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CHAPTER X.
RIDGE TOWNSHIP
THE TOWNSHIP AS ORGANIZED - ITS PHYSICAL
CHARACTERISTICS - NAMES OF ALL THE OWNERS OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE IN
1845 - EARLY SETTLERS - SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES
- BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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BAUGHMAN is a native of Muskingum County, Ohio and was born
June 13, 1824. He is a son of Jacob and Rachel (Wymer)
Baughman, natives of Pennsylvania, his father born Aug. 23,
1794, his mother about 1796. His parents came with their
parents to Muskingum County when children, and to this county in
1836. Their children were George, David, Ebenezer, Hannah,
Rachel, Jacob, James, Susanna, Lucy A. and Notchy.
The mother died in 1860, the father Dec. 2, 173. Ebenezer,
the subject of this sketch, resided with his parents till his
twenty-eighth year. In 1845, he inherited eighty acres from
his father's estate in Salem Township, where he resided till March,
1866, when he purchased his present farm of eighty acres, where he
has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr.
Baughman was married July 4, 1850, to Mary Werner,
who was born in Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Henry and Julia
A. (Kirtzer) Werner. Ten children have been born to this
union namely: Cornelius Sept. 30, 1851; George,
May 18, 1853; Elizabeth, July 16, 1855; Rachel A.,
Nov. 1, 1856; Malinda J., Sept. 20, 1858; Emanuel A.,
Aug. 7, 1860; Emma M., July 8, 1862; Levi B., Feb. 6,
1865; Phoebe, Apr. 27, 1867; Matilda E., Sept. 6,
1868. Two of the above are deceased, namely, Elizabeth E.,
who died Sept. 14, 1856, and Malinda J., Sept. 27, 1861.
Mr. Baughman is an old settler, and well respected. He
served one term as Trustee of the township, and has held other
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ANN E. UPDEGRAFF, daughter
of Jeremiah and Phoebe (Jones) Trego,
was born in Lycoming County,
Penn., Nov. 16, 1807. Her parents were natives
of Honey Brook, Chester County,
Penn.; her father born July 30,
1771, her mother Aug. 21, 1772. They were of English descent, and lived
and died in Pennsylvania.
They were farmers, and reared a large family of children -
Nancy, born in 1790; Sarah, July 4, 1793;
Hannah, Oct. 16, 1795;
Joseph, in May, 1796;
Benjamin, May, 1798;
Phoebe, 1801;
Polly, 1803; Samuel, Oct. 1, 1805;
Ann E., Nov. 16, 1807;
Smith, Feb. 7, 1809; Mary, Feb. 16,
1811; Washington, 1813. The
mother died in 1826, the father about 1835 or earlier, perhaps.
Mrs. Updegraff resided with her
parents till her marriage, in 1827, to
Casper Updegraff, a native of
Pennsylvania, born July 13, 1801. He
was a son of Isaac and Mary (Snyder)
Updegraff, and with him, after five or six years spent in
Carroll County, Ohio, they came to this county and located on the farm where
she now resides. Her trials and hardships endured in building up a home in
this wild woodland cannot be even faintly portrayed. The howling of the
wolves and the yells of the Indians were the terrors that have since given place
to the lowing herds that graze upon the disrobed fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Updegraff had fourteen
children, viz.: Samuel
J., Sarah J., Lydia, Mary A., Ner L., Hannah, Tamzen, Samantha,
Lott, Polly and Phoebe (twins), Ann
E. Louisa and John M. The
father died Nov. 3, 1870. He was a man of great endurance and strength,
and in his lifetime did much hard labor. He was a member of the
Lutheran Church, and held in high esteem by those who knew him.
Mrs.
Updegraff is now in her
seventy-seventh year, and in comparatively good health for one who has spent so
many days in the labors of clearing the harvest field and the home. She
joined the German Baptist
Church in her sixtieth year, and still holds
a membership.
~ Source: History of Wyandot Co., Ohio
- Publ. 1884 - Page 971
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NER L. UPDEGRAFF, son of
Casper and Ann E. Updegraff, was born
in Carroll County,
Ohio, Jan. 26, 1835.
He resided with his parents till thirty-three years of age, and has been
a resident of this township about forty years, spending the greater part of this
time on the homestead where his mother now resides. He has always engaged in farming and
stockraising, and has been fairly successful.
HE inherited a small portion of land and has since purchased eighty
acres, also some property in Carey.
Mr. Updegraff was married, Aug. 20,
1868, to Miss Isabel Plott, who died May 12, 1880.
She was born in Pennsylvania
Oct. 20, 1837, her parents being
Christian and Matilda (Widle) Plott, natives of Pennsylvania. In
politics, Mr. Updegraff is a Democrat. He holds the
offices of Trustee and Justice of the Peace, and has served in others. He was a member of the
Methodist Protestant
Church several years, but of late affiliates with the
Christian, known better as the Campbellite
Church.~ Source: History of Wyandot Co.,
Ohio - Publ. 1884 - Page 971
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JOHN M. UPDEGRAFF, youngest son of Casper and Ann E. (Trego) Updegraff, was
born in the home where he now resides June 20, 1851. He was educated in the district
schools, and at that age of ten began dealing somewhat for himself. At the age of fifteen he commenced
farming on his own responsibility, and since that time he has been thus engaged. He obtained a portion of the
homestead and has since purchased other lands till he now owns 160 acres. He resides with his aged mother and
does a good farming business, keeping good stock, doing more or less trading,
buying, selling, etc. He is a
thorough farmer, a good citizen and a Democrat in politics. He also makes a specialty of breeding
Merino sheep and Almont and Hambletonian horses. ~ Source: History of Wyandot
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1884 - Page 971
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