OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Seneca Co., Ohio

G. W. EARHART, proprietor of the city bakery and fancy grocery, choice cigars, tobacco and confectionery, Green Spring, was born in Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, April 16, 1845, where he obtained a common school education, and learned the trade of baker and confectioner. In 1866 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he resided ten years. In 1876 he came to Green Spring and started in the bakery and confectionery business, and by close attention to business he was soon enabled to enlarge the same, and in 1881 he erected, as a monument to his industry and enterprise, a two-story brick block containing two store-rooms, both of which he now occupies; he is now considered one of the leading business men of the town in which he resides. He has been elected, and served two terms as treasurer of Adams Township, this county6; served two terms in the village council; served six years as a member of the school board, two years as the treasurer, and one year as the president of the board. He was a charter member of Clyde Lodge No. 126, K. of P.; he is a member of Clyde Lodge No. 989, K. of H.; he was a charter member of Potter Post No. 105, G. A> R., of Green Spring, as served as commander of same in 1883. He enlisted during the Rebellion in Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for a term of one year, and was discharged from the service, May 8, 1865, by reason of close of the war. Politically he is a Republican. He was married in 1866, to Mary C. Hill, of Lancaster, Ohio. She was born in 1841, and is the mother of five children: Falenia T., Lulu, Martin D., May E. and George. W. *

Jackson Twp. -
PETER EATON, farmer, P. O. Fostoria, born in Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 15, 1842, is a son of William and Ann (Stricker) Eaton, the former a farmer of Scotch descent, and the latter German. William Eaton reared a family of twelve children, Peter and his twin brother who resides in Cuyahoga, Ohio, being the sixth birth in the family: both grew to manhood and followed farming in Jackson Township, this county. The subject of our sketch received a limited education in the old log schoolhouse, and has been engaged in farming all his life. In 1840 he entered land in Jackson Township, this county. He has been twice married, first in 1834 to Miss Louise Torry, who died without issue in 1835. In 1839 Mr. Eaton married for his second wife, Rebecca, daughter of Reuben adn Elanore (Benschotter) Brooks, of German descent, and by her he has five children: Flavilla, wife of J. W. Deacon, and Reuben E., a farmer in Jackson Township.

SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, etc. etc. - Illustrated - Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 - Page 870

H. J. ERNSBERGER, Green Spring, was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1832. He began active life as a school teacher, and afterward went into business at Mansfield. Subsequently he removed to a farm, where he remained until 1884, when he went into partnership with M. F. Van Buskirk, of Green Spring, in the publication of the Times (vide page 327).

JOHN H. EWING, carpenter, Adrian, was born in Adams County, Penn., Sept. 6, 1834; son of Anderson and Julia Ewing, natives of Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1840, then moved to Seneca County, Ohio, residing here until Mrs. Ewing's death, which occurred in 1847. Anderson Ewing was subsequently married to Lucretia Crooks and moved to Wyandot County, Ohio, where he died in 1875, and where his widow still resides. Our subject was united in marriage June 6, 1861, with Lavenia McCullough, born in Seneca County, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1844, daughter of Mack and Eliza McCullough, who first settled in Seneca County, Ohio, thence moved to Wyandot County, Ohio, where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing are the parents of five children: Alva, Anna, Emmet and Omar, living, and an infant, deceased. Our subject owns nice town property; is a carpenter by trade, an occupation he has followed nearly all his life. During the late war of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company D, Forty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served from 1862 until August, 1865, participating in several serious engagements. He is a F. & A. M., and a member of the I. O. O. F.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio - 1886 - Big Spring Twp. - Page 717

* SOURCE: History of Seneca County : from the close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880 : embracing many personal sketches of pioneers, anecdotes, and faithful descriptions of events pertaining to the organization of the county and its progress
Springfield, Ohio: Transcript Print. Co., 1880, 717 pgs.

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