Clear Creek Twp. -
EDMOND
THROCKMORTON, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born n
Warren County May 27, 1817; is a son of James and Leah
Throckmorton, natives of New Jersey. The
grandparents were Job and Jane Throckmorton, also
natives of New Jersey, who, with their family, emigrated to
Ohio and located in this township in 1816, where they lived
and died. Jane was a daughter of Amos Wooley,
a native of New Jersey, who came to Ohio in 1816, and died
in Clear Creek Township. The maternal grandfather,
Joseph Tucker, was also a native of New Jersey, and
lived and died in his native State, James, the father
of our subject, grew to manhood and married in New Jersey,
where he resided till 1816, when, with his father, he came
to Ohio and spent the balance of his life in Warren County,
except five years' residence in Miami Co., Ohio. He
died in Clear Creek Township June 28, 1872, aged 76 years;
his wife died Oct. 24, 1866, aged 70. They had ten
children: nine still survive - Edmond, John, Jane,
Job, Joseph, Susan, James, Lydia and Martha.
Our subject, who was born in this county, has, with the
exception of the five years' residence in Miami County with
his father, passed his entire life within three miles of his
birthplace; was married, April 11, 1849, to Eliza,
daughter of George S. and Jane Keever,
he is a native of Pennsylvania and she of Kentucky.
Mr. Keever came to Ohio and settled in 1801; was
married here and was among the early pioneers of this
county, and lived and died here. For further history
of the Keever family, see sketch of N. E. Lupton.
By this union, Mr. Throckmorton and wife had four
children: two now survive - John and Eliza
Jane; the latter married William H. Henry by whom
she has three children - Ellanora, Elsworth and
Viola May. Mrs. Throckmorton died Sept. 28, 1848,
aged 34 years. On Oct. 20, 1850, he married, for his
second wife, Belinda Keever, a sister of his first
wife. She died Feb. 5, 1879, aged 72 years.
Mr. T.'s oldest son, Absalom, enlisted in the
rebellion, Aug. 14, 1862, in the 79th O. V. I., and died
Jan. 6, 18632, in the hospital at Gallatin, Tenn., with the
measles. Mr. Throckmorton has made farming his
business through life. He, as were his ancestors
before him, is a man of unassuming habits, never held or
desired office, but is one of the best of citizens, kind and
accommodating as a neighbor, and whose integrity of
character is above reproach.
Source: History of Wayne Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 933 |
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