I thought that spam was defined as unwanted messages. Genealogical and historical data from the areas I am researching, whether applicable to my own research or not, is always welcome data. I, for one, am grateful for the efforts of those on mailing lists who are willing to devote so much of their personal time to share with other list members the research they've done. Thank You All. Judy Ramsay-Jensen in Wisconsin -----Original Message----- From: Tim Fox [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OHBELMON-L] Spam I am unsubscribing from this mailing list due to all of the spam. I understand there are people that want the specific information in regards to the Barnsville news paper. I however do not. I feel that the people that want to send or receive that information should send it privately. -- You have come here from all over the world Because society has no further use of you This place will now become your holy bed until your death

Every list I belong to is different and the administrators have a great deal of influence over what can be posted. One list that has a great variety of information posted is the Richland County, OH list. It is full of topics - just like Sandra encourages us to post. I mention the Richland Co. list for those that are wondering what types of postings are helpful and would like additional examples for ideas on what would be useful for Belmont research http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/New2005.htm Learning to use each list's archives are a big help and Sandra is the one who taught me how to do that! Thanks again for doing so Sandra! http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=OHBELMON --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

Does anyone have access to early marriages for Belmont County? I'm looking for: Lottie PEARL who married 6 Aug 1808 in Belmont Co. I would like to know the spelling of her husband's name, SCHWEYER? SCHWYART? something like that. Thanks for any help, Penny Altis

Sandra, could you be kind enough to look up in the index of your book the name Humphrey Beckett? He is my GGgrandfather and is first found in the 1820 census in Washington Township. But, I haven't found anything about him in the other books that I have seen about the early settlers. Bill Dalton

Sandra. Would you please look in the index of your book, THE STORY OF BARNESVILLE OHIO 1808-1940, for any reference to the names: William HODGIN OR Stephen HODGIN They were among the first Quaker group to come up from Wrightsville Ohio to settle the Barnsville area in 1803. I had not heard of this book before. Last year you did a look up for me in the CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY. Thank you for anything you might find on them. Stephen is my husband's direct ancestor. Thanks for your help, Donna Williams Kentch in South Dakota

Barnesville 1800-1839 Tobacco Merchants Barnes, Davenport and Gibson began to handle leaf tobacco in 1824… Thomas Shannon in 1827….. CHURCHES Rev. James M. Round and Barnes partnership….. Daniel Davis, first child buried in new church 1808. Charles Schur and Ezekiel Chapman built the brick moulded by William Piper… Reverends: Charles Waddell, Edward Smith, James Drummand, Dyson, Moffat… * HOTELS Henry Barnes kept the first tavern. Israel operated the second. The third was the Alexander House …..(no mention of owner) One Ferrell was the next to start a tavern… John O. Parsons started the Barnesville Hotel….. William G. Shankland opened the Mansion House….. * NOTABLE AND PROFESSIONAL MEN Dr. Carolus Judkins, the first physician….. Hon. Thomas Shannon…. Hon John Davenport…..mentions John Gibson Dr. James Stanton, father of the War Secretary, Edwin Stanton…. Dr. John C. Bennett… Dr. John G. Affleck… * ACCIDENTS AND FIRES At the raising of the old mill, in 1815, one Vernon, the grandfather of James V. and Robinson McLane, was killed…. James Barnes grandson, James R. Shankland, son of William G. Shankland, got caught… This concludes the first trimester of the article!!!!Email me if you need a copy.

Please keep posting. Byron Knutsen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:37 PM Subject: [OHBELMON-L] Re: Spam > I, for one, enjoy reading the accounts from the newspaper. I keep hoping > that some of my wife's family names will pop up and we will learn a little bit > more about them. > > I thought that was what a news list was for. To have people that you never > heard of post something of interest to you. At least that is why I joined the > list. I hope people keep posting to the list rather than leaving the rest of > us out. I find it rather easy to delete what I have no interest in. > > Bill O'Neil > >

Barnesville 1800-1839 Other Industries 1810 James Riggs of Hagerstown Md. Built a wrought and nail factory… * William Henderson started a spinning and flax wheel factory in 1812…then began making wooden bowls. With Henderson the Hon. William Hawkins, late of ______, learned his trade… (here the paper was damaged and did not microfilm well. It will not scan, but I will give you what I can make out-seems to move from pottery to bricks…) About the same time ____Tegard began to manufacture ____in various patterns. William Piper manufactured bricks. * The Rogers brothers had some sort of mill, probably a woolen mill, but it’s not readable. They went into partnership with Barnes and the business failed. * James McLeigh, a Scotchman, in 1825 erected a factory of sorts for wagons, plows….. Mercantile Houses James Barnes opened the first store in 1810, with William Philpot as clerk… . Hon. Thomas S_____opened out a store in the late Fraiser house in 1812…. William Coulson operated a store… Myers and Young opened the fourth store during the war and failed in 1819. John Davenport, arrived in 1818….. John Davenport and John Gibson formed a partnership…..William Philpott was an additional partner… Mummy and Affleck operated a store… Benjamin H. Mackall purchased the store from Mummy and Affleck… Benjamin Hoyle and William Green opened a store in 1826… Thomas D. Laws had the first grocery store… Allen Green and his son Lewis H. Green, began the mercantile business…. Email me privately if you need a scan. Pam Klemm Burcher/Windom

Barnesville 1808-1839 Mechanical and Other Industries * James Barnes moved to St. Clairsville in 1808 from Montgomery County, Md. * Rev. James M. Round (tanner) and Barnes formed a partnership… * Robert Mills was the first saddler… John Brown was the second saddler… * David Snyder was the first blacksmith… John Bailey, George Dawson and John Francis are other blacksmiths that settled here during this time….(There is a tear in the page but apparently there was another blacksmith, Aduddell and he eventually partnered with Francis. * Rev. Avery West, grandfather of Eli Moore was the first shoemaker…. Joseph Gardner started a shoemakers shop during the war…..sons Asbery and Wesley became his successors… William Moore, William Hill and William Parsons were all shoemakers during this time…. * Archibald Cole was the first cabinetmaker Kelion Hager was a journeyman who worked with Cole. * Nathan Riley was the only undertaker until 1845… Samuel Kimball was the next… * William Bloomfield was the first tinner… * Joel Judkins, Edward Thornburg and Joseph Brown were the first hatters…. Panter Laws and John McCune were the next hatters…. Caleb Hibbard was the only silversmith…(grandfather of Frank Hibbard and Mrs. McClelland) * William Mitten and Joseph Fraley were the only tailors… -.-.-.-.-.-. If you would like a scan, email me privately. Pam

Warren Township 1800-1839 First settlers: John Grier located on what is now the Robert Smith farm John Dougherty Families that followed (all of the Friends religion): Plummer Vernon Smiths Doudna French Hick All of the above settled in the eastern and southern portions. Buchanan Shannon These settled along the northern border. Grier, Henry (brother of John) Campbell Kennon Douglas Hartley All of the above were on the west side. English Dodd Reed Engle These settled down Leatherwood Creek. First Mill was a horse mill and was built by Joseph Middleton….. The first water mill was erected in 1807 near where Slabtown now stands, by Carmm Thomas and the second was put up by Mahlon Hartley… John Phillips had the only distillery… 1806-07 Warren township was organized and given the powers of a corporation. She was named after the lamented Dr. Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill. 1807-first election took place at John Grier’s cabin. He was elected Justice of the Peace and was re-elected for two consecutive terms. Rev. John D. Price cultivated tobacco in Warren in 1819….. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. If the is a ….after the entry, there is probably more to the article. The first part is just names as you see it listed. If you need a copy of this article email me privately and put Warren Twp. In the subject line. I am not sure how much of this will scan, this first part was rather damaged when they did the microfilm, so we will try.

After many trips to Belmont County, I have never been able to get any assistance at Linwood Cemetery. However, while reading land records I extracted the following sale of plots: I wish I had thought to do this years ago while reading various deed books. Harriet M. Herrington May 23, 1889=from=Lash, Abram v96 p204 17+ ac s16-t-6-53--$5600. Dec. 17, 1889=to=Baggs, Alice M. v97 p538 Linwood Cemetery $25.00 Dec. 17, 1889=to=Baggs, Kate M. v97 p438 Linwood Cemetery $24.00 June 11, 1889=from=Lash, Abrah v09 pg 29 221 acres S16-T6-%3---$220.00 April 8, 1891=to=Baggs, Josephine K. v00 p414 Bridgeport Cemetery Lot $40.00 April 6, 1891=to=Howell, Wm. H. v99 p373 Bridgeport Cemetery Lot $48.00 LINWOOD CEMETERY May 20, 1893=to=Giffin, George v106 p477 Colerain Twp. Lot 15 $15.00 Jan. 1, 1891=to=Walling, David v106 v477 Colerain Twp. Lot 15 $15.00 Dec. 8, 1893=to=McCloy, D.T. v110 -27 Colerain Twp. Lot 34 $28.00 Aug. 11, 1894=to=Wieler, Geo. L. v110 p139 Lot 1 $35.00 June 1, 1894=to=Oschsenbein, R. v110 p507 Lots 49-50, 9-10 $150.00 May 1, 1890=to=Dickey, Josp. et al v111 p342 Lots 1-2, 19-20 $80.00 Dec. 14, 1895=to=Mrs. Thomas Wallin v113 p391 Lot 3 $20.00 July 14, 1892=to=Trustees Branum Post No. 221 GAR v117 p16 Lot A $1.00 Mar. 2, 1895=to=James McComaughly, Jr. v117 p305 Lot 13 $10.00 MARTINS FERRY-RIVERVIEW CEMETERY Oct. 17, 1896=to=James Keery v116 p475 Riverview Cemetery Lot 79 $35.00 LINWOOD CEMETERY ASS. Oct. 24, 1898=to=George Cooper v130 p83 Lot 48 $20.00 LINWOOD CEMETERY May 1, 1902=to=Edward Stokes v137 p362 lot 17 July 20, 1906=to=Mrs. Frank Herman v138 p284 lot 30 ...................=to=Leonard Donly v141 p383 lot 6 ..................=to=John Graybill v147 p404 Lot 47 Oct. 27, 1904=to=J.N. Alexander v148 p570 Jan. 4, 1904=to=Henry C. cilles v143 p462 Lots 7, 14 ..................=to=Henry Rhem v143 p463 Lots 8, 15 Jan. 11, 1902=to=Mary C. Nicholson v142 p568 lot 49

"Nathan Riley was the second cabinet maker to make his home in Barnesville. His shop was on East Hill on lot # 5 where the new community hospital was located. Mr Riley was the only undertaker in town till 1845 and he is credited with having made by hand over 1000 coffins. The were of any kind of native wood or style desired. The prices were from 5 to 12 dollars." In 1818, a number of citizens petitioned that a new county should be formed with Barnesville as it's county seat. Nathan Riley signed the petition. Nathan Riley was a member of the Methodist Church, built on West Church Street, on the north side opposite the Central school bldg....it was built of logs furnished by members and friends.. The roof was clapboards held in place not by nails but by tie poles every 3 feet.. To cover the spaces between the logs the inner walls were ceiled to the square with thin sawed lumber from the first sawmill in the area. The floor was split out of straight grained logs. The benches were made of medium sized logs split in town and the flat side dressed by hand. Heavy wooden pins were the legs and the benches were without backs, and had no cushions. The pulpit stood between 2 fireplaces. The aisle divided the room and the women sat on the north side and the men on the sough side. ...early marriages..."Nathan Riley and Polly Ensminger, were married on June 22, 1815, by John Bevan, J.P. Sandra . "Is there anything on Nathan Riley, who owned a cabinet shop and was also a coffin maker. He lived in Barnesville from the time of his marriage in about 1815 until his death in 1870. "

Several of us all who live in Texas, its a great list and wealth of information. Would never be able to come and find what you are doing for us. Since Belmont Co. was the start of most families moving west.

I also have a book, called THE STORY OF BARNESVILLE OHIO 1808-1940, but this one is by Dempsey Sheppard. There is an index and I'll be happy to look ups any names sent me...but please include a full name, both given and surname, and some sort of date, even if approximate. Sandra

I will preface this history with the beginning of the article from the Enterprise: Twenty years ago when the Barnesville Enterprise was in its infancy the editor conceived the idea of gathering and printing the history of Barnesville. At that time there was not a printed line on record, except files of the old Barnesville Intelligencer, extending from 1857 to 1861. It was no light labor to go back and delve in the debris of the past and gather facts for this important work. But the man was found who was by nature fitted for this labor of love, and in R. H. Taneyhill, Esq., the town secured a chronicler whose work was crowned with remarkable success. His articles of local history extended through several numbers of the Enterprise, and formed the basis of his brilliant contributions to the “History of Belmont County,” published by J. A. Caldwell in 1880. So excellent were those sketches of the Enterprise that they attracted the attention of the well know publishing house of Robert Clark & Co. of Cincinnati, who republished some of the matter, as revised by Mr. Taneyhill. No town in Ohio has so complete a record of its history. Mr. Taneyhill is a born antiquarian, with a wonderful affection for the old town and he has left a monument in these historical sketches that will live long after their author has passed away. Whatever of history is published; now or hereafter will be mainly founded on the work done by Mr. Taneyhill and the Enterprise. Feeling assured that no other man could do the subject justice, we have secured his services in writing the following _____ sketch of early times in Barnesville, which is not a mere reprint of old matter, but fresh and warm from the mind of the author. We could readily have copied the article in the “History of Belmont County,” but prefer to be original and moreover there are scores of facts and incidents in this new sketch that have never before been published. We take pleasure in presenting this history to our readers, feeling that they will full appreciate the time and talent devoted to the work. It is a condensed, yet complete history of Barnesville and its people from the past until the present with no important event omitted and it appropriately crowns the literary labors of its gifted author. (I will list the Sketch Title and then the names of the people mentioned or in some cases events-if you are interested, email me and I will send you a scan. Remember this fills an entire spiral notebook and then some, about 90 pages…)

I agree with Sandra - It's why we come here. Tim's loss. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: genealogical data The sharing of information from ANY source - whether reference books or newspapers, is what these lists are all about. They in NO WAY are SPAM. When we send information with genealogical data to individuals rather than everyone, we limit it to just one person - while, if we post it, it will then be available for everyone on the list to use, plus placed in the list archives for others to find and use later. The 'name of the game' is to get the most information to the most people, and generous folks like our fellow list member EBBurcher are to be thanked for taking the time to share their info with us.... I wonder, if you don't believe newspaper obits, marriages, births, area students of another era, etc, are valuable, what on earth DO you feel is worth sharing? Many may be interested in one or more of these items...if you're not, simply delete them. Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Fox" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:47 PM Subject: [OHBELMON-L] Spam >I am unsubscribing from this mailing list due to all of the spam. I >understand there are people that want the specific information in >regards to the Barnsville news paper. I however do not. I feel that >the people that want to send or receive that information should send >it privately. > > -- > You have come here from all over the world > Because society has no further use of you > This place will now become your holy bed until your death >

There is a Belmont County web site and I wonder if this information might not be posted on that site. They have postings of photos and articles (mostly little clippings). Perhaps many of us could get together and copy the articles into word documents and upload them. The work of the transcription of the articles could be shared. Perhaps the articles are in good enough condition to be simply scanned and posted. It is a real opportunity to get this data up where in can be searched by people who are not now part of this list. Bill Dalton Gig Harbor, WA

While I have not been personally helped with the listings, I always appreciate people taking the time and effort to write this information down. You never know when something unexpected might come up that leads to a major breakthrough. Sharon

I am searching for information and descendants of the Gautschi's in Martin's Ferry area. Any help is appreciated. Jen

I have been helped by the generosity of the list member who has shared her newspapers with the rest of us and hope that anyone else who has benefited from her efforts will join me in thanking her.