(By Dr. F. E. Weeks, Kipton, Ohio)
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Henry H. Crandall was born Dec. 28, 1810. [A nephew thought it was 1816.] In 1840 he bought the Linton farm, now Willie Myers, but later removed to Henrietta, returning to Camden about 1860, purchasing the S. M. Hanes farm, where he lived until about 1872, when he removed to Steele County, Minnesota, where he died May 28, 1897. His wife, Jane L. Warner, born July 6, 1822, died March 5, 1901. He was very much interested in the Disciple Church and was instrumental in having the brick church erected in Kipton, contributing money and labor.
He and his wife had nine children, of whom five grew to maturity, James Austin, killed in the army, April 9, 1865, at the age of 24 years, John Henry, also killed in the War, William, who married Alma L. Searles, a sister of Lewis Searles, July 4, 1861, Mary, who married Washington White, and Addie, who married Milo Bursley Sept. 7, 1871, and died March 3, 1926. James Austin Crandall married Thankfull D. French, and who died April 3, 1864.
A row of tombstones in the Camden cemetery makes a record of a tragical experience in the child life of Henry Crandall and wife. In 1861 a daughter died on December 19th, one on the 22nd and another on the 28th, then in 1864 another died and in 1873 a son.
CYRENIUS, JOHN, who lived near Oswego, N.Y. In 1833 he bought from Stow the William Davidson farm, but sold it the same year to Gideon Waugh. In 1844 he bought the same farm from Alexander LaDow. He came to Camden in 1834, and was elected Township Clerk when Camden was organized in 1835. It is said that he went east, but returned. From here he went to Ruggles in Huron County. In 1855 he sold land at the Center to Hannah Groatt, but was then not a resident of Camden. He was a Campbellite preacher. His wife, Irene, died Dec. 15, 1854 in the Hannah Groatt house at the age of 40. He married, 2nd, the widow Tanner, whose son Oscar, married Vesta Hawkins. We find the names of three children of John Cyrenius: Clarie, or Clarissa, who married Cort Armstrong July 11, 1861, and died Oct. 8, 1864, Hayden, who went west, and Frances.
In the Oberlin College catalogue we find the name of Henrietta Cyrenius [Mrs. James Brush], enrolled 1854-56, address Toledo.
DALEY, JOHN MORTON, born May 21, 1820, a son of James and Catherine [Groatt] Daley, of New York state, Catherine was a sister of David Groatt, whose widow, Hannah, lived at Camden Center, where her daughter, Tura Van Deusen lived later.
John M. Daley married, September 19, 1842, Hannah Maria Gates, of Florence, a daughter of Elijah and Hannah Miller. Hannah Gates was born May 30, 1824 at Cato, N.Y.
John M. Daley came to Henrietta Township with his parents in 1832. He and his wife lived on a farm in Henrietta for a numbers of years, then in Henry County, Ohio, then in Monroe, Michigan, where he enlisted in the army. When he returned from the army they lived in Monroeville, Ohio, then in 1865 purchased the small farm at Samtown, afterwards owned by John Mandeville, and there he died March 13, 1866, after a lingering illness caused by his army service. He rose to the rank of Captain. After his death the farm was sold and the family moved into the Farnsworth house, where Henry Salzman lives, and a year or two later moved to Bellevue, and in 1883 to South Dakota, where the widow died April 1, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Daley were the parents of five children: Arthur M., born 1850, died an infant. Anna Maria, born 1852, also died in infancy. Charles Mott, born July 17, 1859, became a minister and lives in Montana. Clara Rosetta, born Oct. 3, 1863, married Charles Sawyer, of Bellevue, and removed to Long Branch, Cal. Nettie Maria, born, Aug. 16, 1865, died at Willow Lake, South Dakota, April 9, 1894.
DANZY, FRANCIS, bought property in Kipton in 1854. He was foreman of the railroad workmen. He once lived in the house now owned by the railroad company. His wife was Elizabeth Rippon, of Wakeman, who was born Sept. 2, 1843. Mr. Danzy died in Elyria June 2, 1906. They had a son Albert. They brought up a girl who married Mr. Parsch, of Elyria. Mr. Danzy had a sister who married J. Baxter, of Camden.
DAVIDSON, JOHN, son of Andrew, born in County Down, Ireland, in 1819, married Mary Ann Brown, who was born in Drogheda, Ireland, in 1825, a daughter of Robert Brown, a soldier in the English army for twenty-one years. In 1869 Mr. Davidson and family came to Camden. He bought the Hudson farm. [He came the year before the family.] He died on the Hudson farm July 16, 1895, and the wife, May 26, 1899. They had a family of six daughters and three sons.
SAMUEL DAVIDSON, son of John, born in County Down, Ireland, Feb. 1, 1845, went to Australia in 1862 and a year later to New Zealand, where he lived until 1872, when he emigrated to Camden. On June 21, 1875, he married Margaret Stranaghan, of Ireland, who had come here earlier in that year. He was a very successful farmer and became the owner of a number of farms, so that each of his children had a farm for his setting up. He and his wife are living with a daughter [1915].
Besides Samuel, John Davidson had children: Andrew, lived in Missouri. Eliza, went to New Zealand in 1871. Emily, married, 1st, George Dent. 2nd, James Giddes, lived in Toledo. Jennie, married George Hurst of Wakeman, and lived in Toledo. Joseph, went to California. Ann, Deceased. Mattie, married John Leonard and lived in Toledo. Margaret, married - - - Wooster, and died Feb. 3, 1889, aged 36 years. Minnie, died Aug. 20, 1887, aged 22 years. Alice, died, unmarried.
ANDREW DAVIDSON, brother of John, born in Rathfryland, County Down, Ireland, Nov. 19, 1822, son of Andrew and Jane [McGaw], came to Camden in 1855, and lived here nine years, returned to Ireland, where he married Martha Edgar March 1, 1864, returning to Camden, where he made his first purchase, of land in 1868. The inscriptions in the cemetery show: Martha Edgar Davidson 1844 - 1914. Jane Eliza 1868 - 1911. Mayme Vera 1891- 1916. Joseph H. 1874 - 1916. James G. 1885 - 1922. Mr. Davidson died in 1917. Andrew, Frank, John E., and Herbert are sons.
HENRY DAVIDSON, another brother of John, left Ireland in 1851, coming to Philadelphia, and soon after to Mahoning County, Ohio, [where his brother Andrew lived before coming to Camden] and in 1855 to Camden. He and Andrew lived in the log house erected by Lansing Waugh, on the corner opposite the former home of Fred Betts. He was born May 1, 1825 and died Nov. 27, 1896. Sarah, his wife, born Feb. 2, 1831, died Sept. 7, 1917. One of their daughters married Jake Sigsworth and is deceased. Another, Isabella, married, 1st, Reuben Whitney, 2nd, Frank Sigsworth. She was born in 1851 and died in 1907.
James and William Davidson were brothers and left Ireland in 1856, James coming to Camden in 1867 and William in 1872. James lived in a log house where the present Camden Samuel afterward lived. He moved around but died at the home of Samuel in 1881. He had children: Lizzie, Rachel, James and Samuel, [the latter being the Brighton Sam.] According to the cemetery inscriptions: James Davidson 1834 - 1901. Nancy, his wife, 1839 - 1874. Lizzie, 1863 - 1871.
William Davidson, born 1836, died 1904, and his wife, Elizabeth J., born 1873, died 1923, lived south of the Hudson farm, on the farm now owned by his son, Samuel J.
Samuel, a brother of James and William, was the father of James, of Pittsfield, - - "Wild Jim."
Andrew Davidson, the father of John, and grandfather of the present Samuel, and Samuel, the father of William, James and Samuel, were brothers.
The Davidson families were descendants of two brothers, natives of Scotland, as the name shows, who emigrated to Ireland after the defeat of Robert Bruce.
DENNISON, JOHN. The known line begins with John Dennison living in Hertfordshire, England, in 1567. 2nd Gen. William. 3rd. George, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1631. 4th, John. 5th, John. 6th, Daniel. 7th, Daniel. 8th, John, a soldier in the Revolution. 9th, John, born at Walpole, N.H. in 1784, died in Birmingham, Ohio, March 11, 1886. They lived in different places until 1817, when they came to Henrietta, Ohio in 1817. His wife was Miriam Watkins and she was the mother of four children when they came to Henrietta, and she had two more, a son and daughter, said to have been the first white children born in the township. She died Feb. 12, 1826, aged 34 years. Mr. Dennison lived in Camden, for a time, south of Dean Morgan’s home. He had three more wives. One was Caroline Gager, daughter of Thomas, married May 29, 1843, and the last one was Matilda Gager, daughter of Asron Gager. He had no children except by the first marriage.
DENT, ISAAC, came to Kipton in 1853 or 1854, and lived in a house - later burnt - where George Bradley lives. We do not have the date of his death, but his wife, Frances, died Sept. 7, 1865, aged 49 years. They had children: Elizabeth, married Charles H. Bayless and died March 15, 1923. Isaac, who lived in Wood County, Ohio. Mary, who married John F. Whitney, and died in 1915, aged 71. Letitia, who married Adam Funk and died in Elyria January 1, 1922. Sarah, who died in Cleveland. Delphos, who died in 1919, and George, who died in Toledo.
DEREEMER, JACOB, a native of Tompkins County, N.Y., lived in Bethlehem, New Jersey in 1824, later in Steuben County, N.Y., and came to Ohio in 1834, living for a year in Florence Township, then moving to Camden, where he bought of Thomas Lee, in 1837, 24 acres of the Lee farm on the south side of the road. A house was built there and a well dug, the latter still to be seen. In 1853 he bought the farm north of the railroad, north of the Norman Lee farm, known as the Sherwood farm. There he lived until his death, Jan. 27, 1872, at the age of 74. His wife, Maria, born in Bethlehem, N. J., died Dec. 3, 1871, at the age of 67. They had children, Benjamin L., Margaret, Abraham, Augusta, Joseph, LaFayette, Jane and Adeline.
Benjamin L. Dereemer, born May 24, 1824, married Roxy Kilburn, of Florence, in 1844, lived in Birmingham until 1847, then settled on the Butler Road, in Wakeman, and died July 12, 1901.
Margaret Dereemer, born in Tompkins County, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1826, married John Carter, of Florence in 1845 and died June 5, 1894. Their home was at the top of the long hill south of Terryville, on the Butler Road.
Abraham Dereemer married Ann Lovina Armstrong, daughter of William H. Armstrong, of Camden and Wakeman, Aug. 21, 1858, and settled on the farm across the road from his father’s, and died there, had a son Will and daughter, Hattie.
Augusta Dereemer married, as a second wife, Frank Sherwood, and lived on the home farm of the father, and where she died Feb. 11, 1917.
Joseph Dereemer married Emmer Marie Armstrong, sister of Abraham’s wife. LaFayette Dereemer died Jan. 7, 1852, aged 22. Jane died Jan. 25, 1846, at the age of 21. Adeline married -- Trembly, and died Nov. 14, 1858, at the age of 25.
DOUGLASS, ROBERT, Sr., when a young man came with his father’s family, from Scotland to Connecticut, about 1775. He married there and reared a family, Nancy, Lovisa, Prudence, Robert, William and John. He died in Connecticut, where he was an extensive farmer. He owned slaves but sold them off, the last two for $85. After his death the widow and children removed to Hamilton, N.Y.
ROBERT DOUGLASS, Jr., was born at Lyme, Conn., and in 1817, married Susan A. Waugh, daughter of Norman Waugh, of Scriba, N.Y. [See Waugh history in its order, as several other Camden families were connected].
Robert Douglass, Thomas Lee, a brother-in-law, and Gideon Waugh, another brother-in-law, emigrated to Camden in 1833. Douglass settled on a 25 acre farm on the southwest corner of the intersection of the roads at the Andrew Lee corners. He first built a log house west of the corner, but later built a frame one south of the corner, which was destroyed by fire in later years, but the cellar still remains. The wife died April 9, 1856, and Mr. Douglass, April 19, 1863. Their children were Lovisa, born June 6, 1818, married John C. B. Babcock July 4, 1837 and died at Oswego, N.Y. Nancy, born October 2, 1819, married Burtis Bayless, of Camden and died Sept. 17, 1886. Adeline, born Aug. 2, 1822, died young. Charlotte, born Jan. 20, 1825, married, 1st A. Boswell, 2nd, William Bennet April 11, 1868. She once lived north of H. G. Bronson’s, and had three children. She died in Michigan, Jan. 20, 1880, exactly 55 years of age. Lucinda, born March 8, 1827, married Sylvander Williams, of Camden, Nov. 4, 1844, and died in Vermillion, Ohio, April 1, 1852. Robert Henry, born April 22, 1830, married, March 16, 1852, Susan Haynes, of Camden. He lived in Camden on the Mike Logan farm, then in Henrietta on the John Born farm, then came to Kipton and built the Floyd Sharp house where he died Aug. 9, 1897. The wife died Aug. 8, 1905. They had children, Rose and Mamie. Sally Helen, born Oct. 9, 1832, married Bethel Sabins and died in Michigan. William, born June 21, 1835, married Josephine Ranson, of Berlin, July 3, 1862. He conducted the store in Kipton now occupied by Charles Bayless, until his death June 20, 1897. His home was the Ed. Ayliffe house. He obtained a farm in Minnesota by purchase of his father’s land warrant, for services in the War of 1812, and lived there until 1860 when he came to Kipton, and carried on a grocery business, and built the brick store. His wife was born Jan. 16, 1843. She married 2nd, James Ross, 3rd, William Perkins, and died in Berlin Heights. There was a daughter, Cora Douglass, who married O. L. Wright. John Gibson Douglass, born Feb. 2, 1838, married, Oct. 27, 1858, Betsy, daughter of Aaron Gager. She died and he married in Cleveland, and died June 27, 1911. Susan A., born June 5, 1840, married Albert L. Howe, of Camden and died ---. Harrison, born Jan. 13, 1843, was killed at Rivers Bridge, South Carolina, Feb. 3, 1865, a soldier.
Robert Douglass, married 2nd, the widow of Benjamin Wing, of Camden.
DOWNING, CHARLES, and his wife, Almira, lived a little ways north of the Center where they owned a 12 ½ acre tract, which they sold to Obadiah Bowen in 1852, and moved to the Prentice farm. He was a cabinet maker. His wife was a sister of Obadiah Bowen. He died in Elyria about 1883. His widow died at the home of her son, in the west, about ten years later.
DRAPER, HOMER P., a son of Sheldon and Clarissa [Cole], Draper, was born in Townsend, Ohio, but came to Camden from Michigan, and died on the Gore [perhaps on the Venus Draper farm]. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of George Bowman, of Wakeman and Brighton, whom he married May 31, 1847. They had children, Venus S. married Harriet Sweet Dec. 6, 1868, and died on his farm just south of the Advent Church. He was born Feb. 24, 1847 and died Nov. 1, 1923. Charles, married Susan Myers and died in Michigan. Edgar, lived and died in Wakeman. Cassius, lived in Cleveland. Nelson, married Jennie Pierce of Wakeman Feb. 6, 1889, and died in Wakeman Jan. 5, 1899.
Peter Draper, a brother of Homer, born in Townsend May 25, 1839, married Estella Selden, of Brighton, March 29, 1868. They were in Camden for two years, then moved to a farm just over the line in Brighton, on the road running south from Samtown, where the brick house stands. They had a round dozen of children.
Sheldon Draper was born in Dutchess County, N.Y., and his wife, Clarissa Cole, in Chenango County. When they left New York State, they first settled in Bronson, Huron County, Ohio, then in Townsend. He died in 1869 and she in 1879.
DRIVER, JAMES, lived on the farm now owned by Otto Geist, and was a Justice of the Peace in 1852. He went to California, returned [1864] sold the farm and went to Greely, Colorado. He came from Joppa, and lived in the Ross Hales house, which then stood on the Hinman farm. The Camden "Little Lake’’ is officially known as "Driver Lake."
DURAND, MERARI, whose father we are unable to learn the name of, probably was a son of Simon or Merari Durand. Simon, at the age of sixteen, and his brother Merari, came to America from France, accompanying LaFayette, Simeon acting as the general’s interpreter, and so served him until the end of the Revolutionary War. He married and in 1817 came to Henrietta. He had a family of six children, who all married.
Merari Durand married Wealthy, daughter of Lewis Higgins, Oct. 3, 1850. Mr. Durand lived in Camden in school district No. 3, and removed in 1868. He lived in Monroeville, Ohio, where he died.
EASTMAN, R. C., was a director in Dist. No. 1 in 1867.
EDIC, NICHOLAS, was director of Dist. No. 7 in 1857.
EDDY. The known record of the Eddy family goes back to the year 1592, the first one recorded being Rev. William Eddy, of Cranbrook, County of Kent, England. His son Samuel, the first American ancestor, came to Plymouth, Mass., in the Ship Hand Maid, in 1630. The line comes down from this Samuel to John, through Enoch, son of Zachariah, son of John, son of Samuel, the Pilgrim. John and his wife, Experience, came to Camden in 1833. John died July 7, 1842, aged 76, and his wife died Feb. 1, 1845, aged 78. The Eddys were Quakers.
Reuben Eddy, son of John, was born at Rutland, Jefferson County, N.Y., and came to Camden with his parents. He purchased a farm, comprising the land of Mrs. Maybelle Whitney on the west side of the road, as well as the waterworks farm. The house which he built is not in existence now. On February 12, 1835, he was married to Hannah Sigsworth, daughter of Thomas, this being the first wedding in the township. Mr. Eddy died March 26, 1884, at the age of 78. The wife died Jan.1, 1881, at the age of 75. They had children, Charles, who married Sarah Reynolds, went to Michigan and died there. John who married widow Rulison, in Brighton and lived there. Luther, who married Susan Rood of Camden and died in Elsie, Mich. Annetta, who married Philip Ritzenthaler May 15, 1879, and died in Oberlin. There must have been another Eddy family in Ohio, as we find record of the marriage of Reuben Eddy and Fanny Reynolds April 17, 1854. John and Experience Eddy had children, Allen W., Betsy, John L., Roxsylana Nancy, Reuben, Cylinda and Cynthia.
EDWARDS, NELT, married Josephine Carpenter, daughter of Ira. He had children: Lafayette, who married the only daughter of Garry Adkins, Jerusha, who married an Emmons, and Fred.
FARMER, JOHN, came to Camden from Binghamton, N.Y. in 1834 and lived on lot 22, tract 10, Lew Arnold farm. His first wife was Hannah Whitney, relative of John R. Whitney. [Wm. W. Cook spoke of her as his great aunt.] She died April 13, 1842, at the age of 39. He married, 2nd, Susan Stone, a widow. He had children, Manson, married went to Michigan. Elizabeth, who married John Warren. Mary who married Asel Olds, and Whitney Farmer, who was a soldier and was killed at Antietam.
FLICKINGER, PETER, born in Hagerstown, Maryland, was a son of Jacob and Susan Witt, natives of Germany. Peter’s wife was Elizabeth Kieffer, a daughter of Jacob Kieffer, of Germany. Peter Flickinger and Jacob Kieffer [whose wife died on the passage] emigrated to Wayne County, Ohio in 1818. Peter Flickinger had children, Eli, born in Wayne Co., July 20, 1816. Otilla, born May 24, 1818, Jacob, born Jan. 24, 1821. Jesse, born May 22, 1824. Peter N. and Joseph B., twins. Peter N. died March 23, 1849.
Eli Flickinger lived in Huntington Township, Lorain Co., Ohio, in 1854. In 1860 he bought the Frank Searls farm of Moses Holcomb. From there he removed to New London, then Camden, to the Guthrie farm, thence to the Webb Calkins farm, and then to Kipton as early as 1878, [the Lewis Whitney house]. His wife was Louisa, daughter of Wiram Powers, of Camden. She died in Kipton, and he died in Wellington. They had sons, Aaron, and Joseph and a daughter Belle, [who died in New London June 3, 1871, at the age of 19. Aaron married Sarah Lewis, daughter of Harry Lewis, of Camden, and lived in Norwalk and Elyria. Joseph married, May 1, 1879, Climena [Minnie], daughter of William E. Whitney, and died in Wellington.
Joseph B Flickinger, brother of Eli, learned the trade of stone mason. He married, March 8, 1849, Mary, daughter of Wiram Powers, a sister of his brother’s wife. They located on a farm in Wayne County, Ohio, after their marriage, then came to Huntington a year and a half later, and two years later to Camden, settling on the farm east of the Cannan schoolhouse, where they lived until 1880, when they came to Kipton and lived in the Harold Geist house. He died in 1898 and the wife in 1907, June 19. They had two children, Calista, born Oct. 9, 1850, [or 1852], married, Aug. 15, 1878, Otis Kelsey, and is deceased, and Hiram J., born Sept. 19, 1854, in Camden, died Sept. 7, 1863.
FORBES, LEVI, lived here in 1845 and in that year opened a tavern in Samtown, the first in the township.
Freman, GEORGE, born in England in 1819, was married in England and had two children. The wife must have died in England. About 1856 he came to America alone, and bought the "Bear Swamp" farm, the Coon Heidrich farm. Soon after his coming to Camden he married Caroline Coykendall, daughter of Henry Coykendall [Feb. 16, 1858]. He died April 6, 1899. The wife, born in 1826, died Oct. 21, 1909. Their children were: Martin, married Clara Bradley and died Jan. 8, 1925. Clayton, died in Norwalk in 1935. Eliza, married Nicholas Caswell and lived in Michigan. Emma, married Albert Reynolds, and was living in Kipton, Nov. 23, 1935. Luella, born 1865, died in 1894. Sarah, who married James Calkins, living in Kipton, and George, died 1935.
Freeman, Laura, wife of Walter Freeman [no kin of George], born 1838, died in the George Bradley house in Kipton, in 1906. She was a sister of Levi Rood, with whom she lived.
GAGER. Israel D. and Thomas Gager came to Camden in 1833, purchasing the John D. Williams farm, now the Sharp farm, just south of Kipton. Israel D. made a contract with the Mather heirs, but did not get the deed until 1837. In 1840 he had a sawmill on the farm, the remains of the race still to be seen. He leased the mill, ashery and crops to Calvin Gager, probably a son. Calvin died suddenly while in the woods on the Harry Groot farm, in 1842, at the age of 28. In 1840 Israel Gager deeded the farm to his sons, Edwin and Joseph, each one half, but Edwin and his wife Pamelia, deeded their half to Joseph in 1850. In 1854 Joseph M. and Ruth Gager deeded the land to John D. Williams.
In 1858, Stephen Gager, the youngest son of Israel, a carpenter by trade bought the south half of Lot 28, tract 11, the south part of the Harry Groot farm, but sold it to C. A. Twining in 1860. Israel lived there. He married, Jan. 2, 1837, Caroline Gregg, in Wellington, probably a second wife. Aaron Gager, perhaps a brother of Israel and Thomas, came to Camden at the same time as the others. He lived across the road from the others, but did not purchase the land. He once lived north of Frank Sigsworth’s. In 1861 he purchased the farm now owned by J. A. Gower, and lived there. His wife was named Lury A., and she died Oct. 31, 1880 at the age of 74 years. They had a family of six girls and four boys: Harriet, Ann Eliza, Betsy [who married Gibson Douglass], Lavina and Farozina, who died in 1871, at the age of 24. The boys were Arthur, Joel and Reuben. Thomas Gager married Hannah Underhill, a Quaker. He died Nov. 8, 1847, at the age of 72. He had daughters, Caroline, married John Dennison, Priscilla, married Joshua Lounsbury and died Jan. 14, 1855, aged 38. Abigail, who was engaged to marry Reuben Eddy, a son of John Eddy, a Quaker preacher, of Greenwich, Ohio, and a nephew of the Camden Reuben, but she died June 20, 1849, at the age of 26. Phebe, unmarried, lived with Joseph in Oberlin. Mary Ann, who married Elisha Coltrin.
Edwin Gager lived in the John H. Brumby house in Kipton, but moved to Norwalk. He had daughters, Emily and Lucy.
Joseph M. Gager married Ruth Gifford, a niece of Reuben Eddy, Dec. 25, 1848. He built the house on the John D. Williams farm, burnt a few years ago, but removed to Oberlin before it was completed. Before that he lived on the Lewis Searles farm.
Addition to Aaron Gager history. His daughters were, Matilda, married Francis Norton March 12, 1842, 2nd, John Dennison. Ann Eliza, married Jansen Lee and died in Oberlin. Betsy married Gibson Douglass. Farozina, known as Alzina, and Louisa. Aaron died at the home of his son Joel, in Michigan. Joseph Gager moved first to Norwalk, after leaving Camden, and lived there thirty years before moving to Oberlin.
Edwin Gager died in Norwalk April 14, 1894, aged 86 years. His two daughters and a son, Henry, are none living.
Joseph Gager had children, Elsie, died young, Adelbert, born 1854,married Esther Buck, and lived in Oberlin until his death June 9, 1932. Alice, [Wilmot, widow]. Willie died young. Iola. Mrs. Ruth Gager lived to a very old age, with her son in Oberlin.
Israel Gager removed to Indiana or Illinois, and died there. He had children Fred, Julia, Evaline and another son.
Stephen Gager lived in Oberlin for a time then moved to Hayes City, Kansas. He had children, Laura [Mrs. Stout] and Charles.
GAGER
William H. Gager, of Santa Maria, California, sends this history of the Gager family.
Thomas Gager, b. 11-13-1774 in Duchess County, New York, died in Camden township, Lorain Co., O. 11-8-1846, was a son of John Gager [or Jagger] and Mercy Browne. Thomas was one of ten children: Hannah, Nathaniel, John, Thomas, Joshua, Mary or Sarah, Phebe, Nathan, Noah, Robert.
Thomas Gager lived in Duchess county, N. Y., for some years after his birth, removing some time in the 20’s to Chenango Forks, Broome County, New York. He married, about 1804, Hannah Underhill [born 6-5-1787, died 4-15-1857]. They had thirteen children: Aaron, 1805-1833; Edwin, 1808-1894; 1-24-1811, infant d -; Joseph Mead and Joel, twins, b. 10-10-1811. Joel died in infancy; Calvin, 1813-1842; Priscilla M., 1816-1855; Phebe 1819-? Mary Ann 1821-1856; Ellen, no date; Abigail, 1823-1848; Caroline 1820-? Stephen 1829-1896.
GIBBS, LEWIS, lived here in 1861. He lived on the Huffaker farm. He owned the Duane Perkins farm and sold it to Zenas Kelsey. His wife was Kelsey’s sister.
GIBSON FAMILY. Silas Gibson came from Tompkins County, N. Y., to Henrietta in May 1831 and to Russia Township the next year, settling west of the Tifft settlement. He had a family of eight sons and four daughters. The first year he lived in a shanty 12 by 17 feet in size, with his wife and three children. Two of his sons, DeLos and Barzillai, lived in Camden, and another son, LeGrand, of Clarksfield, married a Camden girl, Sarah Twining. Alvah Gibson, a nephew, also lived here. Also, Lorenzo Dow Gibson, no kin as we know, lived here.
DeLos Gibson born Feb. 10, 1835, went to Iowa, and there married Augusta Wight, only daughter of Horace Wight, Jan. 1, 1857. They came to Camden soon after the birth of their first child. Their farm was the one later known as the Tom Barnes farm. They had children, Ada A., born Aug. 30, 1857, married E. T. Radcliffe June 16, 1877, and died July 30, 1879. Clara V. born Nov. 23, 1870, married, Oct. 8, 1890, DeWitt Draper, son of Peter, and who died in Mexico in 1900. She married, 2nd, Thomas Rusk May 1, 1901. Lulu M., born July 30, 1873, married Thomas Barnes, of Wakeman, April 16, 1899, died June 1920. They lived on the Gibson farm. Jennie L., born July 23, 1875, died May 4, 1881. Ernest L. born Jan. 31, 1878, died Aug. 3, 1878. Nora M., born April 16, 1880, died April 22, 1897. Nellie D., born May 29, 1883, died Oct. 8, 1900. DeLos C. Gibson died June 22, 1895, and his wife on June 1, 1915.
Gibson, Barzillai, son of Silas and Diantha [Heath] Gibson, was born in Russia Township, Jan. 18, 1845. He married, Feb. 13, 1869, Flora M. Brown [whose father, Rowland Brown of Sandusky, O., died of Cholera in 1849.] She was born in 1849 and died Dec. 25, 1922. They moved from Wakeman to their farm in Camden in 1871. Mr. Gibson died. They had children: Ethel, Lela [Huffaker], Zella [Calkins] and Clifford L.
Gibson, Alvah [had a twin brother, Asher], brother [?] of Silas Gibson, lived west of Hartland Center, Huron Co., O., then in Elyria a few months, then in the fall of 1867, came to Camden, to the farm south of Samtown. His wife was Mary Tanswell, of Mentor, Ohio. Alvah was born in 1823 and died in 1905. His wife, born in 1833, died in 1911. Their children were; Willard, born Sept. 24, 1851, died Feb. 24, 1928, married, 1st, Edna Morgan, daughter of David, lived in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. [She "Fell asleep." – 6/26/81] Asher, born July 7, 1853, married, 1st, Florence Green, daughter of Lloyd Green, 2nd, Aug. 18, 1925, Cora, daughter of Lewis Searles. He died Feb. 8, 1929. His farm was across the road from Roy Sheffield’s. Albert, born Oct. 6, 1855, married Lydia Meyers, of Brighton, and lived in Clinton, Mich. Alma, born July 20, 1859, married, as second wife, E. T. Radcliffe. Cary, born Oct. 5, 1861, married Eva, daughter of Hiram Peck, and lives in Wakeman.
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