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(Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884)
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Perry Twp. -
MISSES REBECCA
and RHODA EUBANKS - The grandfather and
grandmother of the subjects of this sketch were John
and Sarah (Vandiford) Eubanks, both natives of
Maryland. They had eight children - Rebecca,
George, Mary, John, Thomas, Richard, William and
Sophia. The parents lived to be quite aged.
Their son George, the father of Misses Rebecca
and Rhoda, was born in Talbot County, Md.,
May 20, 1859, and his wife, Rebecca Harrington,
was born Oct. 4, 1763, in Queen Ann County, Md.
They were married in the latter county, Oct. 26, 1780.
From this union eleven children were born - John,
David, Henry, Sarah, Matthew, Mary, William, George,
Eleanor, Rebecca and Rhoda, their ages
being in the order named, John, Sarah, Henry and
William all died in Maryland to Kentucky in 1797,
remaining there some seven years, Eleanor being
born in that State. In the year 1804 the family
removed to Ohio, settling in Ross County, Mifflin
Township (now Perry Township, Pike County). The
children brought with them to Kentucky were David,
Mary, George, Matthew, and to Ohio, George.
After they settled as above, Rebecca was born
Sept. 29, 1805, and Rhoda was born April 7, 1808,
the two being the only children born in Ohio.
Eleanor married George Perrill, Apr. 8, 1850,
and died May 31, 1878. Mary married
William H. Sylvester, June, 1817, and died in the
spring of 1866. The ladies are both now living,
the former just passed her seventy-eighth year, and
Miss Rhoda her seventy-fifth. They are in
excellent health, active, with excellent memories, and
bidding fair to live many succeeding years of life and
happiness. They are, as far as they are aware, the
only survivors of their family, except the children of
their brothers and sisters. They are living on the
old homestead settled in 1804, and upon which they were
born. Their lives have been like all farm life, a
quiet one, with the exception of a startling episode in
the burglary and robbery of their premises, on Thursday
night, Oct. 31, 1878. There were three masked
burglars who broke into their house and, using them
roughly, searched and succeeded in finding their money,
$900 in all. Two of the three were caught, one a
Highland County desperado notorious for his rascality,
named Robert McKimie, and the other a son of a
neighbor a few miles distant named Frank Mesmer.
The latter was tried by Judge DuHadway, and
was sent to the penitentiary for ten years, and the
former, tried by Judge Tripp on several counts,
got a fifteen years' sentence, and they are at this
writing, October, 1883 still in durance vile. The
ladies have now two large dogs on guard. Their
grandfather bought 500 acres of land in Kentucky, but
the title being what is called a work title in Kentucky
was illegal, and he lost his land. Their father
died Sept. 30, 1838, and their mother Mar. 9, 1844.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 859 |
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