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Source: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883

MRS. ELIZABETH McCLELLAN was born in Camden, Canada, Dec. 13, 1819. Her parents were of Holland and English ancestry, and natives of Massachusetts and New Brunswick severally. They came to Big Island Township in 1846. They were the parents of fourteen children, eight of whom are living - William, Philura, Samantha, Elizabeth, Fannie, Jane, Violet and Andrew. The mother died in 1855, aged sixty-eight years, and the father in 1860, aged seventy-five years. Their names were Artemus and Ann (Cook) Cushman. Our subject married Benjamin McClellan in Canada. September 27, 1840. He was the son of Thomas and Esther (Barrett) McClellan, of Scotch and German descent respectively, and natives of New York. They were the parents of eight children, five living - Julia A., Angeline, Eliza, Catherine and Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. McClellan were blessed with seven children, three living - Hellen, born Oct. 28, 1841; Harry A., Mar. 30, 1845, and Eliza G., Nov. 15, 1862. The names of the deceased are Harriet, died in 1861, aged eighteen years; Horace; in 1852, aged two and a half years; Fannie, in 1853, aged eleven months, and Jane A., in 1868, aged eleven and a half years. Mr. McClellan was born Jan. 19, 1813. He born during life an honorable character, was a consistent Christian, and died Feb. 28, 1863. His widow, a highly respected lady, is the owner of 120 acres of good land, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 845 - Montgomery Twp.

JOHN W. McDOLE, the only son of William McDole, is a native of Logan County, Ohio, born Sept. 29, 1845. Having received a limited education, he married, Sept. 29, 1870, Mary A. Henry, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Walker) Henry, of English and German ancestry respectively. During these years of married life, he has been devoting his energies to farming. He has a good farm of eight acres; is a well known farmer, a live Republican, and a member of the I. O. O. F.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 846 - Montgomery Twp.

THEODORE McELHENY is a native of Montgomery Township, born Apr. 21, 1851, the son of Thomas D. McElheny, of Anglo-Irish ancestry, and natives of Ohio. Having acquired a thorough, practical education in the common school, he married, Dec. 27, 1881, Miss Susan C. Smith, daughter of Nathan and Mary (McDane) Smith of English ancestry, and also natives of Ohio, Muskingum County. Her people are noted for their longevity. Mr. and Mrs. Elheny have one son - John F. born Jan. 20, 1883. Our subject has been devoting his entire attention to his farm, making a specialty of breeding and feeding fine stock for market. By his industry, he has accumulated property valued at $10,000. He is highly respected; a correspondent of the Marion Independent and Ohio Farmer, takes a prominent part in State elections. He is a Republican and a successful farmer.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 846 - Montgomery Twp.

THOMAS D. McELHENY was born in Perry County, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1819, son of George and Esther (Davis) McElheny, of Irish and Scotch ancestry, and natives of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of seven children, Thoams D. being the youngest and the only surviving one. They moved to Marion County in 1832, settling in Montgomery Township, entering 160 acres of land near where LaRue is now located. One year later he purchased sixty-five acres more, paying the unreasonable price of $600. This he cleared and improved, and was a successful farmer generally. He held many local offices, and was one of the leading men of his day. Our subject obtained his education in the district schools, and has been farming the old homestead all his life. July 2, 1844, he married Miss Nancy Davis, daughter of William H. and Mary Davis, natives of the State of Delaware and parents of twelve children, seven living. Their names are Joshua, Maria, Nancy, Mary, William, Harriet and Jane. The deceased are Sarah, Elizabeth, Robert and Pricscilla. Mr. and Mrs. McElheny have been blessed with two children - Ann (born July 19, 1845) and Theodore (born Apr. 21, 1851), both residing at the old homestead. The son was married Jan. 4, 1882, to Miss Catherine Smith, daughter of Nathan and Mary Smith, of Hardin County, Ohio. The name of their one child is John Fulton (born Jan. 18, 1883). Our subject is devoting his entire attention to his farm, rearing a great deal of fine stock, and keeping his farm of 196 acres in excellent repair. He is public spirited - ever ready to help any enterprise that will redound to the benefit of the people. He was Trustee of the township for nine years. His family are members of the Patrons of Husbandry, and also of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He affiliates with the Republican party.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 846 - Montgomery Twp.

GEORGE N. MEARS was born on Brown County, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1823, the son of Samuel and Sarah (Gardner) Mears, of Scotch and Irish descent, and natives of Ohio. They were residents of Brown, Highland, Clark, Wyandot and Sandusky Counties. They were pioneers in most of these counties, zealous Whigs, and died in Wyandot County, he in 1854, and she in 1873. Our subject was married, Dec. 27, 184, to Sarah J. Johnson daughter of Jonathan Johnson and one heir was born to this union - Princess A. (born Oct. 9, 1849, dying in 1860). This wife was born Feb. 28, 1831, and died Mar. 9, 1853. Our subject again married, Oct. 20, 1855, Eliza J. Porter, daughter of Robert and Harriet Porter, and three children have blessed this union, two living - William L. (born Aug. 15, 1856) and Ada E. (born May 25, 1863). George D. died Mar. 28, 1862, aged four years. This wife was born Dec. 10, 1828, and died Sept. 3, 1866. He married the third time, May 7, 1868, Deliah Porter, sister of the above, born Sept. 1, 1830, and the name of their child is Ida B. (born May 19, 1871). Mr. Mears having obtained a limited education, commenced life in earnest, and has been farming and dealing in stock so extensively that to-day (1883) he owns 380 acres of land, valued at $100 per acre. He values his property at $50,000. He is an esteemed citizen, a stanch Republican, and a liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 846 - Montgomery Twp.

ROBERT MEARS, the son of Samuel and Sarah J. (Gardner) Mears, was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1838. He received a fair education at the district school, and enlisted in defense of his country, Sept. 8, 1861, in Company M, Third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, engaging in the following battles: Stone River, Chickamauga, Jonesboro, and many skirmishes. He was engaged during the Atlanta campaign, having his mule shot from under him at Dalton, Ga.; during his entire service he never asked to be excused from duty. He was Sargeant and was honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, having served three years and four months. Returning home, he married, Feb. 5, 1874, Miss Martha Brown, a daughter of Hamilton Brown, and four children born to them - Frank H., Glenneary M., Pearl and Lena. He owns a fine farm of 100 acres, and valuable property in Illinois; he is a member of the F. & A. M. and of the Republican party.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 847 - Montgomery Twp.

HENRY METZ is a retired farmer, was born in Monongalia County, W. Va., Nov. 10, 1822, and is a son of Leonard and Barbara (Michaels) Metz. (See sketch Big Island Township) He married, May 23, 1845, Harriet Van Houten, daughter of Peter and Mary (Brady) Van Houten, natives of New Jersey. Eight children have blessed this union - Mary, Leonard, Catherine, David, Olive and Harry are living. Our subject was a babe when his father came to Marion County, consequently he has been identified with the pioneers; he spent the best of his life among the logs; he devoted his entire attention to farming and the raising of stock until he came to La Rue; he enjoys the confidence of his fellow-citizens, has amassed a fine property, and politically is a Democrat.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 847 - Montgomery Twp.

JAMES METZ is the second son of Leonard and Barbara (Michaels) Metz, born Jan. 1, 1826. He married, May 18, 1871, Sarah M. Brown, daughter of John K. and Angeline D. (Lyon) Brown, of Union County, Ohio. Ten children were born to them, seven living - Ann E., Clarinda M., John K., Sarah M., Delia J., William M. and Mary L. Elijah W., Deborah H. and Alpheus w. are deceased. The father was one of the early settlers of Union County, Ohio, and died Feb. 1, 1875, aged about seventy-three years; his wife died one year later, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. Metz has ever been a resident of this county, has a fine farm of ninety-eight acres, and is a Democrat. He values his property at $8,000.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 847 - Montgomery Twp.

THOMAS SNYDER MILLER, farmer and hotel keeper at La Rue Village, is one of the oldest residents of the place; he was born, Mar. 26, 1823, in Montgomery Township, Chester Co., Penn. His parents, George and Margaret (Snyder) Miller, were natives of the same county. The grand-father of our subject was George Miller, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was killed while in that service. His wife, Catherine, died at the house of her son George, in Adams County, Penn. The maternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812. When T. S. Miller was six years of age, his parents moved to Adams County, Penn., where he lived till thirty-six years old. This afterward became historic ground, as the sanguinary and fiercely contested battle of Gettysburg commenced within a short distance from the homestead. In 1855, in company with his wife, her mother, two sisters and a brother, he came to Ohio and located at La Rue. The place then had the appearance of simply a pioneer clearing, stumps being the most prominent feature of the landscape. The village then consisted of only about a dozen houses, all told. Seven years after his arrival at La Rue, his wife died. Her maiden name was Margaret Leber, and he married her in Pennsylvania in 1849. Within ten years after his arrival at La Rue, all those who came with him had died. Mr. Miller passed his early years on a farm, but while still young learned the carpenter's trade at Strasburg, Penn., which business he followed until 1853, since when he has given his time and attention to hotel-keeping at La Rue. He has buit four houses in the village of his own occupancy; the first was in 1856, and the last one is the Commercial Hotel building, where he lives. Mr. Miller has a farm adjoining the village, which he also attends to. In politics, he was formerly a Free-Soil Democrat, but since 1861 has been a Republican; he has served the village in various official positions; he was the first Village Treasurer, serving for thirteen or fourteen years; also Treasurer of Schools and School Director for many years, member of the Council, etc., etc. He is a charter member of Day Lodge, No. 328, I. O. O. F., of which he has acted as Treasurer for over twenty years; he has been a firm advocate of the temperance cause all his life, and was a member of the first temperance society organized in his section of Pennsylvania; belonged, at different times, to the Sons of Temperance, Good Templars, etc.; he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1855; he was formerly a member of the Lutheran Church, but as there was no congregation of Lutherans here he joined the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Miller was married again, Jan. 1, 1863, to Margaret M. Bailey, at her father's. William Bailey house, three miles from Gettysburg, Penn. Then having two children - Ida Nancy, born Aug. 10, 1864, and Henry F. M., born Apr. 6, 1866. They are living at home with their parents.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 847 - Montgomery Twp.

WASHINGTON E. MILLER is a native of Delaware County, Ohio, born May 1, 1824, the son of Royal and Mary (Pangbourn) Miller, of English extraction, the latter a native of New York and the former of Vermont. They came to Ohio at a very early day, stopping first at Portsmouth, then at Delaware, but settling permanently in Big Island Township, about 1826. They had a family of five children, only two living - W. E. and Emaline. Green G. died May 22, 1858, aged forty-two years; John T. died in 1870, aged about fifty-three years, and Emma A. died in 18521, aged twenty-four years. Our subject acquired a fair practical education in the district schools. He married, Apr. 22, 1850, Sarah S. Mason, a daughter of Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Sprague) Mason, of English ancestry. Mrs. Miler's grandfather Mason is said to have been the first white man who set foot on Ohio soil at Marietta, this occurring about 1787. The above marriage has been blessed with six children, all living, save Adele S., who died Feb. 8, 1865. The surviving are Curtis M., born Dec. 7, 1851; Emily P., Dec. 25, 1852; Princess L., Mar. 26, 1856; Frank V., May 8, 1868, and Vallandingham E. July 17, 1862. The mother was born Sept. 12, 1924, and died Mar. 6, 1882. Mr. M. began life with limited resources, but through industry and economy has accumulated property to the amount of $15,000, all the work of his own hands; he has been a citizen of the county fifty-six years, and is a stanch Democrat.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 849 - Montgomery Twp.

HENRY N. MOON is a native of Big Island Township, born May 1, 1846, the son of Rev. Gideon H. and Mary B. (Smith) Moon, of English stock, and natives of Vermont and Maine severally. They came to Big Island and were married there in 1841; ten children were born to their union, six are living: Henry N., Ellen M., Amanda E., Flora B., William R. and Orrin D. Esther, Eber B., Marilla and Thomas are deceased. Rev. Moon moved to Big Island about 1838, settling in the beech woods. Two years later, he was ordained to the ministry, and has preached over forty years. He went to Wayne County, Ill., in 1872, and lives there still. Our subject obtained a good education, finishing at the La Rue Schools, and taught at intervals for three years. Jan. 21, 1869, he married Leah A. Hover, daughter of Isaiah and Mary (Scribner) Hover, of German and English ancestry, and natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio severally; his father came to Marion County in 1837, and his father entered 200 acres of land Aug. 10, 1837, receiving a title from President Van Buren. Isaiah and Mary Hover had thirteen children, nine living - Sanford S., Martha S., Leah A., Sylvanus, Isaiah, Ellen M., Doratha M., Olive E. and Minnie E., Samuel H., aged thirteen three years, and three infants are deceased. Mr. Moon commenced life with scarcely anything, but has to-day (1883) fifty seven acres of good land, valued at $60 per acre. He is a respected citizen, a Republican, and with his wife a member of the Free Will Church of La Rue.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 849 - Montgomery Twp.

DAVID MORRAL, the third son of William and Mary (Watkins) Morral, was born in Salt Rock Township Sept. 25, 1857. He obtained a good education, and was married, Oct. 31, 1878, to Eliza H. Davidson, a daughter of James and Minerva (Dalzell) Davidson, of German and Irish extraction, and the parents of seven living children - Elizabeth, John, William, George, Jane, Hugh V. and Eliza H.; two deceased are Mary A., aged nine years, and Albert, aged two years. Mr. Morral receiving but a trifle from his father's estate, has to-day, through unceasing efforts, a farm of eighty acres, valued at $75 per acre. Recently he erected a comfortable frame house, and made other valuable improvements. He is an enthusiastic Republican, and a highly respected citizen.
-Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 849 - Montgomery Twp.

MILTON MORRAL, first son of William and Mary (Watson) Morral was born Aug. 19, 1851. He obtained a good education, finishing at the Lebanon Normal School; he taught seven successive winters, but for the past five years, he has been devoting his attention to dealing in stock; he owns 150 acres of valuable land worth $65 per acre. He is a prominent and an enthusiastic Republican. In 1879 he was nominated for County Recorder, and made a very creditable race, though not an aspirant for the office; he has been Trustee of the township four years, and in 1883 was elected Assessor; he is an active member of the F. & A. M., and was the first Master Mason at La Rue.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 849 - Montgomery Twp.

WILLIAM L. MORRAL is the fourth son of William and Mary (Watson) Morral, born Apr. 2, 1861. Having obtained a practical education, he was married, Dec. 25, 1880, to Miss Jennie Huff, daughter of English stock, and natives of Ohio. The mother died in 1882, aged forty-four years, but the father is a resident of Scott Town. William L. devotes his energies to his farm of eighty acres, and to stock dealing. His farm is valued at $70 per acre, and in sock matters he has made a success; he is a stanch Republican and a respected citizen.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 849 - Montgomery Twp.

JAMES M. MORROW, the eldest son of Joseph Morrow resided on the farm until the fall of 1862, when he entered the ranks of the Union Army as a member of Company D, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rendered his country gallant service for nearly three years, and fought in several hard battles. He was killed in an engagement on Rocky Face Ridge, near Atlanta, and now sleeps with the many fallen heroes of the civil war, covered with the laurels of a faithful soldier.

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