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Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884

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JOSEPH L. ZICKAFOOSE was born in Greenbrier Co., W. Va., June 14, 1816, a son of George and Catherine Zickafoose, the former of German and the latter of Scotch and German descent.  He came to Ohio in the fall of 1835, and remained till the fall of 1836, when he went to Illinois and remained a year.  In the summer of 1837 he went with his eldest brother and family to the Blackhawk purchase and remained two weeks and helped him build a cabin, returning again to Fulton County.  In September, 1837, he went to Virginia and remained with his parents a year.  In the fall of 1838 he came to Ohio and lived in Meigs County eleven years, working at the wagon-maker's trade the most of the time.  In 1851 he went to Iowa and purchased 180 acres of land, and remained two years; then returned to Ohio and was engaged in buying and selling land in Meigs County three years.  He then removed to Pike County, and in 1858 or 1859 laid out the town of Buchanan, it being a part of the farm where he now resides.  In 1871 he sold his farm and went to Indiana, and was engaged in the dry-goods business about six months.  He then sold his goods at wholesale and returned to Pike County and bought a farm three miles north of Waverly.  Five years later, on account of poor health, he went to Colorado and prospected for silver, but not finding it very lucrative he sold out and returned home.  He was in Colorado when it was adopted into the Union as a State.  In 1879 he exchanged his farm for the one he first owned in Pike County, and is now residing on the old home-place.  In 1841 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and in 1862 was again elected to that office; has served six years as Township Trustee, eight years a member of the Board of Education, and three years as Township Treasurer.  He was married in April, 1839, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Nancy Davis, of Meigs County.  They have had six children - Nancy Catharine married Robert G. Andrew;  George Clarke, married Mary A. McCord; Lewis Walter, married Elizabeth Marhoover; Harvey Westfall, married Nancy Glaze; Louisa Angelina, married Dewitt L. Lockwood; John Carr, died at the age of eleven years.  They have twenty-six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren living.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 870
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LEWIS W. ZICKAFOOSE, wagon-maker, was born in Meigs County, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1845, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Davis) Zickafoose.  In February, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, Fifty-third Ohio Infantry, and served till August, 1865, participating in many hard-fought battles, among them Resaca, Savannah, and was with Sherman to the sea.  After his return home he worked in the shop with his father two years, and since then has been a business alone, combining the wagon-maker's, cooper's and undertaker's trades.  He ahs served two terms as Constable and two terms as Trustee of his township.  He has been Postmaster of Buchanan since 1878.  Aug. 22, 1867, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Michael and Catherine Marhoover.  They have seven children - Estella May, Lizzie Maud, Harvey, Annie Myrtle, Katie D., George and Lulu.  Mr. and Mrs. Zickafoose are members of the United Brethren church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 870

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