This was snet to me by Carolyn Kuczmarski. Thought I would pass it along. I know that Eliz is researching the LORD name. Hope this will help someone. HISTORY OF KNOX COUNTY CHAPTER XXXIV. WAYNE TOWNSHIP Pg 344 of the earliest practitioners of medicine in this township. Dr. David Wadsworth, another physician died many years ago. His son, T. B., died a soldier in the Mexican war ; and his daughter, Eliza Ellen, Mrs. Struble, is the sole survivor of the family. The Bryant's have been quite numerous in Wayne, and among them James has been prominent; he was a very strict man, of the steady and straight "Sunday go to meeting" kind, and an his neighbors to the west did not walk in his ways. He called their settlement "Sodom," a name it has since borne not withstanding that it has had in it many first rate citizens. Nicknames, once given and received, are hard to be obliterated. An old settler upon Granny's Creek is Truman Ransom, who with his family located in 1824, where he has ever since resided. Mr. Ransom was a native of Connecticut, and, with his father's family, moved to this State in 1812 and settled on. The Muskingum, near its mouth. He there married Miss Temperance, daughter of' Thomas Lord, whose grandmother was a daughter of' Col. Oliver, one of the officers in command at the time the Marietta settlement was attacked by the Indians Her father was Judge of the Court of Washington county, and a prominent member of' the " Ohio Company." Of' Mr. R.'s seven children, one is dead ; Edwin and Albert are living, in Missouri; Thomas in liberty ; Bryan, William Wallace and Robert Bruce in Wayne. Mr. It. has been a hard Working man and has met with various streaks of' ill luck; his losses have been heavy, by fire and water and his escape from the jaws of' death has pg. 345 been almost miraculous. His dwelling house with much furniture, was burnt up in the spring of 1852-to his damage some $2000. In attempting to cross Owl Creek with a wagon and four-horse team he lost all, amounting to $800, and did well to get off with his "own skin whole." Having a small mill site on Granny's Creek, he erected, in 1828, a saw-mill. that is yet in operation. In the Granny's Creek school-house a Temperance Society was gotten up many years ago, and also a Sabbath-School, which has been well attended. Regular preaching has been had also since 1830, by the Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian and other denominations. But two men are now living in the neighborhood of Frederick who were young men grown n in 1812-Richard Roberts, of Berlin and Jacob Mitchell. The first of these helped cut the first road out from Mt. Vernon to Frederick, under the supervisorship of Joe Walker; and the second rode express for General Harris on in the war of 1812. Then they were both boys full of mettle and spirit. and their fathers were among the old men of the settlement and now their fathers are dead, and they in turn are old men--heads of families--grandfathers-yes, great grandparents--and a new generation is upon the stage of action. What changes they have witnessed in their lifetime, little as we may he disposed to think things change before our vision in this fast age! Debbie Noland Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Washington Co., Ohio (A History and Genealogy Website) http://home.comcast.net/~diamonddeb/Index.html