
was a true and faithful member of the same up to his death.
Mr. Palmer was a very industrious and hard-working man, and true
and honest in all his dealings. He was strictly temperate in
all things, and was always very cheerful, looking on the bright side
of everything, and enjoying life exceedingly well. As the
result of his toil and labor, he accumulated a good proportion of
this world's goods, but the most consoling thing to his children is
the knowledge that he had not only gained for himself and them a
home here on earth, but that he secured for himself a "house not
made with hands," in Heaven, and set an example to his children
worthy of imitation. He expressed a willingness to leave this
earth at different times, during his sickness, and said the only
thing he dreaded was to leave his aged wife, children and friends,
but that he hoped it would be only a matter of time until they would
all meet him in Heaven. He had a very large circle of friends,
and the proof of the same was the large concourse who followed him
to the grave. His widow died at her home April 19, 1889.
She was a very industrious, hard-working woman, true and obedient
wife, kind and loving mother. The most consoling thought is,
to know that she has gone to meet her husband, son and daughter in
Heaven. She had a very large circle of friends, who evinced
their respect for her by attending her funeral in great number, the
procession, which was over one mile in length, being the largest
ever witnessed in the country.
Precious ones from us have gone,
Voices we loved are stilled;
Places are vacant in our homes,
Which never can be filled.
God in His wisdom has recalled
The boon His love had given;
And though their bodies moulder here,
Their souls are safe in Heaven.
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DAVID
PFOUTS was born in Paint Township Aug. 10, 1818.
George Pfouts, the great grandfather of our subject, a native of
Italy, emigrated to America at an early day, and located in
Pennsylvania, near the present city of Philadelphia. He was
very friendly with the Indians at that period, and spent several
weeks each fall in fishing and hunting with them. As a token
of their friendship, they presented him with a tract of several
thousand acres of land, on which he settled, and which today is
known by the name of the Pfout's Valley. His son,
George Pfouts, the grandfather of our subject, was a surveyor by
profession, and a soldier in the War of the Revolution. He
married Sally Woodrown, and afterward Ann Eagler.
He first located in Stark County, Ohio, where he built a grist-mill
on Sugar Creek, near Wilmot, known as Fox's Mill. He afterward
moved to Paint Township, Wayne County, where he died. He was a
member of the Whig party, and of the Presbyterian Church.
Reuben Pfouts, the father of our subject, was
born in Northumberland County, Penn., in 1784, and married Miss
Ann Eagler, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio. About 1815
they moved to Stark County, and afterward to Paint Township, Holmes
County, where he entered six quarter-sections of land, and became
one of the wealthy men of the township. He erected a saw and
grist-mill on Sugar Creek, which is yet known as Pfouts' Mill.
He was a prominent member of the Whig and Republican parties.
He died in 1859, and his widow in 1867. They reared a family
of thirteen children, seven of whom are still living, viz:
Ann, David (our subject), Rebecca (wife of Henry
Parker), Reuben (in Stark County, Ohio), Caroline,
(wife of Mathias Roush, in Akron), Alfred and John.
Our subject received the benefit of
only two months' schooling. He remained on his father's
homestead until 1843, when he was united in marriage with Miss
Nancy, daughter of John Freed, of Paint Township, and
engaged in operating the grist- and saw-mills many years. In
1855 he located on his present farm, where he has since resided.
In 1882 he retired from active work, and put the management of the
mills into the hands of his son. Mr. Pfouts has eleven
children, all of whom are living: Elizabeth, wife of
Cyrus Mizer, of Tuscarawas County (has five children: Ada,
Nora, Jesse, Mary and Martin); Caroline, wife of
Joseph Herrald, of Paint Township (has four children: Maud,
Grace, Lemuel and Howard); Daniel, a farmer of Knox
Township, married Miss Lucy G. Thorn; Mary, wife of George
Bair, of Mansfield, Ohio (has two children: Dwight and Nola);
Julia, Ann and Ellen are living at home; John, a
miller of Paint Township, married Miss Frances Deal (has
three children: Lemen, Nana and Wendle); Reuben, of
Paint Township, married Miss Laura Barkey; David and
Delpha are at home. Mr. Pfouts is a Republican,
politically, and has filled various township offices.
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SQUIRE PURDY is
a son of Sylvanus Purdy, who was born
in Wayne County, Penn., July 17, 1806, and when a young man came to Holmes County,
entering the farm where he now resides.
He married Miss Catherine Fry,
a native of Lancaster County,
Penn., whose parents settled in
Killbuck
Township at an early day. He has served the township as justice
of the peace six years, and has held various other offices, having ben one of
the prominent and influential citizens.
He is a member of Black
Creek Disciples
Church.
Eight of his children are still living:
Delinda (wife of
Jesse Bucey), in
Richland Township;
Mary (wife of
Thomas Bedford), in Shreve, Wayne
County; Elizabeth (wife of G. W. Knowles), in
Richland Township; Loretta (wife of
Milon Johnson), in California;
Dorcas (wife of
John Patterson), in Richland
Township; Jane (wife of
Marion Carpenter), in Monroe Township; Harry, residence not known, and Squire.
The subject
of these lines was born on his present homestead Jan. 13, 1832, and received his
education in the township schools.
He has always followed farming, in which he has met with marked success. In 1880 he was united in marriage
with Miss Amelia, daughter of
Andrew J. Chapman, of
Killbuck Township,
and they have one child: Miland V. Mr. Purdy has always taken an
active interest in public affairs, and has filled various township offices. He and family are members of the Disciples Church.
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JOSEPH
PYERS. Among the farmers of Holmes County who have by
their own industry, assisted by their worthy wives, made a success
of their chosen occupation, may be classed Joseph Pyers.
He is a native of this county, born in Hardy Township, August 20,
1828, a son of James and Hester (Buckmaster) Pyers. His
father was a native of Pennsylvania, and settled in 1826 in Hardy
Township on a rented farm of 100 acres, which he bought five years
later. He died in 1840, aged forty-four years. The
widowed mother is still living at the advanced age of over
eighty-four years. They had a family of seven children:
Joshua, Joseph, Sarah, Jane, Ruth, John and Harrison, two
of whom are now deceased.
Joseph Pyers was reared in his native county,
which has always been his home. In 1854 he bought 100
acres of his present homestead; in 1870, forty acres; in 1882, 100
acres; and in 1889, twenty-eight acres, having now one of the best
farms in the township; and in addition to this, he now owns sixty
acres in another part of the township. Starting in life a poor
boy (being but twelve years old when his father died), he was
compelled to rely on his own exertions, and being the second of the
family had to assist in the maintenance of the younger children.
He remained on the homestead with his mother until the younger
children were old enough to take care of themselves, and then, in
1852, was married to Jane, daughter of William and Esther
(McKibbens) Robertson, former of whom was an early settler of
Holmes County. Her father died at the age of eighty-two years;
her mother is still living at the age of seventy-eight years.
Mr. and Mrs. Pyers have had a family of seven children
James H., born December 30, 1853; John Wesley,
November 7, 1855; William Smith, September 15, 1858;
Meriby, March 21, 1861; Amos M., September 23, 1863;
Joshua Adolphus, December 2, 1866; and Elmer Franklin,
December 22, 1874. Mr. Pyers is a Republican; Mrs.
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