Daar Pat: This is my FTM Notes on Joseph Hines: GEN_WELLS_KING_FRANKLIN TWP, MONROE CO, OH_ CLEAR CREEK VALLEY PIONEERS OF THE VALLEY OF THE CLEAR FORK OF THE LITTLE MUSKINGUM Swazey village, Swazey Chapel, and the Clear Fork in Franklin Twp, Monroe County. The old town of Swazey was located in Section 18 of Township 6 and Range 7. "JACOB WISE, grandfather of Mrs. V. FARLEY of Summerville, Ohio, and of SAMUEL WISE, moved to the farm where the latter now lives on Will's Creek, two or three miles west of Lewisville, in 1820. "JJACOB WISE came from Pennsylvania. Some years later, about 1830, his son JONATHAN WISE moved to the neighborhood where he remained several years, removing finally to Jackson County, West Virginia, where he died. "Further down the valley a MR. [RICHARD] WELLS from Virginia bought land on which he settled his sons-in-law, SHADRACK KING, WILLIAM MORRIS, and SOLOMON FORSHEY. "Below here about the line between the farm of MILES MALLET and the HUGHES farm was buried the first man who died in the neighborhood. His name was JOSEPH HINES and his coffin was made of puncheons, slabs split from a tree and hewn down for the purpose. His funeral occurred in 1820. He was buried so near the creek bank that by 1848, it had washed away the earth. "JOHN ANTLE [Antil/Antill] came into the valley about 1831 and took up 80 acres of land not far from the church, Swazey Chapel [at the village of Swazey in Franklin Township, in Section 18 of Township 6 and Range 7. "JOHN B. KEAN whose children and grandchildren are to be found in the country came here about the same time from Philadelphia. He was a cabinetmaker and subsequently removed to Stafford, where he lived to a very old age, dying only a few years ago. His residence while living here was near the church. "WILLIAM CASEY joined the settlement about 1837, living here till 1862, the time of his death. "These families formed the body of the colony of pioneers in this beautiful valley. They and their families have made it what it is. This handsome church did not arise in a moment out of the ground. The wilderness was not subdued and made to bloom with beauty without many sturdy persevering blows." ___________________________________________________________________________ The Pioneers: John B. Kain: Born c1788 in South Carolina; moved to Pennsylvania; married Patience, born c1793, in Pennsylvania; then moved to Franklin Twp in Monroe Co, Ohio. Son John N. Kain lived on adjoining farm. [1850 Census, household #64/64-- Davis, p. 163]. John Antle: Born c1790 in Virginia; moved to Pennsylvania, married Elizabeth. At least four children were born in Pennsylvania. At least six were born in Ohio. Shadrack King, brother of Meshach King, son-in-law of Richard Wells. William Morris, son-in-law of Richard Wells