This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Huffman, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bk.2ADE/1257.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Reta, Hello, I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to get back with you! I have been dealing with the flu! Well this is the info that I found on Christian Huffman on Page 349 of the History of Randolph County 1882 E. Tucker. I didnt find any other listings pertaining to his family ect... I hope this helps you and again sorry for the wait. Sincerely Ann Mongar CHRISTIAN HUFFMAN is a farmer , and his post office address is Winchester. He was born in Warren County, Ohio, December 4, 1819, and is a son of Stephen and Catharine Huffman, native of Virginia. He came to this county with his parents in 1822, and settled in the woods, and was all his life accustomed to hard work. When a small boy, he had to do the milling on horseback. There was a small mill on Salt Creek, but when the waters ran low in that romantic stream , the next nearest mill was fifteen miles away. On one occasion, when the Salt Creek Mill was not running, he had to go to the Smithfield Mill, fifteen miles away. Owing to the crowd, he had to stay two days and two nights, and then had to come away without getting his flour bolted, as bolting was done by hand and the bolt being three days behind the bubr. He brought his grinding back and bolted it himself at his home mill, where the mill and bolt were both idle. He attended school in a log cabin with clapboard ! roof, slab seats, and a log cut for a window. He was married February 15, 1850, to Miss Jane Muckey, a native of New York, and daughter of Jacon Muckey. In the Huffman family there were seven children, and now but four are living—Leonidas born May 3, 1854; Evangeline, born February 20, 1858 and died February 2, 1881; Stephen D., born July 1860; Ellen A., born March 14, 1864; Mary W., born September 25, 1869.
Hi, Appreciate your help! Hope Your feeling better, Would there be anything about The PENCE'S or The VANCE'S in the Randolph History Book? My Families lived there, but can't seem to find much on them in Randolph County, My Great-Grandmother Melissa Pence was born in Randloph County. Regards, Iris