PIONEER HISTORY OF CAMDEN TOWNSHIP, LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO
(By Dr. F. E. Weeks, Kipton, Ohio)
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Norman Waugh married, 2nd, Mrs. Rhoda Shattuc, whose daughter, Esther L. Shattuc, married Newell Cook, the elder, and lived in Henrietta until his death, when she married, Nov. 1, 1845, Jonathan Briant, of Birmingham. She had five daughters by the Cook marriage, Sarah, married Alvan Hovey of Camden, Melissa, married James Hovey, of Camden, Betsy, married Nehemiah Welch of Wakeman, Rhoda, who married -- Hart, and Roxy, married Charles Jay, of Birmingham. By the Briant marriage, she had Lyman and Ella, who married Andrew Hurd, of Camden.
Thomas Lee and his family came to Camden in 1833, in company with Robert Douglass and family. He had contracted for 150 acres of land, but did not receive his deed until 1837. In 1835 he bought the 24 acre tract on the south side of the road, of Robert Douglass, but sold it to Jacob Dereemer in 1837. In 1853 he purchased 30 acres, where the wood lot is, and in 1860 he sold the portion on the north side of the railroad to Thomas Quinn.
They lived in their log house until 1848, when the frame house was erected. Mr Lee lost the use of his left hand, by disease the next spring after he came here, and this made it hard for him to manage to clear his land and supply the needs of his growing family. Mrs. Lee worked hard to help along, and sometimes knit socks and mittens and walked to Birmingham, carrying an infant, to sell them. He died Sept. 5, 1877. The wife died Feb. 5, 1894. They had children, Truman T., John P. and Margaret, born in New York, and George F., Phillip E., Norman and Andrew, born here.
Margaret married Alanson Rose Sept. 17, 1851, and is deceased.
Truman T. Lee, born October 12, 1827, died May 20, 1906, married, August 25, 1850, Julia A. Lowe, daughter of Elder Lowe, of Camden. They lived on the Tom Ward farm, then removed to Evansville, Wisconsin, where he died. The wife, born in Vermont Jan. 21, 1821, died June 23, 1901. They had daughters, Lily [Barnard], and Mary [Bonard].
George F. Lee, born March 22, 1835, died Feb. 14, 1904, married, July 2, 1854, Maria H. Fellows, daughter of Edmond Fellows, of Camden. She was born May 3, 1836, in Chili, N.Y., and died Jan. 21, 1921, in Evansville, Wis. They had children, Em, Ed and Herb.
Phillip Lee was a victim of tuberculosis and died in Colorado, in young manhood.
John P. Lee, born Feb. 5, 1830, married Sarah Jane Rood Jan. 23, 1856. In 1860 he purchase 25 acres of the north farm formerly owned by John E. Davidson, but in 1863 removed to Clarksfield and died October, 1905. He lost a hand in a planing mill at Skipper Mill, but still was a skillful carpenter. His wife was a daughter of Lewis Rood. They had children, John, Eva [Rowland], Elma [McClaflin, Lily [Johnson] and Newland.
Norman Lee, born May 22, 1843, married, Dec. 16, 1873, Frances Hurd, of Camden, and died Sept. 21, 1921. His children are Lucinda, Thomas and Andrew.
Andrew Lee, born in 1848, died Nov. 15, 1913, married Lucy Lee, a first cousin, once removed. They had a daughter, Marguerite [Buchs].
Thomas Lee, on the 23d of September, 1851, sold to the Toledo Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad Co., [now New York Central] a strip of land 100 feet wide. "Lee is to build and maintain a fence on both lines of the bounds of said Railroad, if he shall ever want the same fenced."
LEFFINGWELL, OLIVER, married Harriet Parker, a sister of Lyman and Riley Parker, and lived in Aurora, Portage County, a neighbor of the Parkers. In 1871, while a resident of Aurora, he bought land in Camden.
LEFFINGWELL, OLIVER, lived in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. In 1867 he bought the east half of the A. W. Davidson farm and the northeast part of the Nathan Calkins farm, selling to Calkins in 1871. He bought part of the Ira Hill farm and sold it to Albert Hurd in 1876.
He married Harriet S. Parker, sister of Lyman and Riley Parker, at Aurora. They had sons, Frank and Forest. She divorced him and married - - Jones, and died in Wellington.
LESHER, J. W., lived in the Cannan district in 1842. He owned land adjoining John Cannan’s on the east.
LEWIS, HARRY, a blacksmith, lived at the Center. He came from New York State in an early day, but spent the last years of his life in Rochester, Ohio. A daughter, Hannah, born in N.Y., in 1838, married Frank Campbell and died in 1910. Sarah, another daughter, married Aaron Flickinger, of Camden. Another daughter married Sim Haynes, of Camden, and they removed to St. Louis, Michigan.
LINEHAN, "TIM", owned a part of the Brannan farm, north of the railroad and west of the wagon road, and lived in a house far from the road. His children were William, Mary, James and Tim, Jr. William Lived in Elyria. James was killed by falling from a pole. Mary died unmarried. Tim Jr. killed himself. After the death of Mr. Linehan, the widow married Thyer Sigsworth. She was killed by the cars near her home.
LINTON, ADAM, bought his farm from Moses Smith in 1849, the Willie Myers farm. He died Dec. 25, 1859, in his 75th Year. Mary, his wife, died March 7, 1878, aged 78. Laura A., their daughter, unmarried, lived in the old home, and was shot, by a mistake Jan. 20, 1890. She was born May 12, 1844. Homer A., a son, died Sept. 23, 1865, at the age of 24, a soldier. John Linton, the oldest son, went west. Arthur Linton, a grandson, lived in the family home, and married Alice Shafer, of Camden. We are not certain about the rest of the family, but surmise that the wife of William W. Martin, of Camden, was a Linton. Miss Eva Martin and Mrs. Kilburn, of Berlin, were nieces of Laura Linton. Charles Peck, a brother of Hiram, married Miss Linton, of Camden.
LOUNSBURY, J., was a director in Dist. No. 6 in 1853. He perhaps owned the John Rose farm. His wife, Priscilla, died Jan. 14, 1855, at the age of thirty-eight years.
LUCAS, DANIEL, born Jan. 13, 1821, died Sept. 23, 1897. Eunice Humiston, his wife, born May 22, 1824, died Nov 14, 1903. They were married Oct. 16, 1845. They came to Samtown about 1871. He was a native of New York State, and lived in Florence, Berlinville, Clarksfield, Henrietta, etc. They had sons, Rufus, born Aug. 5, 1846, married Margaret Bell March 19, 1868, and lives [1935] in Kipton. Frank, born Feb. 24, 1851, married Hattie, daughter of Abraham Reynolds, of Camden.
MAGOON, BENJAMIN, lived in the south part of the town. He died Oct. 1, 1858, aged 63 years. One of his sisters married Hiram Powers, and another married Washington Williams, both of Camden.
MANDEVILLE, JOHN, born in 1807,moved from Rochester, N.Y. to Ohio, living in Akron and other places, then to Wellington, where he lived for twenty-five years, then came to Camden, living first in the Coon Salzman house, then into the one across the road, where his grandson lives. He was a brick maker, and many of the brick buildings in Kipton were made by him. At the time of Oberlin-Wellington slave rescue, it is said that he was the first man to climb the ladden down which the slave boy was brought. His wife was Hester Northrup, of Westfield, Medina County, Ohio, where they were married. She died March 4, 1910.
They had children:
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David, |
born at Westfield August 15, 1844, married, March 23, 1868, Mary Woodbury, and died Sept. 22, 1928. |
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William, |
lived in Toledo, and is deceased. |
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Frank, |
lived in Philadelphia, married a widow Simmons, of Camden. |
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Albert, |
lived in Missouri. |
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Etta, |
a trained nurse in Cleveland. |
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Emma, |
married - - Chapman, a policeman in Cleveland. |
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Anderson, |
lived in Kansas. |
MARTIN, WILLIAM W., in 1849 bought 53 acres of the Barzillai Gibson farm on the south side of the road, and sold it to John Haynes in 1856. He was director in 1853. His wife was probably a Linton.
MCCOTTER, HIRAM, came from Brecksville, Ohio, to Pittsfield in 1854, then to the farm north of Kipton, now owned by Steve Cowie. He was a Scotch-Irishman. He died Sept. 13, 1854, at the age of 58 years. His wife, Naomi by name, died Aug. 6 at the age of 75. She was born in Vermont. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Hawley, Charles, Hugh, John, Annette and Mary, came to Camden.
Hawley McCotter married Marian – or Miriam - [Waugh] Allen, daughter of Dan Waugh, and widow of Mortimer Allen. They lived on the George Coven farm, north of Kipton, but removed to Michigan and Kansas. Hawley McCotter married Elizabeth Davis Oct. 4, 1852.
Charles McCotter, born in 1839, married, in Illinois, Sarah Jeallies, and came to own the home farm and lived there until he became too infirm for work, and moved to Kipton village, where he died in 1917. He had children, Rawson and Eppie [Huene].
Annette McCotter, born in 1832, married John Coates, of Camden, and died in 1915.
Hiram McCotter bought his farm in 1854, of Lorenzo Dow Gibson.
MCFARLAND, HARVEY, probably, built the brick Breckenridge store about 1858, and carried on business there. He had sons, Gilbert, Ed., who married a daughter of Bennett Bates April 14, 1866, she being a widow Wells, and Frank.
MESSENGER, BILLE, Jr., of Berkshire County, Mass., sells land in Huntington, O., in 1832. In 1834 he was a resident of Amherst and of Huntington the same year. He had a business contract with Daniel Heath, which see. In 1852 he bought a piece of land at the Center, on the northeast corner of the cross roads. In 1861 he and his wife Harriet, deeded one acre to the Baptist Church, the deed being made in Huron County. He bought three small parcels at the Center in 1852-53. In 1861 his land was sold for taxes. He lived in the old parsonage. He was a shoemaker. He was a player on a bass viol. In 1852 his wife was Perlina, 1861, Eliza. He must have married twice, as the Lorain County records show the marriage of Bille Messenger to Esther A. Blair May 15, 1833. He moved to Townsend, where he died.
MONROE, ALBERT, was a director in the Cannan district in 1845. Younglove Monroe owned a part of the Hoffhein farm in 1851, and lived there.
MOORE, HENRY, bought of James Weeks 73 acres on the north side of the road at Samtown.
MORGAN, SAMUEL, was one of the thirteen children of Amos - born 1750 - who was a son of Samuel, Jr., born 1711, son of Samuel, Sr., born 1669, son of John, born 1645, son of James, born 1607, son of William, of Wales. Samuel married, 1st, Sarah Dayton, and they had two sons, Dayton B., who became a millionaire manufacturer of agricultural machinery at Brockport, N.Y., and Selden, who died young. He married, 2nd, Amy Allen, a sister of Ezra and Hiram, of Camden. In 1840 they came to Camden from Monroe County, N.Y., and settled just west of Samtown, on the Jay Whitney farm. In 1848 he bought the farm across the road, where Elmer Morgan used to live, and in 1849 received a deed of 62 acres of the west part of the Whitney farm. He sold three small pieces in Samtown and sold the reminder of the south farm to Nelson Hill in 1859. The first store in the township was opened in his woodhouse. He was the first man here to vote the Abolition ticket, and was an agent of the "Underground Railroad", which aided in the escape of fleeing slaves. The village which grew up around him was known as "Sam’s Town," shortened to Samtown, and so called to this day.
Samuel Morgan’s children by the second wife, were, David, Sarah and Celestia. Mr. Morgan died Nov. 10, 1869, at the age of 80 years, and his wife died Nov. 22, 1890, at the age of 94.
David Morgan married, October 5, 1842, Agnes, daughter of William Scott, of Camden. He was born March 29, 1820, at Sweden, Monroe County, N.Y. He lived on the farm afterward owned by his son, Elmer, and died March 10, 1897, at the age of 77. His wife, born Dec. 8, 1823, at Chenango, N.Y., died June 12, 1903.
They had children:
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Charles S., |
who died Aug. 26, 1881, aged 37, married Millie Post. |
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Dayton B., |
born May 11, 1846, married Julia Morrison Oct. 28, 1868. |
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James, |
born April 28, 1845, died Dec. 25, 1847. |
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William Andrew, |
born July 30, 1848, died Nov. 25, 1848. |
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Celestia - or Celia - |
born April 25, 1849, married Frank Hoover and died Nov. 11, 1892. |
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Frances Edna, |
born July 2, 1853, married Willard Gibson Mar. 17, 1875. |
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Mary Myrtella, |
born Dec. 23, 1857, [Tillie], married Noble Hurst, April 22, 1885. |
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Elmer E., |
born May 1, 1860, married Emma Moore, April 22, 1885, died Jan. 3, 1928, lived on the home farm. |
[Correction. Celia Morgan married Frank Hoover Mar. 9, 1871,and died March 15, 1876. Celestia Morgan, born April 25, 1849, married Albert Manderville and died Nov. 11, 1892.]
Sarah Morgan, daughter of Samuel, born March 9, 1821, married Nelson P. Hill, of Camden, and died Aug. 20, 1894. Their only son, Morgan Hill, born in 1851, died in 1904.
Celestia Morgan, daughter of Samuel, born in Sweden, N.Y., April 10, 1828, married, April, 1849, Andrew D. Hinman, and died July 30, 1917. Their only son was Andrew Floyd.
MORGAN, ELIAS H., no near kin of Samuel, lived in Carlisle, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1832. In 1851 he bought 30 acres of the Ray Green farm on the east side of the road, and in 1856 sold to Francis Bennett. He had children, Marian, born in 1832, married Oscar Welch, of Wakeman, and died April 7, 1897, Bernie and Marks. He married, 2nd, Hannah, daughter of Solomon Root, of Camden, widow of Daniel Wood. She had children, Darius, Sarah Ann and Jefferson D., Wood. By this marriage he had a son, Angie and daughter Agnes, and Melissa, who may have been of the first marriage, who lived with Marian Welch in Wakeman. Agnes was born in Camden Nov. 8, 1851, married, November 30, 1871, Ed. Howe, of Camden. Elias Morgan removed to Michigan, but returned to Camden. The sons Bernie and Marks and Angie remained there, but Angie came back later. Mrs. Morgan left Mr. Morgan, on account of the two families of children and died at the home of Mrs. Howe in 1903.
Angie Morgan lived in Rochester, 0., and died Sept. 8, 1908, aged 52. His wife was Marie Kelley. Earl Morgan, of Kipton, is his son.
Morgan, David, known as "Flat Foot", to distinguish him from the other David, was a Welshman, and no kin of the others here. He lived on the Hudson farm and died May 5, 1859, in his 70th year. Margaret, his wife, was a member of the Baptist Church in 1836, and died July 24, 1869, at the age of 68. They came to Camden in 1833. They had children, David, James, William, Ed., and Charles. James was sent to the Ohio penitentiary for killing a sheriff. William also was sent to the same institution. Charles lived in Norwalk and kept a livery stable.
MORSE, BENJAMIN, lived at Samtown, and died Nov. 28, 1858, at the age of 83. He had children, Sydney, George, Franklin, Waterman, Benjamin, Frances [twin of Franklin], Hannah, Lucy, Betsy, Sarah and Eliza. [Sarah L., his gradsu. died Oct. 3, 1872].
Frances married Samuel Hardy March 5, 1839, was born Aug. 11, 1811, and died in Norwalk in 1886.
Elizabeth P. [Betsy] Morse, born March 16, 1816, married Hallam Whitney and died Dec. 2, 1888. When she was a widow, she lived in the William Brumby house in Kipton, with her daughter, Flora, and son Vincent. Hannah and Sarah Morse married James Weeks, of Camden.
Emma Lucy Morse married Calvin Whitney, of Camden, Sept. 5, 1844 and died Nov. 30, 1859 at the age of 41.
Waterman Morse married Laura E. Mason Aug. 6, 1839, and in later years lived in Elyria.
MOSHER, MARVIN, lived on the Bradley farm, west of the Tract 9 schoolhouse, and sold to Thomas U. Wright [Barzillai Gibson farm]. He had sons George, Walter and Hugh. Was a brother of Hugh Mosher of Brighton.
MOSHER, MARVIN, was a son of Gideon Mosher, who married Sarah Billings in 1799, in New York state, and they moved to Lake County, Ohio, in 1818. Gideon was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his father, Hugh Mosher, was a soldier in the Revolution. One of the six sons of Gideon, was Hugh of Brighton, who served as a soldier in the Civil War, and carried his fife until his return home, and this instrument is kept by one of his descendants, Hugh’s portrait appears as the fifer in the painting "The Spirit of ‘76".
Marvin Mosher was born in Lake County March 2, 1821 and came to Brighton with his parents in 1844. He married Abigail Finch, who lived but a few months. He married, 2nd, Susan Lamb who lived several years. Later he married Hester Peck. By the second marriage he had children, George, Walter, Frank and Mary. He served in the army from 1861 until 1865. At his enlistment and a few years earlier, he lived in Camden, but removed to Lucas County, Ohio. The last nine years of his were spent at the home of his nephew, Walter Mosher, in Brighton. His sons George and Walter died in the army.
MOSHER, MARVIN, was a son of Gideon Mosher, who married Sarah Billings, in 1799, in New York state, and they moved to Lake County, Ohio, in 1818. Gideon was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his father, Hugh Mosher, was a soldier in the Revolution.
The earliest traditions of the Mosher family locate them in Alsace, in the northeast part of France, about the year 1580. It is supposed they emigrated to England to escape religious persecution; they being Protestants, under the leadership of Hugh Mosher, prior to 1600, and located in Manchester, Chester and London. There were five brothers, William, John, Thomas, Stephen and George. Three of them had each a son, named Hugh, who were distinguished men, all living in 1600. The name Hugh seemed to be a favorite one and the name appears frequently.
One of the sons of Gideon Mosher – above - was Hugh, of Brighton, who served as a soldier in the Civil War, and carried his fife until his return home, and this instrument is cherished by one of his descendants. Hugh’s portrait appears as the fifer in Willard’s famous painting, "The Spirit of 76".
Stephen Mosher’s son, Hugh, served in the Indian War in New England, and lost two sons in that conflict. Hugh, the father of Gideon, served in the War of the Revolution, and Gideon in 1812. Hugh, of Brighton and his brother Marvin served in the Civil War, and Harold McClaflin, a great grandson of the Brighton Hugh, was killed in the World War, so the Moshers risked their lives in the service of their country.
Marvin Mosher was born in Lake County, Ohio, March 2, 1821, and came to Brighton with his parents in 1844. He married Abigail Finch, who lived but a few months. He married, 2nd, Susan Lamb, who lived several years. Later he married Hester Peck, of Camden. By the second marriage he had children, George, Walter, Frank and Mary. He served in the army from 1861 until 1865. At his enlistment and a few years earlier, he lived in Camden, but removed to Lucas County, Ohio. The last nine years of his life were spent at the home of his nephew, Walter Mosher, in Brighton. His sons George and Walter died in army.
MOSHER, HIRAM, lived in a log house just north of the Hoffhein farm. He died in the army and his widow married Adad Buckley, of Henrietta. James Mosher, a son, lived at "Mosher’s Corners", west of Oberlin.
MOSHER, LEWIS, lived in Dist. No. 4 in 1875. He was known as "Doc Mosher". He married a daughter of William W. Whitney.
NAY, WALLACE, a son of Leonard and Sarah [Knowles] Nay, was Clarendon, Orange County, N.Y., May 16, 1836. His mother, a widow, and son came to Camden in 1840. The mother married Hiram Bates. Wallace married, Feb. 29, 1860, Mary, daughter of Lansing Waugh, 2nd, October 20, 1875, Dellah O. French. After his marriage he lived in Wakeman, on the Butler Road, and later in the village of Wakeman, where he died Dec. 19, 1917.
NEWELL, NELSON, and wife, Fannie [Munger], lived in a house in the Twining Lane, and sold the farm to Charles Hardy. They settled in Kipton in 1865 and he died in 1891. They owned the hotel when it burnt. A daughter Eva E., married Ernest L. Disbro of Oberlin. After the death of Mr. Newell the widow returned to Pennsylvania, where she had formerly lived.
ORDWAY, ISAAC, of Camden, bought of Walter Parsons 20 acres on the Clarence Searles corner and sold it to William Baldwin in 1850. He sold land to Eli Bush in 1853.
Harvey S. Ordway, whose wife was Rachel, bought of Henry Kingsbury, the William Becker farm in 1852 and sold it to William T. Pomeroy in 1853.
OSBORNE, EDWARD, bought an acre of land at the Center in 1851, and another acre in 1853 and sold to Eliza Lewis in 1854.
PARKER, LYMAN, lived in Dist. No. 1 in 1868. He had a brother Gilbert Riley Parker, who married Elizabeth Hurd. Their native place was in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. Oliver Leffingwell married their sister.
Allison Parker lived in Dist. No. 6 in 1867.
PARISH, LEWIS, lived in the Cannan district in 1842.
PECK. The genealogy of this Camden family goes back to Joseph Peck, baptized April 30, 1587, a son of Robert, being a descendant in the 21ST generation from John Peck of Bolton, Yorkshire, England. Joseph, in 1638 with other Puritans and his brother fled from persecution, to America and settled at Hingham, Mass. He had six sons.
2nd. Gen. Nicholas, born in England in 1630, came with his father and removed with the family to Seekonk, in America.
3rd. Gen. Jonathan, born Nov. 5, 1666, settled two miles from Bristol, R. I., married Elizabeth Throop.
4th. Gen. Thomas [Deacon] born 1711, settled in Swansey, married Mary Kinsley and died Feb. 9,1770.
5th. Gen. Peleg, born March 6, 1736, resided in Swaney and had nineteen children.
6th. Gen. Nicholas, born Jan. 9, 1762, settled in Ashfield, Mass., then moved to Oblong, Dutchess County, N.Y., and in 1795 settled on Grand Island in Lake Champlain, and in 1804 removed to the main land in N.Y. but returned to Grand Island in 1812. In 1819 he removed to Clinton County, N.Y., where he died in 1837.
7th. Gen. Charles, born Nov. 6, 1794, married Polly, daughter of Jonah Martin, [later of Wakeman?], Nov. 15, 1815. She died May 25, 1865, in Camden.
They had children:
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Hardy, |
born Aug. 6, 1816, married Jane Dodd April 15, 1838, settled in Illinois, where he died Sept. 12, 1838. |
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Hester, |
born March 20, 1822, married Marvin Mosher Oct. 12, 1859, resided in Camden in 1865. |
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Hiram, |
born Feb. 6, 1824, married Sarah Ann Griggs, Oct. 2, 1848, resided in Brighton in 1865. |
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Hector, |
born July 30, 1826, married Angeline Lawrence August 20, 1853, resided in Iowa in 1865. |
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Charles, |
born Dec. 8, 1831, married Isabella Linton in 1854, was in Australia in 1861. |
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Allen, |
born June 22, 1834, married Elizabeth Bliss, of Wakeman, July 28, 1864, was in Iowa in 1865. |
Charles Peck, in 1837, bought the west part of lot 37, [Tract 9[south field of the Dowdell farm, the ten acre Morgan lot and west part of the Jickels farm. In 1852 he bought more of the Jickels farm, besides three acres of the Sterling Green place and 3 ½ acres across the road. He died in Lucas County, O.
Hiram Peck, best known of the children, bought a part of the Prosser farm in 1850 and more in 1866. This was south of the Advent Church, and his house stood in Brighton, the town line running between his house and barn. He had children, Merton, married Ella Caswell. Charles who married Eute McCoy, and died in Brighton. Eva, married Cary Gibson, and Alice, who married a Caswell.
PECK, SAMUEL J., of another family, bought the Lafayette Edwards farm in 1850, and lived in a log house there, and sold to Zeke Arnold. He had children, Ida, deceased, Ada, married - - Cushion and lived in Wellington. Charles, lived in Dakota, and Tracy, went to New York State.
PETTY, first name unknown, kept the hotel at Samtown, and had children, Martha, Maria and Madison. They moved towards Berea.
PIKE, MOSES, came to Camden with his son-in-law, Leonard Clark, in 1829. Clark removed after two years, but Pike remained and his son Herod came and they lived together. Herod married Eliza Turner Sept. 3, 1830 and they had a daughter born in July or August, 1832, the first white child born in the township. Herod left and lived on a part of the Frankenberg farm in the southeast part of Florence Township, and lived in Brownhelm in 1847.
MOSES PIKE remained and harvested their crop of wheat, then removed to Henrietta, but came back after a few years and bought, in 1836, the south 20 acres of the John Watkins farm, and died there before 1841. When he first came here he lived between the Peter Beam corners and the Kipton schoolhouse. He also owned the five acre piece of the Watkins farm on the east side of the road. He deeded his land to Samuel Pike. He must have died as early as 1838, for in that year Merril, Herod, and Samuel Pike and Oliver Church joined in a quitclaim of his land. Stephen and John Pike gave a quitclaim deed to Moses Holcomb in 1848, and David Pike in 1853. In 1839 Herod and Merril Pike, Truman and Phebe Holcomb gave quitclaim deed to Samuel Pike for the five acre piece on the east side of the road.
Matilda, wife of Abner Pike, died July 12, 1853, at the age of 55, and is buried in the Camden cemetery.
Obediah Pike was a witness to a deed in 1851, and was director in Dist. No. 2 in 1853.
PLUMB, DARIUS, whose wife was Susan H. Bailey, lived on the Webb Gilkins farm and sold it to Lewis Rood in 1847. His wife, born in 1842, died in 1910. Darius, Lucina and Willie, were possibly his children. [The above is incorrect, probably, as the notes say that Elisha Plumb sold to Lewis Rood.]
POMEROY, WILLIAM T., bought the William Becker farm in 1853 and sold to William E. Hewitt, and moved to Michigan. He had children, Franklin, died Jan. 19, 1862 in the Civil War, Milo, Monroe, Gilbert, married Jay Cooke’s daughter, Seth, Mary, and Lucy, married George H. Scott, of Norwalk.
PORTER, J. NORTON, of Litchfield, Ohio, bought of Hiram Bates the Kemp farm in 1842. In 1849, a resident of Oberlin, he bought the home farm of Samuel Davidson, Sr., and sold it to John D. Williams the next year. In 1857 he bought 24 acres of the C. B. Ingersoll farm next to the Hoover farm, and in 1859 bought of T. W. Rappleye the Hoover farm. He also owned the Charles Russell farm in Wakeman. His brother, Daniel, lived with him, but his name does not appear in deeds. Neither was married.
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