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Preble
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Biographies
(Source: History of Preble County,
Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881)
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JONAS RANDALL
came to Preble county and settled in Gratis township in 1805.
He was born in South Carolina Dec., 1766. He married
Sarah Roberts, who was a native of the same State, born May,
1766. They had nine children, all of whom grew up and
raised families, but none are now living. Jonas Randall
died in Gratis in 1852, and his wife in 1855. He was a
prosperous farmer, owning one thousand acres of land. He
gave each of his children a farm.
He was a member of Friends' church, and was a useful
citizen. John Randall, his son, was married
in 1811, to Elizabeth Conarroe, who was born in
Philadelphia, in 1795. They have had nine children, of
whom six are living, viz: William C., in Monroe
township; Mrs. John Lee in Jefferson; Mrs. Isaac
Julian, in Illinois; Mrs. Isaac
Wright, in Indiana; Andrew C., in Illinois, and
Mrs. John Small, in Kansas. William C. was born
in 1816, and has been married four times. He was
appointed, in 1837, ensign in the State militia, under
Governor Vance, and was afterward made lieutenant, which
commission he held four years. |
ANDREW JACKSON
REYNOLDS was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 14, 1831.
His parents were Sacket and Mary Ann Reynolds. he
graduated at Woodward college, Cincinnati, in 1851, and at the
Theological seminary of Princeton, New Jersey, in 1855. He
was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian church in 1856,
was at Pleasant Run, Ohio, from 1856 to 1861; at Lithopolis,
Ohio, from 1870 to 1873; at Eaton, Ohio, from 1875 to the
present.
He married Miss Charity P. Hunter, December 16,
1857, at Pleasant Run, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds
have six children, of whom four survive - Clarence G., Mary
E., Walter H., and Grace A., born respectively in
1859, 1861, 1864 and 1868. Clarence G. is a member
of the senior class at the University of Wooster, Ohio.
Mr. Reynolds' ancestors, on his maternal
grandmother's side, whose maiden name was Dumont, were
French Huguenots, who were persecuted by the State church for
their religious opinions, and some of whom fled to America.
Mr. Reynolds still possesses two French Bibles, which
belonged to their ancestors, and which are not only treasures to
the antiquarian, but are mute witnesses to the nobility of soul
which will not sin against conscience at the command of tyrants.
Mr. Reynolds' maternal grandfather was Captain Moses
Guest, who served in the Revolutionary war, and was a man of
great purity of character, and some poetic talent. He
formerly lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and came to Ohio
with his family in 1817. He died universally lamented in
Cincinnati, in 1828, aged seventy-two.
Mr. Reynolds' father, Sacket Reynolds,
was one of the earliest printers in Cincinnati, coming to that
city in 1806. He was long connected with the newspaper
press in Cincinnati, respectively in the Liberty Hall and
Cincinnati Gazette, the National Republican, the
Cincinnati Commercial, and the Cincinnati Press.
He died in Cincinnati, aged seventy-one, in 1867.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro, Publishers - 1881 ~Page 156 |
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JACOB FRANKLIN RIDENOUR
was born in Union County, Indiana, in 1841, and in 1842 came
to Preble county with his parents, who located near College
corner. In 1861 he enlisted in the Eighty-first Ohio
volunteer infantry and served until 1864, at which time he was
discharged, on account of a wound in the left arm, received
while in Georgia in 1864. His arm was amputated, and he
left for home. In 1866 he was married to Miss Mary Ann
Cotterman, who was born in this county in 1847.
Elmer Ellsworth and Franklin Otto are their
children's names. Mr. Ridenour owns sixty-six acres
of land in section twenty-one. |
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JOHN RINER was born near Martinsburgh, Virginia,
about 1780. From Virginia he moved to Ohio, and settled in
Gratis in the year 1805. He died in Gratis on section
fourteen, in 1840. His first wife was a Huffman, of
Virginia, by whom he had two children: Sarah and
Catherine. His second wife was Mary Osborn,
of Sheppardsburg, Virginia. She died in the year 1873, at
teh age of eighty-three. John and Mary Riner had
seven children, four of whom are now living: Julia Ann,
Henry, J. Wesley and Rebecca. Henry Riner
married Elizabeth, daughter of John Chrisman.
They have three children of their own: Susan, John
and Charles, and two adopted ones - Thomas and
Mattie. |
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GEORGE RUFF was born in
Wurtemberg, Germany, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While
there he married Annie Reahfus, born in Germany, in 1823.
He moved to Preble county in 1855, and commenced business as a
tanner in Harrison township. His building is the
distillery built by Bolin, and which is discontinued.
Mr. Ruff's business is the manufacture of shoe and
harness leather. He has had seven children, three of whom
are still living. |
ROBERT RUNYON, born in
Kentucky in the year 1786, emigrated from that State to Preble
county in 1810, and settled in thsi township where he died in
1873. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Burns,
second to Mary Slayback who was born in 1791, and died in
1867. Wilson, the only surviving child of the first
marriage, lives in Eaton. Three children of the second
marriage are living. A son, Harvey, resides in
Richmond, Indiana, and two daughters live in this county -
Mary Runyon in Eaton, and Sarah, widow of William
N. Duggins, in Dixon township. Mrs. Duggins was
born in 1829, and was married at the age of twenty, to her
husband (now deceased), who was born in 1824. He died in
the year 1875. She is the mother of six children, who are
all living.
The next in order of the pioneers is Stephen
Allbaugh, who is a natiave of Maryland, and who came to
Gasper township in 1812, and has resided here continuously ever
since. He is now in the ninetieth year of his age,
although he has been somewhat afflicted more or less for several
years; but is, at this writing, enjoying good health. In
1814 he married Nancy Potterf, daughter of Gasper
Potterf. They have had eight children - three sons and
five daughers, all living but one son, who died in Iowa.
One son and two daughters are living in Gasper township, two
daughters in Eaton, and one son in Indiana. Mr.
Allbaugh has been engaged in farming, and in former years
carried on the distilling business. He often speaks of the
superior quality of whiskey made in an early day when the
practice of its adulteration was unknown, and when delirium
tremens were never heard of. He is sincerely of the
opinion that copper distilled whiskey is not injurious to
health, and can refer to men who for many years made a daily use
of whiskey without mental or physical injury, but thinks persons
had better abstain from using the drugged whiskey thrown upon
the market now.
Last spring, when the weather was yet disagreeable and
he had been confined to a sick bed and under medical treatment
for a long time, troubled with a cough and heart disease, he had
the conviction that it was his duty to have the ordinance of
baptism administered by immersion. So he sent for the
ministers of the Dunker church with a view of discharging that
duty. The preachers came t and the time for immersion
arrived. The water of the creek being chilly Mr.
Allbaugh's neighbors held a council, believing that in his
feeble condition immersion would prove fatal; they there upon
procured a large bath box and filled it with water, intending to
take the chill off by putting in some warm water. Finally
the preacher came and council was called, and it was finally
agreed to submit the whole matter to him. He quickly
decided to go to the creek. So he has placed in a large
arm chair, surrounded by bedding and placed in a spring wagon,
taken to the creek and immersed, and taken to his home, and
improved more rapidly than he had done at any other time.
This, perhaps, may be taken as an evidence that a determined
will has a great influence on our physical organization.
The subject of this sketch ahs resided in the township
was rapidly settled, among whom may be named the Jones
family, the Kincaid family, the Peters and
Wilkinson families in the western part of the township, also
the Baily family. In the central part may be
named the Huffman family, the Stephens family,
and the Shideler family. In the eastern part of
the township may be made the Sayler family, who came in
1814 (Abraham Sayler now lives on the tract of land upon
which his father settled in 1814), the Burns family, the
Shewman family, the Barnhart family, the Brower
family, the Young family, and the Yost family.
Some of them are further mentioned.
The principal part of these families settled ion
government land, and are properly classed among the original
settlers. There might be many other families named of
original settlers, who, with their posterity, left the township
many years since, who sold their lands to a second class of
settlers, among whom may be named the Campbells, the
Manns, the Floras, and the Webbs.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro, Publishers - 1881 ~Page 178 |
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