Herman: you are not boring me--I am fascinated. I wish your lines tied into the Derrough-Ralston, Sample, Young, Coils. You could have filled me in! Those darn Darroughs have confounded me for many years--also the Young lines in Clermont (Ohio) twsp. Jacqueline -----Original Message----- From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> To: OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:28 AM Subject: Hermon E Fagley Dec 11,1898-Oct 15,2000 >I don't suppose rootsweb.cob is the proper place for an obit, so I >will attempt to make it more interesting to genealogists. >1st, I gave infromation for my Dad's obit over the phone while emotionly >upset. >I could easily have checked for accuracy,but didn't and will question >obits more >from this date. > The large dairy,hog and grain farm of my grandfather was in Clermont, >but ran >almost to the Brown Co line,and I find many traces of his wife's >grandfather's >John Iden and Hermon Stone,Jr,in Brown Co,which calls the road thru his >farm, >Fagley Road. > Just as I've spent 11+ years caring for my parent[s],so did my Dad spent >11 years >on the farm caring for his stroke victam mom,before starting college. >Starting at >U Cincinnati, he was called west by a recently widowed aunt,and >graduated,Phi >Beta Kappa, from Occidental College,Pasadena,Calif. Then he hurried back >to >Bethel,Oh tomarry the 'girl back home"-teacher Ruhama Fagley in 1927. And >my >own very 1st Email reply to a genealogy querie ,Jan 1992, on Prodigy, >stated out. >'Hermon Fagley! My mom went to school to a Hermon Fagley at >Williamsburg,Oh!" >from Anna9241. >And he enjoyed his years spent teaching at Williamsburg,and New Richmond, >". >But,he had been a bee keeper since boyhood,and had planted an apple >and peach orchard on RT 125 west of Bethel soon after marriage, so he > became best known as one of sw Ohio's largest fruit growers, and owner > of a fruit market on RT 125 ,that fed Clermont and Brown Co families. >He's >pictured in the reprint edition of Rockey and Bancroft's history spinning >a >Morgan's Raider's tale for a county paper. >When they retired in 1966 to a Bethel home, my parents spent the next 20+ >years helping genealogists who came from a distance to research, and >contributing >articles and pictures of historical interest to the newspapers. My mother >was a >charter member and officer of the DAR in 1927,and a founding,and active >member >of the Clermont Co,Gen Soc. >George Fagaly [Vogele] and wife from Stuttgart to downtown Cincinnati >about 1808. >As a widow,she would found the church now known as Mt Zion Methodist nw >of >Cincinnati. Among their sons was Lewis, a butcher in downtown Cincinnati, >who m >1830 young Mary Ann Fox, and had a large family that they mostly moved to >a farm on RT 133 s Bethel,Oh in 1850. A couple of their oldest were >Underground RRer's. >My 101 year Dad had uncles,not great uncles,born in the 1830's helping >slaves escape. >I've bored you enough. >________________________________________________________________ >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. > > >============================== >Search more than 150 million free record at RootsWeb >http://search.rootsweb.com/ >