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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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CHRISTIAN SAYLER
was born in Frederick county, Maryland, June 5, 1785, and
subsequently removed with his brothers, Daniel, Martin,
and John, to Franklin county, Virginia. In 1806, he
and his brothers, and their widowed mother, emigrated to Preble
(then Montgomery) county, Ohio. In 1811 he was married to
Mary, daughter of Samuel Teal, also of Franklin
county, Virginia. He settled in 1814 in what is now Gasper
township (then Washington), in section thirty-six, where his
son, Abraham T., now lives. At that time the region
round about him was an unbroken forest. He continued to
live there until was an unbroken forest. He continued to
live there until the day of his death, which occurred on his
sixty-seventh birthday, June 5, 1852. His widow is still
living with her son, Abraham, on the old homestead, at
the advanced age of ninety-one. She was born in Frederick
county, Maryland, Sept. 11, 1789. They had a family of
nine children, four of whom are now living, as follows:
Abraham T., on the old homestead; Elizabeth, wife of
Jacob Shewman; Joseph, and Maria, wife of
John W. Allen, all of Monroe township.
Abraham was born in Lanier township, March 5,
1812, and was married to Elizabeth Rinehard in
1838. He has three children living and six deceased.
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JOHN SCHNEIDER was born in
Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1819, and came to America in 1847; he
went to Cincinnati, and for three years followed the bakery
business. In 1850 he moved to West Alexandria, where he
stayed until 1856, at the time he moved to Lewisburg, where he
has lived ever since. For the first four years he followed his
trade as baker, at the expiration of which time he bought a
small house from Franklin Payne. To this he built
extensive additions and began business as proprietor of the
Eagle hotel, and has been in that position ever since. In
1853, while in West Alexandria, he married Anna M.
Schlotterbeck, born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1833.
Four children have been born to them, all of whom are living.
As hotel proprietor Mr. Schneider has been successful,
and is at present at the head of an establishment that does
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JOHN H. STUBBS, son of
Thomas Stubbs, was born in Butler county in 1805. His
father moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, from there to
Georgia, and finally to Ohio. The first wife of J. H.
Stubbs, who was Margaret E. Hart, died in 1840.
They had ten children: Levi, Zimri, Aaron, Thomas,
Isaac, Lydia, Ira, Esta, Elizabeth, and Sarah.
His second wife was Lydia M. Eccles, by whom he had eight
children: ENoch, Emma, Ezra, Harriet, Eli, Allison B.,
George H., and Katie. |
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LEVI STUBBS married Mary
Thomozin Thayer. By her he had nine children:
John E., Lewis E., Ira S., Charles Z., Walter I., Luella, Aaron
A., Lizzie Ann, and Sarah Margaret. Ira
Stubbs, married Rebecca J. Swain. Nine children
were born him, viz: Ollie, Charles S., Russel F., Curtis A.,
Mary L., Lurton H., Frank C., Orion J., and Helen
B. Mr. Stubbs has a farm of forty-four acres.
He is a merchant in West Elkton. |
SAMUEL STUBBS was born in
Georgia in 1766, from which State he emigrated to Ohio, and in
1805 settled on section twenty-nine of Gratis township. He
died while on a visit to Indiana in 1846. His wife,
Mary Jones, was born in Georgia in 1771, and died in Gratis
in 1843. She was a descendant, in the third generation,
from Sir Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac's sister Rachel
married a Francis Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs had ten children: Rebecca,
William, Tabitha, Newton, Martha, Sarah Ann, Nathan, Rachel,
and Jesse Stubbs. Jesse Stubbs married Mary
Jones, and has had nine children, six of whom are living.
Mr. Stubbs now resides in the spot where he was born, and
is seventy-one years old. |
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THOMAS STUBBS was born in
Georgia in the year 1770. From Georgia he emigrated to
Ohio, and in the year 1805 he settled in Gratis township.
Like a good many of the emigrants from the south, he was obliged
to leave on account of his anti-slavery views. His wife
was Mary, daughter of Charles Hobson. They
had ten children born to them: Elisha, Arah, Charles
(deceased), John H., Keziah, Lydia, Rebecca, Sarah (deceased),
and Lorenzo. The latter, born in 1818, married
Sarh Maddock, and has had five children, three of whom
survive. Mr. Stubbs has a farm of one hundred and
eighty acres. This farm was given him by John Overpeck,
as a recognition of a kindness done him by Lorenzo Stubbs.
During an illness of Mr. Overpeck's his own children
deserted him and left him to Mr. Stubbs' sole care.
At Mr. Overpeck, as a recognition of a kindness done him
by Lorenzo Stubbs. During an illness of Mr.
Overpeck's his own children deserted him and left him to
Mr. Stubbs' sole care. At Mr. Overpeck's death,
at the age of eighty-two years, he left his farm to Mr.
Stubbs. |
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HENRY SURFACE came to Ohio
from Virginia, and settled west of Eaton, in Jackson township.
He entered a farm of eighty acres. His wife, Catharine
Long, was also a native of Virginia. Eight
children were born to them, seven of whom are still living, viz:
Henry in Sonoma; Elizabeth (Brower) in Jefferson;
John L. in Iowa; Jacob L. in Jackson township;
Christina (Howard) in Indiana, and George in Jackson
township. Henry Surface, son of the above, was born
about 1810, and about 1832 married Elizabeth Redman, born
in 1815. Seven children were born to them, all of whom are
living. Mr. Surface was at one time a dry goods
merchant in New Hope, and was also mayor of that town at the
time of its incorporation. He was afterwards a minister in
the United Brethren church, but has since retired from all
active work. Cornelius Surface, M. D., son of the
above, was born in Jackson township in the year 1833. He
married Catharine, daughter of Isaac Dickey, born
in 1833. She died in 1857. One child was born of
this marriage. In 1861 he married Mrs. E. A. Crume,
born in 1838. He has had three children by his second
marriage, all of whom are living. Dr. Surface was,
for a few years, a farmer, but has followed the practice of
medicine for the most of his life. He is a graduate of the
Philadelphia Eclectic school of medicine, but is, at present, an
adherent of no school in particular. |
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