Sue wrote 1/10/99: One of the best histories I have read of Jefferson County, Ohio, is in two editions of the books which were put out by the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications of Columbus, Ohio. These books were published yearly by this group. The two which have history of Jefferson county are Volume 6, printed in 1898, and volume 8 , printed in 1900. The articles in both books are entitled Pathfinders of Jefferson County, by W. H. Hunter. They give much genealogical and historical information. I do not know where they would be available, however. Sue I have copies from these Volumes - Not indexed, but I could do some lookups. Helen Weals

Hello - Are your McLains connected to the Maples? William Maple (b. ca. 1738, Middlesex Co., N>J., d. 1812, Jefferson Co., Ohio). His daughter, Clarissa Maple (b.1781?) married 12 August 1801, James MCCLAIN of Jefferson Co., Ohio. Also his dau. Sarah Maple (b. 1778,Middlesex Co., N.J. d. Tunnel Mill, Jeff. Co. O.) married John MCCLAIN They lived near Knoxville, O. They had a son James, b. ca. 1802. Interested in hearing from you. Helen Weals -----Original Message----- From: Avery Mcclain [mailto:esybee@webtv.net] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 1999 9:06 AM To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: OHJEFFER-D Digest V99 #12 Pat the records you need are in Tronto,Ohio Island Creek Presbyrerian Church. All the McClains are buried their at Island Creek Cemetery, John R. McClain son of Robert McClean is buried Harlem Springs Ohio. Yours Ross A. McClain OKC

Hello, I have joined the Jefferson Co. list and would like to list my surnames that that I am researching, most are from the Steubenville area, but not exclusively. GORDON, LINDEMAN, LINDEMANN, BUCY, BUCEY, THOMPSON I was born and raised in Steubenville, but have been in Cleveland, O. for the last 35 years.

Hi The publication is called TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS AND FAMILY RECORDS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO, Published by Esther Weygandt Powell. This covers all the Townships of Jefferson County, Ohio and the cemeteries therein. Mostly lists older tombstones. Probably can locate a copy of this in Ohio libraries. Would be glad to look up any names for you. Helen -----Original Message----- From: BayTobiano@aol.com [mailto:BayTobiano@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 2:40 AM To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: RE: John MC CULLOUGH/Fast Helen In a message dated 1/20/99 12:53:47 AM, weals@ridgecrest.ca.us writes: << In Powell's "Tombstone Inscriptions" book, page 106, East Springfield M.E. Church Cemetery - >> I am curious about this book, does it cover just Jefferson Co. or more? Would you please give me Powell's full name and the publisher. Thanks so much. Deb

I, too, am a transplant from Jefferson County (Dillonvale, Smithfield, Mt Pleasant). My surnames are Bates, Barkhurst, Cowgill, DeYarmon, Garretson, Givens, Greer, Haynes, Hooper, Hughes, Hutton, Naylor, Norris, Paxton, and Thomas. With a measure of Sturdevants from Mass. to Missouri. Audrey

I have many Mercers in my list. will have to check where they came from. Lokking for Downards--John & Emily--4 sons--Jacson and George died in civil war. Eli and Daniel were discharged. can't find anythin about aniel. ---Beverly -----Original Message----- From: SidandJer@aol.com <SidandJer@aol.com> To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com <OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 3:03 AM Subject: My surnames from Jefferson County >Hello, I have just re-joined the list after being gone for a few months, I >would like to list my surnames that I am searching for, mostly from Smithfield >and Mt. Pleasant, Dillonvale-- but not exclusively. > >FISHER, EDWARDS, BARKHURST, HEATON, MERCER, > > Judie > > >==== OHJEFFER Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the list. Send an e mail to >ohjeffer-l-REQUEST@rootsweb.com >with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body. >

Judie, I am from Dillonvale.....I have some BARKHURST/BARCUS' in my line, I will look through my files and send what I have later. Barbara SidandJer@aol.com wrote: > Hello, I have just re-joined the list after being gone for a few months, I > would like to list my surnames that I am searching for, mostly from Smithfield > and Mt. Pleasant, Dillonvale-- but not exclusively. > > FISHER, EDWARDS, BARKHURST, HEATON, MERCER, > > Judie > > ==== OHJEFFER Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list. Send an e mail to > ohjeffer-l-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.

Hello, I am pleased to find that the OHJEFFER digest is readable again. For over a month, all I received was the header. Seeking information on the following families living in Jefferson CO. from 1800 to 1865: RILEY, NESSLY, FAWCETT (FAUCETT) Especially on Thomas Riley, his son Alexander Riley, and grandsons Thomas Nessley Riley, Milton Riley, Homer Riley. Thanks in advance for your input. Mary Riley Alamo, C ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi According to my notes William Fast was b. 1825 and died 2 January 1906, age 81 years old. He was the son of Jesse Fast and a brother of Mrs. Cyrus (Anna Fast) Davidson. In Powell's "Tombstone Inscriptions" book, page 106, East Springfield M.E. Church Cemetery - William FAST 1824 - 1906 wife, Mary - 1828-1906 I have been to this cemetery several times and have seen these graves. Page - 112: Joseph P. KNOX (son of William P. Knox), married Katherine FAST, dau. of Jesse, and had 7 children. Page - 131 : FAST, Jesse 1844 - age 41 wife Rebecca 1837 - age 32 Would love to see the group sheet you refer to and any other records. I am interested in any descendants of Mary Ann (McCullough) FAST as I have been gathering McCullough information for many years. Would be happy to share any info. Helen Weals

Helen In a message dated 1/20/99 12:53:47 AM, weals@ridgecrest.ca.us writes: << In Powell's "Tombstone Inscriptions" book, page 106, East Springfield M.E. Church Cemetery - >> I am curious about this book, does it cover just Jefferson Co. or more? Would you please give me Powell's full name and the publisher. Thanks so much. Deb

Hello list. I am trying to locate relatives who lived in or around Canton, Ohio in September 1934. I have a group photograph of my father Dan COCKLIN along with his Uncle W. John and Aunt Aimie. A young girl, Mary who is probably about 6 or 7 years old may be their child. Others in the photo are Ralph and Freddie. Of course there are no last names on the picture, but I assume the last name may be COCKLIN, LLEWELLYN. I also have a class picture of my Uncle John Cocklin at 1st grade school in Bergholz. It's on a postcard. Can anyone be of assistance ? Any information would be appreciated. John Cocklin , Ottawa, Ontario zxcor@webruler.com

Hi, Thought I remembered the EKEY name. New to the list and have not read mail about the steamboats. Looking for connections to HOLMES. Does this help anyone? Descendants of ANDREW EKEY 1 ANDREW EKEY b: 1791 in PENNSYLVANIA d: 1873 . +ANN HOWDEN b: 1799 d: February 05, 1890 ...... 2 ANDREW EKEY ...... 2 MARGARET EKEY ...... 2 MARY-ANN EKEY .......... +BENJAMIN BARKHURST ...... 2 PHOEBE ANN EKEY .......... +ABRAHAM HOLMES b: December 01, 1808 in SHORT CREEK TOWNSHIP d: May 03, 1880 m: 1856 .............. 3 ? HOLMES d: in INFANCY .............. 3 WESLEY-A. HOLMES b: August 19, 1859 in SHORT CREEK TOWNSHIP .................. +MINERVA CONWELL m: 1884 ...... 2 DAVID EKEY ...... 2 EDWARD EKEY ...... 2 JOHN-H. EKEY ...... 2 JAMES EKEY ...... 2 WESLEY EKEY Will share if I can help. Jan Schwerman jsch501@dataflo.net -----Original Message----- From: DEkey68402@aol.com <DEkey68402@aol.com> To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com <OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 10:51 PM Subject: Steamboats >Hello, > >We've been following the conversations with interest and thought we'd share >some things we've learned. The following is about my grandfather's cousin: > >Captain John Wesley Ekey (1869-1961), was born on a farm near Knoxville, >moved to what is now Stratton with his parents in 1877. His father, James J. >Ekey laid out streets and started building houses for the workers who were >moving to the area. It was called Ekeyville until the advent of the clay and >pottery interests of the Stratton family after the turn of the century. The >first houses in Ekeyville (Stratton) were made from lumber sawed in his saw >mill , the Ekey Mill from logs floated down the river from the Economights >forests in the Pennsylvania and Raccoon Creek area. > >John W. operated this saw mill after his retirement as a riverboat pilot. In a >January 25, 1952 article in The Steubenville Herald-Star it says that John W. >Ekey took to life on the Ohio River when he was 16. As a young man he floated >log rafts down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. He was a versatile and skilled >carpenter and built steamboats in his father's sawmill and operated them >himself on the Ohio River. For years he operated the picturesque coal burning >sternwheelers between Pittsburgh and Ravenswood, WV his chief cargo being >bricks and coal. At the time of the article, at 82 he had a skiff under >construction. The skiffs, exceptionally sturdy and built with precise >dimensions, cost approximately $100 each. > >The article is quite lengthy but very interesting. It quotes him "In those >days we would haul one barge, 16 feet by 90 feet, with a five-foot draft, and >a load of 80 tons of coal. Today, the diesel operated boats tow as many as 12 >barges with many thousands of tons of coal on one trip." We got the article >from his daughter, who at 93 has many interesting stories to tell about her >father and grandfather and the history of the area. In notes from a visit >with her last August she said, "My Dad built the Erie without a blue print, >that it was steam powered with a boiler and they used coal for fuel.." She >has good memories of riding with him in the pilot house as a child and she and >her brother and sister all learned the lingo of the riverboats. She went on >to say her Dad had bought the Panama. Mary Ekey Robinson has written about >this and other boats in her book The Stratton Village Story, 1880-1976. It >gives a lot of other information about the early brick, sewer pipe and fire >clay industries there. About the Panama she writes that it was the first boat >that John Ekey owned and that it was bought in Pittsburgh and built by a >boat building company. She goes on to describe it and says that he sold it >after using it a year and a half. >The following winter construction was started on the hull of the Erie. The >lumber, all white oak, was sawed in the the old mill and construction was >started in the saw mill yard. When the hull, 60 ft. long by 14 ft. wide was >finished, it was put on rollers and rolled down the skidway into the river. >She gives a colorful description of the Erie. > >A book that tells about many of the towns in Jefferson County that either have >had name changes or just aren't there anymore is Jefferson County And Her >Townships by Cozart. It can be found in the Schiappa Library in Steubenville. >Ekeyville is mentioned in it. > >Doyle and Ruby Ekey > >

Still hunting info on James Floyd Wilson. Born around 1898-1900, Jefferson Co., Ohio. Any information on any Wilsons would be helpful. He married Jennie Wyckoff and they had five children. Any Wilsons in Jefferson County, please write me. Thanks.

Hello, I have just re-joined the list after being gone for a few months, I would like to list my surnames that I am searching for, mostly from Smithfield and Mt. Pleasant, Dillonvale-- but not exclusively. FISHER, EDWARDS, BARKHURST, HEATON, MERCER, Judie

I have uncovered Griffith family in two different lines of my family. I have four brothers who (apparently) married four sisters and a male Griffith in the same time frame who married into a different line. I am trying to determine if he is of the same Griffith family? I'm needing to fill in some gaps of knowledge and am wondering if anyone has further descendant information on this family? Any help or a point in the right direction would be most appreciated. William HACKATHORN (d. 1916) m. Sara GRIFFITH Christian HACKATHORN (1850-1847) m.abt.1894 Matilda GRIFFITH Jacob HACKATHORN (1857-1941) m. Lucy Mary GRIFFITH (1880-1974) Crawford HACKATHORN (1869-1950) m. Eliza "Lyde" GRIFFITH (1878-1905) Emma MOORE (b. 1857) m. Joseph GRIFFITH (b. 1852) Children: Rose (b. 1878) Minnie (b.1884) Charles (b. 1886) Mordicia (b. 1888) Joseph J. (b. 1890) Edward (b. 1892) Bryan (b. 1897) In papers where Jane JOHNSON Moore, widow of Charles MOORE, was applying for his Civil War pension; one Joseph GRIFFITH and one Lucy HACKATHORN were among those that vouched for Jane. This is the single item that makes me want to tie these Griffiths together. Does anyone know this family? Hollie Ann Henke holliefrog@aol.com

Historical Notes of Knox Township Jefferson Co. Oh. By Dr. Robert Schilling page 100,101,&102 Great Locomotive Chase One of the most daring and interesting episodes of the great Civil War, had as one of its character a Knox Twp. volunteer, William Pittenger. Eight lost their lives, and Pittenger for months was supposed to have be executed with them. By the efforts of Edward Stanton of this country these prisoners were exchanged March 1863. For a time, when Pittenger was thought to have been hung, it was wildly talked of holding memorial services for him in the New Somerset M.C. Church. Soon after the War, became a minister and preached on different occasion in this church.His book "Daring and Suffering" giving a complete history of this fight was read beside every fireplace in the North for the succeding 30 years I did not list all the details that are listed in this book, only that which pertains to Jeff.Co. Towns then and now; Then- Gillestown to East Springfield- now Then -Shanghai to Olive City To McCoy's Station to Empire- now In 1885 a sewer pipe establishment called the "Empire Sewer Pipe Company" they offered sufficient brick to the "Olive City" people to erect a suitable municipal building if the would change the village name to "Empire City". js Then- Newburg-to-Sloan's Station-to-Toronto- Now _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

William Fast had 5 children to Mary according to group sheet of JoAnn Holcomb gr gr granddaughter John Milton, Francis Daniel, William A., Homer Jesse, Abraham Lincoln, George McCullough and Rebecca Jane. first 4 in Jefferson County 5th in Troy-Davis County, IA 6th in Milton-Van Buren County, 7th in Birmingham-Van Buren Co.,IA she wrote this in 1986 her birthdate was 20 Oct 1926 in Independence, KS..her mother Olive Oleene Orndorff 10 Dec 1901, and then her mother Sarah Olive Fast 3 Sep 1880 in Monroe Co., IA married Ira Irven Orndorff on 4 Feb 1900. Sarah Fast d/o John Milton Fast b. 20 Sep 1850 in East Springfield, Jefferson, Ohio d. April 1926 Lamar, MO and Mary Isorel Bayles b 1857 Monroe, IA d. 4 Dec 1892 Birmingham, IA. I have Guardianship record Book 1 page 93 Jefferson County, OH, John Jacob Fast at Nov term 1844 appointed guardian for William, Joseph, Anne,Francis, Benjamin,Jonas?, Jesse, Jacob, Rebecca and Catherine(later in papers she is Malinda Catherine Fast) File included picture of Mary Ann and William Fast taken in 1895 at Birmingham, IA by R. Porter & son Helen Weals wrote: > Hi: > > Mary Ann (McCullough) and William Fast lived in the village of E. > Springfield in a one and one half story red brick house. They are both > buried in the E,. Springfield Cem. near Mary Ann's parents, John and Jane > (Richey) McCullough. My information says they had no children. > > Helen Weals > > -----Original Message----- > From: Osz [mailto:mrsosz@eohio.net] > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 4:21 PM > To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: John MC CULLOUGH/Fast > > Where did Mary Ann who married William Fast live when she died? FAST line > is > branch of mine and yours too > Kay Davidson...if here I try to get to library to look for obit > > Bridgette Osz, Steubenville,OH

Is the name HAYWARD familiar in this area? I'm looking for two brothers, Henry HAYWARD [b. 1794 Nova Scotia] and Matthew HAYWARD [b. 1796 Nova Scotia; had wife Margaret ___] who may have arrived in the Steubenville area around 1820-1822, possibly lived in Guernsey or Belmont counties 1820s-1840s. They would have come to the area from Kings County, New Brunswick. Sandy Wilbur Gresham, OR

Hi: Mary Ann (McCullough) and William Fast lived in the village of E. Springfield in a one and one half story red brick house. They are both buried in the E,. Springfield Cem. near Mary Ann's parents, John and Jane (Richey) McCullough. My information says they had no children. Helen Weals -----Original Message----- From: Osz [mailto:mrsosz@eohio.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 4:21 PM To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: John MC CULLOUGH/Fast Where did Mary Ann who married William Fast live when she died? FAST line is branch of mine and yours too Kay Davidson...if here I try to get to library to look for obit Bridgette Osz, Steubenville,OH

Where did Mary Ann who married William Fast live when she died? FAST line is branch of mine and yours too Kay Davidson...if here I try to get to library to look for obit Bridgette Osz, Steubenville,OH CFrick4240@aol.com wrote: > Hello to Bob Hobson, > I too am a descendant of John and Jane UNDERWOOD McCULLOUGH. They are my > gggg-grandparents. I come from the line of their son David, wed to Francis > LONG. > David and Francis had a son named David U. who wed first Elizabeth SCARLETT > and then Matilda Taylor BROOKS. > David U. and Matilda had a son named David Taylor who wed Margaret (Maggie) > NORTON. > David T. and Maggie had a son named Edward Webster and he married Lulu Hazel > MOFFITT. Ed and Hazel had a daughter named Marilyn Jane McCULLOUGH who wed > Arthur TAMMARINE. > Marilyn and Art are my parents. > > I show the following information for John and Jane RICHEY McCULLOUGH: > They were married on the 19th of > FEB. 1805 at the Richey farm home in Jefferson CO., Ohio and had the following > children; > > George b: 08 DEC 1805 in Jeff. CO. and d: 25 Aug 1889 at Fayette, Howard CO., > MO. George married Jane Lowry. > > John b: 05 Feb 1808 in Jeff. CO. and d: 09 May 1875. John married Rachel > Edington. > > Thomas b: 06 March 1810 in Jeff. CO., and d: 25 Oct 1885. Thomas married > Rebecca or Caroline Applegate and Nancy J. Melindy. > > Margaret b: 16 Feb 1812 and d: 08 June 1839. Margaret married George Hammond. > > Jane b: 27 July 1814 and d: 22 March 1902. > Jane married William Andrews. > > Catherine b: 29 Aug 1817 Jeff. CO. and d: 27 May 1855. > Catherine married James Patten. > > David b: 08 Apr 1820 and d: 1842 in Texas. > > Alexander L. b: 27 June 1822 and d: 28 DEC 1884 in Howard CO., MO. Alexander > married Bethanne Hammond. > > Eliza b: 25 June 1824 and d: 19 Aug 1849. She is buried in the Springfield > Methodist Church cemetery. > > Mary Ann b: 17 May 1828 and d: 20 Apr 1905. Mary Ann married William Fast. > > I have more information if you are interested please let me know. > Nice to find another cousin!! > Carol