This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hyde, Bard, Boyd, Perry, Beers, Holbrook, Wooster Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4Yk.2ACIB/1150 Message Board Post: This is the second half of the main chunk of material on the Hyde family in Dr. F. E. Weeks' History of Wakeman (Huron County, Ohio). See previous post for Bible info. [Note: the following occurs directly after the Hyde Bible information and appears to be Week’s synthesis of information from a variety of sources. Surnames are arranged alphabetically in this work] HYDE, Merritt- born in Oxford, Conn., Jan. 2, 1794, was a son of Daniel and Eunice ( Bard ) Hyde. Daniel was a son of Abijah and Mary ( Holbrook ) Hyde. Abijah was a son of Daniel and Deborah ( Perry ) Hyde. Daniel the elder, was a descendent, perhaps grandson of Humphrey Hyde, who came from England and settled in Fairfield, Conn., in 1639? (1669) Merritt Hyde married Sally Boyd, Jan. 25, 1815. Their children are given above. The son Merritt I was killed by being thrown from a horse. Mr. Hyde came to Wakeman with his brother-in-law, William Beers in May 1823, [Note: the entry for William Beers gives a date of May 1824], when according to report, there were only thirteen people in the township. He either sold or traded his Connecticut property for land in Wakeman, getting deeds for 113 acres of Lot 35 and 67 acres of Lot 25. He made a start toward a clearing and returned to Connecticut. He came again, with his family after the birth of Mariette. About 1834, he built a frame house on his farm, on the center road, west of the village, which is yet standing in 1938. He was an enterprising man and operated an ashery and store and distillery. Hyde and Bottesford operated a distillery near the grist mill, and Hyde had another north of his hous. Hanford & Pierce sold Hyde and Bottsford a quarter acre of land, in 1833, for a still house. Mr. Hyde’s mother was very much opposed to his making liquor, and lost her mind over it and set the distillery on fire. William Bissell told of this experience, when a boy, with Mr. Hyde. His father sent him on horseback from their home in Clarksfield to Mr. Hyde’s for a gallon of whiskey, for use in harvesting. The boy got the whiskey all right, buy when he went to ford the Brandy Creek, his horse put his head down to drink, and the boy slid over the horse’s head into the creek, and the jug was broken. He knew that if he went home without the whiskey, he would have to go back, and perhaps get a licking in the bargain; so he returned and Mr. Hyde, very generously, gave him another jug filled with whiskey, and he finally got home in good shape, with a warm place in his heart for Mr. Hyde. The post office was kept in his house for a number of years. When the Vermillion and Ashland railroad was projected and construction commenced, Mr. Hyde kept a store. He also bought ashes and made potash. A man would go around with a team and wagon with a high box to the farm houses and buy ashes at six cents a bushel, paying the same from his peddler’s chest of merchandise which he carried with him, or the farmer could go to the store and receive store pay. Mr. Hyde was the Indian agent for the government also. He died May 1 1874. The wife died Feb. 2, 1889, at the age of 94. Sally Maria Hyde, daughter of Merritt, married William Humphrey of Townsend, June 28 1855, and lived in Townsend until her death Oct. 22 1888. Susan Mariette Hyde, daughter of Merritt, married Lemuel B. Pierce, of Wakeman, Nov. 27, 1867, and died March 19, 1907. Merritt Monroe Hyde, called “Monroe”, Hyde, married Elizabeth Church, daughter of Elisha Church, of Wakeman, July 18, 1859, and began housekeeping in a house across the road from his father’s, the Mott house. After the death of his father, he moved to the homestead. In 1883 he moved to Texas and later to Elkmont, Alabama, where he died Nov 13, 1920. His wife died Sept. 7, 1892. His children were: Merritt Humphrey Hyde, of Wakeman, William Daniel, of Memphis, Tenn.; Sarah Francis, of Ala. HYDE: Garry B. – brother of Merritt, was born in Oxford, Conn., May 1 1795. He came to Wakeman in 1827, but returned to Connecticut after a couple of years. He was married to Caroline Wooster, July 17, 1831. In the spring of 1833, they, with their infant son, Henry Wooster Hyde, came to Huron on their way to Chicago, and stopped to visit at the home of Merritt Hyde. On their way to Wakeman two highwaymen attempted to hold them up. This so terrified Mrs. Hyde that he as persuaded to give up the Chicago trip, and he purchased a farm in Vermillion, on the lake shore. Subsequently they removed to Athens, Alabama, where he died Aug 9, 1879. Mrs. Hyde died in Texas, Aug. 14, 1902. They had two sons and four daughters. Mr. Hyde’s father died in 1807 and the mother followed her sons and died in Ohio in 1862, at the age of 97. She was an aunt of Sheldon and Hepsy Smith, of Wakeman. She had ten brothers who fought in the Revolutionary war. She came to Ohio ! in 1834.”