My husband and I just went antiquing, and we always try to look for things "hiding" away that might help out genealogists in finding their families. This year I found a biographical history book for Cincinnati that many of you may be looking for. To keep it fair, and so everyone has a chance on it, I'm offering it on E-Bay. It is item #440613288, in case anyone is interested. It has many, many surnames in it, and someone will really need it for the information. Hope I help someone! Becky L. Stevenson

Frank, Here you go: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohclecgs/ There's an application for membership form on this site you can print out and send. I just joined myself a couple of months ago. Maybe I'll see you at the next meeting, if you go. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <VReeder@aol.com> To: <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:59 AM Subject: Re: FRANK > Can any of you send me the Internet address to write to so that I can join > the Clermont Co., Genealogy Society? > Thanks > Ginger in AZ > > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ >

Can any of you send me the Internet address to write to so that I can join the Clermont Co., Genealogy Society? Thanks Ginger in AZ

Would anyone have access to marriage records for 1850-1860? I am looking for marriage of John Hemmerle to Josephine Hoessler(Hessler). Thank you. Jane

I am looking for the Frank family of Clermont County. His name was Leonard Frank. He was born in Baden, Germany in 1820. He came to the US sometime before 1852 which is when he married Sarah Biggs of Clermont County. To this union was born Mary F. Victoria Ann, and William L. They were all born in Ohio. Victoria Ann married Albert Riley in 1870. William L. married a Sarah M.(?). He was marrried to her in the 1900 Clermont County Census with a daughter Neva who was 4. Then in the 1910 Clermont County census he was married to a Josephine, and still had his daughter Neva who was then 13. Any one who can help me with this line will be appreciated. Thanks Rose

I just found out that my grandmother, Mabel Marie Abbott left my grandfather, Clyde Lowell Hesler at the altar (in Bethel) in 1934 to run off with a man they named Smitty (Smith). They were married in Clermont Co. and they moved to Youngstown. The marriage we find lasted less than a year and she returned to marry Clyde (much to the anger of the Hesler family!). I live in Arkansas and can't get this info. She and Clyde were married in June of 35, just after her divorce, so she would have been married to SMITH in about 1934. If anyone could come up with info about this "secret" of our family, I would appreciate it! Kevin kevinomreb@aol.com

Does anyone have access to early 1900 marriages of Clermont County? If so could you look up a marriage of a William L. Frank to a Josephine between 1900 and 1910. Thanks Rose

There is a several mile long,narrow bottom along the Ohio River from w Rural, to w Boude's Ferry, that had one of the earliest concentrations of population. Very s e Franklin township; very sw Lewis Townsp . The land was owened by the Va Military District's 1st surveyor,John O'Bannon, and rented by him to others. It is ,roughly,where Ohio Rt 133 [Bullskin Trace of buffalo and Indians],and US rt 52 join at Rural, Ohio,which is yards west of where Bullskin Creek enters the Ohio. Being so distant from the county seats, and from the township's largest towns, it was little written about. O'Bannon had the Ky rights to a ferry there at the Bullskin Trace,and leased it ,I think,to John and Joe Logsdon,and Edward Salt,who lived on the Ky bank. Wm [?] Fee had the NW Territory rights to a ferry. At the eastern end of the long bottom was Boude's Ferry to 'the" town,Augusta,Bracken Co,Ky. The Bolender's and a Shinkle 1st lived at Boude's Ferry. This bottom was where people 'camped" while trying to find,and buy, permanet farms in the interior. Rev Gaddis wrote that in 1798, my Capt-Lt-Rev-JP George Brown would row up the Ohio from Carntown,Ky to preach at his Logsdon cousins. And that my own Adam Simmons was the neighborhood ,Methodist class leader. It's mentioned that Methodist local minister,Obediah Winans, lived there awhile. As I remember,the DAR ladies recorded no cemetaries in this bottom,or only the few stones in the yard of the Broadwell house at RT 133-52. It's easy to quickly find evidence of more deaths- Evert's 1880"History of Clermont' ,page 343, talking about the collapse by floodwaters,of the Union building of the Communist 1844 Fourierite Society at Utopia mentions '34 persons sheltered in their new building, Dec 13,1847, when thier building collapsed,killing 'many'. 17 lives were lost. Capt Alexander Smith devoloped 'Smith's Landing" and store,and p.o. and had 30 acres of grapes. I'm sure any deaths aong the 1st settlers left no tombstones. I'm thinking,though,that the DAR ladies missed at least one cemetary at Utopia. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I am looking for anyone with information about this couple. They are listed in the 1900 Clermont County Census. William is the son of Leonard Frank and Sarah Biggs. William was born in 1859 and Sarah in 1857. They had one child listed as a female Neva who was born in 1895. Rose

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Hermon, Thank you -another fascinating reply to one of my queries - the evolution of the housing during the nineteenth century, the topography of the area, migration to Clermont County. I noted that you mentioned the name Rogers which is one that I am researching: James and Lucy RO(D)GERS daughter Elizabeth, born 5/20/1810 in Cherry Valley, NY married Joseph HERRON 7/17/1828 in New Richmond, Clermont County, OH Regards, Ed in CA HERMON B FAGLEY wrote: > > Old Gloucester Co,NJ provided 100+ families to the East Fork Stat e > park,and south > area of Clermont, 1803-30's. 1807 they built a log church-school, which > was rebuilt as the > pesent frame church in 1817-19,and very remodeled in 1865. 1970's the > State Park took > control. 5 acres of well tended cemetary adjoin, which served the > area,not just the mETHODISTS. > A mile south is the village of Bantam,on 'old' RT 125. > Collins,String,Higbee,McCollum,Lake,Frambes,Leeds,Ely,Wilson,Doughty,Dole > ,McClain, > English,Justice,Iler,Strickland,Cade,Rogers, Drummond, Beebe, Smith > ,McClain, and > Burnett,Scull,Carter,Swing, Page, are some,but not all of the Old > Gloucester surnames. > Blackman,Champion, > The point I was trying to make is that there are many of the 1810-50 2 > story federal bricks > around,or in newspaper photos since 1950. I can remember mabe 10 in mid > Bethel. > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:59:30 -0700 E B Herron <ebherron@home.com> writes: > > Hermon, > > > > I enjoyed your posting. I would be interested to know > > something of the history of the Bethel Methodist Church, > > built in 1817, which you mentioned. Also the 1803 migration > > from NJ. Thank you. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ed in CA > > > > > > ============================== > > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

List, Your right about finding more finding the farms and homes. There are two Richey farm homes still standing on Richey Rd outside of Felicity. These homes were both pictured in the 1880 Clermont Co. History Herman Kleine

Hermon, I enjoyed your posting. I would be interested to know something of the history of the Bethel Methodist Church, built in 1817, which you mentioned. Also the 1803 migration from NJ. Thank you. Regards, Ed in CA

Looking for Charles Schmidt born 1826 in Germany and died in Clermont County in 1910 Missy

I am looking for someone who may be connected to this couple. They married in Clermont County in 1852. They had Mary F., Victoria Ann who married Albert Riley, Sarah E., and William L. Rose

These books might be available for every US county. The Soil Conservation Service has mapped the soils of [?] every US county. Anyway,the 2 books I have,for Clermont and for Brown Co,include many pages [65 for Brown Co] of aerial photographs taken in the 1970-80 era. The big township of n Brown Co-Perry- is 8 photographs. Sometimes one can see things from them that are not normally visable. I think ours were purchased from each counties Soil Conservation Service office near the county seat. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Dear Herm, You found it. I'm guessing my atlas is also from 1876 which shows Mary/Polly Hewitt. She was Eli Hewitt's wife. I just gave another list member the closest address of where I thought the farm might be so that it can be photographed. Would you say this is correct--- On Day Hill Road about 1/4 mile north of where Camp Run Road crosses it? Is this still farmland today? I guess Richard Hewitt must have been one of the "Daniel Boone" types as he was there so early. One of his sons, Jacob, owned land in 1830 on Tibbs survey #1942 just to the northwest of #664--perhaps on Camp Run Road before he moved to Clermont County and bought a lot in Batavia. Thanks for the additional information from the aeriel survey. --------Herm's response-------------- > >Just by the low survey no of 664 means the surveyors liked the land. My wife's Kirk[patrick's lived the 2nd farm north 1860-70-76+ of Polly Hewitt. [GUESS] The neighborhood had become so German in the 1830's that the Kirkpatrick's kept a 2nd house in Georgetown,where their kids got English schooling. That section of Straight creek was settled 1st by Dan'l Boone types, but got Asiatic Cholera,and hog cholera about the time Illinois lands opened up. And the Arnheim area was repeopled by Germans,in large part. The village of Arnheim had the several German churches for all mid Brown Co. Only Ripley,on the Ohio,rivaled it for Germans. You can be sure there was enough roll for good surface drainage. Likely 10% near the creek was too steep to be tillable,but could be pasture,or wood lot. Comparing the 1876 Brown Co atlas with the page 34 aerial photograph in "Soil Survey of Brown Co,Oh" -a source of aerial photographs for any county - shows the Hewitt farm almost all in crops or pasture. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Dear Herm and the Clermont/Brown County List: You've got me goin now. I have great curiosity about the farm where my family lived in the early 1800's in Brown County. However, as I live in Colorado and don't get to Ohio very often I haven't made my way over to Brown County to look at the area where my family lived in the early 1800's. I am a great believer in trying to visit the properties where they farmed but it has taken years to visit even some of them. In the meantime I pour over my atlas of Brown County and wonder what it was like to live on and farm that land. Maybe you can help me if I tell you where this family lived. Richard Hewitt moved to Brown County in 1800 and bought 100 acres. He improved the land and later his son Eli Hewitt added to it until he had 200 acres all on Straight Creek straddling Pleasant and Franklin Townships on Crawford's Survey #664. I would very much like to know more about the land, what the area was like, what the farm looked like, etc. I have the agricultural census for 1850 when Eli was living there. It looks like most of his crop was in corn (800 bushels) and the rest in wheat(100 bushels) and a lot of livestock. The farm was appraised at about $5,000 so it must have been a fairly productive enterprise. I have heard that Richard Hewitt was a miller and a distiller as well. If you know anything about this farm or this particular area of Brown County and can add anything to what little I know about the area I would be most grateful. You are probably one of the best sources of information on this area and I would welcome anything you can add to my research on this family and what it was like farming at this time. The names associated with the Hewitts are: Masterson/ Williamson/Prickett/Curtis/Parker/Hall/Calvin/Buckner/ Woods/Ewing and King. Marilyn Schmidt miwi2@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Many of you,when you return to Clermont and Brown Co,Oh go to see your ancestors tombstone. But,not enough of you hunt the farms they lived on,or the houses they once lived in. Maybe because I was once a farmer ,do I want to see the land they farmed. Was it too steep, or was it too level,and once swampy. Areas of N E Clermont,and n Brown Co were not settled for 20-30 years because it was white oak swamps. Too flat for water to drain from. And much of s Clermont and Brown was too steep for normal tractor,or even horse cultivation. But the 1850 era Germans often raise grapes on those steep hillside,and other was pastured. And old buildings survive,or newspapers with pictures of old buildings. After the 1st generation log cabin came the 2 story, federal brick,with it's plain front,and center doorway, and 1-2OR 3 windows each side of the door. Two the most common,and most have a kitchen wing,of 1,1 1\2.or 2 floors. And,if 1 1\2 floors,there was a hired man's room above the kitchen that did not connect to the ustairs of the main house. And these Federal's of 1800-50 were once heated by 3 fireplaces. One at each end, and one in the Kitchen. Here on my farm,Savil Justice brought his bride in 1824 to a log cabin,that was replaced by the 2 story Federal brick, that was replaced by this 1903 frame Victorian. The old section of the barn dates to 1824. Just west is a typical 2 story brick, of about 1830. Just east is an ol,old frame Cape Cod, built either by Rev Jesse Justice,or his son,Robert. The boards under the floor are round. Beyond it is a two story Federal said to be the oldest in the township, and built by the Strickland's. NW a long mile is Old Bethel Methodist,built 1817. When East Fork Lake,and it's Lake Harsha was built in the 1970's, 3 old stone housesbuilt by the 1803 migration fron NJ by Rev John Collins,Isaac Higbee,and Cornelius McCollum were torn down. Surely each followed a few years of log cabin. Isaac Higbee's had a date,and initial stone near the eave that was replaced in newspaper photos. Moved to Burke Park in Bethel then were several log cabins, including the Beebe cabin from the mouth of Barnes Run. If the 2nd house was built near a creek, stone was more often the building material than brick. The brick weremade,and fired,in the yard of the house. The 1830 era brick here,and the one just north were built of brick not well made,that would crumbled over the years. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Of course.I couldn't find the Email this am,but I read one during the night that had the HILL and Ramsey families deeding 2 tracts-1 of 5 acres, to a cemetary, and a 2nd to the RR. Or was the 2nd the one of 5 acres? Anyway,just east of Loveland,and just north of O'BAANION creek,thus just in Warren Co. And a lady just mentioned she found Rosebud,but not the HILL-RAMSEY cemetary. Anyway, it was so close to Clermont that it may have had Clermont burials. I don't know the north edge of Clermont well,to know id other cemetaries are just in Warren Co. West Woodville cemetary,for one, I've mentioned Evergreen cemetary,in Miamitown,had many Hamilton Co residents buried in it. Maybe Milford-Gatch. And along RT 32, at the country line,is the ROSE-DAY cemetary. Perhaps there are other cemetaries in Hamilton Co's Anderson and Symmes townships that had Clermont burials. I have two recent burials of nephews in Pierce Township's new cemetary [1970?] . But that sw most township of Clermont had very few,except family cemetaries. 10 Mile Baptist churchyard alond Rr 747. And? Guess they buried their dead in Mt Moriah,and Amelia IOOF,and New Richmond,and ? ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.