Bates Family History

Bates

Family History This BATES history was written by D.M. Bates in 1912 and added to by Madge Bates in 1962.

Lois Blake typed and placed in the Noble County Genealogical Society and in the Caldwell Public Library.

Several Years ago a very nice librarian stayed over and copied this for me. It has been of tremendous help in my research. Someone stole the other copy from the library. Please leave or copy so others may use.

Decendent of Ezekiel Bates & Jane Yoho Ann Clayton WILLIAM BATES and DESCENDANTS Foreword containing an outline sketch of William Bates of Newton Creek, immigrant, together with a brief discussion of the possible parentage of*William of Hanover. William Bates of Newton creek, immigrant, was born in England, but religious persecution of the Quakers, of which he was one, forced him to seek a home in Ireland. Here he found a haven for a few years only, for we find him being thrown into prison for his be- lief. Finally, in desperation, his little group of Friends made ar- rangement for transportation to the new world, and on September 19, 1681, William, with his family set sail In "Ye owners Adventure," a pink commanded by the first mate John Dagger. After a long passage, which consumed the whole of two months, the party anchored at the mouth of the Delaware River, and soon after decided to locate at a point which became known as Newton's Creek. William, being the master builder of the settlement, erected the first meeting house, which was situated near to his cabin. He must haive been a prominent man in the village, for we find that he twice represented the "rrlsh Tenth* In the Provincial Congress, also serving as Constable and Layer Out of the Roads. He figures in many land deals* His will, proved November, 1700, mentions the following children: Jeremiah, Joseph, William, Abigail and Sarah. 1. Jeremiah m. Mary (b. 8th 20th 1671) dau. of Samuel and Esther Tilton Spicer. Of their children, Martha m. James Wall; Abigail m. Thos. Thackara; Mary (untraced); and William, only son m. Esther, dau. of William and Esther (Willis) Albertson, but left no male issue surviving. 2. Joseph nu Elizabeth (who survived and m. 2ndly)• Joseph d. 1731 leaving among other children, Joseph, Samuel, Joshua, Mercy, Abigail, who m. Samuel Lippincott, and Elizabeth. 3. William, said to have m. an Indian girl, and d . int. leaving among others a son Thomas, who d. 1784 leaving the following children: Joseph, William, who m. phoebe and 1Bft Issue which is known, Samuel, Hezeklah, Sarah (Ellis), Mary (Hartly), Sabilia (Jones) and Abigail. 4. Abigail, m. Joshua Frame 1687 5. Sarah, m. Simeon Ellis 1692

The first William's son Joseph is credited by several writers with having married Mercy Clement, but recent studies by others tend to show that the husband of Mercy Clement was a son of John Bates Sr. of Hempstead, L. I. William Bates of Hanover, in his marriage license, is wof Gloucester, Co.," Indicating that he was of the family-which was founded by William of Newton Creek. After his marriage in 1741 -2- e*

he settled in Hanover, a few miles from Morristown, where we find the first record of him in connection with the church in 1743, and the baptism of his children a year or two later. As a parental possibility, Jeremiah is eliminated through the failure of the male line in the death of his grandson in Infancy. Joseph's grandchildren are at present unknown beyond the fact that they constituted the Gloucester County family. William, with his Indian bride, settled on Tyndall's Run near Haddonfield, N. jersey, and it is among his and his brother Joseph's children that we must look for the father of William of Hanover. As regards generations, the first William's children married about 1695, and his grandchildren about 1720. William of Hanover was born about 1720 and thus would become a great grandson of the immigrant, if our deductions are correct. This was taken from the Bates Bulletin Series II Volume IV, Years 1912-1917. These are found in most large libraries. Mr. N. Earl Wharton gives the following data in addition to the other we have read: William Bates of Hanover, N. Jersey, had a brother David and probably a brother Daniel. The following tells the story• David Bates (brother to William) was born about 1725 and died at Hanover September 7, 1820, aged 95 years. He became a member of the church to which William belonged (The Presbyterian Church of Hanover) and their children are recorded almost side by side. David was made an Elder of this church in 1777. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War a meeting of Morris County Delegates was held at the Dickenson Tavern in Morristown September 14, 1775, at which "it was unanimously voted to recommend to the Provincial Congress* that David Bates of Hanover be made a Major of the "minute men". He was appointed Captain of the Eastern Battalion of Morris County. He married Phebe....who was born 1740 and died March 7, 1803, aged 63 years. By her he had at least four children. His will is indexed as No. 1828n W-1821 but I have not examinedit. His children were, William, John, David, and Ebenezer. Up until William of Hanover, the story is not really traced completely, but from William on the story and records are true and on record in public places such as the Combined Registers, 1742 to 1885 of Part II of the History of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown which has the records of William of Hanover, the birth and baptism of his children. William is known to have been a res- ident of the village of Hanover a3 early as 1743. He m. Rebecca Tomlinson, as a license to marry was granted to the couple in 1741. In his will, proved 1770, he mentions his wife Rebecca and daughters Catherine and Rhoda. Children: I. Ephraim, born May 24, 1744, at Morristown, bap. July 6, 1745. II. David, bapt. March 29, 1747, at Hanover III. Uzal, bapt. February 5, 1749, at Hanover TV. Caleb, bapt. July 14, 1751, at Hanover V. Rhoda, bapt. April 1, 1753, at Hanover VI. Mary, bapt. March 20, 1757, at Hanover VII. Martha, bapt. August 5, 1759, at Morristown, m. David Reeve November 14, 1780, and had four children: Abraham Daniel, David Hallock and Bathia VIII. Catherine. For the next part of our history we go to the records and story of William of Hanover's son Ephraim who came to Noble County in Ohio with his sons. They settled on farms, started new communities and many passed on to states further west as we shall see. Much of this was hunted up and written by Dighton M. Bates who walked around over the Noble County hills with his cane to write this for us. It is not interesting to some but very fascinating to others. It was lost and hunted up by myself and I hope to pass it on so others may read it also.

Ephraim Bates of Sarahsville, Ohio This first part is the main facts and names of Ephraim»s descendants made from a Bates Bulliten by the Boston public Library on a photostatic copy. Ephraim Bates, b. May 24, 1744, at Morristown and bapt. there July 6, 1745, by Rev. Tlmotny johnes. v?e find him joining the Rockaway Parish Church in 1768, and a few years later he is settled near the border between Pa. and Va. In April, 1777, he enlisted for Revolutionary service at Catfish Camp, Va. (Now Washington Co. Pa.) for a term of six months in Capt. Henry Enoch's Company under Major David Rogers of Va. Re-enlisted June 1, 1778, as a sargeant in Capt. Cross1 Company under Col. Broadhead. This term was also for six months, which he served until the close of the war as a •'Ranger on the Frontiers" for which he drew "Depreciation Pay"* He* received a warrant for 400 acres of land near his home in Washing- ton Co. on February 21, 1786. The exact date of his migration to Ohio is not known, but in 1809 he entered 160 acres of govt. land in the vicinity of Sarahsvitle. Some of his sons had preceded him to Ohio. He was allowed a pension March 26, 1833, and died January 2, 1834, at Sarahsville, a village- founded by his son Ezeklel. His wife's name was Susannah. Children: I... Isaac, b. 1770 ' II. Timothy, b. Nov. 29, 1778 III. Polly, ra. John Vorheis and had issue. IV. William, untracad V. Anne, m. William Dilley VI. Ephraim ' VITI Daniel VIII.John, veteran of the war of 1812 IX. Amos, who with his brother John, enlisted for the War of 1812 and did not return. X. Ezekiel, founded the village of Sarahaville, was twice married but died without issue 3 2 1 * ISAAC BATES (Ephraim, William ), b. 1770. Migrated to Guernsey County, Ohio, married (1) Katherine Moore, whose sister Ruth, nu Isaac's brother Timothy. ! ' Children: I. TJzal (also called Usial, or Uzzel.) TI. Daniel, b. 1803 III. Isaac IV. Jacob, b. 1810 V. Phoebe, m. Ephraim Bates VI. Samuel, m. and had issue; died in Kansas Isaac Bates m. (2) about 1816, Catherine powell, and moved to sarahsville, then to Indiana. VII. Richard, b. about 1817 VIII. Nathaniel, d. unm. at Warsaw, Ind. IX. George, went to Indiana X.. Andrew, m. and had issue at Warswa, Ind. XT. Katherine, m. Muncie XII. Margaret, m. Scott XIII. Sarah, m. Doan TIMOTHY BATES (Ephraim, William), b. November 29, 1778 in Pa. migrated to Ohio in 1805, and became first postmaster of the village that later bore his name (Batesville). Was pastor of the first church. He m. (1) Ruth Moore of Captina Creek, Relmont Co., who d, i860, aged 74 years. Children: I. Susan, b. June 13, 1804, m. Julius Rucker, son of Ephraim' and Katherine .Rucker., and had seven children: Elizabeth, Wyatt, Lamden, phoege, Emma, Juoius and Bethel II. Uzal, b. January 15, 1806, d. March 1, 1806 III. Mary, b. February 3.» 1807, m. John Rucker, son of Ephraira and Katherine Rucker, and had six children: Louisa (who tn. Kinsey Johns and had among others Amelia Ann, wife of Col. N. B. Wharton), Ruth, Susan, Peter, Sinclair, and Timothy. IV. Abigail, b. February 3, 1807, twin sister to Mary, m. John Stotts and had four children: Anna, Julius, Timothy, and Jacob. V. Bethel, b. March 12, 1809 -5-

VI. Lovina, b. April 2, I8l2, m. Abraham Danford and had eleven children: Eli, Bethel, Elizabeth, Louanna, Isaiah, Ambrose, Anne, Martha, Henry, Timothy and Rolland, VII. Louarina, b. March 28, 1813, m. Josiah Kent and had four children: Israel, Abraham, William and Timothy VIII. Barna, b. July 15, 1815, Civil War veteran IX. Anna, m. Dighton Moore, son of Samuel and Ruth Moore, and had ten children: John, Abigail, Lafayette, Barna, Ruth, Salvana, Abraham, Nancy, Martha and Amanda X. Ruth,til. John Bowersock and had nine children: Ruth, Abigail Susan, Samuel, Timothy, Sarah, Walter, Catherine and Nancy XI. Timothy, b. December 9, 1821 XII. Lafayette, b. July 8, 1824 XITI. Elizabeth, d. young XIV. Nancy, m. Reuben Hogue Bimothy Bates m. (2) Sarah Ann Hughes, who d. January 15, 1872, leaving no issue. Timothy d. June 15, 1867 EPHRAIM BATES (Ephralm, William), m. Elsie Children: I. Daniel II. Martin, d. unm. III. David, d. unm. IV. Edmond, m. Hannah McCann - V. Ezekiel, m. Jane Yoho - , VI. Elizabeth, d. unm. VII. Harriet, d. unm, DANIEL BATES (Ephraim, William), m. Mary Brothers Children: I. Mary, m. John Hilton and had issue II. Jane, ra. ------McCann III. Margaret, m. Daniel Ball and had five children: Hester, Mary J., James W., Amy and John IV. Phoebe, d. unm. V. William VI. John **>-

VII. Ephraim, m. Phoebe Bates, dau. of Isaac and Katherlne (Moore Bates) Moved to Indiana, Issue VIII. Daniel, Civil War, d. unm. at Outhrie Center, Iowa UBAL BATES llsaac, E&hraim, William), m. (1) Rhoda Linclcome, and (2) MhMahall a Ki Children, all by first wife: I. Isaac, b. about 1830. Civil War II. Daniel, Civil War III. Sarah, m. John McBride IV. Cynthia, m. Barton Musser V. Elizabeth, m. Robert Butler VI* Jane, m. Robert Moran VII. Phoebe, m. Dillon Archer 4 3 2 1 DANIEL BATES (Isaac, Ephraim, William), b. 1893, d. 1891. In 1837 entered 340 acres of land In Stock Twsp., Noble Co., m. 1827 Jane Heddleson Children: I. John II. Isaac, Civil War, b. 1829, married (1) In 1848 Hannah Lowe, who d. December 5, 1884, and (2) Harriet Riddle. Isaac d. Leaving no issue III. Joseph, Civil War IV. Margaret, m. Joseph Morrison and had eight children? Phoebe, Daniel, Martha J., James, Robert, Hannah, Elisha, and Charles V. Robert, Civil War VI. William, d. young 4 3 2 1 ISAAC BATES (Isaac, Ephraim, William), m. Rhoda Dungan, and moved to Cass Co., Nebraska, where he died Children? I. John, b. 1824 II. Adam III. Jacob IV. Susan V. Jane, went to Iowa VI. Julius VII. Elizabeth, went to Iowa VIII. Lemuel, went to Iowa -7-

IX. Mary, went to Iowa. 4,3 2 .1 JACOB BATES (Isaac, Ephraim, William), b. October 29, 1810, d. Sept. 26, 1883, m. Jane Davidson who d. March 8, 1877 Children: I. Sarah Jane, d. Young II. Phoebe, m. John Phelps and had seven children: Anna (m. D. M* Bates, son of Barna Bates and his wife Martha), Caroline J., Mary p. (m. Plnley J. Bates, son Barna and Martha (Me Williams) Bates), Jacob, Minnie, Tjravilla, and Ida III. Caroline, m. William Anderson IV. Isaac, b. September 22, 1838, m. Rachel Brothers and had thirteen children; Daniel Webster, Jacob, Deborah Jane, John, Isaiah, Mary Jane, William, Martin, Joseph Henry, Isaac ^ayes, Deborah, James Abraham, Isaac Blaine. V. Catherine, m. (1) John Johnson and had three children* Jane, Lucy and John, and (2) m. Benjamin province and had two children, Jacob and Leander VI* Daniel Webster, d. unm. VII. Mary A*, m. Nathaniel Bates (son John and Christina Bates) had daughter, Olive, m. Daniel Bates, son of Henry Bates 4 3 2 1 RICHARD BATES (Isaac, Ephraim, William^, m. Elizabeth Davidson and resided at Warsaw, Indiana. Richard m. (2) and moved to Michigan, untraced. Children by first wife: I. Martha, m. Richard Ireland II. Sarah, m. William York III. William B., Civil -war, went west, untraced IV. Margaret, m. James Byers V. Mary E., m. and had issue VI. Robert H., went west, untraced. 4 3 2 1 BETHEL BATES (Timothy, Ephraim, William), b. March 12, 1809, d. 1898. Member state Legislature, m. Mary Ann Melghan Children! I. Abraham, b. September 3, 1832, Civil war II. Hugh, b. November 13, 1833 III. Rebecca, b. April 26, 1835, m. Samuel McNutt IV. Simeon, b. October 16, 1836 V* Harriet, b. June 29, 1838, m. Moses Moore and had eight childran: Bethel, Lewis, Frederick, William, Margaret, Emma, Hattie, and Daisy -8-

VI. Lewis, b. January 10, 1840, Civil Bar. VII. Patrick, b. December 17, 1841, Civil War VIII. Rosaline, b. July 14, 1843, m. (1) Samuel Steward, and (2) m. Martin Snode, Jr. IX. Herman, b. April 10, 1845, Civil War X. Louanna, b. September 1, 1847, m. John P. Groves XI. Susanna, b. November 29, 1849, m. John Christopher XII. Bethel, b. January 15, 1852 XIII. Levi, b. September 27, 1853, d. young 3 2 1 t (Timothy, Ephraim, William), b. July 15, d. December IB, 1869, m. March 17, 1836, Martha McWilliams. Civil War veteran, Siege of Vicksburg, Champion Hill, and several other battles. Children: I. John S., b. May 6, 1837, d. June 24, 1837 II. Hannah w»• b. July 4, 1838, d. June 12, 1912, m. peter T. Patterson and had three children: Martha, Mary and Ira W. III. Susannah, b. June 27, 1840, d. December 9, 1911, m. October 24, 1858, Nathan J. Stephens and had eight children: Martha, sarah, Elmer, John, Timothy, Samuel, Adeline, and Nettie IV. Joseph, b. July 9, 1842, d. July 28, 1851 V. Dighton Moore, b. May 9, 1844. Civil War VI. Elizabeth, b. August 1846, m. January 29, 1865, James Yoho and had eight children: Albert, Isabella, Martha, Malinda, Jacob, Benjamin, James and Reuben. VII. Ruth, b. December 18, 1848, m. May 7, 1873, Harvey scott and had nine children: Lillian, Martha, Mary, Anna, Nan, Clara, Daisy, Craig, and Aaron. - VIII. Timothy, b. February 7, 1851 IX. Julia Ann, b. August 12, 1852, d. February 19, 1897, m. November 15, 1873, Luther Barnes and had seven children: Margaret, William, Dighton, Otto, Francis, Harrison, and one other X. Aaron, b. February 8, 1855 XI. Keller, b. July 9, 1857 XII. Finley J., b. March 1, 1860 XIII. Nancy, b. September 18, 1865, m. August 14, 1886, Joseph Stephens and had issue -0- 4 3 3 1 TIMOTHY BATES (Timothy, Ephralm, William), b. December 9, 1821, m. August 1843, Sarah J. Meighan who.d. March 1, 1907 Children* I. Lavina, b. July 7, 1844, d. September 24, 1884, m. 1868 Lewis Moore and died without issue II. Eli, b. September 3, 1845, d. November 6fc 1896, Civil War III. Wyatt, b. January 19, 1847 IV. Samuel, b. November 8, 1849 V. Louisa, b. April 19, 1851, d. May 18, 1862 VI. Susanna, b. September 25, 1853, d. August 29, 1854 VII. John Henry, b. June 2, 1855, d. aged 2 yr. 7m. 9 da. VIII. Hugh, b. March 13, 1856, d. acted 5 yr. lm. 15 da. IX. Moses M., b. March 14, 1859, m. Ann Smallwood. Children: Ernest, Sarah Jane, Timothy, Grace, Madge, McKinley R. 4 3 2 1 LAFAYETTE BATES (Timothy, Ephraim, William), b. July 9, 1824, d. March 2, 1868, m. Lettice Long who d. April 27, 1870 Children: I. David II. Mary Ruth, m. Hannibal Scott and had four children: Ida, gli, Martha, Mancel III. Julius, d. January 1861, aged 5 yr. 3m. 29 da. IV. Lamden, d. 1850 aged 6 m. 29 da. V. Reuben, d. May 1852, aged 6 m. 8 da. VI. Elsie, m. John Rossiter and had two children: Ollie and John. Elsie m. (2) Solomon Brill and had issue VII. Isaiah, d. March 15, 1851. aged 1 m. 6 da VIII. George COPY - From the Madge Bates Collection, Summerfiela, Onio, EPHRIAM BATES As was statea earlier in our history Ephriam was in the Revol- utionary War and his home at the timer was in Washington County, Pa. He made the first entry of land in Soneca T«p. in Noble &o«, Ohio in 1809 on Section lid, township 7, range 9 of Guernsey County, aa Guernsey county was later divided into part of Noole. Tne land was on what was later the old fair ground at Sarahsvillb. The patent was written on sheepskin and was signed by Jame3 Madison, president and Jooiah Mwiga, commissioner of"the general land office at Zanesville, and dateo. October aO, 181o. However, the land had been settled years ago. James Dye made the next entry of land. Ephriam faithfully served hia country during the war, and after the war he moved to the place where Sarahsville now stands, and or course was the first to drive a wagon over that route, cutting the timber as he went, Ephriam and his son D«niel entered lbO acres of government land in what was then part of Guernsey County. Ho cleared thu land and set out one of the earliest orchards in this part of the country. Mr. Bates built the first mill in the township, a corn-cracker of a rude sort, but a great convenience to the settlers nevertheless. The mill was in operation in 1814. Eaekiel Bates, son of Ephriam was the founder of Sarahsville. Mi*. Bates and his wife Susanna raised a large family which was a very essential factor in the settlement of the uninhabited forest areas. Tnelr children were Iaaac, who lived many years near Sarahsville, but died in Indiana; Polly, who married John Vorhies, and lived in Noble Co.; William, who settled in Guernsey Co., and then moved away; Anna, who married William Dilley, and lived in Clavland, onio; Timothy, one of the pioneer settlers of Seneca Town- ship; Epheiam also lived in Seneca 'J-'ownshlp; Daniel and Ezekiel,. who lived in center Township; and John and Amos who went as soldiers in the war or l81«s and were probably killed as their whereabouts have never been known since.

e^y His wife,, Susanna, lived to a very advanced age, diedidd andd was buriebi d besidbid e heh r husbandhb . When the Bates family first came to this section of the state they found the land heavily timbered. The clearing and tilling of the land developed strong robust men, who, though not so handsome as some of their posterity, had large hearts, and generally large feet. They built their houses out of the finest and largest logs, put the clapboard roofs on and fastened the boards where they overlapped by means of poles, and laid the puncheon floors as smoothly as possible. These were not beautiful houses but what did Ephriam Bates care for that? Eaekiel, the youngest, surely would have been out of place in a beautiful house, since he had been awarded a kettle for being the ugliest man the people had ever seen in Zaneavllle. Ho was one of the founders of 3arahsville and late in life built a fine brick house near where the old depot stood. Timothy Bates conducted a love Affair between Ezekiel and a Barnesville lady, whom Ezekiel married for his second wife. Timothy tola the lady that his brother was a widower and had a fine home just ready for her. She finally consented to let Ezekiel come and see her, but when she saw him she was almoat sorry she had consented. At last she plucked up courage and married him. Ezekiel Bates raised no children of his own, but gave a home to the unfortunate ones who were cast upon the world. We will now take the sons of Ephriam and their families one at a time. It is the best way to keep the records straight. It

Ephriam Bates, Jr., entered land on Mud Run, in Seneca Twp., Noble County. He cleared a portion of this land and built a comfortable home. As there were a great many sugar trees on his land he manufactured maple sugar and molasses. Mr. Rates was a strong man, with a large lip and an exceeding coarse voice. His wife,%£lsie, was a woman of rare courage. One day while Ephriam was away on business, the dog found a bear up a tree above the house and was making much ado about it. Mrs. Bates loft her work and went to see what the trouble was. when she saw the bear she encouraged the dog and kept doing so through the day. In this way the bear was kept in the tree until Mr. Bates came home in the evening ana shot it. These parents raised seven children: JDantel, Jfcftstftiri, <<5i*V4lfl, IBdmond/ B*|jH*lii^ 45»t»y*and Harriet'. Davia died when a young man; Martin, Betay and Harriet never married; Eumond married Hannah McCann; Daniel married a Casner, Ezekiel marriea Jane Yoho. Ezekiel raised one son and three daughters. Tne son is Dr. Calvin Bates, of ColumDUS, Ohio. Ezekiel died at the old homestead on Mud Run; Daniel died in To«a; Kcimond died in Io«»a; Martin died at Jonn Enoch's near Carlisle. Tnese men were gu'iamibhs, and their make or guns were among the best. Tney aloo made violins. Ephriam Bates, Jr., was a man that disliked a boaster and always tried to get even with them. Ho helped his Droiher, Timothy, drive hogs across the mountains to Baltimore. It took about one month to make the round trip. One one occasion while passing through Pennsylvania, Ephriam came in contact with a boastful tavern-keeper. The fellow was great- ly exaggerating the quality of his feather beds when Epnriam told him he would give him fifty cents to sleep in the best feather bed he had as he had never slept in a feather bed before in his lire. Tne landlord consented to the terms and showed Mr. Bates up- stairs to his room, vmen the landlord had left him he ripped op«n the feather bed and crawled in, ana he really slept in a feather bed that night. The next mox-ning he arose, brushed off the feathers, went down stairs, ate his breakfast and continued his journey with the company and drove of hogs, but before they had got far they were over- taken by the landlord who demanded more pay for his feather bed. "I gave you fifty cents for sleeping in your feather bed as I agreed to do and so you may return" said Mr. Bates, when he had heard what the landlord had to say. The balance of the company bore Bates out in his statement and so the landlord had to return without more pay for his bed. Daniel, son of Ephriam Bites, Jr. had rive children, two sons and tnree d aughters. William and David the two sons and two of the daughters went to Guthrie Center, Iowa. Elizabeth, the remaining daughter married Ambrose Danford and now is a widow and resides in Carlisle, onio. (1912) William, the older of the sons was a soldier in the Civil War. Edmond Bates raised two sons, William and Daniel, both of whom made the state of Iowa their home. Ephriam Bates, Jr., his wife, Elsie, three of his sons, Martin, David and Esekiel and his two daughters, Betsy and Harriet, were all buried in a family cemetery on the homestead on Mud Run. A solid stone wall was afterwards built around this cemetery by John Youngblue, of Fredricksdale. John and Amos Bates, sons of Ji'phriam Bates, Sr. , went as soldiers In the war of 181* and were probably killed aa their whereabouts have never since been known.

William Bates, son or Ephriam Bates, Sr., settled on a piece of land on Bates branch or Buffalo fork or Wills creek about the year lttO9 being the first settler in that part of Guernsey County. He came from Pennsylvania and was a great hunter and it is said that he killed more bears than any other pioneer in that neighborhood. Being a back woodsman he was rough in manner and was not very popular with his neighbors, being the first settler he wanted to be the leader in that settlement. His mark upon a hog was to cut both ears orf close to the head. There was an Elizabeth joined church in lbkib, and William Bates was owner of land in Bx-ookrield Twp. in lbSd6 and taken from duplicate of taxes he sold out h'lizah Collina in 1829 and moved away where all trace of him was lost. He may have moved back to West Virginia as descendants of a William Bates are found in Roand/J County, Va.

L DANIEL BATES

Daniel Bate a ww IMII'II TIT Tnnn, nd entered to Mary Brothers...apd,. to Hii^"X7 frWi1 W?ia¥et phbebe, Mary /ps?efl*!SarrIecl John Hilton, and to this union was born one son, William, who was a soldier in the 9'd, Regiment and who died in a rebel prison. Mary A., died in Washington County. The second daughter of Daniel was Jane, who married (|quii>e Me Cann, and to this union were born eight children; Jane and Squire moved with their family to Guthrie Center, Iowa. The third daughter of Daniel was Margaret, who married Daniel Ball and lived near Sarahsville. They had five children? Hester, Mary J., James W., Amy and John Ball. Hester married Hwzekiah Kaho and to them were born the following: John Nicholaon, now married and living in Kansas; George, who has served five years in the U. s« Army; Hugh, who married Mahala Wells, and who is farming in Sarahs- ville; Arthur, who was a soldier or three years; Josie; Andrew; Grover; and Lucy. James Rail, oldest son of Margaret (Daniel Ball) married Mi3a Caroline Phelps and to them were born six children: John and Bertha, deceased; Wesley; Taylor; Harmon and Edith. William Bates, oldest son of Daniel and Mary married Jane Shields and had two children; Jane and Charles H. Jane married a Mr. Kennedy and went to Kansas. Charles H. was a soldier in the Civil War. After the war ended he came back to Noble bounty and married Miss MMry R. Bowerstock and had several children, Tnen M«ry died, leaving him with a family of small children. He then moved with them to Neoda Shai, Kan. where his sister, Jane Kennedy, lived. William Bates and his wife both died in Ross County, Ohio. Ephriam Bates, son of Daniel and Mary married Phoebe Bates and moved to Iowa. John Bates, son of Daniel and Mary Bqtes, married a Thesler. They had two sons. One was Daniel Marion. John Bates and family moved to Osage City, Kan. where they were last heard from. Daniel Bates, Jr., youngest son of Daniel and Mary Bates, was a soldier in the Civil War. He never married. He went to Guthrie Center, Iowa, where he died. Phoebe Bates, one of the oldest daus. of Daniel and Mary Bates, died.when a young woman. She is buried in the old cemetery ont he William McWllliams place. After her death a meeting was being held at Mr. Arnett's place. It was near where Daniel Bates lived, and Mary A. Brown, dau. of Jerry Brown, sr. was attending and fell in a trance and lay several days. During this time she claimed that she had a vision of heaven and saw some that had died and gone there. Among them she saw Phoebe Bates. Phoebe was always a good Christian girl. Daniel 3ates, Sr. was a shrewd trader. He moved to Scioto Co» and there and he and his wife are buried. -5-

ISAAC BATES Isaac Bates, son of Ephriam Bates, gr. married Caty Moore, a Belmont County lady and a sister'of Ruth Moore, Timothy Bates' wife. To this union were born the following five sons and one daughter: Urial, Daniel, Isaac Jr., Jacob, Samuel and Phoebe. Isaac and his brother Timothy entered 160 acres or land on Wills Creek about the year 1805. These brothers married sisters and of course were satisfied to live on the same land together, but it was agreed that the first man to become able was to buy out his brothers interest in the land. Isaac was getting almost able to buy our his brother when Caty, the wife of Isaac died, she was buried in the old Bates cemetery on Wills Creek, but her death threw Isaac behind so Timothy bought his interest in the land. The old Bates cemetery is located at the bottom or the hill on the road that goes down behind the Bateshill Church of Christ. Isaac then purchased land near where the town of Sarahsville now stands. He built on this land, a mill, which could be rune ither by water or horse power. Mr. Bates afterwards married Catherine Powell for his second wife. To this union the following children were born. Richard, George, Nathaniel, Andrew, Margaret, Sarah and Catie. Bates was a man of great endurance. He had a leg amputated by Dr. Capel of Sharon. The doctor was sent for and not knowing what the trouble was did not bring his surgical instruments so he used a common handsaw and butcher knife. No ether or chloroform was used. Isaac endured the operation well enough until the saw reached the marrow of the bone then he could not suppress the groans caused by such intense pain. But the operation was a successful one and he soon recovered leaving him in a very unfavorable position to enjoy life. After enduring many hardships, he died and was buried in a cemetery remote from either of the cemeteries in which his limbs were buried, so parts of his body lie in three different cemeteries. Daniel Bates, son of Isaac Bates, Sr., was born in 1805 and married Miss Jane Heddleson in 1827. They had a family of six children: Isaac, John, Joseph, Robert, Margaret and William, who died when young. As there were several Daniel Bates he was called "Stuttering Dan", because he stuttered when he talked. He was con- verted and Joined the M.E. church when a young man, and was a faithful Christian and a great bible student. He read his bible so much that some people said "Stuttering Dan" was going crazy. But he was zealous in the right way and lived up to his profession and attended church regularly. He and his wife were the original members of the pleasant ^ill M.S. church in Enoch Township. About 18a7 Daniel Bates entered MO acres of land in Stock Twp. where he lived to be over eighty-eight years of age. Mr. Bates was one of the hardy pioneers that helped to settle and clear up tfeia country. Daniel Bates and wife were good Christian citizens and lived so that when they were gone they were missed in the community and church where they lived. These two pioneers are buried in the pleasant Hill cemetery in Enoch Township. DT&fcn Bates, son of Daniel and Jane Bates, married Miss Chris- tina Lincicome. To this union were born nine children? Daniel, Nathaniel, Jane, William, Sally Ann, Hannah, John N., Caroline and Isaac. Christina, wife of John Bates, died several years ago. John is still living (1910) at the advanced age of 88 years but is badly crippled with rheumatism and is nearly blind. He married for his second wife Mrs. Hester Shipley. They live in Enoch Township where Mr. Bates has lived for a great many years. (Where I have written -6-

1910 the writing was written then by Dighton Bates. Madge Bates) John was one of the original members of the Pleasant Hill church and one of the pioneers who'helped clear the land that his father entered in 1837. This land was covered with as fine poplar and white oak timber as ever grew anywhere, and it took a great deal of hard labor to get this land in shape to cultivate, but it produced well and they were well paid for their labor. John 3ates was a man of quiet disposition, kind and obliging to every one, and was liked by all that knew him. Daniel Bates, first son of John and Christina Bates, was a soldier in the Civil War in the 22nd OLV.I. After the war he married Miss Margaret Rhodes. To this union were born three children, Mary, who married a Garrett, John W., who lives in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Credie Bates, who married a Craig and moved to Illinois. Dan- iel Bates moved to '.vest Virginia and while hauling railroad ties a tree fell on him and killed him. Nathaniel Bates, second son of John and Christina Bates, at age of sixteen years enlisted in Co. I, 176 Reg. O.V.I, and served in the civil War. He was mustered out with the company June 14, 1865. This regiment was organized at Columbus, Sandusky, Wooster, Alliance, Camp Chase, and Circleville, 0., from Aug. 10 to Sept. 21, 1864 to serve one year. As soon as the organization was completed the Reg. was ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and assigned to the Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Twentieth Army corps. Soon after its arrival it was detailed to perform provost-guard duty at Nashville, and during the battle of Nashville it was in the works; but, with the exception of a few companies under Major Cummings, the Reg. was not engaged. It was mustered out June 14, 1865, in accordance with orders from the War Department. (This was taken from the Roster of Ohio Soldiers of the Civil War, Vol. IX.) After returning home Nathaniel Bates married Miss Mary A. Bates and to this union were born the following children? William, who was kicked by a horse at the age of eight years, receiving injuries that caused his death; Sarah j., who married Joseph Mansperger and to them one daughter was born; Charles M. Bates, who married Miss Grace Guiles and who lives in Iowa. They have four childrent Bert, Ethel, Nathaniel and Mary Louisa; then Caroline and two infants deceased; Jacob B., who married Dora Millholland of Iowa and who lives in Guthrie Center, of that state. They have two children, Gladys Many and Elmer Harold Bates. Then John W. Bates married Inex Wharton and lived in Summerfield. Isaac Taylor married Birdie Davis and lives in Newell, W. Va. They have one child, Garry Virgil; and then olive the youngest, married D. w. Bates. They have two children living, Ernest Clifford and Alda Mabel, and Clarence, deceased. Nathaniel Bates and wife are good neighbors, they have a good home and live in Center Townshlip, Noble Co. (1910) Isaac Bates, second son of Daniel and Jane Bates, was born near Sarahsville in 1829. He grew to manhood on his father's farm in stock Township. He married Miss Hannah Lowe in 1848. They had no children of their own but raised two, Eraeretta Bates, who married Ferdinand Moore and who died in Caldwell, and William Slaughter, who died when a young man. Hannah, wife of Isaac Bates, died December 5, 1884. Isaac was again married to Mrs. Harriet Riddle April 5, 1886. Mr. Bates waa a soldier in the Civil War as a private in 194 O.V.I. He owned a part of the old homestead. He was a member of the pleasant Hill M.E. Church and served as steward for over twenty years. He has answered the last roll call. -7-

John Henry 3ates, third son of John and Christina Bates was married to Miss Ellen Brothers. To them were born six children, one deceased. Caroline, the oldest, married Edward ^anks and lives in Zanesville; Mary E., married Taylor wickham and lives in Enoch Twp.; John W., married Martha ulark and lives on the old homestead in Enoch Twp. D. W. Sates married ^live Baies and lives in Knoch Twp., and Finley Bates, single and at home with his parents in Enoch Twp. Henry and his wife are members of the Christian church. The oldest daughter of John and Christina Bates was Jane, who married Levl Weekley'and who lives in W. Virginia. Sally Ann, the second daughter married Wesley Archer and moved to W. Virginia; the third daughter was Hannah, she married Thomas Q. Moore and make their home in W. Virginia; then Caroline the fourth daughter of John and Christina Bates, married Elisha Weekly and lives near Byesville in Guernsey County, Ohio (191K) Taaac Bates, fourth son of John and Christina Bates married a Miss Archer and moved to W. Va., where Isaac lost his wife leaving him with a little daughter, then he came back to Ohio. After a few years he married a Miss Sears, of Whigville, afterwards they moved to Iowa. Joseph Bates, third son of Daniel and Jane Bates, married Misa Permelia Archer and to this union were born twelve children, six sons and six daughters. The first was Sophia, deceased; second, James, who married Miss Martha Archer and moved west; third, Eliz- abeth, who married Cyrus Archer and lives in Kansas; fifth, Colum- bus, in the west; sixth, Archibald Bates died in San Francisco, Calif.; then Charlotte, who died when a young woman; next is Marga- ret Ann, of Santiago, Calif; ninth, Isaac Bingham, who married Misa Elizabeth Curtis and lives in Seneca Twp.; tenth, Rozella married W. R. Davidson and lives in Center Twp.; eleventh, Cordelia 3»tes married a Murphy andlives s mewhere in Colorado, where she died leaving two children and if they can be found it will be to their interest , and Daniel died when small. Joseph Bates was a soldier in the Civil War, after being discharged he returned to the farm where he followed farming and was successful accumulating considerable property. Joseph Bates and wife were both members of the Methodist church. They were buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Margaret, only daughter of Daniel and Jane Bates married Jos- eph Morrison and to them were born eight children; oldest was Phoebe, who married Daniel ftickham and lives in Enoch Twp.; the other children, Daniel, Martha J., James, Robert, Hannah, Elisha, and Charles with their parents moved to W. Virginia, where Margaret and her husband, Joseph died. (1912) Robert Bates, fourth son of Daniel and Jane Bates was a soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted in Co., 0. 176 O.V.I, at the age of 24 years and was mustered out with the company. Robert Bates married Miss Susan Miller and to this union were born the following children: kydda A., who married Cyrus Matheny and is deceased. She ieft one daughter, Susan, who married William Bryan and lives in Byesville; Hannah J., married Daniel Stevens and moved to Byesville, where she died; Lonia married Sil Archer and is now a widow and lives in Enoch Twp. Rhodolphus Bates, the oldest son of Robert and Susan Betes, married Anna Nunn and lives in Byesville; John H., second son married Miss Belle Robinson and lives on a part of the old homestead in Stock Township. They have a large family. The third son, E. E. Bates married Miss Minnie Bramhall. They have no children living. E. E» Bates taught school several years, afterwards was overseer of pipe -8-

line for the Standard oil Company; at the present he ia assistant in the post office In ^anesville. 'Daniel G., fourth son, married Miss Mary Riddle and they have several children and own a part of the old homestead that his grandfather, Daniel, entered in 1857. Matilda married James Moore and lives near whigville. Nellie married Miles Bryan and lives in Caldwell. Robert Bates and wife are prominent members of the Pleasant Hill M.E. church in Enoch Town- ship, where he was class leader a great many years, Mr. Bates sold his farm in Stock Township to his son, D. G. Bates and bought property in Sarahsville. on March '

Fourth, Rhoda Ann, deceased, firth a nd sixth, twin sons, deceased. Dorcas, daughter of John Bates, has been married four times. Her first husband was a Walters and. to them were born three children; Seth G. Walters, of near Hoskinsville, and Nellie and Amy, deceased. Mr. Walters died leaving Dorcas a widow. After a few years she married Levi Weekly and to them was born one daughter, Birdie L> wife of John Davis, of Caldwell. In a few years after the birth of the daughter, Levi Weekly died leaving Dorcas a widow the second time, in about three years she married Sherman Ball and to this union one daughter, Viva, was born and is deceased. Sherman Ball did not live but a few years until he died leaving Dorcas a widow for the third time. Several years after she married Wesley Wickham and lives on Route 5, Caldwell, Ohio. She is a member of the Archer's rtidce M.E. church and is a good Christian woman. Jofcn Bates First wife died and was burled in the old Nicholson cemetery south of Sarahsville. He was married to Margaret Magilton, Sept. 25, 1858, and to this union were born three children, Clamansa Inhelder, of Iowa, who has five children. Next was John Bates, Jr., of Nebraska. He has two children, and third, Iowa Seville, deceased. Margaret, second wife of John Bates, died and was buried in the Nicholson cemetery by the side of his first wife. He was married a third time, Nov. 11, 1865, to Nttncy Spear. To this union were born twelve children: First, Frank Bates, he married Samantha Danrord and livea near MU Zion in Buffalo Township; they have four children, one or them, Dwight Bates, is a teacher in the public schoola; second, DMVIO, who married Hulca Matheny; they have four children and live near Mt. Zlon; third is Margaret C^lo, of Caldwell; she has two children; fourth and fifth, Auam and JSliza, twins*; Adam married Margaret Johnaon and livea in Cambridge, and they have two children, Eliza, deceased; sixth, May married a Sigford and lives in Cambridge; they have five children; seventh, Kmrra, who married a Steel and lives in Byesville; they gave two children; tenth, Chloe, who married a Bozwell and lives in Pleasant City; they have six children; Hattie married a Mackley and lives in Byesville and have six children; Daniel Harloy marriod Minnie Tublea and lives in Bvoavillo: thev have two children. ' J John Bates, son of Iaaac Bates, Jr., died Fab. 17, 1895, aged 71 years and was buried at jjt. Zion, onio. Hi a widow, Nancy married John Reea ana lives in Byesville. ((19]) ) Hattlo I., daughter of John and Nancy Spear Bates, was born April la, Ib77 and died Sept. I960. Her huaband E. A. Macklay died in 1942. She had three sons, Foster of Canton, Ray and Ivan Bates, both teachers in Byesville, Ohio schools, and aiao three daughters, Mrs. Laura Basiord, Mrs. Beryl Allen and Mrs. Cuba Laughlin, all of Byesville, Ohio At the time or this writing in 19bO there is one brother, Els- worth living in Byesvillo and on« sister Mrs. Leota Moss of Cambridge. Hattie was buried in Enon Cemetery. Adam, son of John and Nancy Spear Bates married Margaret John- son, A son Lorren o. Bates was born April 12, 1896 in pleasant City and died in 1960 in Cambridge, Ohio. He had two sons, Tom R. and John F. Bates and a daughter, Judith Ann at the time of this writing in 1960. He was buried in Northwood Cemetery in Cambridge. David, son of John and Nancy Spear Bates married Hulda Matheny and had four children. A son, Harry Earl Bates born Nov. 1892 in Noble county died in 1961 and left a daughter Mrs. John Helligas of Cleveland and four grandchildren. He was buried at Northwood Cem- etery in Cambridge, Ohio -11-

Anna, oldest daughter of Phebe and John H. Phelpa, married D. M. Bates; Caroline "j. , second daughter, married James W. Ball and lives In Worthlngton, Ind.; Mary >., third daughter, married F. J. 3ates; Jacob B., only son, married a Wickham. He was a preacher in the U. B. church and died May 12, 1906, leaving a widow and seven children; Minnie S. married Lemuel Thomas and lives in Zanes- ville; Uravilla B. married U. 0. Weekly and to this union were born four children, three deceased; Earnest, oldest son, living in Aznes- vllle; Ida P. married N. A. Smith and lives in Enoch Twp. Isaac Bates, oldest son of Jaco£ and Jane Bates grew up on his father's farm and married Miss Rachel Brothers, To this union were born nine sons and two daughters. The oE est, Daniel Webster, married Miss -Elizabeth A. Devolld and to this union were born three sons and one daughter. Levi H. Bates married a Miss Floyd and lives at pulaski, Mich. Linas D. Bates, second son, married Miss Rosa M» King and lives in Center Twp. Bertha Bates, only daughter of D. W. and E. A. Bate3, married a Mr. Floyd Dunham and lives at pulaski, Mich. Earl, tjae youngest son, is single and at home. D. W. Bates is a teacher in the public schools of Noble County and has been teaching nearly thirty years. Jacob Bates, son of Isaac and Rachel Bates, grew to manhood on his father's farm. Afterwards, he went to Pennsylvania where he worked on a dairy farm for a few years. T hen he went to Oklahoma and Kansas and worked there for a few years. Then he cair.e back to Noble County, where he married Miss Mary Kirkbride, and then bought a part of his father's farm where he now resides. John Bates, third son of Isaac and Rachel Bates, married Miss Margaret Harper. They went to Watonga, Okla., where John preempted a piece of government land, and went to work to make a home. But in spite of their camping out Margaret took consumption and they sold out and returned to Ohio where she died, leaving two little girls. After a few years he married Miss Nancy Stevens and they are now living in Pennsylvania. Isaiah, fourth son of Isaac and Rachel Bates, married Miss Nancy J. Moore. They moved to Pennsylvania and worked there a few years and then returned to and live in Byesville. Mary J. Bates, oldest daughter, married Earnest Theodore Moore. Martin Bates, fifth son of Isaac and Rachel Bates, married a lady in Pennsylvania and make that state their home. William, the sixth son, married Miss Effie Moore and lives on the Shankland farm in Marion Twp. Since then they have both diedo Their daughter Martha Bates married Fred Fisher and now lives in Summerfie Id, Ohio. Another daughter Marie married Everet Bircher and lives in Summerfield. Their son Edwin Bates lives in California. One son James^ married Ruth Atkinson and lives in Florida. Joseph Bates, seventh son of Isaac and Rachel Bates, married Miss Rose Hague and had the following children; Wayne, oilman, both of whom are home and single. Mary, who married Wilbur Oliver and lives in Summerfield, Ohio. They have these chiM renj Paul, William, James. William married Jean Archer and has two daughters, Dixie and Vickie. Rose and Joseph had these other children also, Leona, Laura, Lucille, Opal, Louella. At the age of 82 Joseph Bates was picking cherries in a tree, he fell and fractured his hip. He was sick over a year before he died then. Rose and two of her boys live out in the country on a farm. James was the eighth son of Isaac and Rachel Bates. Deborah, second dau. of Isaac Bates, married Hayes Carter and lives in Center vwp. where he is one of the school board. Blaine Bates, the ninth son of Isaac and Rachel Bates, married a Miss White and he and his father bought a part of the Joseph Davidson farm in Center Twp., where they make their home. Isaac Bates is six feet or more in height and he is called "Long Isaac". He and his wife were members of the Christian church. Rachel, wife of Isaac nates, has been dead several years and Isaac later made his home with his son Blaine. Catherine, the third daughter of Jacob and Jane Bates, married John Johnson before the civil War. She had two little girls to care for while her husband went as a soldier in Company H. 161st Regiment O.V.I. After he returned from the war, they moved to Indiana where one child, a boy, was born. His name is John Johnson, Jr. He is married and lives at Ava, Ohio. The oldest daughter Jane, married Joseph Moore. Lucy is the second daughter. The rest of the children of Isaac Bates Jr.,: Adam, Jacob, Julius and Susie, alldeceased; Lemuel, Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, living in Iowa. Isaac Bates, jr. was a great worker for the church. He was a Methodist and cleared off the timber to build what became noted afterward as the Corn Pone meeting house, south of Fredericks- dale. The building is not there today. They used to have all day meetings there and people would come along ways and bring their din- ners and as there was a great deal of corn bread used in that day they would bring corn pone, as it was called. That is why they gave the church that name. Isaac Bates, Jr. was the class leader there for several years and it is said that they had some powerful meetings. Isaac could nAAfehfer read or write but his wife, Rhoda, Could. She taught Isaac to sing one hymn, so he could line it off and then they would sing as only the pioneers could sing. The hymn was: Alas, and did my Savior bleed, And did my Soverelgh die. They got the power and had great revivals in those days. Usial Bates, son of Isaac Bates, Sr., and Katie Moore Bates, was one of the boys that helped his father make a start in the heavy forest of this part of Ohio.' He first assisted his father on the farm on Wills Creek and afterward near Sarahsville, and being in the timber so much he became a great hunter and killed a great many bears, wolves and other wild animals that inhabited the forest of this part of Ohio. There were but few men who exceeded Usial Bates in strength and he loved to hunt the bear and chase the deer and roam through the forests. TJsial Bates was married twice. His first wife was Rhoda Linci- come. To this union were born the following children: Isaac, Daniel, Sarah, Cyrus, Elizabeth, Jane and Phebe. Rhoda, wife of Usial Bates, died and was buried at East Union, leaving with seven children, some of them very small. Afterwards he married Mahala King, who was a good woman and a ^ind mother to Usial Bates seven motherless children. Mahala Bates died several years before her husband and was buried in the East Union cemetery. Then Usial Bates made his home with Elizabeth Butler, of Predericksdale, where he lived to a good old age, a good, moral man. He had no children by his second wife, when he died he was buried in the East Union cemetery. Isaac Bates, oldest son of Usial and Rhoda Bates, married Mary Ann Archer and to this union were born eight children? prank, Cephus, Sarah Ann, Daniel and Sham, all deceased;~sixth was WiHard Bates, who married Miss rda Wells and who make their home in Zanesville; seventh was Martha, who married a Mr. Bailey and who lives in Zanes- ville; eighth is Hamilton Bates, who s'erved a long time in the U. s. Army in the JJhillipine Islands. He married a Miss Wescott and makes his home in Caldwell. Mary Ann, wife of Isaac Bates, died and was buried at the Pleasant Hill M.E. cemetery. After a few years Isaac married Miss Sarah J. Cain and to this union one daughter, Ivy, was born. She is now a young woman and lives with her parents in olive. Isaac Bates was a very young man. At the time when he got two bushels of corn to carry to mill, one and a half miles, Nathaniel Bates was standing by when he shouldered it and Isaac said, "get on, Than.11 Than got on top of the sack of corn and Isaac just walked off with it up a steep hill about 200 yards without stopping. Then he let Nathaniel get off. Nathaniel was a young man at that time. Isaac Bates lived in W. Virginia a few years. The people that knew him there told the writer that he could Jump farther than any man they ever saw. It is said that he built more log cabins than any man in this part of Ohio. He would lease a piece of timberland to clear for three crops and then Isaac would proceed to cut logs and raise a log cabin by himself. He was famil- iarly known as "Hunting Ike" or "Coon Ike", for he was a great hunter and could trap more foxes and catch more coons than any other man in this part of Ohio. Isaac Bates served as a soldier in Company I, 176th Reg. O.V.I. He is past 82 years old (1910) and is very poorly at this time with heart trouble. He was a good, Christian man. Daniel Bates, second son of Rhoda and Usial Bates, enlisted at the age of 18 years in Company C 25 Regiment O.V.I. February 29, 1864, and was mustered out with the company June 8, 1866, at Columbus. He saw hard service in the Civil war. Daniel Bates, son of Usial Bates, was called "little Dan." After he came home from the army he married Miss Elizabeth A* Archer and to this union were born four sons and one daughter, Orange L., Anna- niaa, Ulysses 0., Lovett and Anna B. Daniel did a great deal of trapping and hunting in the winter time and was a good shot. He died March 23, 1875, and was buried in the pleasant Hill M.E. cemetery. Elizabeth A., wife of Daniel Bates, died August 3, 1882, and was buried by the side of her husband, Daniel was 35 years old when he died and his wife was 42 years old. 0. I*. Bates, oldest son of Daniel and E. A. Bates, was but nine years old when his father died and but little past twelve years when his mother died. Then he was bound out to James Ball until he was thenty-one years old. Then he went to Michigan where he now makes his home. 0. S. Bates has one son, Robert H. Bates, living. 01 L. Bates has learned several trades that he works at and is what might be called a handy man. He built himself a fine residence and did all the work himself. His present home is Grand Ledge, Michigan (I#10) Ananias Bates, second son of Daniel and E. A* Bates, is a great man to travel. He is a kind of wandering Jew. The last heard from he was in Indiana. TTlysses G» Bates, third son of Daniel and E. A. Bates, was a soldier' in the phillipine Islands for several years. After being discharged he came back to America and married a lady at Palmouth, Ken- tucky, and to this union one son, Roderick, deceased, was born. U.Q. Bates health failed and he traveled in the western states hoping to regain his health, but he grew worse. He then returned to Dayton, Ohio, where his wife had moved and died there. Lovett Bates, fourth son of Daniel and *», A. Bates, married and now makes his home in Zanesville. Lovett and wife have six children. Anna 8., only daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth, married ^wight Baxter, and to this union were born two daughters, Wanita and Hannah. Anna B., husband and children make their home at Garrollton, Ohio The oldest daughter of Jsial and Rhoda Bates was Sarah. She married John McBride, who was a soldier in the Civil War. Sarah died in Washington County and John McBride moved to W. Virginia. Cynthia, the second daughter of Usial and Rhoda Bates, married Barton Muaser, who was soldier in the Civil War. They lived in Washington County. Elizabeth, third daughter of usial and Rhoda Bates, married Robert Butler, who was a soldier in Company G. 176 O.V.T. Robert has been dead several years. Elizabeth is living at Fredericksdale. Mrs. Butler had eleven children, nine living and two deceased. Jane, fourth daughter of ijaiai ^ates, married Robert Moran and moved to Jackson County, w. Va. Robert was a soldier in Company G 176 Regiment O.V.I. Phoebe Bates, fifth daughter of ^slal and Rhoda Bates, married Dillon Archer, who was a soldier in the Civil War. Usial Bates two sons and five sons-in-law all served in the Civil War as volunteer soldiers. All of his children are deceased except *3aac and Elizabeth Butler. It is said that Usial Bates killed the last bear that was killed in Noble County. He killed it near the Archer's Ridfte M. E. Church. Phebe Bates, only daughter of Isaac and Katie (Moore) Bates, was born on Wills Creek in Guernsey County, but is now in Seneca Township. Samuel Bates' mother, Katie, died when he was only a few weeks old, leaving him without the care of a kind mother. Samuel's father sold out on Wills Creek to Timothy Bates. Then he moved to near Sarahs- ville where Samuel grew to manhood. Then he went west and married and one child was born. The writer met one of his grandsons at Jeff- erson, Grant bounty, Okla. Samuel Bates lost his eyesight after he was advanced in years and was afflicted in other ways. He had a hard life. He was not as strong as some of the other Bates, due probably to the fact that he was deprived of the care of a loving mother. He die*d in Kansas. -15-

Richard Bates, oldest son of Isaac and Catherine Powell Bates was born in ^oble County, and grew to manhood near Sarahsvilie. He was a carpenter by trade and a good'workman. Richard married Miss Elizabeth Davlson, a native of W. Virginia. To this union were born six children; Martha, Sarah, William B., Margaret, Mary E, and Robert H« Martha, the oldest daughter, married Richard Ireland and moved to Indiana, where she had both legs amputated. She was living the last heard of. We do not know how much flamily she had. The second daughter, sarah, married William York. Then the next, William B., was a soldier in the Civil war and as he was living in the west we have no account of him after the war closed. Margaret J., the third daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Bates, married James Byers. Then Mary E. and Robert a. married in the west and we have no further record of them. Richard Bates and all his family moved to Warsaw, Ind. Richard Bates was over six feet in height and would weigh 280 to 300 pounds and a giant in size and strength. He could carry a load that three ordinary men could hardly carry. He was called nBig Dick Bates." At one time Dr. M. H. Neville was joking Richard about his being so large and he said, "Richard, it would be cheaper for you to live than to die, for it would take so long to bury you.11 Richard's reply was, "Doctor, it would be cheaper for you to die than to live, for it takes so much to feed you." Richard Bates helped his brother, Isaac Bates, Jr., build the Corn pone meeting house. He done all the finishing work. People would say, "that Richard Bates needed a very strong scaffold to hold him," while putting on aiding. Houses were built much stronger then. The light frame building that is put up these days would be a little shaky with as large a man as ^ichard Bates working on it. His wife, Elizabeth, died at Warsaw, Ind. Afterwards he married the second time and moved to Michigan, where he died. The second son of Isaac and Catherine Powell Bates was Nathaniel. He want to Warsaw, Ind., but never married. He was a quiet, easy turned old bachelor and made his home at Warsaw the balance of his days. The tnird son of Isaac and Catherine Bates was George. He went to Indiana and was married out there. We have no record of how much family he had. He made his home in the west the balance of his days. Andrew, the fourth son, was born near Sarahsville, and was a teacher inthe public schools. He taught one term at what was called the PatricksFinley school house, but now Mud Run school in Sene- ca Township. A£ that time there were several young men in the district that came to school and they were hard to control. Very few teachers could manage them, but Andrew Bates was no small kid, was over seven feet tall and a large boned man and the young men that had run other teachers off did not feel like tackling him, so And- rew Bates taught a successful term of school and then went west to Warsaw, Ind., where he married a lady of that place and to which union were born four sons, of their naies and whereabouts we have no record. Andrew Bates died at Warsaw. Katie Bates, daughter of Isaac and Catherine powell Bates, went to Indiana and married a Mr. Muncie and lived at MUncie, Ind. They had some schildren born to this union, but we do not know how many. The writer saw a son and daughter of Mrs. Muncie in the fif- ties that were back to Ohio on a visit. Mrs. Muncie died at Mftncie Indiana. Margaret, the second daughter of Isaac and Catherine Bates, was born near Sarahsville and went to Indiana. She married a Mr. Scott. We do not know how much family they had. She died in Indiana. -J.0-

Sarah, the third daughter of .Isaac and Catherine powell Bates, was born near Sarahsville and went with her parents when they moved to Indiana. She married a Mr. Doan. We never learned how much family Mrs. Doan had. she lived near Warsaw, Ind., and suppose she died there. Mrs. Sarah Doan was the youngest of the thirteen children of Isaac Bates Sr. His descendants are many and they are scattered in different parts of the United States. We have followed them to Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, California, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, and W. Virginia.

We will take the family of Daniel Bates, sr., son of Ephriam Bates sr., who entered the land with his father where Sarahsville now stands for our next part, f See also pages 4) DANIEL BATES, son of Ephriam Bates, Sr., was born In Pennsylva- nia and immigrated to Ohio with his father about the year 1805 and entered land near Sarahsville. He was married to Miss Mary Brothers and to this union were born eight children: %ry A., Jane, Margaret, Phoebe, William, John, Ephriam and Daniel Jr. Mary A. married John Hilton, and to this union was born one son, William, who was a soldier in the 92nd Regiment O.V.I, and who died in a rebel prison. Mary A. died in Washington Oounty. The second daughter of Daniel and **ary Bates was Jane, who married Squire McCann and to this union were born Eight children. Jane andtfquire McCan n moved with their family to authrie Center, Iowa. The third daughter of Daniel and Mary Bates was Margaret, who married Daniel Ball and lived near Sarahsville. To this union were born five children: Hester, Mary J., Jamas W., Amy, and John E. Ball. Hester married Hezekiah Kaho and to this union were born six J D children. Mary . Married hilip Nicholson and to this union were born the following children: John Nicholson, now married and living in Wichita, Kan.; George, who has served five years in the U. S. Army and has enlisted again; Hugh, who married Mahala v/ells, and who is farming near Sarahsville; Arthur, who was a soldier three years and who is now in Montana; Josia, who is at home with her parents; Andrew who is now in Wichita, Kan.; Grover, who is single and at home; Lucy, who is deceased. Mr. and Mrs, Nicholson live near Sarahsville. James W. Ball, oldest son of Margaret Ball and Daniel, married Miss Caroline Phelps and to this union were born six children, John and Bertha, deceased; Wesley, who married and is living in Worthing- ton, Indiana; Taylor, Harmon and Edith, of the home. James W. Ball and family make their home in Worthington, Ind. Amy, daughter of Margaret and Daniel Ball, married Alfred White and moved to Gfreen County, Ind. To this union were born four children. The youngest son of Margaret and Daniel Ball was John E. Baii, who married Evallne Yoho and moved to W. Virginia. William Bates, oldest son of Daniel and Mary Bates, married Jane Shields and to this union were born two children, Jane and Charles H. Jane married a Mr. Kennedy and went to Kansas. Charles H. was a soldier in the Civil War. After the war ended he came back to Noble County and married Miss Mary R. Boprstock and to this union were born several children. Then Mary R., wife of Charles H. Bates died, leaving him with a family of small children, and he then moved with his children to Neoda Shai, Kan., where his sister, Jane Kennedy lives. William Bates and his wife both died in Ross County, Ohio Ephriam Bates, son of ^anlel and Mary Bates, married Phoebe Bates and moved to Iowa. -17-

John Bates, son of Daniel and Mary Bates, married a Thesler. They had two sons. One was Daniel Marion. John Bates and family moved to Osage City, Kansas where they were when last heard from. Daniel Bates, Jr., youngest s m of Daniel and ^ary Bates, was a soldier in the Civil War. He never married, fle went to (futhrie Center, rowa, where he died. Phoebe Bates, one of the oldest daughters of Daniel and "ary Bates, died when a young woman. She is buried in the old cemetery on the William McWilliams place. After her death a meeting was being held at Mr. Arnett's place. It was near where Daniel Bates B lived, and Mary Brown, daughter of Jerry rown was attending and fell in a trance and lay several days. During this time she claimed that she had a vision of heaven and was permitted to see some that had died and gone there. Among them she was Phoebe Bates. Phoebe was always a good Christian girl. Daniel Bates, sr., was a shrewd trader. He would buy and sell leases. He owned the land where Emmer Hedge now lives. He lived there a great many years. Then he sold out to Emmer Danford. After that he moved to Scioto County where he lived the balance of his days. He and his wife are buried in that county. Daniel and Mary Bates did not have as large a family as some of the other Bateses and what there were became scattered so that his descendants are now in several different states of the Union, TIMOTHY BATES Timothy 3ates, aon of Ephraim Bateg, sr. , was born In Fayett© County, Pennsylvania, November 29, '1778, where he grew to manhood. Afterwards he went to the mountains of West Virginia where he spent most of his time hunting bears, wolves and other wild animals that were in the mountain forest at that time. Timothy Bates would come down to the flats of Graves Creek, on the Ohio River, and do his trading and get his supplies such as hunters needed, and while there he would cross over into Ohio and attend the parties thatthe young people had in those days, and very often some of the young men of Wheeling would go to these parties. The Wheeling boys would dress in the height of fashion. They had what was called "store clothes" in those days. Timothy ;:?ate3 told the writer that he would wear his hunting clothes, and they would have bear grease on them, and he said "pon my honor, the girls would rather talk to me than to the boys that came down from Wheeling and their mammies would look cross at them." Timothy was one of the earliest settlers and most prominent men and the earliest permanent settler of the township. His father, Ephraim nates, and several of Timothy's brothers were pioneers in other parts of the county, and are elsewhere mentioned, Timothy Bates and his brother Isaac came from Captina Creek, near the Ohio River,, as soon as they dared venture into the wilderness, on account of the Indians, and entered land on Section 24O On February 4, Timothy Bates married Miss Ruth Moore, of Captina Creek, in Belmont County. Misa Moore was a native of Pennsylvania. To this union were born fourteen children: Susanna, Uzel, Mary and Abigail (twins), Bethel, Lavina, Lou Anna, Barna, Anna, Ruth, Tim- othy, Lafayette, Elizabeth and Nancy. Timothy and his brother Isaac moved with their families, on Wills Creek and entered 160 acres of land, It being a part of section 24, in Richland township, Guernsey bounty, but now in Seneca township Noble County. BJimothy Bates kept the first post office that was in that part of the county. It was called the Batesville, post office. After- wards It was moved to Willlamsburg In Beaver township. At the present time the village Is called Batesville after Timothy Bates^-"" C. H» Laws was the mail carrier in 1830. He afterwards had a store in Middleburg and he told the writer that the first quarterly report that Timotny Bates made to the post office department was in these words, "No letters, no papers, hope for better luck next Quarter". The mail route was from Barnesville, by way of Bates Mill, Sarahsville, Belle Valley, Hoskinsville, the Dye Settlement and Big Meigs Creek, to McConnelsville, in Morgan County. Mr. Laws said that he often carried the mail sack the entire distance without there being a letter in It. A letter mailed in some of the eastern states to Ohio would be from two to four weeks on the way, we would hardly read so old a letter, but in the days of the early settlers a letter was a rare thing and the people were glad to get It even if it was a long time on the way. -^Timothy Bates built a mill on Wills Creek where Timothy Bates Jr., next lived. It was run by water power and was a groat help to the people for they would come several miles to the mill, people went to mill mostly on horses In those days. The law allowed only one eighth for toll at the water mills. Some times the water got low in dry weather so that they could not grind. Then the people had trouble getting their grinding done. William Earhart had a steam mill between Whigville and Summerfie Id, to which the people went when water was low. They waited for their turn and as the mill ground very sl'owly, some had to wait a long time. The writer remembers taking two bushels of wheat on a horse in the morning and not getting home till next morning on account of waiting for his turn to come. V Timothy Bates built a distillery on his farm and as he had hia own mill to grind the grain he did a thriving business. People came for many miles after whiskey and bought it by the barrel. They did not have roads like they do now but paths were cut through the forest. To get their whiskey home they cut two poles and fastened them on their horses like shafts letting the big end drag on the groundl Then they bored holes in the poles and rolled on the barrel fasten- ing it with pins. Timothy Babes killed an elk on the creek above Carlisle, it was ever afterward called Elk Pork. Timotny Bates wife, Ruth, was an expert in tanning deer hides, she could tan them so they were as soft as cloth. Then she would take them and make dresses for her older daughters and these girls would feel proud of their new buckskin dresses. They were strong and durable and we never heard of them tearing theirdresses on a barb wire fence, but if they would get them wet they would have to rub and work with them until dry for if they were allowed to dry without it they would be stiff as a board. In 1851, Timothy Bates, jjr. went to California and took Thir- teen men with him and paid their way. They were to pay him back and give him a certain percent and as Timothv passed through Batesville, he told the people that he had thirteen disciples, one more than the Savior had, and not one of them a Judas, but there were only three or four that paid him anything so it turned out that the most of them were judases. Timothy and his men went south to the Panama Canal and from there took a boat to California. He had groat faith in his men when he started to California, but it was not so strong by the time he got back, but he made some money himself. He did not get it by digging in the ground, but he was one of the hardy pioneers of Ohio and knew how to make clapboards, and knew the miners wanted something to cover their cabins, so he made boards and sold them to the miners and made good money. He was about 73 years old at that time, so he would not chop the trees down for there was some very large trees, so Timothy would pay some man five dollars to cut a tree for him and it would take about all day to cut down one tree. He stayed in California about two years before he came back to Ohio. Timothy and his men would possibly have many stores to tell about hunting gold in the great gold rush in those days. When Timothy first settled on Wills Creek with his brother, Isaac Bates, there was pelnty of game in those parts and they did a great deal of hunting. There were also several friendly Indians, and Timothv had Indiana at the dinner table several times. One day, when they were out hunting, Timothy was ahead watch- ing for deer and he heard Isaac shoot behind him. When he turned around a large panther fell out of the tree behind him. Isaac saw the panther in the act of springing down on Timothy and shot it and perhaps saved the life of Timothy. At another time, when Timothy was out alone hunting with his dog, he ran on to a very large bear and shot it in a hurry, as he was so close, but he only wounded the bear enough to make it angry and it rushed at Timothy so he had not time to load his gun. He sprang behind a large tree and the bear after him. They had a race round and round the tree, the bear was too close to be pleasant, but Timothy's dog got busy, he followed the bear and kept biting the bear's hind legs until the bea,r turned on the dog, but the dog got out of the way for he could run fastdr than the bear and they soon got out of sight. As Timothy's gun was empty he thought he would not follow for the dog had helped him. He had enough bear hunting that day. Timothv did not hunt much more after that, but he settled down to farming and raising fine stock. He was the first man to get the Shorthorn Durham cattle in that part of the country. He also kept good horses, and had a stable horse that he called Tiposaib. He was a fine horse, not large but pretty aa a picture. Timothy rode the horse to Chillicothe, Ohio where he put up at a hotel. He gave the horse into the landlords care, then went into the hotel. They had a black man for a hostler and next morning when the darkey went to curry the horse and clean him the horse licked at the hostler and the darkey grabbed up a club and struck the horse and broke his leg. Timothy sued the landlord for the price of the horse and when the trial went off Timothy went too. He was put on the stand and started to testify, he would begin to tell about starting from home and where he was going. The court stopped him and told him to tell what happened in Chillicothe. Then Timothy says, "Upon honor that was what Iw as going to do, then they told him to go ahead and tell it. He began again about when he start* ed f rom home and they stopped him again; then the landlord's lawyer says, "Don't you preach some Mr. Bates?" He said "Yes sir". Then the lawyer says, "What denomination?" Then Timothy says, "Upon hon- or I don't belong to the bob-tailed Methodist". They were at law . over that horse a long time. The landlord lost everything out of his hands. Timothy won the suit and got a judgement against the landlord for $300.' ^.Timothy Rates went to the Church of Christ, and helped to start the church at Mt. Ephraim, Ohio, where he went to preach many timeg. Timothy 3ates, Sr. would have preaching at his place some times as his still house was a large building he used it to hold meetings in. They would arrange the barrels of whiskey in such q way that they could be used for seats, and in that place he would proclaim the gospel truths to the people. In these days people would not think of going into a still house to hear preaching but they did not think it was wrong at that time. Timothy was very strong in his be- lief and would tell the people that it was twenty miles nearer heaven through his mill darn than any other way. A gimlet was a very useful tool to have in a distillery. Tim- othy had one and It got mislaid so it could not be found, but they found it at last In a peculiar way. Timothy was preaching in his own house, the distillery, and while he was talking he looked up- ward and saw the gimlet sticking in one of the joists. He stopped preaching and 3aid, "Pon my honor, Ruthle, there is that old gimlet now." Timothy was a man that did not like people going In and out while he was preaching and would be sure to say something about it. One day when he was preaching at what was called the Hiram Eanford schoolhouse, two young women got up and went out. Then he said, "Those girls remind me of my experience in hunting an ax handle stick. I went out into the woods and looked around and found a small, straight hickory. It was smooth and beautiful on the outside, but when I chopped it with the ax it was hollow at the butt." At another time he was attending preaching at Mt. Ephraim and he sat in the pulpit while the preacher delivered his sermon. He sanctioned what the preacher 3aid but a number of girls kept going in and out. Finally he said, "Hold on, brother, pon my honor, it must be watermellon time." At another time he was preaching at a place and they had a spool of boss thread and he noticed it, then remarked that that was the biggest 'spool of boss that he eversaw bought for eleven pence. Timothy 3ates quit his distillery and went to doing something else. He would hire hands at forty cents a day to help drive, which was good wages then. Often they would have to do without dinner, and the boys would sing out, "Sooboy, forty cents a day and no dinner." They would make the hogs swim the Ohio River as there was a poor chance to ferry t hem across, and it was expensive. Timothy would only get from nearly four hundred miles to Baltimore but the hogs were not so short and chubby as they are now. some of them could run like a deer. There were a great many hogs raised in those days for they could live in the woods most of the time without being fed. At one time when Timothy Bates was in Baltimore with a drove of hogs, he went into the pen to look at his hogs, and then wanted to go to the hotel. An omnibus came alona and '•'•'imothy did not take time to clean his boots but hailed the driver and got in the bus. He was the only passenger for a short distance. Then a lady who was dressed very elaborate^, hailed the driver and got in the bus. He was the only other passenger and in a short time the lady began to sniff the air and look around. Then she says to Timothy, "Mister, can you tell me what that is that smells so badly?" He says, fPon my honor, I do not know unless its the driver. Then she says, "I did not come in here to be insulted. "He says, "Neither did I and I move that we both get out." Timothy Bates, F5r. was one of the prosperout pioneers who got to be well to do by farming. -^Timothy's first wife, Ruth, died in 1860 at the age of 74 years. Then after a few years he married Mrs. Sarah Ann Hughes, of Barnes- ville. In the spring of 1867 he took a severe cold, while attending a public sale which caused pneumonia and onthe 15th of June 1867 he passed over the river of death. He was nearly 90 years old. Then Sarah A* Bates moved to Quaker City where she died, January 15, 1871. Timothy Bates and hiw two wives were buried in the old Bates Cem- etery on Wills Creek. \. Susanna, the oldest daughter of Timothy and Ruth (Moore) Bates was born at Fowhattan, Belmont County, Ohio, June 13, 1804. In 1805 her parents moved to the farm on Wills Creek where she grew to womanhood and being the oldest of fourteen children and a stout healthy girl, she did a great deal towards helping build up a home in the new country where her father had settled. Susie, as she was called, was one of the girls that wore buckskin dresses. She worked out a great deal. She helped clear the brush off the land, hoe the corn, milk the cows and feed the stock. After growing to womanhood she was married at Cambridge, Ohio in August 17 (l), 1822 to Julius Rucker, who was born August 4, 1801 and who died August 17, 1870. He was a preacher in the M. E. Church and was a good' man. To this union were born the following children: Eliza, Wyatt, Landen, Phoebe, Emma, Jufius Jr., and Bethel D. Susanna and Julius Rucker settled on a piece of land on Mud Run in Seneca Township where they lived a good many years and cleared the land and built a fine residence. There were a great many sugar trees on the place and every spring they I apper) the trees and made what sugar and molasses that they would need. Often after they were through they would let some of the neighbors go in the sugar camp and make sugar and mosasses while the sap would continue to flow. -5-

Julins and Susie Rucker sold their land on Mud Run to their son, Wyatt, then they bourrht a farm, near Mt. Ephraim where they moved and lived several years. Then they bought a house and lot in the village of fAt. Ephraim and moved there. Their farm had a large orchard on it and there were, most every year, apples on the trees. Those Mt. Ephraim 007^3 were very fond of apples and as there were a goodly number of boys there it took lots of apples to supply them, so Julius got a large buck sheep to watch his orchard and after he turned him in the boys were very careful about going in the orchard and if they got any apples they had to get them on the run. Julius Rucker died soon after the war at his home in Mt. Eph- raim and was buried in the *vl.E. Cemetery at that place. Their grave is directly behind the church building. After his death Susanna moved to Oaldwell where she lived to a good old ape. Aunt Susie was liked by all who knew her. She was buried by the side of her husband, she died 1889. Eliza, the oldest daughter of Susanna and Julius Rucker, grew to womanhood on the farm on Mud Run. She married James Law and only lived a few years after marriage, we have no record of their children. Then Wyatt the oldest son of Julius and Susie (Bates) Rucker was born on the farm on Mud Run and grew to manhood there. His occupation was a farmer and he had the experience that farmer boys get on a new farm in clearing up the land and getting it ready to r aise a crop. Wyatt, born July 29, 18^3 was one of the young men that got the gold fever in 1851 and with his grandfather, Timothy Bates, and twelve other men went to falifornia to seek his fortune. He worked in the mines several years and had pretty good luck, then he returned to Ohio, and paid Timothy Rates for taking him to California. After returning he married Miss Jane Morris and to this union were born six children. T he first was Susanna, who married B. F. Young and lived near Mt. Vernon, J^-nox County, Ohio. The second was Sarah E. > who died in Athens County, Ohio. Third was William, who went to Rnox County and married, where he made his home. The fourth was Rosanna, who married William T. Morrison. Afterwards she went to Washington State where she was murdered by a man named Lewis Paul. The fifth was Bethel, sixth, Wyatt Jasper. The two last named went with their mother to the state of Washington where they had a great success and got to be very wealthy. Wyatt Rucker died in iinox County, Ohio, and Mrs. Rucker died in Washington. Landen, the second son of Julius and Susanna Rucker, was born on Mud Run and grew up on the farm. He was a good Christian and was the first one to start a Sabbath school in those parts, which was about 1850. Landen died when a young man and buried in the old Bates cemetery on Wills creek. The second daughter of Julius and Susie Rucker was Phoebe, born on the Mud Run farm where she grew up. She married William Michem, who was a minister. To this union were born the following children: Vesta, who married W. G. Young and made her home in Cald- well where they both died; then the next was Anna, who married Wil- liam King and moved to Nelsonville, Ohio. She died in Athens bounty, Ohio. T he next was Albert Michem, who is married and is a merchant in Nelsonville, Ohio Then the fourth w as Jessie Michem, who married John Schuler and are now living in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Phoebe Michem is still livins and makes her home with Mr. Schuler in ColumbU3. The third daughter of Julius and Susanna Ruckerwas Emma, who grew up on the farm where she learned to do the work that is re- quired of a farmer's daughter, she married William Danford, of Bel- mont County, where they made their home while Mr. Danford lived. Mr. Danford was a minister in the Christian Church. Two daughters were born to this union: one married Stephen MHis Jr., and Moina is single and lives in Caldwell. After the death of Rev. Danford Mrs. Danford moved to Caldwell and made her home there the balance of her days. She was a good rhristian woman and a liberal stiver in support of the church. The third son of Julius and Susanna was Julius Jr. He grew to manhood on the farm on Mud Run. His father had a saw mill that was run by water powor and Julius Jr. ran the mill and did a great deal of sawinpj after he crew up he was married to Miss Rosanna Groves and to this union three sons and two daughters were born; the first, John, who is married but the writer does not know his address; the second son, J. G. Rucker, who was married to Miss Anna Long and to this union were born two children, one son William and one daughter Okey, both of Caldwell. The daughter, Mary Okey, married George Frye and lives in Caldwell. A daughter of William Rucker, Eileen married Merwin Ball. They have three children, Nancy, age eight years, Peggy, age three, and °anet Lucille who died Feb. 1961 aged eleven years and five months. She died after a long illness with cancer and was buried in the Olive Cemetery. J. G. Rucker's first wife died at Carlisle; afterwards he married Miss Mollie Hesson, of Carlisle, he then moved to Caldwell, where he did a flourishing business with a flour mill. The third son of Julius and Rosanna is Bethel, who married Miss Smith and are now making their home in Carlisle. Julius Rucker Jr. died near Renrock in Brookfield Township; after his death, his widow and children moved on Mra. Rucker's father's place and stayed there a while, then she bought the Collin's farm below Carlisle, where Rosanna died and was taken to Mt. Ephraim and buried there. The 4th son of Julias and S. Rucker was Bethel D., who enlisted in 1861 in Co. D 42nd Reg. O.V.I, and served three years, then returned to Mt. Ephraim, took a college course at Pittsburg, Pa., where he married and returned to Mt. Ephraim and lived there a while, then moved to Sedala, Missouri where he was employed as engineer on the railroad a good many years. His wife and family of children made tneir home at Sedala, Missouri. There was a large family of children and it is said that they grew up to be good men and women. Mrs. Rucker died at sedala and the children are scattered. Bethel D. is staying at the Soldiers Home in Leavensworth, Kansas. (1910) He was a good soldier. There are two daughters of Julius Jr. and Rosanna Groves Ruck- er; Savilla and Dora Rucker. Bea is single and makes her home in Carlisle and Dora married Mr. Long and they reside at Tippicanoe, Ohio. The next oldest daughter of Tirnotny and Ruth Bates was Mary, who grew to womanhood on Wills Creek. She was born Feb. 8, 1807. She married John Rucker and to this union were born five children, two girls and three boys. The oldest girl, Louisa married &insey Johns and to this union two children were born. John W. who was a soldier in the Uivil War and a daughter who married Nathan Wharton and moved west. The next daughter of âry and John Rucker was Susanna, who married Nathan Pryer and moved to Indiana. The oldest boy, peter, son of «*ohn and Mary Bates Rucker, died when young. The second son was Sinclair, who lived to be a young man then died. The third son was Timothy B. He enlisted in Co. D. 42nd Regiment and after being discharged returned to Ohio and married Miss Charlotte King and to this union several children were born. After living in Ohio a few years they moved to Indiana and then to Missouri, where he was the .last time the writer heard from him. John Rucker, the husband of Mary Bates Rucker died, then Mrs. Rucker married Samuel Askens for her second husband and to this union one daughter, Jane, was born, she Is in Indiana. Samuel Askens died and iUary Aakens married Samuel Bowersock for her third husband. No children were born to this union. After they had lived in Ohio for several years they sold their land and personal property and moved to Green County, Indiana, where thev lived until Samuel Bowersock died. After his d eath Mary returned to Ohio, and died at her brother's Bethel Bates, and was burled in the Bates will Cemetery. 2>.The third daughter of Timothy and Ruth Moore Bates was Abigail, who was a twin sister to Mary. We do not know which was the oldest. Mary was the larger of the two and has a mole on her cheek, which ' gave the writer a way of telling them apart. Abigail was born Feb. 3, 1807, and grew to womanhood on the farm. She did not grow as large as some of the rest of the family, but she has the courage and vim to do her part. After Abigail Bates grew to womanhood she married John Stotts. To this union were born three sons and one daughter, Anna, who died when young; Julius, who died when but a child; Timothy and Jacob, who grew to manhood on the farm. John and Abigail Stotts bought land on Wills Creek, part of It bottom land and very rich. They got to be well off. John Stotts was a noted muskrat hunter and killed more muskrats than any other man on Wills Creek. John wore a white wool hat a great deal when hunting and he said that the muskrats got to know him by that hat and he had to trade it off. John and Abigail sold their land and moved to Quaker City, where they bought property and made their home for a few years. Then they sold their property and moved to Kansas. They were both getting old and the change did not seem to agree with them, so they did not live long after they moved to Kansas. They were both good citizens and ever ready to assist the needy. The oldest son of John and Abigail Stotts was Timothy. He grew up on the farm and assisted his father until grown. Then he married Miss Mary Long and moved to what was called the John Floth farm, but now owned by Hiram Groves, in Seneca Township. There he lived a few years and then went to California to ssek a fortune, but had the luck that a great many others had, not to make a pile. Then Timothy returned to Ohio. Three children were born to Timothy and llttary Stotts. They were John W., Angeline and Frank. The last two a re In W. Virginia. John W. lives on a part of the farm where his grandfather John Stotts settled. John W. married Miss Anna Jones and to this union were born the following children? Austen, who was a teacher In the public schools, a member of the Ohio National Guard and a good Christian, who died when a young man and was buried In the Bates Hill Cemetery; Lennie or Lenna, Elmer, Jessie, Goldie, Dewey and Kenneth. Timothy, son of Abigail Stotts, died in 1881 and was buried in the old Bates Cemetery. Lenna Stotts later married William Parry and died in June 13, 1961 at the age of 8Jd years and was burled in Village View wemetery at Sarahsvill<3, Ohio, ghe left a son, Harry Stotta and five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Also, at this time she leaves two brothers still living, Dewey stotts of Kdison and Kenneth Stotts of Alliance, Ohio. Harry stotts and his wife Dorothy live near Ratesville. They had five children, among whom are Ruth, Keith, Thelma and Neil. Keith graduated from Harding College and at present is a preacher in the Church of ("Christ at Ashtabula, Ohio. He had one son, Clint Merrill. Thelma, daughter of Harry and Dorothy Stotts, married Denver Moore, son of Earl and -&lla Roe Moore, and have small children at this time in 1961. Then, Jacob, son of Abigail and John Stotts, was born on the farm and grew to manhood there, after which he married Miss Rachel Potts and to this union were born Timothy, deceased; ârcaret, of ânsas; Abigail, of Ohio; John, of Kansas; Zona, of Kansas; ana Andrew, of California. Jacob Stott3 was a sprinter and hard to beat in a foot race. • He and Jacob ^cKain were a good match and would put up five dollars on a side and then set a time to run. Jacob Stotts was soldier in th« Civil war. After returning from the army he lived on a farm along Wills Creek for a number of years, then sold out and moved to Kansas and lived there a few years, then moved to Qden, 111. Rachel, his wife, took sick and he brought her back to her daughter's, Mrs. Bethel 4ates, in Seneca Twp. where she died. She was buried in the Bates Hill Cemetery. Then Jacob Stotts went back to Kansas and only lived a few years after his wife died. He was buried in Kansas. Uzel Bates, oldest son of Timoth?/1 and Ruth Moore Fates, was born Jan. 15, 1806, and died March 1, 1806. ,/Lavi'na Bates, fourth daughter of Timothy and Ruth Moore Bates, was born April 2, 1812, died Jan. 2, 1885. She grew to womanhood on the old #ates homestead. She saw a great deal of the hardships of pioneer life and was one of the girls that wore buckskin dresses. She married Abraham Danford, born Jan. 1, 1807, died Dec. 10, 1890. (He was born in Belmont County, Ohio). To Abraham and -âvina were born taese children: Eli, Bethel, Elizabeth, Louanna, Isaiah, Ambrose, Wancy, Martha Ann, Henry C., Timothy B. and Rolland Danford. Abraham Danford and wife own a good farm on Wills Creek, where they lived to raise their family. Then they sold tneir farm and bought what was called the Pordyce farm at Campbell Station..) (Now Lore City)., where they livedseveral years. Then they sold their farm and bought property in Quaker City, where they spent the balance of their days. They are buried in the cemetery at Quaker City. Eli Danford, oldest son of Abraham and -âvina Bates D anford, was born and raised on Wills Creek, where he had tb.8 experience of the farmer boy. In the early days of the settling of this country he was a good worker, but took time to go fishing some times. When he grew to manhood he married W1is3 Ann Yoho and to tiis union were born six sons* Isaac, Ambrose, Isaiah, Doc, Gran, Abram and John. The oldest son of Eli and Ann Yoho Danford, Isaac, married a Miss Stilts. He taught school for several years, then was elected clerk of courts and served two terms in Noble County, after which he was appointed clerk in the stateauditor's office at Columbus, qnd served several years. ,.-n- Isaiah, born June 27, 1841, died Sept. 13, 19*2, married Eliza EllenGroves, born Aug. 16, 1846, and their children are . S. Dan- ford of Burdette, Edwards County, Kansas; Matilda Ann, who married a Mr. Myers and lives in South Hutchinson, Kansas? Eli J1**11*1*^ who married a Miss Crow and lives in 417 East Sherman St..H ESSSSVEII P. is worth forty or fifty thousand dollars; William Collins, who resides at Tomas, Okla.; Wvina Delia, who married -9-

a Mr. Kent, and lives at Hutchison, Kan.; Lewis Philo, of Hutchin- son, Kan.; Mary Alice, who married *a Mr. Manpin, and lives in S. Hutchlnson, Kan.; Carrie May, who married a Mr. Carlisle, and lives at Elk City, Okla.j Rosanna, married Pat Hamilton, and live in Kan- sas; Eliza Ellen, married a Mr. Kennedy and livos north of Hutchin- son, Kansas, (all in 1910) The wife of Isaiah Danford, Eliza Ellen droves Danford, died Nov. 1, 1909, in Hutchinson,Kan. and was buried in that place. Isaiah Danford is still living and makes his home with one of his children near Hutchinson. (1910). The fourth son of Abraham and Lavina Bates Danford was Ambrose. He grew to manhood on his father's farm on Wills creek. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Bates. To this union were born four and one daughter, the oldest is Sorenzo Danford, who married a Miss Taylor, of Carlisle. Zoe, as he was known, taught school for several years, then he wa3 a guard at the Ohio penitentiary for several years at Columbus. The last account of him he was keeping a furniture store in Columbu.3. The second son of Ambrose and Eliza- beth Danford is Charles. He married a Miss Archer and lives in Car- lisle, where he runs a store. The third son, Homer, is deceased. The fourth son, Leroy, lived in Denver, Colorado. Then the only daughter of Ambrose and Elizabeth Bates Danford was'Cora Danford. She married Forest Thompson and lived at Carlisle. (1910) Nancy Danford, the third daughter of Abraham and Lavina Bates Danford married Julius Proves and to this union two daughters and one son were born. Arizona m. E. G. Chamberlin, the once postmaster of Caldwell; kind daughter was Rose, Rile 3rove3, the only son married a Miss Phena Shafer of Mt. fiphraim. Julius R. Groves served as county commissioner of Noble County for two terms. Martha Ann Danford, the fourth daughter of Abraham and Lavina Danford, died with diptheria. Then Henry Clayton, fifth son, died with it also, this being the first coses of diptheria in that part of the county. Martha and Henry C. are buried in the old Bates Cemetery on Wills Creek. Rolland, youngest son of Abraham and Lavina married Nancy Wilson and had children. One daughter married John droves, jr., and one son married Tessie Bates. Their children are, Irma, Wayne and June. Wayne married Estaline Hardin. The following is from the Groves and Danford histories; Louanna Danford, daughter of Lavina and Abraham, m. jtewia Groves, (John, Jonas) b. 24 June, 1836 Children: I. Elizabeth, b. 1857, m. first Simeon Martin, 2nd, Calvin Eagai II. Abraham Lincoln, b. 1859, m. Mary III. John W. b. 186a, m. Mary E. Gllmore IV. Leota Campsidell, b. Mar. 12, 1860, m. Chalres Wyscarver V. Julius, b. Feb. 19, 1864, m. Minnie Eagon VI. Alfred Ambrose, b. Aug. 27, 1866, m. Anna Morris VII. Martha Matilda, b. June 16, 1869, m. Henry Mosburg Eliza Ellen Grover (John, Jonas) b. Aug. 16, 1846, m. on June 15, 1864, Isaiah Danford, son of Abraham and Lavina Children: I. John Abraham Lincoln, b. July 11, 1866, m. Mary M~Kee XI. Matilda Ann, b. July 8, 1868, m. Ben Myers ITI. Eli Franklin, b. Sept. 9, 1869, m. Elizabeth E. Crow IV. William Collins, b. May 25, 1871, m. 1st, Cora Kent, 2nd,Edna V. Lewvina Delly, b. Oct. 19, 1872, m. 1st, L. S. Kenot, 2nd, Sylvester Dimmett VI. Lewis Philo, b. Jan. 9, 1874, m. Sally wheeler VII. Mary Alice, b. Jan. 31, 1876, m. Arthur 'l*. Maupin - JJJ-

VIII. Carrie May, b. Jan. 27, 1878, m. R. ,T. Carlisle IX. Rosannah, b. Aug. 17, ],880, m. J. P. Hamilton X. Eliza Ellen, b. act 30, m. woodard Dlxon Kennedy Rolen Jasper Danford, b. Monday, Apr. 10, 1854, d. Feb. I'd, 194Q, age 86 yrs., married Nancy Margaret Wilson, b. Oct. 5, 1855, d. Feb. 28^ 1947, age 92. They were married Thurs., Sept. 2, 1875. Children: Dora Bell Danford, b. June 10, 1876; Alice May, b. July 1878k died July 22, 1954; Then Henry Abraham Garfield, b. Apr. 60, 1880, d. Feb. 24, 1955. Then Kstell Jane b. Aug. 14, 1882. Then Blanche Eliz. b. May 1885, then Dulcie M. b. Feb. 11, 1888, then Mary Lavina b. Apr. 27, 1891, who m. Thoburn nritton. Luana 3ate3, the fifth daughter of Timothy and Ruth Moore Bates, was born Mar. 28, 181b. She married Jo3.iah Kent and to this union were born -Lara-el, Abraham, William and Timothy B. Josiah Kent went to California in 1851 and stayed seven years, but did not have the luck to make a fortune. After he returned home he tried farming for a few years. Then his wife, Luana, took and sick and died and was buried in the old Bates Cemetery on Wills Creek. After her death he broke up housekeeping and stiayed at different places for a few years. Josiah Kent was a good man. Israel Kent, the oldest son of Jos:lah and Luana Jênt, grew to manhood on the homestead on Mud Run. When the war broke out he enlisted at age 23 in Co. D. 42nd Reg., Aug. 13, 1862, and was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps. After the close of the Civil War Israel married iili3s nannah Osborn and to this union were born the following children: William, Joseph, Ida, James, Mary, Albert, and Elmer. Israel A. Kent is still living and is making his home in Pen- nsylvania. (191G) The second son, Abraham served three years in Co. D. 42nd Regi- ment O.V.I, and was in several battles. After Aorarn Kent was discharged from Co. D 42nd Reg. he returned to Noble ôunty, and on Feb. 10, 1865, enlisted in Co. D. 185th Reg. and was discharged May 29, 1865 at Lexington, Ky., by order of tte war department. He then returned to Noble bounty and married Miss "Nancy Pettay, and to his union one child Charles ênt of Sarahsville was born. Abram Kent made his home in Colorado. Charles, son of Nancy and Abram Kent married Emma Knox. He was born in Oct. 20, 1892 was a veteran of World War X. He never married and livei alone since the death of his mother in 1957. He died in Aprn 1961 and was buried in Village view Cemetery. He left one sister, Mrs. Henry (Rose) Gill of Caldwell, Ohio The third son of ôuanna and Josiah Kent was William Kent. He grew to manhood on Wills Creek and at the age of 18 years enlisted in Co. G. 78th Reg. and served until the close of the war. He was .. with Sherman on his march to the sea, thence back by way of Richmond, Va. , and on to the great review at Washington D. C. in the spring of 1865. After Win. Kent returned from the army he worked for his uncle, Timothy Bates, Jr., and whild working there became acquainted with Sarah E. Ankrom, and in 1867 they were married. To this union ten children were born, four daughters and six sons. wm. Kent died at Lake City, Iowa, April 7, 1906, and was buried in the Cottonwood Cemetery at that place. His widow, Sarah is still living (1910) The fourth son of josiah and -L»ouanna Kent is Timothy B. Kent. He was born at the old homestead on Mud Run. His mother died when he was a small boy and his uncle, Washington Brown, took him and gave hima home until he grew to manhood. After that he took a trip to California, then he returned to Colorado and worked in the mines near Boulder City with Colonel w. G. Teeters for a few years. Then he returned to Ohio and married Mi^s Rebecca Brown to which union -11-

two children were born, both dying in infancy. Rebecca, wife of T. B. Kent died in 1904 and was buried in the Olive Cemetery near Caldwell. Then in 1908 T. B. Kent'married Mrs. Maasie Barry, ^hey mke their home in Caldwell. }nr. Kent owned a good farm in Olive Township where he farmed a good many years. 1'JBISJpi^î'"t^nnf\ aon of Timothy and Ruth Bates, was born on wills Creelc/March I'd, 1809. He grew to manhood on the farm and had the experience of a pioneer life from his boyhood days. He was brought up in the then thinly settled country after the manner of the children of the early settler, wearing buckskin breeches, his feet covered by moccasins in winter and bare in summer. In early life he assisted his father upon the farm and in the distillery. Since becoming of age he followed farming and dealing in stock, and was very successful in his undertakings. in"Selfiwca Twp.^ They reared twelve children! Abraham, Hugh, l¥a91$b&;Ji Harriet, Simeon, Lewis, Patrick, Herman, Rosaline, Luana, Susanna and Bethel. All were living in 1910 except Lewis, who was killed in a boiler explosion in a sawmill at Sarahsvllle, in the spring of 1886. Pour of the sons were in the service in the late war, Abraham, Lewis, Patrick and Herman. The descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Rates are very numerous. They had 111 grand and great grandchildren. Mr. Bates was very well and favorably known throughout the county. He served as township treasurer and member of the school board many years. He was elected to the legislature in the fall of 1870 and served two winters He was formerly a Whig and later an earnest Republican. The earliest school hûse in the Bates neighborhood was on the creek north of the present residence of Bethel Bates. uames Tuttle was an early teacher there. His amount of schooling was twelve days, but he was a man that kept on learning and wa3 a man that had a jfrefct memory and kept well posted on government'affairs. BQthel, when a boy, went with his sister, SHsie, to see if they had trapped any turkeys in the pen that they had built for that purpose, i'hey found some large toms in the pen and Bethel would go in and catch them. Su3ie tried to keep him out but he would not listen to her 30 in he went but did not stay long for the turkeys whipped him and he came out crying. Then Susie went in with a club and was soon victorious, for she knew tnat to strike them on the neck would soon settle them. Bethel did not want to try it again. In the boyhood days of Bethel Bates, Sr., they would have religious services at private houses, and the mothers would dress their boys up in the style of those days and take taem alomt so they would not be at ho-ne playing baseball while their parents were at church. They did not dress their boys up then like they do now by putting them in a fine shirt, collar necktie, knee pants and a fine cap or hat, but they used economy and dressed with a cheap suit of one gar- ment and that was a long shirt that came down to the calves of their legs, that was their sunvner suit to go to church. They would not think of wearing shoes but going barefoot was their style. Bethel Bates, 3r. said that he went to meeting at John Vorhies on Wills Creek with his parents a good many times with nothing on but a shirt and as seats were scarce the boys would squat down around the wall. He said he would have to be careful and keep hia dress down. Bethel Bates, Sr. had the experience of helping catch a couple of bears and he went with his father, Timothy Bates^ Sr. ani his uncle Kphraim 3ates, Jr. to cut a tree that had a bear in it, and they stationed Bethel beyond where the tree would fall to hold a -la- large dog. When the tree fell he would let the dog go, and Into the tree top rushed the dog, which was,anxious for a fight, and he soon found one, as a large black bear met the dog, and he was a good box- er for it only took one stroke of that beards pqw to knock Mr. dog out for he turned him head over heels in a ravine where he laid for a while, but ^phrain Bates soon got there with his gun and shot the bear, and looking around he saw another bear coming 'out of the tree top and he shot it also. so they had plenty of bear moat for awhile. As soon as Bethel got so he could carry a gun he would take his rifle and ceo around the corn fields and shoot the gray squirrels to keep them eating up their corn. The squirrels were very numerous in those days and at timss there would be a dozen or more on one tree. Bethel Bates and his wife settled on a piece of land, that joined his father's and there he and his wife, lived the balance of their days. They also had a boy Levi. Bethel Bates was a very successful farmer and raiser of stock. When he bough he aimed to get the best, then he would feed them good and when he would sell he would get the top price. He made a great deal of money in his tirre and helped all his children. There were twelve of them living and married. He was a man that treated everyone right; no one who was at his home at meal time went away hungry If Bethel knew it. He would feed the rich and poor alike, he*gave hundreds of people a meal and still he had plenty. Bethel Bates lived to be about ninety years old. His life was spent, most of the time, within sight of where he was born. His farm had some of the Indian mounds on it and he used one of them to make brick to build a brick house. It has been built a great many years and It stands today which shows that the work was well done, ^he house wa3 built in 1842 and it still stands today and is being lived in in the year 1961. Bethel always kept his farm In good repair and what improvements he put on it was generally of the best and up to date. &e died in 1898 and was buried in the Bates Cemetery. Mary A. Bates, wife of Bethel Bates lived five or six years longer than he did and when she died was buried by the side of her husband In the Bates Hill Cemetery. Abraham Bates, oldest son of Bethel and Mary Bates, was born Sept. 5, 1832, and was brought up on the farm. After he grew to manhood was married to MI.T.T Mrary A. Morris, and to this union were born Anna, Rebecca, Moses, Patrick, Herman, Trena and Alice. Abraham Bates enli3ted as a private In the 12ksnd T?e|a. O.V.I, and was discharged at Winchester, v«*. in the spring of 186b. After he returned to Ohio he lived a few years ant then moved with his family to Ind- iana. His wife, M«ry, died there. At the time this was written Abraham was living near Worthlngton, Green County, Indiana. He is past eighty years old and 13 at this time a helpless invalid. Ho had to be lifted about like a child and when he 3at up on bed it was necessary to prop hiir. He was taken care of by his daughter, Anna Philpot. (written in 191u by Dighton Bates) Anna, oldest daughter of Abraham and Mary A. Bates, was born in Noble County, Ohio and after she grew to womanhood she, with hei- parents, moved to Green Co., Indiana. She married John pnilpot and ia now living tv/o miles south of Worthington, Ind. Rebecca, second daughter of Abraham~and Mary, married Simon Kelly. They had one daughter, Russia, who married and went west. Robecca is deceased. (1910) Moses Bates, oldest son of Abraham and Mary, married Jjydia Stanley and to this union four children were born. They are all In Montana. Sumter Bates, second son of Abraham and M«ry married a Miss Burch and to this union one child, ^race, was born. Tney are all deceased. Horman 3ates, third son of Abraham and Mary Bates, Is married and has four children. He lives eight miles from Worthington, Ina. Trena Bates, third daughter of Abraham and Mary Bates, married a Mr. Kind and to this union were born three children. Alice Batea, fourth daughter of Abraham and Mary Bates, went to Calirornia and was married there and makes her homo in that state. M Hugh'Bates, the second son of Bethel Bates, Sr. and ary Bates,f was born Nov. lo, 1835, and was brought up on the farm where he learned to farm and now to take care or stock. Alter he grew to man- > hood he married >i a»îtt^h%Q.»^^J||if^ghjin' ann to this union were born Bethel, Elizabeth J., Martha, Dora, Nora A., Francis, Grant, Lawrence, Willie J., Roma and Charles Bates. Moaes Bates, oldest son or Hugh and Catherine Bates, married and went to Amacortes, Washington, where he makes his home. Elizabeth Jane, oldest daughter of Hugh and Catherine, rmrrled dohn lttcVicker and moved to Mlddlebourne, in Ouernsey Co., Ohio, where he got killed with a tree. They had seven children including Er. MoVicker, J. Dewey, Bernlce, two other boys and two other girls. Er. McVicker was a coal miner near senecaville. He married Martha Jane Neff in Dec. 1899 who died in 1955. Er. McVicker died in Oct. 1960 and was buried in 'senecaville Cemetery. He left two daughters, Mrs. Grace Harding of Senecaville and Mrs. Myrtle Barnes of Cambridge; two sons, Gilbert and Haven, both of Cnmbridge, Ohio. Ho also left lft grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Martha, second daughter of Hugh and Catherine Bates, married Albert Law and moved to Delaware, Ohio. They have four children. Dora Batea, daughter of Hu'.th married Samuel Rossiter and to this union were born five children, Hugh, Lucy, Laura, Dewey and Alpha. Samuel Rossiter and wife are living in Seneca Township, Noble County. Lucy, daughter of Samuel and Dora, is at present in I9bl living In Caldwell,~Ohio. She ia a clerk on the County J^raft Board. Nora Alice Bates, fourth daughter or Hugh and Catherine, married John Bridgman and to this union were born six children, all of whom are grown to manhood. They live in Noble ôwnahip, not far from Belle Valley (1910)

Francis Bates, fifth daughter of Hugh and Catherine, married John Dudley, Jr., and to ttilsûnion were born three children: Ernest, Letha and Dorcas. Grant Bates, second son of Hugh, married Rachel Tucker and to t this union were born three or rather two children, Oma and fiuHL Grant lived near Mt. Ephraim for several years, where his wife died, "'hen Grant sold his propert?f and moved to Cumberland where he lived but a few years, then he died, leaving his son and daughter to mourn. Lawrence Bates, third son of ûgh married Miss ROSR Martin and to this union, one son Howard, was born, Jan. 1b, lyO4. Lawrence Bate3 moved neqr Cumberland, where his wife died. Then he later moved back to the homestead on Mud Run. Howard, son of Lawrence and Rosa Batea inns employed by Ohio Power for 54 years. He died in 1960 and was buried in Wood lawn Cemetery in âtiogv1 lie, Ohio. He left his wife Ruth, a daughter Mrs. Charles R. Fratts and two granddaughters, Linda D«y and Barbara Ann Fratts, or Jackson, Miss.,' and a step-mother, Mrs. Nora BaTes, daughter of Bethel Bates. R Roma Bates, sixth daughter of"Hugh and Catherine Bates, died when a young woman and was buried In the Batea Hill Cemetery. Her grave had a stone with her picture on it under a glass cover. It was clear until the summer or 1960, when someone finally broke tho glass. Hugh Bates owned a gooo farm on Muc Run and Wills Creek. He bought andshipped a great deal of stock to the Pittsburg market and he did a ffood business farming. He was a good citizen and a member of the Bates Hill Cnurch. He and hia wife, Catherine, are both — i.'i —

deceased and are buried in the Bates- Hill Cemetery on hia father's farm..,:,;r . . . pyflebecca Bates, oldest daughter'or Bethel and Mary A. Bate&, was vt>Qjjn April <*6, Ibo5. When she grew to womanhood she married ^ng^^tfrtÛtr.. To bhia union were born seven children: Michael, 'IjllPliWp Elmer, Prank, Wm Perm, Phebe and Roaa. Michael and Simeon are married and livo in ^rookrield Township. Elmer is married anu lives in Morgan county. Prank married Sadie Belle Johns and they had one daughter, Beulah. Fx-ank is a doctor. He practiced medicine at Mt. Ephraim a few years then he bought property at High Hill in Muakingum County and practiced there a few years when his health failed and he soon passed away. His widow died in Mt. Ephraim. Wm. Form McNutt married a daughter or CapL. Benjamin Clowser. pnebe is single and at home (1910) Rosa McNutt married Owen McGee. Sam- uel McNutt and Rebecca Bates McNutt owneo a farm near Gibson Station in Guernsey County, Ohio Harriot Bates, second daughter of Bethel Bates, Sr. , and Mary A. âtes, was born June Sd9, Ia38. She married Moses Moore and to this union were born eirrht children. They are Bethel, Lewis, Frederick, William, Margaret, Emma, Hattie and Daisy. Moaea Moox-e owned a farm on one branch of Salt Pork in Guernsey County, whore he died. After his death his wife, Harriet Bate3 Moore, mov«d to Quaker City where she died. William Moore, youngest son of Moses and narriet Moore, lives in Quaker City, Ohio and is one of the rural mail carriers from that place. At the time of this writing in 1961, William has died and hj^yyi4AE,. a till lives in Quaker City. . 9*m»i5!T*iWw^ji^^ Bates Sr., and-Mary A. Rates, was corn Oct. lb, 18d6, and was raised up on the farm. He married Miss Mary Kirkbride in 1861, and to this union were born fourteen children, twelve sons and two daughters. They were Robert, Sheridan, James,fjllHB^^ William, Frank, Dock, peter, Garfield, Clyde, Daisy, Ella, Ray and Harley. Simeon B«tea owned a farm on Wills Creek, which was good rich land. He was a good farmer and raised all of his family up on the farm so that they knew how to farm and take care of stock. Simeon Bates aand wife were good citizens and good clever neighbors. Simeon Bates has been dead several years. His wife, Mary, died Nov. lb, 1^11 at the age of 67 years. They are both buried in the cemetery at Mt. Ephraim, Noble County. Robert Bates, oldest son of Simeon and wary married Miss Eliz- abeth L«nt. He is forty-nine years old (1910). They have two children, one son Klmer, and a daughter, Bertha. Robert owned a farm near Gibsons Station. Sheridan Bates, second son of Simeon, aged 47 in 1910, married Miss Minerva Moore and lived near Whigville. To this union were born ten children: Cleo, Stanley, Ray, Simeon, an infant daughter deceased, Glenn, Mary, deceased, Ralph, Myron, and îyde, deceased. James, third son of Simeon, was 45 :?ears old in 1910. Ho married Miss -ôu McCarty and lived near Sarahsville. His wife, Eva Louvlna or Lou was born Nov. 24, 187id at Stafford and was a daughter or John and Elizabeth Camden McCarty or wcCorty. She died in Oct. 1961, was a member of the Church of Christ and was buried in village View Cemetery at Sarahsville. In 1961 the children of James and l«ou MuCarty Bates are Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Harper of pleasant City, Ohio; Mrs. Marie Kelley of Pleasant City R.D. #id; Mrs. Thelma Ann Steinbeck of "Ravenna; John 8. Bates of Akron; and William Harry of Pleasant City. Also at this time there were five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. /r

^KMHHKi&e fourth son of Simeon and Mary Bates, married Miss Barbara Dailay and to this union four children were born; Lela,f flfigP John and Pauline. He owned part of the old homestead, where xTved. He died in the year 1956 and was buried at Bateshill. His wife died several years earlier. Lela married Robert *oe and had several children: Margie, Mary , Myrtle, J'elba, Pauline, Charles and Dean. Myrtle, daughter of Lela and Robert, Married ^onald Retts and live in Batesville, Ohio. Their children are Sandra and Charles. Melba married Jimmy Flood and also live in Batesville. They have three children, Dixie, Jeane and Deb- bie. Mary married Ralph Shepherd and have these children? Barbara, Penny, Gregory and Lynn. Margie is married and lives in Akron, Paul- ine married Hilmer (Bobby) Carpenter and lives in Summerfield, Ohio. Himler is the son of Alva Carpenter near Batesville, Pauline and Bobby have a fine gib home and have these children: Dennis, Richie, and Karen. Charles died in the service of his country in the Korean War when a young man and Dean is at home with his parents. They live near Kennonsburg, Ohio (1962) John, son of Irvin and Barbara, married Charlotte Robinson, and now live on the old homestead. The bottom lands are now covered by the new lake built by the government. The lake has completely chang- ed the country and the old homes and covered bridges are gone. John and Charlotte have two daughters, Ruth and Jane. Ruth married Charles Hannahs in Feb. 1958. They have one daughter named Patricia. Pauline, daughter of Irvin and Barbara, married Rex Rich. Their children are Mary Lou, Carol Sue, Wilma Marie (RoeJ, Carl Denver and Don. Don wasoverseas in the army and married a girl from Germany, named Erica, and they have two children, Rex Michael, and a baby, William, fifth son of Simeon, lived near Cumberland, He married Miss Deobra Wentworth and to this union were born seven children: Hicel, Bacil, Carl, Lelard, Albert, Jewel and Gladys. Frank, the sixth son of Simeon and Mary Bates, is still living in 1961. He married *»iss Mpy graham and to this union were born five children: Hayes, Farley, Mary, Denard and Ivy, Fayes married ollie Voore and have these children: Vivian, Bus- ter, and Ronald, Vivian, married Ronald Feldner and live at Caldwell. They have two daughters and one son. The daughter, Judy, married Charles D. yilligan in June 1961. The daughter, Nancy, is at home. Buster is married and has a child, Alexander, and others. Ronald, son of Hayes, married Irene Sorg and have these children: Wayne, Danny and Beverly, and they live in Summerfield, Ohio. Harley, son of Frank and Mary Bates, married ^llen E. Warner, daughter of James and James ard Anna Roe Warner. Their children are Robert 0., born March 1922, Roger W. , born July 1930 and Jarres, born Feb. 1935, and also Franklin. Robert married Laura Tolliver a nd they have six sons, the youngest Chris Martin, was born on New Year's day in 1961. Mary, daughter of Frank and Mary Bates, married Alva clark and they have one son, Harold, who married Neva Leach, and have three children: Marcus and Brenda and a son. Dock, the seventh son of Simeon and Mary, died at the age of two years. Peter, the eighth son is married and lives near Belle Valley. Peter married Miss Anna Martin and have two children, Rayomond and Edgar. Edgar is married and lives in Belle valley, He is a retired farmer and school bus driver and is now mayor of Belle Valley in 1961, James E., son of Edgar and Anna Bates, married Vi?s Barbara Butler Fluhardy in March of 1961 and they reside in Belle valley, Ohio -16-

1 Garfield, the ninth son of Simeon and Mary Bates, lived in Byes- ville, Ohio. He married visa Rosa.Wilson and to them were born the following children* Eural, Shirley and Don, and also Edith Clyde, the tenth son of Simeon, lived near the old homestead • on Wills Creek. Ne married Miss Nellie Stevens. Later, when Nellie died, he married a woman named Marie. Clyde lost one lee before he died in 1960. Ray, eleventh son of Simeon and âry, married Jennie McCarty and they have three children, May, Charles and fay. Daisy Pates, daughter of Simeon Bates and Alary, was born March 8, 1884. She married'Ernest J. Sayre and has two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Pauol and i-rs. Annabelle Spicer, both of Belle Valley. Also two sons, Robert of Malta R. D. #2, and Roy Sayre, in the u. s. Army. Daisy Sayres died in June 1958 and her husband died in 1956, Ella Pearl Bates, daughter of Simeon died when only a few months oldo Harley, son of Simeon and Mary Kirkbride Eates, married Miss Maude Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Graham. Harley was born in 1888. He has spent his entire life here and is the youngest of the fourteen children. Maude and Harley were married on March 13, 1909 and observed their Golden Weddine: Anniversary on Sunday, March 15, 1959. Harley and Maude had four children, a son, oather, Lola, Audrey, and Opal. They also have 13 grandchildren, six great-grandchild ren and two grandchildren deceased. They are both members of the Bates Hill Church of Christ. Oather H. Bates, son of Harley and Maude, married Elizabeth Scott on June 13, 1931. They had two sons, Jerry and Richard, a daughter, Mrs. Joanne Patterson, who is married and lives at Winter- seti Route #1. Richard is married and lives at Newcomerstown and operates a jewelry store there. Oather and Elizabeth also had twin daughters who died soon. Oather was sick a long time and died in 1958. He was buried at the Bates Hill Cemetery. Lola, daughter of Harley and âude, married okey Hague. They had two sons, Terry and David, and Lola also helped Okey raise his two sons by his first wife, Frances, who died when the boys were little. Lola was a wonderful mother to them. Lola and her brother, Oather, both died att he age of 48 years. Opal, daughter of Maude and Parley Eates, married yr. Clarence 0. Moore, and lived at Sarahsville. They have some children, one is Darrell D. yoore, who is married and has a daughter, Connie, and also a daughter, Jennie Lynn, born in June 1961. Audrey, daughter of ârley and Maude, married Mr. Ronald All- britain. All of Harley and Maude's children and their families are members of the Bates Hill Church of Christ and ere very faithful members. Maude is a wonderful person and has spent her life taking care of others who were sick and as far back as this writer can remember, she always had an extra person in her home to keep and care for when they were sick. She will really earn a crown in heaven for her kindness.

Lewis Bates, the fourth son of Bethel Bates, Sr. and &ary A. Bates, was born Jan. 10, 1840 and at the age of twenty-one years he enlisted in Co. D. 42nd Regiment, O.V.I. He was in several hard battles. After serving three years he returned to Noble county and Married Sarah Kirkbride and to this union were born one daughter and eight sons: Bingham, Violet, Patrick, Eli, Sherman, Dennis, Leonard, Ernest and Homer. -17-

Bingham, the oldest son of Lewis and Sarah Bates, married Miss Delia Devolld and they made their home in Cambridge, Ohio. He has been running on the railroad for a great many years. Violet, the only daughter of Kewis and Sarah p,ates, married Sheridan Jeralds and they lived at New Concord, Ohio. Patrick, second son of Lewis, married a Miss Barnes and lives in plissfield. Eli, the third son of Lewis and Sarah, married a Miss Hickman and lived in Cambridge. Sherman Pates, fourth son of Lewis, is married and lived in Cambridge. Dennis, Leonard, Ernest and Homer were all married. Leonard N. was born July 17, 1876 in Mt. Eph- raim. He married Rachael McConnel, who died in July 1958. At the time of this writing on Dec. 31, 1961 there were the following sons and daughters of Leonard and Rachael Bates: Leland D. Bates of Shady- side, Harry ^."Bates of Byesville and William W. Bates of 802 Wheel- ing Ave., Cambridge, Ohio, four daughters, Mrs. Harry Moore of Tuc- son, Ariz., Mrs. Earl Stillions of Shadyside, Mrs. Thomas Stillions of Centerville and Mrs. Peatrice Repasky of West Lafayette. Leonard also had 28 grandchildren, 21 ereat-grandchildren and $ great-great grandchildren. He was burled In Northwood Cemetery. Lewis Bates, fourth son of Bethel Bates, Sr., was killed by t he explosion of a saw mill boiler at Sarahsville in 1886. Sarah ^ates lived with her son, Homer, in Cambridge. Patrick, the fifth son of Bethel Bates, Sr. and Mary A. Bates, was born Dec. 17, 1841 and at the age of nineteen years he enlisted in Co. D. 42nd Reg. O.V.I, and served three years. He was in t he siege at Vicksburg and several other battles. After he was discharged he returned to Noble County and was married to Miss Ellen Hughes. To this union were born two children, William Allen and Mary Ellen, both deceased. Ellen and both children died in 1869. Ellen HughesB ates had cancer in her right shoulder, which caused her death. She was buried in the old Bates Cemetery on Wills creek. Patrick Bates worked for her father, for several years after the death of his wife. Ellen. On Nov. 17, 1881, Patrick married Mary Morris (1857-1941) daughter of James and Catherine Shay Morris. To this union were bornt ha following children: Nellie Frances, born Aug. 18, 1884, died Feb. 10, 1885 Amanda ^.j born Dec. 23", died Jan. 1947 Maggie, born Dec. 23, died May 13, 1950 Twin sons, July 28, 1888, died Aus. 3. and Sept. 22. 1888 Howard ^cfllnley, born Mar. 1, 1898, died Jan. 10, 1936 Patrick, Abraharr, Lewis and Herman, brothers, all served in the Civil War. Fatrick was one of the trustees who had Bateshill Church building erected in 1885. He also had the deed to the church; the land was given to the church by his father, Bethel, Sr. Patrick owned and lived on a farm joining the one where he was born and raised. Patrick Betes has the patent that was given by President Madison and josiah Meigs in 1816 to David Watson of Guernsey Co., and being the northwest quarter of Section 35, twp. 7, range 7. The deed was recorded inMonroe County, in volume one, page 52,'fees, 31 cents, Cornelius Okey, recorder. Patrick Bates has a good house and his land rich and productive. Part of it lies in the bottom between Glady Creek and Wills creek. Patrick Pates, died in 1929 and was buried at Bates Kill Cemet- ary. Mary died in 1941 and is also buried at Bstes Hill. Amanda Bates married Aaron Gregp and had four children: MiH red, Nellie, William and Frank. Mildred married Blaine Day and lives on Wills Creek. Nellie married a Mr. Brill and has one son Fvan. Evsn is now married and lives in Columbus. William, married a Miss Williams arid has several children, arong whom is Dwain, a student at Annapolis School. - J.O-

Maggie, daughter of Patrick, married Charlie Warner and had one daughter, Margaret, who married Ray Wentworth and have three children: Laverne, Donna and a baby boy'who died at the age of two years. Howard married Anna L. Eschbangh and to them were born the following children: Harry Quentin Pates, born Apri 1 15, 1920, John Rates, born Oct. ie, 1921, Olive M. Bates, born March 24vp, 1923, Mary Margaret Pates, born Dec. 5, 1924, Martha Mildred Bates, born March 16, 1927, Bonnie Jean Pates, born June 3, 1929, end Pyron Leslie Bates, born Jan. 17, 1932. Harry Bates, son of Howard and Anna Bates, married Mddge Evelyn Bates Aug. 16, 1937 and to them were born the following children: Howard Franklin Pates, born June 2, 1938, Gloria Jo Rates, born Aug. 2, 1941 and Jonnie Nclan pates, born June 17, 1945. Harry Q. Rates served in World War II and Howard Bates, his son, is at the present serving in the U. S. Navy. John Betes, son of Howard and Anna, died in the year 1927 at the age of six years. Ke died of Polio Olive, daughter of Howard and Anna married Gene Starr, at present live in zanesville, Ohio and have the following children at home* Susie, Sandra, Bobby, Orvil. Lea, and a baby daughter. Margaret, daughter of Anna and Howard, married Elmer Yoho, and live at Wooster, Ohio, and have the following children: Carlin, Charles, Mary, Linda and Lorena. Martha, daughter of Anna and Howard married Elvln Carpenter and they have the following children: Debra, Cathy, and Larry Bonnie jean, daughter of Howard and Anna married Donald McEl- fresh and have the following children: Harold, Theresa, kiane, Judy and Barbara Byron, son of Anna and Howard, married Donna Ritterbeck and have a daughter Lyn and a son Jeffery. Rosaline Bates, the third daughter of Bethel Bates, Sr., was born July 14, 1843. After she grew to womanhood she married Samuel Stew- ard; one son is living that was born to this union, Fern Steward, Fie is married and makes his home in Oklahoma City, Okla. They have two children. Rosaline and her husband, Samuel Steward, moved to Edgar County, 111., where he died, then Mrs. Steward moved back to Ohio and married her second husband, Martin Snode, Jr., who only lived a few years after marriage. After his death Rosaline Snode went to her son in Okla. Herman Bates, sixth son of Bethel and Mary Pates, was born ^pril 10, 1845. He grew to manhood on the old homestead on Wills Creek and at the age'of eighteen he enlisted in Co. G. 78th Reg., OLV.I. AND SERVED nearly two years. He was in Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea and back by way of Richmond, va. and on to Washington, D.C. After being discharged he returned to Noble Co. and then he went to Edgar Co., 111. in the spring of 1866. In January 1870 he was married to Emeline Stewart and to this union were born six children, Robert B. , Simeon, Samuel R. , Cora, Myrtle and 7/illiam F. Herman Bates lived on a farm near Redmond, 111., where he stayed for several years, then he moved to Paris, 111., the county seat of Edgar Co., where he was street commissioner a good many yearso in 1896 he moved back to Noble Co. and bought a piece of land in Brookfield Twp. where he lived until 1899, then he sold out and bought land in Noble'Twp. Emeline, wife of Herman bates went to Paris, 111. to visit her children in the fall of 1905 and while there she became very poorly and on April 26, 1906 she passed away and was buried in the cemetery at Paris, ill. Herman Pates rented his land and has been making his home in Caldwell since the death of his wife. The oldest son of Herman and Emeline Bates is Robert 'Pethel Bates. He grew to manhood in Edgar Co., Til. He was married to Miss Clara Carady and to this union was born four children, Ethel, Carl, Otto and Jessie. Robert B. nates and family make their home at Galton, 111. (1910) The second son of Herman and Eire line Bates is Simeon. He married Miss Daisy Lackey, of Paris, 111. To this union were born two children, Emla and ^larence. Simeon was on the police force int he city of Paris for ten years and he had the experience of arresting some noted characters at the t'me of the Worlds Pair at St. LouisT Simeon found seven hobos hid in a box car at Paris and he got his brother Samuel to light matches so he could see and Simeon went in among them and made them give up their weapons of defense. There was one of them that had a very large dirk and some had revolvers, one young fellow had an old rusty revolver. When Simeon got it and saw how it was, he asked the young man if he wasnftt ashamed to carry such a thing as that, he says you ought to be, for you could not hurt anybody with that. Simeon Rates and family were living in Paris, Til. Samuel, the third son of Herman and ^meline Bates, married yiss Nellie Osbern. They have two children, Deula and Charles H. Samuel R. Bates and family lives near Redn ond, 111. Cora, oldest daughter of Herman and Emeline Bates, married Clif- ford Harris. To this union two children were born, Leonard and Bessie, and also Clifford, deceased. Cora Karris and two children live in Paris, 111. Myrtle, the second daughter of Herman and Emeline Bates, married Charles H. McAlister, who was raised in Richmond, Va. They have no children0 At the present time they are making their home in Pitts- burgh, Pa. William F., the fourth son of Herman and Emeline Bates, married Miss tTla Quinn. They ha ve one child and they reside in Paris, $11. (All of this was written in 1910) Luana, the fourth daughter of Bethel Bates Sr. and Mary A« Bates, was born at the old homestead, Bates Hill, in Seneca Township, Sept, 1, 1847. After she grew to womanhood, she was married to John P. Groves of Seneca Township, and to this union were born ten children , Zoa, Mary, Elwood, Ef f ie, Charles, %ma, John, Carrie and Nettie, twira , and Ina, the youngest daughter. Luana and John P. Groves reside in Seneca Township where they have a good home and will always treat anybody white that goes to visit them. Mary the oldest daughter of Luana and Frank Groves, was burned to death when a small girl. Zoa, the second daughter, married John west and they reside in seneca Township. Zoa and John West weremarried Oct. 10, 1891. The ceremony was performed at the bride's home by Rev. E. F. Mohn. The house was an old log house on what is now known as the Elwood Groves farm near wrt. Ephraim. At this time in 1961 they have three daughters, Ellen Martin, Ethel Mummey, both of Cald- well, Edna McVicker, wife of V'ard McVicker, Summerfield, Ohio. Their only son, Virgil V. West, passed away on Aug. 27, 1960. On Oct. 10, 1961, they observed their 70th wedding anniversary a t their home in Caldwell. Their son, Virgil West, married Ann Stevens, and to this union were born two sons, Donald and Bernard and one daughter, flar- leen. He also left six grandsons, two granddaughters. His daughter marriedT homas Edwards and lives in Minerva, °hio, Route 3. Elwood, the oldest son of Luana and John Proves, married Miss Edith Reed of Centre Twp. They own and reside on what is called the -isu-

A<3am Casner farm at the mouth of Mud Run in Seneca Twp. Charles the second son of Luana and John married yisp Susie Shafer. ^hey have several children. They live near Hutchlnson, Kansas. John Groves, Jr. married Miss Danford and resides on part of the old homestead. Effie and Errir.a are married. One of them married a son of Sylvester Reed, of renter Twp. and lives on a part of Mr. Feed's farm. Carrie, Nettie and Ina, the youngest daughter, were at home with their parents the lest account of them (1910) Suanna, the fifth daughter of Bethel pates sr. and Mary A. Pates was born Nov. 28, 1849. After she grew to womanhood she married John Christopher and to tVis union six children were born, Three sons and three daughters. The oldest daughter, Forest Rose, married Danford Lashley. They have no children of their own, but have an adopted son, Frederick. Lashley. They make their home in Caldwell, Ohio. Rilla, the second daughter, is in the hospital in Gallipolis, Ohio (1910) Leota, the youngest daughter, married Homer ^ouse. They have four children and reside at Batesville. Their children are Lulu, who married Harry Labor, Eileen, Irene, twins, and Virgil House, who died in Oct. 1958 of a heart attacko Herman g Christopher married Miss Emira Graham. They reside in Caldwell and have two children, Jesse and Johnc William H. the second son, married Miss Daisy Burson. They resided near Cumberland, Ohio and have four children. John Christopher, Jr., son of Susan and John Christopher, died at the age of three years. John and Susanna Bates Christopher, owned a fram on Mud Run in ? eneca Twp. , but made their home in c aldwell. Bethel Bates, Jr., son of Bethel Bates,

The second son of Barna and Martha Bates was Joseph, who was born July 9, 1842 on the head waters of Mud Run. He died July 28, 1851 age nine years and 19 days and was buried in the old Bates cemetery on Wills Creek. The third son of Barna and Martha Bates was Dighton M., who was born May 9, 1844 at the head of Mud Run in a log cabin with a clapboard roof and a puncheon floor where he lived until he was 12 years old. When he was twelve his father built a frame house. In those days the lumber was sawed with an up and down saw and it sawed very slow, then all of the lumber was dressed by hand. The head carpenter went in the woods and cut down straight oaks, then scored and hewed out the sills and plates and all except the stxidding and rafters; then p.arna got Peter Barnes, who was a fine workman, to make all the window sashes, the doors and mantel. It took a long while to build, generally one year after the lumber was sawed to finish a house. Dighton M., was the oldest boy living and had the experience of helping clear and pick brush and working in tobacco until he was eighteen years .old, then he enlisted in Co. P. 116th Regiment O.V.I. Oct. 1, 1862. Then he was transferred to Co. E. 2nd O.V.'I. and was discharged August 7, 1865 at Richmond, Va., by order of war department, having served two years, ten months and seven days and was in sixteen battles. A part of the battles were Winchester, in ^une 1863, then in 1864 there were New Market, Piedmont, Lynchburg, Hall Town, Opeqann, Fishers Hill, Cedar Greek, Snickers Perry and in the spring of 1865 at Hatches Run. The charge on Fort p

he went to Redding and worked In a stone quarry for the California Construction Company who had the contract for building several light houses on the Pacific coast. After he worked there for a while he went back to Sites to work for the Pacific Pridsre Co. in a stone quarry. Then he went back to Redding arc worked on a fruit farm a short tlrre. Then his grandmother, Joanna Brain, who resided in Calif, became sick and wanted to go back to Kansas, so John returned to Kansas with his grandmother. Then he went to Argonia, Kansas and from there he went to rood, now Alfalfa, county, okla, where they remained about four years and farrred A. p. Cook's place. John became acquainted and married to &iss Rosa Esther Rexroot sna to this union were born three children. They are Cecil E« , Earl D* and Hazel E. John was married Sept. 23, 1900 and in 1S02 when the big land drawing went off in Okla. John was one of the lucky ones and got a good claim near Eakly, Caddo County. He moved onto it, built a house and improved his farm of 160 acres and now has a good home on Route 2, Lakeby. The second daughter of Dightcn *Vi. and Eliza A. Bates was Jennia Maude, born Feb. 14^ 1877 in Haven Township, Reno County, Kansas and was married to ^ershall Henderson, of Argonia, Kan. and to this union were born four sons, the oldest died in infancy. The second is Her- man Albert, aged 11 years, the third, ^lenn, aged 9 years and the fourth, Orlan pates, aged 7 years. (1910) Marshall and yaude Hender- son make their home in Cherokee, Alfalfa County, okla. Mrs. Hender- son is a chiopractic doctor. The third son of Dighton K. and E. A. Rates is Charles F. born Sept. 17, 1879 in Reno County, Kansas and at the age of fifteen years was graduated form the hi. M. and Anna Bates is Aaron L. , who was born Feb. 12, 1687 in Enock Township, Noble ^ounty, Ohio. He lives on a farm near Caldwell, Ohio. He was raised en a farm until he was 18 years old, then went to Zanesville, Ohio, where he worked for three years then came back to Noble County and farmed for a seaseon, then went to Caddo County, Okla, where he stayed nineteen months. On Oct. 21, 1909 he was married to Miss Irria Smith, a native of Cumberland County, Kentucky. To this union were born two sons; Willard tfaston, born Sept. 10, 1910, and Calvin, born Aurust 13, 1912. Aaron Bates owns 40 acres of land in Enoch Township, Csldwell, Routh 1. At the present 1962 Aaron still lives at the saire address. Willard Bates lives in Cambridge, Ohio. Willard Bates has two sons, Sammy N. Pates and Vance Bates. Satr-my Neil Bates married Miss Sandra Sue Richcreek and they have one son names Randy Van. Vance Bates lS married and they have a daughter named Judy Eileen. Vance also hgs a son named Jerry Linn, born Sept. 1958. Vance lives at Willou.

homestead and he and his wife started back to Ohio. They stopped in 111. to visit their children llvine there and grew worse and never returned to Ohio. On April 5, 1912 he passed away at the ace of 74 years and one day. James Yoho was a soldier in Co. E. 43rd~Rea. 0. V.I. He served three years and was in several battles and was a good soldier. Eliza R. Yoho, widow of James lived in Owanece, 111., where she owned some town property. James was burled at Owanece, Illinois. The oldest daughter of James and Eliza Bates Yoho was born in Noble County, Ohio. After she grew to womanhood she was married to James L. Rape, in 1885, in Christian County, 111. and to this union ware born seven children.. They are William, Dallis, Richard Ells- worth, Ola Myrtle, Roxie Etta, Arther (deceased), Alta Elva and Hazel Edna Rape". Willlair. D. Rape, the oldest son of Isgbelle and James Rape, married Matilda Durbin of Christian County, Illinois and three children have been born. Richard Ellsworth Rape, second son is single and Ola %rtle, the oldest daughter is single; Roxie Etta Rape married Jacob W. Watson and they have one son, -Jacob Alvin. Arthur Rape, the third son is deceased. Alta Elva and Hazel Edna are single and with their parents in Christian County, Til. (1910) The second daughter of James and Eliza Bat9s Yoho is Martha, who married Benjamin F. Rape, of Christian County, Tllo and six children were born. The oldest, Alwilda, married Wm. Scott and they have three children. The second i? Charles C., third James R., fourth .Joanna, fifth, Sherman Lee and Sixth, Eliza Jane. P. f. and Martha Rape make their home at Oklone, Miss. The third daughter of James and Eliza Yoho is Malinda, who married for her first~husband, Marion Stevens, and their children are Melvin and Mont who are living there. Marshal and Gladys are deceased. Malinda Stevens married for her second husband james H«,wyer and to this union two children, James Qlendell and yildred 3ernice, were born. James and Malinda Howyer live near Taylorsvllle, Illinois (1910) The second son of James and Eliza Yoho is Jacob. Ke married Miss Minnie Durbin and to this union were born seven children. The first two are deceased. The third, Fay, is about nine years old, the fourth, fifth and sixth are deceased, the seventh is Fern Yoho. Jacob Yoho and family reside at Millersville, Til. » where he owns property. The third son of James and Eliza Yoho is Benjamin, who is single and made his home with his mother at Owanece, 111. The fourth son of James and Eliza Yoho is James H., who married vae Hill of Stevens Co., Kansas. They have one daughter, Georgie L9e. Jarres Ifoho and family reside in southwest Kansas, where he owns 160 acres of land. His address is Hugoton, Stevens County, Kansas. The fifth son of James and Eliza Yoho is Reuben, who married Eil9 G. Hensley of Kansas. They have two sons, Albert L«^, and James Robert. They make their home at Millersville, 111. The fourth dauchter of Parna and Martha pates was Ruth, born Dec. 18, 1848 at the head of ûd Run in Seneca Township, Noble Co. After she grew to womanhood she married Karvey Scott, of Washington County, Ohio on Vay 7, 1873. Two sons and seven daughters were born. They are Lillie Mae, Martha, Mary, Anna, tfsnnie, clara, Daisy, Aaron F. and Craig. Ruth 9nd Harvey Scott own property and live in Pleasant City, Ohio. Their oldest daughter Lillie Mae married James Garber Sept. 13, 1896 and live in Texas and have two sons Earl and Grant. Their address is 1112 Belle St., Austin, Texas (1910) The fourth dauchter of Parna and Martha âtes was Ruth, born Dec. 18, 1848 at the head of Mud Run (see above) The second daughter, Martha, married Jesse Vermillion. They have two daughters,"Fanny and Bernice, and live in New woncord, Ohio The oldest son, Aaron Franklin, married Delia Hipsley. They have three sons, Ellsworth, Homer and Ross, and live in Pleasant City, Ohio. The third daughter, Mary, di'ed at the age of 23 years in Tex- as and was brought home and buried in the Pleasant City Cemetery. The fourth daughter, Anna, married Ross Manor. They had no children. Anna died in Penn. at the age of 28 years and was buried at Pleasant City, Ohio. The fifth daughter, Nannie, married Harry Stone and they live in Chicago, 111. and have no children. The sixth, Clara, married Joseph Rush, lives at Blue Bell, Ohio and have no children. The seventh, Daisy, married Wallice Cater, lives in Austin, Texas and have no children. The second son and youns:e3t child, Craig, married Miss Jane Enochs, lives in Pleasant City and have no children. (All written in 1910 by Dighton Bates.) The fourth- son of Barna and Martha Bates, Timothy B., was born Feb. 7, 1851 in Seneca Twp., ôble co. , Ohio and grew to manhood on the farm. He was married to 4*'artha Shafer Dec. 3^ 1874 and to this union three sons, John h> , Homer L. , and Harold were born. Timothy Bates owns 80 acres of land in Brookfield Twp., where he resides. The oldest son, John, was born near Mt. Ephraim, Ohio and grew to manhood on the farm, passed teachers examination and taught school a few terms then went to Marietta Business College and srraduated there. He married Carrie McElroy in 1898 and three daughters were born. The oldest, Zola Olive, died in infancy, Olenna is 10 years old, and Beu lah is 8 (1910). They moved to Penn. and lived there two years and then returned to Ohio and moved to ^yesville, where he bought property. The wife, Carrie, died June 27. 1911 and was buried at Buesville. John Eates was paymaster for the "ills creek Coal Co. and "his office was in CaTbridce. The second son, Homer L.'" W

TCansas Sept. 17, 1879. He grew to manhood in Noble Co. and married a lady near Lewisville, Monroe Co. and two sons were born. Tbey lived near Lewisville. otto, the third son, was s^nccle and lived in Cambridge, Ohio. The fourth son, Francis Leslie, married Miss Edith Jones of Cambridge and they reside in Zanssville, Ohio. The fifth son, J. B. Harrison, is single and lived in Portsmouth, Ohio (1910) The fifth son of ^arna and Martha Bates, Aaron v., was born at the head of Mud Run, Feb. 8, 1855 and screw to manhood on the farm. He was married to Miss Francina Shafer'Dec. 12, 1372 and to this uilon were born six daughters and one son. The oldest, Mattie, died when about two years old. The second daughter, Hattie, Married John Thornton and they have two children, Lillian and Harry Thornton. They own property in Paris, 111. The third dauschter," Ef f ie , married Nixon Oliver and resided in Phoenix, Ariz. The fourth daughter of Aaron and Francina Bates, Jarrie, screw to womanhood near Mt. Ephraim, then went to ^>yesville. She married George Karnes of Hartford, Guernsey County, where they live. They have one son, Clarence, 9 years old. The fifth daughter, Ora, married Ola Corwin and have two daughters. The sixth child, Homer Bethel died at the age of eleven years and was buried at Mt. Ephralm. The youngest daughter, Esta, married Franklin Burt and they live at Byes- ville. Aaron Bates died near Vt. Ephrsim, Dec. 4, 1896 and is buried at Sarahsville. The sixth son of Barna and Martha Bates, Keller J. , was born July 9, 1857 on the old homestead and screw to manhood there. He married Miss Mary Barnes Oct. 11, 1877 and four sons and four daughters were born. They are Angle Belle, Aaron W., Etta Florence, Blanche Mae, Luella and Ernest Roy. One son, veils, is deceased. After K. J. Bptes W9? married he farmed in Ohio a few years then moved to Reno County, Kansas, but did not stay there long. He was one who made a run for land when the Cherokee Strip opened for settlement and after havincr a contest over a quarter section he had the luck to sain the. suit and then he filed on his 160 acres and began to irrprove his land. His contest cost him quite a good deal and he had a few years of crop failure, but finally had a good crop and built a new house. After he had gotten straightened up his wife took sick and died and was buried one and a half rriles from the homestead. Mollie, wife of K. F. Bates was a good Christian woman. K. j. Bates' land is in Grant County, Okla.,five miles west of Medford, the county seat. His address was Mecford, okla., Route 4. The oldest daughter of A. J. and Mollie 3ates, Anctie 8elle, married Joseph Glahn and lives in Enid, Okla. They have six children: Mae, Joseph, Herman, John, Leonard and Philip Lso. The second child Aaron W., is single and owns land in Okla. His address is Yelton, Okla. The second daughter, Etta Florence, married Charles Bluebaugh and their address is Medford, okla. They have four children, uharles, Marion, Lawrence and Marie. The third daughter, Blanche Mae, married Andrew Anderson and they have three children; Geneva, Minnie and Viola. Their address was vedford, Okla. The second son, Mellle. died in Ark. when 2 years old. The third son, Kelley M., married Etta Burkholder and Is living in Minneapolis, Kansas. They have one child, Kenneth S. The fourth daughter, Luella, is single>and a teacher in the public schools In Harper County, Kan. The fourth son, Ernest Roy, is not married and was a soldier in 1'roop D 13 Cavalry U.S. Fectular Army andis stationed at Fort Kiley, Kan. (1910) The seventh son of Barna and Mgrtha Bates, Finley J., was born March 1, 1860 in Seneca Township, Noble County, Ohio and grew to manhood on the old homestead. He was married to Mary F. phelpsOct. 11, 1881 and seven sons were born. Tney are Jacob, Joseph Taylor, John, William, Diffhton, Everett, Tra Elvin and Edward Lawfence. The oldest son of Finley and Mary Bates, Joseph T. , was born in Seneca Township, Noble ° ounty a,nd after he crew to manhood was married to Estella ^ever, ofZanesvills. They have two boys, Keller and Harold, and reside in Enoch Township, Caldwell R. 1. The second and third sons, William D. and Everett E., are in Butler, Ohio, and the fourth, Ira E., is in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The younsest, Edward L., is near Zanesville. The oldest son, Jacob, died in 1884 at the age of two years and. was buried at Mt. Ephrairc. The third son, John, died at Peoria, 111., and was buried there. After J. T. aates was Tarried he farmed the old homestead a few years then sold his stock and farming tools and moved to South Dakota, where his wife took sick and theyreturned to Ohio, then went to Green County, Ind. where they stayed several years, afterward going to Jasper then to Crawford Col, 111. and after staying there several years he sold out and returned to Ohio, then going to Miss. The youngest daughter of Barna and Marptha Bates is Nancy H» , born in Seneca Township, Noble County, ohio'in Sept. 18, 1865. After she grew to womanhood was married to Joseph StevensAuerust 14, 1886. To them were born two daughters. The first, born in Oct. 1888 died in infancy and was buried in Archer's Ridge Cemetery. The second, Goldie, was born Feb. 12, 1895 in Byesville, Ohio. She graduated from high school at Byesville at the age of 15. Her parents owned property on Railroad Street in Byesville. The sixth daughter of Timothy and Ruth Bates was Anna, who was born on the old homestead on Wills Creek and grew to womanhood on the farm. She married Disrhton Moore and ten children were born: John, Abigail, Lafayette, Barna, Ruth, Sslvana, Abraham, Nancy, Martha and Amanda J., who died April 25, 1856, aged 3 years and 18 days. After Anna and Diffhton Moore were married they lived on a farm in Seneca Township. They sold their land and bought land in Center Township near sarahsville and after living, there for several years they sold out and bought land in Galia County, Ohio, near Crown City, where Anna and Dighton Moore died and were buried. Their oldest son, John, grew to manhood in Noble Co. and enlisted in Co. #D 42hd Reg. O.V.I, in 1861 and served three years. After he was discharged "he returned to Noble County and married Miss Clementine Stotts and six children were born, one deceased. They moved to nallia County, where the wife died. The oldest daughter of Dighton and Anna Moore, Abigail, married Tjriah Tuttle and five childreriwere born* Dighton, deceased, Rozila, deceased, Lafayette, who married Arie craft, John, who married Miss May Solliday and lives in sarahsville, and Anna, who married TJ. H. Shadwell and one daughter, Pearl, was born. She married a Mr. King. Anna Shadwell died in Sarahsville. Uriah Tuttle was a soldier in the 176 Reg. O.V.I. He and his wife lived in Sarahsville, Ohio. The second son, Lafayette, was a soldier in Co. H. 116 Reb. and served three years. Afterward he married Miss wilma Rossiter and eleven children were born: Monxina, Levada, Alpatha, Alminta, Minnie, Ida, Ollie, Ola, deceased, Jesse, Seldon and Stanley. Lafayette Moore owned land in Gallia County where he and his family reside. The third son, Barna, enlisted in Co. H. 116 Reg. O.V.I. IN 1863 and served until the close of the war. After returning to Noble County he married Mary w. Brown and one son, Charles, was born. He lived in Zanesville. Barna was married a second time to Rachel Dalripple and eleven children were born; Abner, John, Simon, Hattie, deceased, Martha, Ruth, Sarah, Mary, Clementine, Truman and Wilma. Barna Moore moved from Noble County to Gallia County, Ohio, where they lived several years and farmed, then moved to w'. Virginia where they lived. -33-

The second daughter of Dighton and Anna Bates Moore was Ruth, born in 1846. Ruth went to Gallia .Co. , Ohio, where she married Chirles Lewis and had four children: Dighton, John, Isaac ^. and Joyce. Dighton married and lived at Pacific, Mo. He was a night watchman at St. Lewis and one night he was shot. John is married and lives at Pacific, Mo.; Tgaac N. is in Arkansas. Joyce died in Gallia Co. Ruth then married Charles Watson of Gallia Co. No children were born to them. Mr. Watson died in Pallia Co. Mrs. Watson was staying at ^. 0. Young's later. The third daughter of Dighton and Anna Moore is Salvania. She never married. The fourth son of Dighton and Anna Moore Is Abraham, who wis born in 1850 in Sengca Twp. and crew to manhood, then he went Grallin Co. near Grow). City, Ohio. The fourth daughter of Dight- on and Anna is "Nancy. She was born in Noble Countv and married Al- bert Harris and to them seven children were born; Lafayette, Leon- ard, Trvin, Ruth, Etta, Robert H., Raymond and Almeda. The fifth daughter was Martha. She married James Runyen. To them seven children were born; William, Leslie, ola and Ora, twins, Rosa, Stella, and Michael. Martha died near Rome, W. Va. on the Little Kanawha River. Ruth was the seventh daughter of '-Timothy and Ruth Bates. She was born on the old homestead. She married John Bowersock and to them were born the following children: Ruth Ann, Abigail, Susanna, Samuel, Timothy B. , Sarah Ellen, Walter *». , Luana Citharine and Nancy J. John and Ruth Bowersock lived in Beaver Twp. for several years after they were married. Then they sold their land and bought in Seneca Twp. at the head of Mud Run, where Ruth died and was buried in the old Bates Cemetery on Wills Creek. In 1865 John powersock sold his land in Noble Co. and moved to Allentown, Allen Co., Ohio, where he bought and lived for several years, and was buried int he cemetery at Allentown. Abigail, the second daughter, was born and went with her father to Allen County, where she married Killian Deffenbugh (bauch) of that county. They had one son and one daughter. The son, Samuel, is single and at home; the daughter is married. The third daughter of John and Ruth is Susan, who was born in Noble Co. and at Allen County she married Benjamin Bowersock. They have several children. Benjamin Bowersock and wife own land between Lima and Allentown where they resided. Ben was a twelvetoed man, six on each foot so he wears a broad toed shoe. Samuel, the oldest son of John and Ruth married and lives near Allentown. His son was one of the rural mail carriers out of Lima and Samuel was an assistant. The sedond son is Timothv Bates. He was born in Seneca Twp. and went with his father to Allen County, where he married and has one daughter and several boys. Then his wife died. Afterward he mar* ried his second wife. His daughter, cora, has been a teacher int he public schools of Allen Co. for several years, one son of T, G. Bowersock was deputy sheriff in Allen County. The fourth daughter of John and Ruth Bates Bowersock was Sarah Ellen, who was born in Noble County and went to Allen Co. with her father, then returned to Noble Co. and lived with her uncles, Bethel Bates, sr. and Timothy Bates, Jr., for a few years, then returned to Allen Co., where she married Wm. Sareff. Several children were born, one of whom married and lives with his parents, and is a great poultry man. They owned a good farm and resided near Lima, Ohio The fifth daughter of John and Ruth Bowersock, Luana Catherine, went to Allen County, where she married and went to Montgomery County, Kansas, where she died and was buried. The third son, Walter 4W. was born in Seneca Twp., then went to Allen Co., then to Kansas, where -34-

he married. He owns oil land and is worth #50,000 or more. His address was Wayside Station, Kan. .(1910) The sixth and youngest daughter, Nancy, was born in Seneca Twp. and died when but a few years old and was buried in the old Bates Cemetery on Wills Creek. The eleventh child and fourth son of Timothy and Ruth (Moore) Bates, Timothy, Jr., was born on the old homestead on Wills Creek, Noble County, Dec. 9, 1821 and grew to manhood on the farm. He was a man of good strong constitution. He married Miss Sarah Jane Heighan in August 1843 and nine children were born. They are Lavina, Eli, Wyatt, Samuel, Louisa, John Henry, Susanna, Hugh and ii4oses. After Timothy Bates and Sarah Meighan were married they moved to the farm where the old Bates Mill was, where he farmed and ran a grist mill. It was run by water power and when the weather was very dry they could not grind. The grain had to be carried in the rrill and up some steps to empty it in the hopper for a srood many years and it was pretty hard work when people would so to mill in a wagon and fill their sacks full. One John Dearth on Mud Run would go to mill with two large sacks that would hold four bushels and would put them in his wagon and fill them full and drive to mill so that Timothy had to carry them in the mill and up the steps to empty in the hopper. Timothy told Dearth not to fill them so full or he would have to carry them in himself, but Mr. Dearth said, "you get the toll and you may carry them." The next time he came he filled the two gib sacks again and called for Timothy and when timothy saw the sacks he said, John, you carry one and T the other", so he took the sack yp the steps and waited for Dearth, but it wa3 quite a while before he would shoulder the sack and carry it up the steps. In doing so he very nearly fell with his load, but he got there and not in very good humor, so he said to Timothy, "I can throw you down." Dearth was a heavy set man and would weigh the more, but Timothy was hard to throw and threw Dearth so quickly and he fell so hard that he had enough of wrestling. The mill burned down and Timothy Bates, Jr. built a new bill which was a great improvement over the old one. He ran it for several years before he decided to tear out the dam and quit milling. The land along the creek was very rich and valuable for farming and the dam caused the water to flood the land and often destroyed the crops. Sarah Bates died March 1, 1907 at the age of 86 years, 6 months and 21 days. She was burled in the Bates Hill cemetery, she was a good Christian and lived so that she was a blessing to all who knew her. At the present in 1810, Timotny Bates, Jr. is the oldest Bates living. (Timothy Bates died on Nov. 1915 at the age of 94 years. He was buried at Bates Hill Cemetery, where hednd his brother, Bethel have identical large stone.) The oliBst daughter of Timothy and Sarah J. Bates, Lavina was born July 7, 1844. After 3he grew to womanhood she married Lewis Moore in 1868. After living in Seneca Twp. a few years they bought land on Glady Creek in Marion Twp. and moved on it. They had no Children and were members of the Christian Church. He enlisted in Co. d. 92nd Reg. O.V.I. August 6, 1862 and was mustered out with his company in 1865. Lavina Moore died sept. 24, 1884, aged 40 years, 2 months and 17 days. She was buried in the Bates Hill Cemetery. The oldost son of Timothy and Sarah, Eli Bates, was born on Wills Creek Sept. 3, 1845 and grew to manhood on the farm. In 1864 he enlisted in the 194th Reg. O.V.I. After the war hte married Miss Jane Seviers. No children were born. He bought land on Mud Run in Seneca *wp. and built a house, where he and his wife lived. He died Nov. 6, 1896 and was buried in Bares Hill Cemetery. -00-

The second son, Wyatt Bates, was born Jan. 19, 1847, on the old farm on Wills Creek, where he grew to manhood. He married Miss Craig near Whigvillu, Ohio and two sons were born. The older, William, is married and lives at Trail Run, Guernsey Co., Ohio. The younger, Prank, ia in Okla. Wyatt Bates first wife died and he married Miss Maria Cieary. One son and one daughter were born, Jacob C. , the olaer, married Miss C ora Rossiter and have two children, William and Wyatt. They live in Seneca Twp. Tne daughter Jan, married Irvin Powell and live in Cambridge, Onio. Wyatt Bates and wire lived on Wills Creek in Marion Twp., where they owned land. They are both buried in the Summerrield Cemetery. William Bates, son or Jacob Claire, married Mario Graham, have two sons, and live near Columbus, Ohio. Wyatt is living on the old homestead with his father. His mother, Cora, died a few years ago. (1862) The third son of Timothy ~*

George ana his wife Ann live at Cambridge, Ohio. Gordon and his wife Peah live near Mt. Ephraim. Fred also lives near Mt. Ephraim, Ohio. Doris married Leroy Miller and they run a grocery store at East Union, Ohio. Inez, daughter of Timothy and Mae Bates married a Mr. Clyde Pinley and they had two daughters, Mrs. Barbara Foster of Canton and Rita Sue, who married Larry Thompson at Canton, Ohio. Inez died at the age or i>0 years of an illness resem- bling skin cancer, she was buried in the Mt. Ephraim Cemetery. Sarah, the oldest daughter of Moses and Ann B«tes was born Aug. 5, 1886 on Wills Creek. She married George Compton a nd had the following children: Pail, Madge, Bruce and Marion. When she was a girl, Sarah Jane was a great horse woman and owned her own horse. She also liked music and played the piano and guitar. She loved flowers, her yard and garden were full of them, especially petunias and marigolds, planted in big beds. She was also a great reader, did a little painting and had many hobbies. She also collected an- tiques, which she lived, Sarah worked hard all her life and died on January o, 1958 at the home of her daughter, Marion at Canton, Ohio of cancer. She was buried at Bates Hill Cemetery. Paul Bates, son of Sarah, married Miss Helen Hull and they have two daughters, Carolyn and Kay. Carolyn married Clarence Brown and they live in Quaker City, Ohio. Kay is a beautiful girl and won a beauty contest for Miss Southeastern Ohio at Quaker City, Ohio. She married John Ferguson of Cambridge and they have two daughters, Melissa and Melanie Ann. Madge Bates, daughter of Sarah, was born July 4, 1917 at Pitts- burgh, Pa. She married Harry Q.uentin Bates, son of Howard and Anna Bates. They have the following children; Howard T?ranklin, at present in the n. S. Navy and in the Navy he h^s been in all parts of the world, also a daughter, Gloria Jo, who married Charles Ray Keylor. At present they live in Rosevilie, Ohio in 1962. Madge and Harry Bates also have a son, Jonnie Nolan, who is at home and is a student in high school at this time. Bruce, son of Sarah and George, married Virginia 1Yioon and they have two children, Gordon and a girl, Michael. They live in Nash- ville, Indiana, Route 4. Marion Baebe, daughter of Sarah was born Oct. 28, 1926 at Will- oughby, Ohio. She is at present living at Canton, Ohio and is working in the office at Hercules Motor Corporation. Mary Ann Grace, daughter of Moses and Ann Bates was born April 2, 1091. She married John Renker ana they lived on the Timothy Bates farm. To them were born three children; the eldest deceased, Homer and Lillian. John Renker died a few years after they were married and Grace and the children lived on the farm till the government bought all the land around to build the present Seneda Lake. Grace, Homer and Lillian at present live in Cambridge, Ohio. Grace later married Louis Renner, who also died a short while after they were married. Grace raised the children on the farm and had a very hard time. She rented most of the land such as corn ground and hay, but raised pigs,cows, and sheep. This writer lived with her part of the time and when fixing fence to keep the pigs in or when chasing pigs she would get the giggles and that made the jobs lighter. When about ready to give up sometimes the gigcrles made new courage and jobs were finished more easily. The youngest son of Moses and Ann Bates, McKinley Roosevelt Bates, was born Sept. 2, 1900. He married Miss Mary McVicker and to them were born the following children: Max and Eviyn Bates. Max married Shirley Blake and at present they both teach school in St. Louis, Missouri. They have two children, Sammy and Ma Elizabeth. -07-

Evlyn is still single and works at Cambridge at the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. Moses Bates died of a heart attack in 1925 and was buried at Bates Hill. Ann later married Bethel Bgtes and she died in 1951. The fifth and youngest son of Timoth-r Bates, Sr. and Ruth (Moore) Bates, Lafayette, was born on the old homestead on Wills Creek and grew to manhood there. He married Miss Lattice Long and eight children were born. They were David, Mary Ruth, 'Julius, Lam- den M., Reuben N., Elsie, Isiah D., and George. Lafayette Bates lived on the home farm for several years, then moved to Ross county and farmed, but was not satisfied, so returned and lived on his father's farm. After a few years he moved on an 80 acre farm on Glady creek, where he stayed the re3t of his days. He loved a fox chase and would follow the hounds all day. He was sick a great deal and died Mar. 2, 1868, aged 4:5 years, 7 months and *

Descendants of David Bates, son of Timothy Bates and Ruth Moore Bates, and David's wife Mary Ann warehime Bates may find a complete genealogy thru Mary's mother Margaret Ann Wells who married Isaac Ware- hime, back to muni3 Wells in Penn. about year 1785 and also a complete genealogy to the year 1550 in England thry the Warner History, written by Harold Oaler in 1955. (John Warner m. Charity Wells)

George and Estella Bates children are Rodney, Altona, Harry and •John Oeorce Bates lived qt Solesvllle, Ohio, where he was postmaster for a few years. Next he was a mail clerk on the railroad at Huston, Texas. His wife and three of the children lived at Urichville, Ohio. The oldest son, Rodney, married a lady in Dennison, Ohio. They have three children and live at Salesville, Ohio. Altona, the daughter, married Orton Benebum and has one child, Gertrude. They reside in Urichville. Harry and John Bates are single and living in TIrlchville. Lamden Bates, son of Lafayetta and L. Bites, died in 1850, aged 6 months and 29 days. Reuben N., died in May 1852, aged 6 months qnd 8 days. Julius died in Jan. 1861, aged 5 years, 6 months and 25 days. Isiah D. died March 15, 1861, aged 1 month and 6 days. They were all buried in the old Bates Cemetery in Seneca township, on Wills Creek in Woble County. Elizabeth Bates, the lath child of Timothy and Ruth Bates, was born on the old farm on Wills Creek and died when small and was burled In the old Bates Cemetery. The 14th child, Nancy, wa3 born in Sen- eca Township and grew to womanhood on the farm. She married Reuben Hague. No children are living. After they were married they farmed the old homestead for several years, then bought the Hathaway farm in Marion Township, where he farmed extensively for a few years. Nancy Hague died in Kennonsburg and was buried in the Bat93 Cemetery. After her death, Reuben Hague sold out and bought a farm in Christian County. Illinois, where he farmed for a few years, then sold out and went to Segwick Co., Kansas, where he stayed a few years, then to Kingfisher, Okla., where he died. Polly, daughter of Ephraim Bates, sr., married Johnv orhies and lived on Wills Creek. One of his sons, Ephraim Vorhies, was the founder of Mt. Ephraim in Noble County. Aaron Vorhies, Sr., son of John and Polly Vorhies, married and had several children; Ibba, who married William Shafer, Sr. and raised a larse family of children: They are Aaron, Barbara, Jame3, Mary, 'William Jr., Austin C. Zunigles, Isnbelle, Francina, Eli and Charles. Jamas, Austin, Zunigles and Charles are in California, William lives in Mt. Ephraim. Francina is in Byesville. (1910) She married wesley Oarrett. Aaron, William Jr. and Austin Shafer were soldiers in the late war. William Shafer and wife are deceased. Polly Vorhies, daughter of Asron vorhies, Sr., married Irvin Shafer. She is deceased. Aaron Jr., Peter, Stephen, Nathan and josiah, sons of Aaron Vorhies, Sr., are all dedd but JO3iah, who lived'in Kansas. Anna, daughter of Ephraim Bates Sr., married William Dilley and moved north about Cleveland. We do not know where any of their descendants hire. We will say at the close of the history of the Kphraim Bates branch of the Bates family that there are many other Bates of different branches. The following wan written by Dighton Batns at the close of his -ay-

History: Some time in September 1913 we will have a reunion of the Rates family at some place in Southeastern Ohio at some town where we can get an invitation. tt will include the Rates and all descendants. In conclusion will say that Ephrnim Bates, Sr. was a Rev- olutionary soldier and was one who helped to make America free and also one of the pioneers that first cut his way through the wilderness to get to Noble County and open up this country that it might become great. Ephraim Bates, Sr. was a grand old man. He died at*the age of 90 years, and was buried in the McWilliams Cemetery. (Thia place of burial is on past the present cemetery on 147 in sarahsville, on- the town, turn up the hill towards Mt. Ephraim, down over' the hill,* there is a big house on the right, about one half mile beyond the* house ts the left of the road is a wooded knoll, there is where Eph- raim is buried.)i There he has been buried 78 years without any monument. We ask the friends and relatives to contribute something toward getting a suitable monument for Ephraim and Susanna Rates/ send all contribu- tions to D. M. Bates, route 1 Box 49 Caldwell, Ohio and the amount will be properly applied for the purpose stated. (1910) This is the finish of the History started by Dighton Bates and finished by myself. May this help someone else and more may be addee" later. Written by Madge Bates, Summerfield, Ohio 1962. NOBLE CO. CHPT.-OeS * . P.O. BOX 444 , BATES FAMILY GENEALOGY CALDWELL. OH 43724

References; O Clement's "First settlers of Newton Township" Powell's History of Camden County Magazine of American Genealogy The Bates Bulletin, on file in Newberry Library, Chicago, 111. Personal correspondence from Joyce Stratton, Beaver City, Neb.

Activities of William Bates(Bate) from "First Emigramt Settlers" in West Jersey In 1670, William lived in the County of Wickloe, Ireland, where his occupation was that of carpenter. He had earlier com from England, and was a devout Quaker. The County town, which has the same name, is situated coast of the Irish Sea about thirty miles south of the city of Dublin, at which place considerable trade is carried on with other parts of Great Br it ian. Here, also, courts were held for that district, and here may be found the common .jail for the security and punishment of offenders within its limits.

King Henry VIII established the state Anglican Church and many dissenting groups developed, such as the Puritans, Presbyterians, Pilgrims, and Society of Friends (Quakers). In this and in previuos years, Parliment passed acts to prevent an suppress conventicles within the kingdom. These acts were made especially oppressive toward the Quakers, and under them many outrages were committed upon them and their property. If the policy of the government, the administration of its laws and th condition of its people, be any evidence of the progress of civilization; then England stood in no enviable light, during t few years before and after the date above named, in respect to religious toleration within her borders.

Loathsome prisons crowded to suffication, courts busy with the trials of unoffending citizens, arrogant officials robbing the people of their hard earnings to sustain a volumptous and wicked clergy, are dark spots scattered through the history of nation that boasts of the rights of her citizens.

During 'these days a meeting of the religious Society of Friends was'held at the house of Thimas Trafford, in the town o Wickloe at which place William Bates Was a regular attendant. ( While O.D. and Estelle Bates were in Ireland, they visited th Quaker Church in Dublin, where records show Quakers worshipped that time, the old stone part of the building dating back to about that time.) Neither the small number assembled there, no the sanctity of a private residence, saved them from the p annoyance of the soldiery, for they were soon dragged to the jail, and there confined for several weeks, away from their hom and families. At the next session they were indicted Ccharqes may have been their refusal to give bond or to pay a tithe to Church of England), and upon refusing to enter into bonds for their subsequent appearance in court, were sent immediately to prision. (From "Sufferings of the people called Quakers", Vol. II, page 479, those seized were Christofer Hammond, Doty Rose, William Bates, John Hunter, John Eves, Martin Lost, Thomas Mar low, John Tomy, Dennis Rochford, Richard Skinner, Daniel Sharp, Humphrey Blithe, John Rumpy, James Brathall, John Lively Thomas Eves, Kathrine Evans and Mary Ganes.) No regard was paid to sex or condition in life while under confinement, and so obnoxious were the damp foul air, in which they were forced to exist, that many died and the greater number suffered in health In 1671, a declaration suspending the penal laws in ecclesiastical matters was sighned by Carles Second, at that ti , King. This was a great relief to this class of citizen; but account of jealousy toward the Papists, the declaration was withdrawn the next year, and the Friends again felt the displeasure of those in authority. About this time Oliver Cromwell took over the English Government and professed religio tolerance — with exception of the Quakers. Laboring under thes disabilities, it was most natural that all such as sympathized with George Fox and his doctrines, should seek a new country where toleration, to a degree at least, existed, and where they could enjoy their religious opinions in quiet.

During these persecutions the settlement of land in Americ was much talked of, and some few colonies had been successful i getting a foot-hold, and had sent back to their freinds in England flattering accounts of the country and climate. In the adjustment of the trouble between Edward Byllynge and John Fenwick The attintion of William Penn and other prominent men i the Society of Friends, was attracted to the territory, through which the Delaware River flows, and very soon the initiatory steps were taken to secure a title for the same, and - which wa desireable - to have the right of government to follow in the same channel.

The books of record of that date are full of the deeds mad from Byllynge and his trustees to persons wishing to get away from the abuses that surrounded them, and to remove to a wild a unknown land, rather than to remain.

Among these was a deed, dated April 12, 1677, from William Penn and others, to William Turner of Cambridge, England, linen draper of Dublin; Thomas Thakara, stuff weaver of Dublin; Willi Bates, carpe'nter, of the county of Wickloe; and John Slight, tanner of Dtiblin for one whole share, ( or "one full equal and undivided ninetieth part") of property in West New Jersey.

Touching William Bates, it is very safe to say that his conclusions in reguard to this step were reached n the common jail at Wickloe where many dreary days were passed while his family was suffering at home. However vague and indistinct his ideas of the rights of persons were, in the form of government under which he lived, or how much rights could be abused by the authority of law, we cannot at this time .judge; but we suppose that they had come to be practical questions with him, placed beyond discussion and without chance of amendment, and after considerable inquiry in reguard to locality, since it was important that the colonists should be near each other for fear of the Indians.

This deed shows the place of residence and the occupation each grantee, and doubtless is a faithful record of these facts at the time therein named,which, taken in connection with the memmorial left by Thomas Sharp, shows conclusively who were the persons that originated the settlement at Newton. Mark Newbie became subsequent owner, while Thomas Sharp and George Goldsmit representing interests of others, which six persons were the founders of that settlement.

During the four years that elapsed between the date of the deed and their coming, Joseph Slight disposed of his interest, and Robert Turner having aquired a large amount of property in Pennsylvania, turned his attention to that in preference to his West Jersey estate, and did not become a diret partner in this enterpr ise. It is readily seen that Robert Turner was the merchant through whom Robert Zane and Thomas Thackara disposed of their manufactured goods, and that their business relationship brough them frequently together, whereby the parnership here presented was created.

Although the county Ulickloe is some distance south of the city of Dublin, William Bates had business and religious intercourse with Robert Turner, and was influenced by him to be participant in this novel and important movement. Of all the callings, his was likely to be the most useful, and his service to be the most in demand, when once they had arrived at their place of destination, for the first thing to be done was to provide some kind of shelter for their families.

On September 19, 1681, William Bates, with his family and the others of the party, arrived in the new world aboard " Ye Owners Adventure", a pink (vessel with a narrow stern) commande by firstmate John Dagger. After a long passage consuming the whole of two months, the party anchored at the mouth of the Delaware River and soon decided to locate at a point later know as Newton's Creek. Newton Creek forms the southern border of Camden N.J. It was originally Gloucester County, which was subsequentl'y divided and is now Camden County.

The shelters were in the shape of rude huts made of poles, placed partly in the hillside, and covered with skins of animal or the bark of trees. Without any other floor than the earth, with no windows, a stick chimeny and a single apartment, it nee no stretch of fancy to see how inconvenient and uncomfortable t o inhabitants of these first comers must have been. On March 10, 1685, < being the time of the survey made for the other partners on the north side of the middle branch of Newton Creek), for some unexplained reason, William Bates took his two hundred and fifty acres on the south side of the stream opposite the upper end of that tract, and where he built his house. (The land is bounded on the northwest by Newton Creek a on the northeast by the present White Horse Pike. On the southeast side, Black Horse Pike runs through the former holdin of William. The town of Audubon is immediately southeast of th land.) Two years later, he purchased another 250 acres from Robert Turner adjoining the first tract, and made other purchas which extended his estate from the Qraysbury line to William Albertson's boundary. Much of this is included in the farms no owned by Jeremiah Ridgway and the heirs of Joseph Eldridge, deceased. i year...). His habitation stood by the creek, just below the mouth of Bates' run, and near the house on the Ridgwa farm.

In common, however, with the other owners, he had an interest in the meadow land at the mouth of Kaighn's run, whenc he obtained the hay for his cattle for the winter months, a necessary provision, as no other means for sustaining their sto was obtainable at that early day. As the master mechanic, ther can be no doubt who planned and built the first meeting house a Newton in 1684; who constructed the rude seats and erected the plain unpretending galleries, in which sat the forefathers of this people, who were faithfully carrying out the beliefs and t form of religious worship as brought with them across the sea. (. In the office of the Camden County Historical Society, Euclid Avenue and Park Boulevard, Camden, is a bench quite similar to those constructed by William for use in that first church). Se picture on Page 7.

In 1683, william was one of the representatives from the Irish tenth ?? the Legislature of the Province, and the same ye was appointed constable. The next year, he was again returned a member, and was appointed one of the commissioners for laying out highways, which he held for two years. That he was a usefu man, both as a mechanic and a private citizen, is evident, and each position he commanded the respect of those around him. He died in the year 1700, leaving a will, now on file in the of fie of Secretary of State, but was never placed on record. His children were born in Ireland, some of whom were married in a f years after their arrival here. They were Jeremiah, who marrie Mary, daughter of Samuel and Ester (Tilton) Spicer; Joseph, who married Mercy Clement in 1701; Abigail, who married Joshua Fram in 1687; William, who married an indian girl; Sarah, who marrie Simeon Ell,"is in 1692.

Jeremiah settled on part of the original tract, as conveye to him in 1693 by his father, who occupied it as a farmer. Although his father left a will, the records state he died intestate as to another part of his real estate, of which Jereniah, as the oldest son seized. This last named tract was given by Jeremiah Bates in his will to his son, William, who re-surveyed it in 1731. William lived there at that time. 10. William Bate, <: 15b. 1640 in England CO, d. 8 Nov. 1700 Sou Camden, N.J. m. Mary.

c.Elisabeth b. in Ireland, m. Mark Eves at the Meeting, Wickloe County, Ireland, 9 July I860. Apparently they remained in Ireland Jeremiah, b. in Ireland, d. 1728-9 m. Mary Spicer b.1671, daughter of Samuel and Ester (Til ton) Spicer. He inher it his fathers original plot of land plus additional tracts, deeded to him in 1S93. Within a month after William's death in 1700, all but the original tract of 250 acres we sold. This 250 acres remained in the family for over 100 years Jeremiah's will dated 30 Aug. 1728 was probated 5 May Joseph, b. 23 Dec. 1675 at Ballymoran (or Bal1imorrin) County (?) Wickloe, Ireland, d. 1734 Water ford Township Gloucester County Abigail, b. in Ireland, m. 19 July 1698 Joshua Freane ** William, m. an Indian girl, Sarah, b. in Ireland, m. 16 June 1692 at a Public Meeting, Simeon Ellis son of Thomas of Woodal. 11. William settled on the south branch of Cooper's Creek abou two miles east of Haddonville N.J., became a large land owner. On Apr. 1 1737, letters of Administration were granted to Ester Bate, widow of William Bate, late of Gloucester County, and William Alderson to administer the estate.

m. Indian girl (Ester)

c. Joseph also probably others 12. Joseph m. c. Thomas, m. Parnell Gordon inherited land from his father. Rachel *• William b. 1720 d. 1770 m. Rebecca Tomlinson David, b. about 1725 (B), d. 9-7-1820 at Hanover N.J., m. Phebe, b. 1740, d. 3-7-1803. He was recommended as a Ma.j of .-Minute Men by Morris County Del agates, Sept 14, 1775, appointed Captain, Eastern Bn. of Morris Company; Elder in Prebyterian Church in 1777. Daniel, (probably a brother)(B), b. about 1727, settled a Hanover, N.J.. m. about 1746 Elizabeth

13. William Bates b. 1720, d. 1770, will proved in 1770, brother of David of Hanover,N.J., and decended from one the earlier immigrants; settled at Hanover as early as 1743; member of the First Presbyterian Church; probably married Rebecca Tomlinson, as lisence to was granted in 1741. (Magazine of Amerian Genealogy No 27,Page 216) (Similar information is shown for David and Daniel). In his marriage licence, is of Gloucester County, indicatin that he was of the family which was founded by William o Newton Creek.

m. Rebecca Tomlinson ** c.Ephraim, Sr David, bap. First Presbyterian Church 3-29-1747 Uzal, bap. 2-5-1749 m. Elizabath Hurin, dau. of Seth and Mary Hazen Hurin. Uzal was a private from N.J. in th Revolutionary War (Page 44 of DAR Patriot Index, also see page 16.) Caleb bap. 7-14-1751 Rhoda bap. 4-1-1753 Mary bap. 3-20-1757 Martha bap. 8-5-1759 m. 11-14-1780 David Reeve Cathrine, She,Rhoda and their mother Rebecca were mentione in their fathers will.

14. Ephraim Sr. b. 5-24-1743( close) in Morristown N.J. bap 7-6-1745 by Rev Timothy Johnes, d. 1834, joined Rockw Parish Church in 1768; in Apr 1777 enlisted for Revolutionary Service at Catfish Camp, Va.( now Washington County Pa.) for a term of six months in Captain Henry Enoch's Company under Major David Roger of Va. ; reinlisted June 1, 1778 as Sargent in Captia Cross' Company under Colonel Broadhead for sis months served until close of the war as a "Ranger on the Frontier" for which he drew " Deprediation Pay". He recieved a warrant for 400 acres of land near his horn in Wasington County on Feb. 21, 1786. In his application for ._ Pension^h.J.aid^l ived^th.re unt application for a pe, 1797, then moved to Ohio County, Va. ( now W.Va.)

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put on clapboard roofs, fastened the board where they nverlapped by means of poles, and laid puncheon floor (History of Noble County Ohio) He was granted a pensi on March 26,1833.

m. Susannah (Clark) ??? in NOBLE CO. CHPT.-OGS P.O. BOX 444 OH 43724 •*c. Issac Sr Timothy b. 11-29-1778 in Fayette Co. Pa. d. 6-15-1863. Migrated to Seneca Township, Noble Co. OH in 1805, became the first postmaster in 1830 of the village later named Batesville. It is said his first quarter report to the Post Office Department read "No letters no papers; hope for better luck next quarter". He wa pastor of the Mt. Ephraim Christian Church in 1840; m. 1st. 2-4-1804 Ruth Moore of Captina Creek, Belmont Co.OH d. 1860. m. 2nd Sarah Ann Hughes, d. 1-15-1872 He d. 6-15-1867. He established a mill as early as 1815 in Wayne Township. Alos built a distillery and people came from as far as 20 -30 miles to purchase whiskey, hauling home a barrel on skids harnest to a horse with the large end of the logs resting on the ground. He was a member of the Chirch of Christ and would sometimes preach in the storage arsa, using the whiskey barrels as pews. Once, hunting with his brother Issac, Timothy was out ahead and heard a shot ring out. He turned around in time to see a panther drop from a tree overhead where he had been standing, thus probably saving his life. 15. Issac Clark Bates Sr.???(Clark) b. 3-12-1770, m. 1st. Kathrine Moore (Moorse)??? m. 2nd Cathrine Powell d. 2-6-1334 in Indiana. Migrated in 1805 to Guernsey Co. OH, later to Noble Co. Seneca Township. 1st. Wif Kathrine's sister Ruth married brother Timothy. Issac and his brother, Timothy, jointly entered 160 acres of land on Willis Creek in 1805. They had married sisters and agreed that when one was able to buy the other out, the other would sell. Issac lost his wife early and her death placed him in a bind, so he sold to Timothy. He purchased land near Sarahsvil and erected a mill on his farm that could be operated by horse-power when there was a scarcity of water. H also had a distillery and taught the oxen to drink th whiskey, using a coffee can to pour it down their throats. When the roads were muddy and the loads har to pull. Issac would bring out the coffee pot and the oxen would eagerly elevate their heads to receive a dram, then pull with courage and strength renewed. He was a man of great endurance, especially in times great pain. It became necessary to remove a leg. He sent for the doctor, but did not tell him of the ^ problem. So the Doctor had to use the tools at hand, - butcher knife without anesthetic. Issac later moved Indiana, where the other leg was removed. Later, he moved again, so parts of his body are burried in thre cemeteries.

m. Kathrine Moore(Moorse) May 1802 .-. Daniel b. 1803, d. 1891, m. 1827 Jane Heddelson b. 1810 d. 1887. In 1837, he entered 340 acres of land in Sto Township,Noble Co. OH. They were members of Pleasant Hill M.E. Church. ** Issac, Jr. Uzal b. 1808, d. 1880 m. 1st Rhoda Lincicome b. 10-19-1810 d. 4-30-1849; 2nd Mahala King b. 3-11-1831 d. 9-22-18?? Jacob b. 10-29-1810 in Guernsey Co. OH d. 9-26-1883 m. m. 4-4-18?2 to Jane Davidson of West Va. d. 3-8-1977 Both are buried in Nicholson Cemetary, SarahsviHe Jacob was a cabinet maker and Mrs Madge Bates has a cradle and chest that are still in good shape. Three generations have rocked in it. Phoebe m. Ephraim Bates, son of Issac's brother Daniel. Samuel b. about 1313 in Kansas, married and had issue. 16. Issac,Jr b. 1805 d. at 87 buried in Cass Co. Nebraska. He was a Methodist Class Leader for many years, moved west to Neb. He cut timbers to build th church south of Fredericksdale OH, that was later kno as the Corn Pone Meeting House. He could not read no write but his wife could. Translation of Nettie Smith's story, written in early 1970's when she was past 90 years of age:

My mothers parents, Issac and Rhoda Dungan Bates, born in Noble Co. OH, moved to Rock Bluff Cass Co. Neb. They were caug in a snowstorm and lived on meat of one oxen, cornbread and cornmeal coffee. They made their home there in Rock Bluff in a 1\2 story log house. Built front room on south side. On north side a long porch reached on stone steps. It was .just west of o the Missouri River and a creek on the south side. He < Issac') ma sorgum and sold it to some. He raised a garden and dried a lot it. Phillip B. sold that home. My father was Phillip B.(ates) and my mother was Jane B.(ates)

m. Rhoda Dungan b. ?? d. at 85, three months after Issac. c. John b. 1824, d. 2-17-1895; Stone Mason, resided in Soakum OH was called Soakum John, as distinguished fr others named John. m. 1st 9-9-1946 to Ru Amy Fogle d. 8-16-1855; 2nd 9-25-1858 Margaret Magiliton d. 7-28-1865? 3rd 11-11-1865 Nancy Spear who survived hi and married John Reed. *• Adam Susanah b. ca 1828 m. Fred Shambler Jacob b. ca 1830 Julius b. ca 1832 M. Elizabeth Lemuel (Lemeul/Lemon) b. ca 1834, m. Elizabeth Jane Shannon Csp??) moved to Iowa Elizabeth b. ca 1841 Nancy Jane b. ca 1845, m. Henry Thompson

17. Adam b. 10-27-1826;d. 10-5-1864; m. Elizabeth Shambler b. 7-22-1928 d. 5-21-1897 ??? ** c. Samuel b. 10-24-1851 Thomas Connor b. 10-29-1852 Julius Lor a Amy (sp??:> In fant Adam H. b. 7-29-1858; m. Sarah "Salie" Bridger Csp ??:>

18 Samuel Bates b. 22 July,1851, in Oh, d. 13 Sept. 19?4, He worked on a freight wagon train as a boy, and was captured with other boys by Indians but were turned loose because they were boys and no harm was done, but they had long walk home. Later homsteaded So. of Hendley and buried some children in the Hendley Cemetary. They went the Oregon Trail to Oregon and buried more children along the way. (from pers. corr. Joyce Stratton gr. dau of Thorn Conner from talks with her father Joe.)

m. Eliza Jane Rhodes b. 21 June,1858 Missouri d. 5 Sept 1929 (see Rhodes branch> c. Nellie L. b.17 June 1875 d. Alice J. b. 16 June 1877 d.20 Oct 1880 Samuel A. b.Aug 4 1878 d.29 Aug 1878 Infant Son b. Oct 29 1881 d.29 Oct 1881 Thomas A. b. Mar 3 1882 d.6 Mar 1883 Mary Louisa b. Feb 1884 Nebraska m. Sam Fitch in Vancouver Wa on Phillip 0. b. June 1887 Nebraska d. 30 July 1912 ••Robert Harrison b. 25 Feb 1889 Clark Co. Wa d. 21 Sept 19 Metta M b. Sept 10 1891 d. 27 Sept 1891 William S. b. Mar 1897 Clark Co. Wa Holly b. 9 Jul 1900 9 July 1900 also in household during 1900 census was Everet b. May 1896 NOBUCO.CHfT.-OSS,

NONDISENT BATES LINAGE

Refer to file Bategene.wri for greater detail in direct linage References; Clement's " First Settlers of Newton Township Powell's History of Camden County Magazine of American Genealogy The Bates Bulletin, on file in Newberry Library, Chicago, 111 This file prepared by W.Steven Bates; March 1990 V^SILOF I/ from personal correspondence with Joyce Stratton Beaver City, Neb

1. William of Bate b. 1640 in England, d. 1700 in South Camden N.J. m. Mary Children of William and Mary

2. a. Elizabeth b. in Ireland, m. Mark Eves b. Jeremiah b. In Ireland, d. 1728-29, m.Mary Spicer c. Joseph b. 23 Dec. 1675 in Ireland, d. 1734 in Water ford Township m. Mercy Clement 1st; Elizabeth 2nd d. Abigail b. in Ireland, m. Joshua Freane e. William b. m. Indian girl f. Sarah b. in Ireland m. Simeon Ellis

Children of Jeremiah <2b!> m. Mary Spicer Bate

3. a. William b. Newton Township, Gloucester County N.J. d 1737 intestate. He recieved a tract of land from Jeremiah <2b) in 1731 on which William was then living; m. Ester Albertson b.early 1700's d. 10-19-1760, dau. of William and Ester Willis Albertson b. Martha, m. April 1746 James Wall c. Abigail, m. Thomas Thackara d. Mary Children of Joseph <2c? m. Mercy Clement Bate e. Joseph died before his father f. Thomas b. in Waterford Township, Gloucester County N.J. about 1705 d. 1784; m. 1st 3-6-1732 Mary Shivers, dau of John and Sarah Shivers; jn. 2nd. 1752 Sarah Pencross (?), widow of Benjamin. He inherited, his fathers estate and lived in the family home all his life. He owned slaves and was a well-to-do man. g. Elizabeth, m. John Hillman. He purchased about 500 acres from Thomas Atkinson, which tract lay near the White Horse Tavern, extending from the south branch of Cooper's Creek to the north branch of Timber Creek. h. Abigail b. 1-20-1722, m. 2-12-1743 Samuel Lippincott (1 ippencott.) b. 2-12-1723, d. 11-5-1759; son of Freedom and Elizabeth Wills Lippincott. They lived in Palesgrove, Salem County. N.J. Four earlier generations of Lippincott Family are shown on page 2?^-3a, etc., of Film # 215,591 of Salt Lake Genealogy Library, Salt City, Ut. Lake Benjamin b. in Water ford, N.J., a minor in 1733. When he became of o age, he was to recieve L100 (Pounds), current money of the province Ann, m. 4-9-1729 Josiah Shivers k, Rebecca, m. 1733 Issac Mat lack of Water ford 1, Hannah, m. 1-24-1733 Remembrance Lippincott ( J. 1 . ) may be dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth, below.

Children of Joseph (2c) m. Elizabeth Bate (See picture page 7) 3. m. Jonathan, d. 1747 unmarried', had recieved title to his father's property and gave his mother use of it during her lifetime, then to be divided equally between his three sisters, Abigail Qreenway, Martha Ward, and Mary, who later m. Harker n. Joseph, d. 1731, m. 1723 Elizabeth Hillman, dau. of John and Margaret Ward Hillman. Joseph (2c) gave him the William Thorne property of 110 acres, and was not mentioned in his fathwes will as he died three years before his father. Elizabeth, after her husbands death, established the famous old inn " The Sign of the White Horse" or " White Horse Tavern", about 1750. See picture. o. Abigail m. Qreenway p. Martha, m. Ward q. Mary, m. Harker Children of William (2e)

3. r . Joseph

Children of Sarah Bate (2f), m. Simeon Ellis 3. s. Thomas,m. 1722 Cathrine, dau. of Joseph Collins t. Joseph LI. William, m. Sarah, dau of Joseph Collins V. Simeon, member of Quarter Sessions Court and ran a Solomon-like rather legalistic, type of court, dispensing justice on the spot. W. Jonathan, m. Mary Hollingshead X. Mary y- Sarah, m. 1730 John Kay

Children of William Bate (3a) m. Ester Albertson

4. William, d. 4-10-1777 at Water ford township, Gloucester County N.J m. Jan. 1756 Elizabeth Hooten, dau. of Samuel Hooten. She had been a widow with two children Ann, m. March 1748 Charles Fogg, son of Charles Fogg of Salem County N.J.

^'Children of Thomas Bate (3f) m. Mary Shivers Joseph, in Waterford Township, d. 3-1-1805, m. 1st. 3-14-1768 Judith Albertson, dau. of Joseph and Rosanna Hampton Albert son, Dutch Quakers and early settlers of Newton; m. 2nd Ann Mat lack after 4-18-1782, d. after 3-2-1801. He was a taxpayer on 300 acres in 1784, which was the identical property that Joseph (2c) inherited from William (1). Joseph served from New Jersey in Revolutionary War in Colonel Joseph Ellis' Regiment, Captain Joseph Thorn's Company, Waterford. The 1793 New Jerseyy Census exemptp s from military servici e two Joseph Bate's in Newton Township and one Joseph Bate in Waterford Township. Joseph freed his slaves nn 8-12-1791. William, b. in Waterford, d. 1784, m. Sept. 1765 Phebe. He was willed 125 acres. Samuel,b. 12-25-1752. Served in the New Jersey Militia in Revolutionary War in Captain John Thorn's Company, Warerford. In 1780, he was listed as single and owner of 144 acres f. Sarah, m. Ellis. She was a widow in 1784. g Abigail, m. Busby h. Mary, m. 4-12-1762 Benjamin Hartley Sabilla, m. Oct. 1767 Jones "Out of Meeting" i. For further information on this branch of the family, see the book prepared by Dr. Roll and C. Bates of Binghamton N.Y. on file, among others, at Salt lake Genealogy Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Children of Elisabeth Bate (3g) m. John Hillman 4. Joab Q Daniel 1. Josiah, m. Phebe m. Joseph Ch ildren of Abigail Bate (3h) m. Samuel Lippincott All children were born in Pilesgrove N.J., later moved to Gloucester County, N.J. 4. n. Joseph B., b. 11-20-1747, d. 9-25-1778, m. 11-1-1770 Ann Stewart o. Samuel, b. 12-25-1752, d. 12-14-18 , m. Abigail Lawrie Joshua, b. 8-7-1755, m. Ann (or Annie) Bassett q- Mercy, b. 9-27-1757, m. Jonathan Kirby, d. 10-4-1778 r. Abigail, b. 12-6-1759, m. 5-3-1780 John Tyler, b. 2-1-1755. His will probated New Jersey Archives Box 39, residence - Greenwich and Alloways Creek, N.J. (See Salem Friends' Records, Page 68) s. Elizabeth, b. 11-17-1762, m. Issac or Cooper, b. about 1757 t. Mary, m. Samuel Cole u. Aaron V. Martha Children of Joseph (3r) See BATEGENE.WRI

4. w. Thomas, m. Parnell Gordon Rachel C William, m. Rebecca Tomlinson z. David, m. Phebe aa. Daniel, m. Elizabeth

of William Bate (4y) m. Rebecca Tomlinson See file BATEGENE.WRI for additional information 5. a. Ephriam Sr., b. 4-24-1743, m. Susannah Clark, b. 1746 b. David, bap. 3-29-1747 c. Uzal, bap. 2-5-1749, m. Elizabeth Hurin d. Caleb, bap. 7-14-1751 e. Rhoda, bap. 4-1-1753 f. Mary, bap. 3-20-1757 g. Martha, bap. 8-5-1759, m. 11-14-80 David Reeve h. Cathrine, She and Rhoda, as well as the mother, Rebecca, were mentioned in their father's will.

Children, of David Bates (4z) m. Phebe

5. i. William, bap. 10-2-1768, d. 6-3-1841, lived at Hanover, was called Captain, m. 12-12-1798 Mary CPolly) Dodd, b. 1777, d. 1-27-1823 j. John, bap. 7-14-1771 k. David, bap. 7-25-1773, m. Sarah Gould on 4-16-1799 at Caldwell, Essex County, N.J. 1. Ebenezer, bap. 5-25-1783

hildren of Joshua Bates C4p) m. Amy Bassett Lippincott

5. m. Joseph,b.11-21-1781 n. James, m. Achsah Paneoast o. Samuel B., M. May B. Clark

Children of Joseph Bates <4n), m. Ann Stewart Lippincott

5. p. Mary q. Lydia, m. John Duel1 Children of Daniel Bates (4aa) m. Elizabeth

5. r. Martin, bap^-8-30-1747 All baptized at Hanover s. Abigail, bap. 10-15-1749 t. Parnell (daughter), bap. 9-15-1751-N u. Lydia, bap. 10-13-1754 Children of Abigail Bates Lippincott <4r!> m. John Tyler

5. Benjamin, b. 1781, d. 5-14-1862, m. 1805 Ann Thompson, b. c 5-8-1787, d. 1818, dau. of Butler and Hannah Thompson; residence, Greenwich, Cumberland County, N.J. (Greenwich Record of Friends and Tyler Genealogy) Children of Ephriam Sr (5a) m. Susannah See file BATEGENE.WRI 6. a. Issac Sr., m. 1st. Kathrine Moore, 2nd. Sarah Cathrine Powell b. Timothy, m. 1st. Ruth Moore, 2nd. Sarah Ann Hughes Children of Martha Bates C5g) m. David Reeve 6. c. Abraham d. Daniel e. David Hal lock ( Amended) (??) f. Bathia Children of Issac Sr., (6a), m. Kathrine Moore Bates See file BATEGENE.WRI 7. a. Uzal, m. 1st. Rhoda Lincicome, 2nd. Mahala King b. Daniel, m. Jane Heddelson c. Issac Jr., m. Rhoda Dungan d. Jacob, m. Jane Davidson e. Phoebe, m. Ephriam Bates f. Samuel,

Children of Issac Sr.,(6a) m. Sarah Cathrine Powell Bates ?? See insert at back, of book ??

Richard William , b. about 1817, m. 1st. Elizabeth Davidson, b. 6-13-1816, d. 11-21-1866, resided at Warsaw Indiana, m. 2nd. Nancy Trindle, and moved to Neb.(1869) and Kansas h. Nathaniel, d. unmarried at Warsaw Ind. i. George Washington, Went to Indiana .j. Andrew Jackson, married and had issue at Warsaw Ind. k. Cathrine, b. 9-16-18 , m. 1st. Muncy at Warsaw, 2nd. William , 3rd. John Van Curan 1. Abraham m. Hannah, b. 8-4-1823, d. 9-27-1954, M. John W. Thompson, no children n. Richard, m. Nancy ; had a son Joel Children of Issac Jr. Bates (7c) m. Rhoda Dungan See file BATEGENE.WRI 8. a. John, m.lst. Ru Amy Fogle, 2nd. Margaret Magilton, 3rd. Nancy Spear b. Adam, m. Elfzabeth Shambler c. Susannah, m'. Fred Shambler d. Jacob, e. Julius, m. Elizabeth f. Lemuel(Lemeul, Lemon), m. Elizabeth Jane Shannon g. Elizabeth h. Nancy Jane, m. Henry Thompson Mary "Children of Jacob Bates (7d),m. Jane Davidson fMOBL6CO.CHPT.-065 J#O. BOX 444 CAU3WELL. OH 43724

3. Sarah Jane, d. young

m Phoebe, b. 5-7-1833, d. 7-18-1914, m. 11-4-1852 John H. Phelps d. 9-7-1887. He served in Company H 116th Reg. Ohio Vol. Inf. 1. Issac, b. 9-22-1838, d. 7-8-1916, m. Rachel Brothers on 1-26-1860 b. 12-24-1836, d. 1-4-19 . Resided in Center Township, Noble County, Ohio m. Cathrine, b. 1840, m. 1st. 12-29-1858 John Johnson, Sr. He served in Company H 161st Reg Ohio Vol. Inf.; m. 2nd. Benjamin F. Province, b. 1834, d. 1908 n. Caroline, b. 1844, m. 1859 William Anderson, d. before 1912 o. Daniel Webster, d. unmarried P. Mary A., b. 4-13-1847, d. 10-31-1914, m. 7-1-1868 Nathaniel Bates Son of John and Christina Bates, lived in Center Township, Noble County Oh. William Tecumsah, b. 5-13-1851, d. 2 or 3-13-1911, m. 6-7-1877 Belinda Brothers, b. 12-10-18 , d. 6-9-1928

Ch ildren of Robert Bates C ) m. Susan Miller ?? Possible son of Daniel C7b:> ?? 9. a. Lydia A, m. Cyrus Matheny, d. prior to 1912 b. Hannah J., m. Daniel Stephens, lived in Byesville Oh. c. Lonia C., m. Sylvanus Archer, lived in Enoch Township, Noble County d. Issac Rhodolphus, m. Ann Nunn, lived in Byesville Oh. e. John H., m. Belle Robinson, lived on part of old homestead in Stock Township Edgar E., b. 12-19-1868, m. Minnie Bramhall, b. 4-20-1869, no children, Taught school for several years, in Post Office in Byesville, Oh. in 1912 Daniel D., b. 1-20-1871, m. Mary Riddle, owned part of old homestead of Daniel Bates entered in 1837. h, Matilda, m. James Moore, lived in Whigsville, Oh. i, Nellie, m. Miles Bryan, lived in Caldwell, Oh.

Children of John Bates (8a) m. Ru Amy Fogle

9. J. Nancy Jane, b. 9-7-1847 k. Issac, b. 12-2-1848, lived in Neb. 1. Elizabeth, b. 12-2-1848, twin died young ( same b. as 9k) ?? m. Rhoda Ann, b. 7-2-1851 n, o. twin boys, still born 10-10-1852 P- Dorcas, b. 4-5-1854, d. 4-29-1913, m. 1st. Jonathan Walters: 2nd. 1-31-1889 J_evi Weekly; 3rd. 1893 Sherman Ball; 4th. Westley Wickham, she lived on Route 5, Caldwell Oh. in 1912 and a member of Archers Ridge M.E. Church. q,r, twin boys, b. 2-9-1855, d. in infancy Children of John Bates <8a) m. Margaret Magilton

9. Clamensa Esther, b. 1-25-1859, m. Inhelder, lived in Iowa c John Jr., b. 4-16-1860, Moved to Neb. Iowa Sevilla, b. 2-14-1864 u. Children of John Bates <8a.> m. Nancy Spears Shown in 1880 Census Noble County OH. Olive Township, So. Olive Vi1lage. "9. v. Frank Lebanon, b. 7-28-1866, m. Samantha Danforth, lived near Mt. Zion Oh. in Buffalo Township, w. David Henry, b. 9-27-1867, m. Hulda Matheny, lived near Mt. Zion Oh Children of Adam Bates CSb) m. Elisabeth Shambler 9. x. Samuel, m. Eliza Jane Rhodes y. Thomas Conner, 2. Julius, A3i. Lor a Amy, bb. Infant, cc. Adam H., m. Sarah "Salie" Bridger

Children of Samuel Bates <9x!> m. Eliza Jane Rhodes Hfo- See file Bategene.wri ^o ^U a. Nellie L. b. Alice J. c. Infant d. Thomas A. e. Mary Louisa, m. Sam Fitch f. Phillip 0. q. Robert Harrison, m. Grace Viola Martin Metta M. William S. .j. Holly k. Everet ( in household during 1900 census)

Children of Thomas Conner Bates (9y)

10. 1. Joyce, m. James A Stratton OH 4279A W724A HISTORY OF THE BARNES RIDGE COMMUNITY by Marsh Allen Snyder 1976 (Corrections and additions will be welcome)

Since this community is to be stripped of its top vein of coal soon —- probably within two years, I decided that It would be proper and fitting to write the history of this community as I know and have heard it from my grandparents, Allen McGee Sny- der and his wife Christiana Beymer Snyder. Also I have picked up information from many other people who resided In this community. Early settlers claim that the Seneca Indian Tribe had a camp or a small town on land now owned by the Hanna Coal Company. Wilson Barnes was the last owner before selling the farm of eighty acres to Hanna. The Wilson Barnes family found many arrow heads just above their orchard when cultivating that field. The Indians lad located the camp just above a good spring of clear cool water. Lewis ffetzel the Indian fighter and hunter travelled this area on hunting trips many times. He hunted as far west as Mor- gan County and left his name carved on a large rock near Malta, across the Muskingum River from McConnelsville, Ohio. Some of Wetzel's exploits have been written up in a book called "The Forest Rose.11 The area just to the east of Barnes Ridge was surveyed by the colonial or the new U. S. Government in 1786. The line runs along the east side of the farm formerly owned by George Craig. This was called the Seven Ranges—meaning seven ranges of Town- ships. The area where Barnes Ridge is located was surveyed soon after the Seven Ranges were surveyed, probably in 1796. A surveyor by the name of Ludlow did a lot of this surveying in the eastern part of Ohio as well as around Columbus. He gave his name to many townships In the state. One street In Columbus Is named Ludlow Street. Martin Crow was hired as a hunter to supply the surveying party with venison, turkey, elk, buffalo, beaver, raccoon, grouse, rabbit and other meats. Martin Crow frequently hunted this area west of the Ohio River with Lewis Wetzel, probably before he was hired to hunt game for the surveyors. They also hunted Indians and Martin once had part of an ear shot off by an Indian, William Barnes was probably the first settler on Barnes Ridge. He probably bought one hundred twenty acres from the government as we know that he owned and lived on part of that land and built a good hewed log house of three rooms and an attic, ;lus two good hewed log barns and other small buildings. William Barnes settled on Section 13, in Marion Township, Range 8. I do not know the year that William Barnes settled on Barnes Ridge, however I would guess that It was between 1810 and 1830. A federal road was cut through the timber along the ridge above William Barnes' house, about two hundred yards from the house. The road let eastward toward Barnesvllle and Washington, D. C. It led westward to Sarahsville, passing along the ridge top immediately douth of Fredricksdale and &ate Route 146 In that area. William Barnes operated a tavern in his home to furnish food and lodging to men and he furnished hay and corn and stables for the horses. Deep depressions still show on the landscape which were cut by the wagon wheels passing over the road, I have worked and hunted by this old road many times. My grand (?) John Amos Franklin was born in 1837. He said he had seen and talked to U. S. Sen- ators and representatives who travelled this road to and from Washington D. C. This road was used from the time it was cut by the federal government until it was abondoned when other roads and railroads took its place, long before the year 1900. Barnes Ridge Is made up of three ridges which run southwest toward East Union and State Route 78. These ridges run into one ridge which runs northeast to State Route 146, State Route 146 follows the main ridge from Summerfield to whigville. This ridge is the divide between Wills Creek and Duck creek. Barnes Ridge is drained by the branches of the East Pork of Duck Creek. As soon as the middle or main ridge of Barnes Ridge was settled a road was opened along that ridge which put the older road out of business. This road is now labelled County Raad No, 51, and leads from East Union to Summerfield by use of one state road and one othsr county road. Barnes Ridge is located astride County Road No. 51, and about half way between E^st Union and Summerfield. Prom the Barnes Ridge School it was about three miles to Summerfield and also three miles to East Union. It is related in Ohio History that a large detachment of General Arthur St. Clair's troops cut a road through the forest from the Ohio River to the western part of the state. It is possible that this body of troops cut the road above William Barnes' cabin in 1791. William Barnes children were; Amelia? Lige; Nathan; nick- n M w named Nace ; Otho; Aaron; and one nicknamed "Doc . Doc was a soldier in the Civil War and drowned while swimming in the south. Swazey Guiler married one of William Barnes' grand-daughters, Aaron's daughter, I believe. Otho was g carpenter and built most of the barns on Barnes Ridge. Most of these barns had hewed log frames pinned together with wood pins and were very strong, Otho Barnes married Susannah Neisonger, also spelled Niswonger, and Nisswonger. Otho had one son named John Henry Barnes who became a noted artist and settled in Seattle, Washington State. MNacen Barnes was a school teacher at Barnes Ridge and taught my grandfather, Allen McGee Snyder and also John Henry Barnes. John Henry learned to ba an artist by using colored keel stones from the creek to draw pictures. When I was in grade school at Barnes Ridge, I also used colored Keel stones from the creek to draw on a slate as well as on paper. I have seen a portrait of James McClinock painted by John Henry Barnes and it looked as natural as life. It was owned by Harry McClintock. Barnes Ridge was named after William Barnes, but Barnes Run was probably named after Peter Barnes who settled on that run about 1840. Peter came from Preeport, Harrison County, to Barnes- vllle and then to Noble County. Some of Peter Barnes' relatives founded Barnesville. Peter Barnes and his family were not supposed to be any rela- tion to William Barnes who settled on Barnes Ridge, however, Peter had one descendant named William who lived on Barnes Ridge in recent times, or In my lifetime. Barnes Run follows State Highway Route 78 from summerfield to the East Fork of Duck Creek, one mile south of Ea3t Union, Barnes Run would be considered the south boundary of Barnes Ridge. Doc Barnes had three sonst Carl, Clel, and John Leroy Barnes. Carl and Clel went west and one of them at least worked for a railroad. To the best of ray knowledge, Doc Barnes married a Lemmax. John Barnes married Geneva Franklin and they had four daughters. The oldest one whose name I do not remember, died in child-birth at Hannibal, Missouri. John and his wife had moved to Hannibal about 1880 and came back to ârnes Ridge about 1900 or later, to take care of Mrs. Barnes' father and mother, John B. Franklin and wife who was Hannah Wharton, I believe Hannah was a sister of Asbury Wharton. John Barnes other three daughters were? Mae; Olenna; and Ila. Ila taught a Sunday School class for boys which I attended. She was a very good teacher. Mae married Dr. Dick Pearl Snyder who was born and reared on an adjoining farm. Glenna married Frank Craig of State Route 78 and Ila married Friend Wilson, also of State Route 78. John 3. Franklin was a son of John and Mary Franklin. John B. was born in Pittsburgh in 1825. He owned a small farm now known as the Will Franklin farm. It is a beautiful flat ridge and is now owned by the Hanna Coal Company. John B. Franklin along with Joseph Davidson in their younger years dug coal to fire the boiler at the Steamtown Woolen Mill. They dug coal to fire the mill at night and operated a blacksmith shop in the daytime. I believe the Woolen MiHwas owned by Dr. Reuben p. Summers and his engineer was a man by the name of Aerhart. This mill made fine heavy blankets of pure wool. I remer oer seeing one owned by my grandmother, Christiana Beymer Snyder. I believe that T have slept under it. The blanket was pure white. Steamtown had tobacco packing houses and a store operated by John A. Franklin and Svmzey D. Franklin who were second cousins and married sisters. Steamtown was a stop on the Ohio River and Western Railroad and this writer rode the railroad many times. Joseph Davidson owned forty acres which he probably bought from the government land office very early. He sold it to Samuel Snyder about 18^8, It has been in the snyder — since that date. It is now owned and occupied by Charles Snyder Jr. Joe Davidson is mentioned in the Noble County History as settling in Center Township. Nathan (Nace) Barnes taught school at Barnes Ridge for a time about 1860. He had one son named Charles who died of either append- icitis or a bowel obstruction. Alcena Barnes Calland had a daughter, Blanche, who married Edgar Richey of Senecaville, Ohio. Charles Barnes lived in the same house, hewed log, where his father and grandfather lived. Nathan, his father moved to Summerfield. In the early part of the 1800fs John King bought and owned all the land from Barnes Ridge to East Union on what is now called King's Ridge. Before that, Abel Barnes lived on a farm just north or the State Route 78 and near the present beer parlor. Later James Robinson married a King girl and lived there. James had ten or more children. I remember only part of them, Pearley and Ten (?). Pearley bought a farm near Mt. Ephraim and p&grley's son Ralph also bought a farm on State Route 146. James Robinson's brother Jonn was the next occupant of this farm and he also had twelve or more children. I do not remanDer all of their names and I get James' children mixed up with John's. This farm now belongs to tne caal company. The next small farm north of John Robinson's was owned by Charles Floyd, a good Christian man who came to church regularly. The next small farm north was owned by All«n Floyd and was sold to Dr. Staats of Sumnerfield and then The next community south Is Lexington Ridge, which now is being strip-mined. Barnes Ridge and Barnes Run are both named on U. S. Oovt. Maps, as is Wolf Fen Run which is to the north of Co. Road 51, and flows toward East Union. Nathan Barnes had a daughter named Alcena who married Fremont Calland of Summerfield, Ohio. Nathan had a son, Charles Barnes who married Martha "Mat1* Franklin. Charles' children were: Hermj Ninaj Max and Dare. (Dora?) I believe Nathan Barnes also had a son named Pearley who moved to Columbus and worked In the post Office. Peter Barnes had eight children. He came from Belmont or Har- rison County about 1833. His son Abel was born at preeport, Harri- son County in 1814. A history of the Peter Barnes f amily is given in the "Noble County History11 on page 396, also on page 463, It is givin in Marion Township, and again in Stock Township, because peter Barnes lived in both Townships at different times. James Barnes a son of Abel Barnes graduated from Muskingum College in 1883 with a B.S. Degree, He moved to Pratt, Kansas and became a County Surveyor and real estate operator and became wealthy. "Abel w.n or Wilson Barnes children were: Harry; Blanch; Mary; Winifred; James and Hughes. Hughes Is a professor at Mus- kingum College. Winifred was a teacher and married Earl Gibbs at Medina, Ohio. Blanche was a teacher and also worked for the Highway Patrol at Medina, Ohio. Harry became a county official at Marietta, Ohio. Wilson Barnes married a Warren for his first wife and had one son, Harry, by her. She died and Wilson married Kate Hughes of Monroe County. Allen Barnes was a son of Abel Barnes and a brother of Wilson. He married Minnie GuJler and a sister of Swazey Guiler. Allen's children were: vernin; Sherman; and Leona. Sherman and Leona died young. vernon was a teacher and taught at Barnes Ridge and later at Summerfield High School. He ended his school work as County Superintendent of Jackson County Schools. Vernon married Cleo Hannahs and had two sons, Verril and one whose name I do not remember. Allen Barnes was a great church member and Sunday School Super* Intendent. He was a very good man. He attended Allen's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church regularly (Barnes Ridge Church). The church was named for Allen Wharton, the first person buried in Barnes Ridge Cemetery adjacent to the church. The land for the cemetery and the first church, a log one, was donated by the Whar- ton family. This farm was later owned by William Meek who married Amanda Wharton. The new church a nice frame one was built about 1894 and one half acre of land for it was donated by Allen McGee Snyder. This church has been abandoned for many years as most farmers as they got old sold their farms to the Consolida- tion Coal Company (Hanna), and then died died or moved away. I helped put a new bell in the belfry of this church about 1912 or 1914. It had the finest tone that I have ever heard. It has been moved to another church. The Whartons were some of the first settlers on Barnes Ridge. They were fine people and great church members. Amanda Wharton, Meek's brother, William Wharton, marr' ed Catherine Snyder. Wil- liam was an excellent carpenter and fine stair-builder. He settled In Cambridge, Ohio. His daughter married Dr. McKee of Caldwell, Ohio. One of William's sons was a brick-layer named John Wharton and John had a son named William, who is also a brick-layer and still lives in Cambridge. to the coal company. John Floyd was a son of Charles and rented the Staats farm and then the Amanda Meek farm for eighteen years and then moved to Freeport, Harrison County, where his two sons Cecil and Leland Floyd lived and still live. Rinaldo King lived just west of the Staats farm on King's Ridge with his large family of children who attended Barnes Ridge school. Papl Ray and family lived just north of Rinaldo King and that small farm was sold to Mr. King. The next farm north and also north of County Road 51, was owned for a time by a William Barnes who was a cousin of Wilson Barnes. It was then sold to a Mr. Gant who married Rhoda Barnes, a sister of Wilson Barnes. Rhoda Gant's children were* Wilson, John, Homer, Laura, and Rose. Laura married Taylor Hague as his second wife, and Rose married John Guiler who was a son of Samuel Guiler. Homer Gant was my first school teacher. He was an excellent Sunday School teacher and superintendent for many years at Barnes Ridge Church. Homer's childrenwerej Francis, Helen, Marcus, and Margery. There were seven school teachers who made their home on Barnes Ridge at the same time, namely,; Homer Gant, Francis Gant, Helen Gant, Blanche Barnes, Clay Barnes, Dick Snyder, Emmitt Franklin, Florence Meek, and Clarence Snyder. Some of the teachers at Barnes Ridge were: Homer Gant, Clifford Franklin, Emmett Franklin, Mae Barnes, Vernon Baraes, Glen Guiler, Marsh Smyder, Victoria Snyder, Blanche Barnes, Florence Meek, Ethel Guiler, Elwyn Large, Asbury Davis, Nathan Barnes, Del Jackson, A. G. Wharton, Lois Guiler, Martha Philpot and Rev. John Stewart. William Guiler settled one mile southwest of Whigville. He married Mary Franklin a sister of Alexander Franklin and she was a daughter of Thomas Franklin. Most of the piople who settled in the Whigville Community came from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sam- uel Guiler was a son of William. Samuel married Caroline snyder of Barnes Ridge and spent his life where he was born. I believe all the Gîlers that I know of were descendants of William. Swazey Guiler was a Civil War Veteran. I am not sure if he was a brother of Samuel. Swazey was in many battles, especially Gfttysburg. He was a good poet. I heard him recite the poem which he had written wTfte WA^ Fifty Years Ago." at the Barnes Ridge Church on or about Decoration Day 1914. Swazey married one of William Barnes' granddaughters. I believe Aaron Barnes1 daughter. Swazey's children were: Edgar, Jud, Herbert, a Method- ist Episcopal Minister whose daughter lives in Caldwell, A Hie, a Mrs. Miracle and a Mrs. Davis. Swazey had a sister, Rose, who married George Cater, a sister Minnie who married Allen Barnes, a brother, Franklin Guiler who married Josey Settle, and a brother Sherman, and a brother, Rev. John Lewis Guiler. Franklin Guiler bought the farm which Ab Robinson owned. Ab is buried on the ridge close to the Federal Road. He is buried in a fenced lot with a nice monument. Franklin Guiler's children were: Cora, Minnie, Eva, Homer, Clara and Howard. Ab Robinson was the father of John Robinson, James Robinson, George Robinson, Anna Eliza Hill and one daughter who married a King and after his death, wes Murrey. Homer Guiler married Myrtle Snyder and they bought the Jack Lucas farm. Jack was a Civil war veteran and married Mary wharton c a daughter of Doctor Hopper Wharton. Doctor Whartonwas one of the first physicians that I remember. Homer Culler's children were: Kenneth, Kermit, Vera Mae, Milford and a daughter named Jewel by his second wife. Myrtle Snyder Guiler died In 1927 or 1928. Robert Hill married Anna Robinson. Robert was a very good 3iklesman. Their children were j Taylor, Harman, Orpha, Ocie, Raymond and one daughter who married Alvin Moore and one son whose name I do not remember. Will Meek's children were! Florence, Bertie and Friend. Friend married Tlo Fogle and moved to Akron. His mother also went with them. Bertie Meek married Clarence Snyder. They lived in Dayton. Florence Meek married a Mr. Farst of Mount Vernon, Ohio. George Cater owned about eighty acres. He was a fine Chris- tian man. He married Rose Guiler and had several children, namely? Nellie Snode, Lottie, who died young, Ada married Carr Davis, Grace, Blanche, Mary and Verril. All except Nellie married after the family moved to Sarahsville where George Cater had accepted the position of Superintendent of the Noble County Ohio Home. Phil Barry, Chase Barry and John Archer drilled a gas well on the Cater farm about 1910, which still produces gas. It has been producing gas for over 65 years. The farm was bought by Frank Craig and he piped the gas to his home on State Route 78. Flnley Fogle lived on the Cater farm and rented it for several years. Finley was a good carpenter and a good Christian man. His sons did the farming. They were? George, Monroe, Gay, Clifford and the girls were, Ilo and Tifava. Alexander Guiler married a Summerfield girl whose name T do not remember. His son, Glen, was my school (teacher ?) In 1913-14. Glen married Lois Dotson and moved to Cleveland. Kile married Fern Groves. William was killed bv a train. Dewey died of meas- les at age 14. Harold Guiler lives on the home farm on State Route 78, Mabel married and lives in Cleveland. A man by the name of Gant owned the farm during the 1800's which was acquired by John B. Franklin. Gant also owned another forty acres farther east. At that time about 1850 these two pieces of land were separated by the farm of Samuel Snyder. Alexander Franklin acquired the last mentioned forty acres and gave it to his daughter, Violet Franklin Summers, the wife of Dr. Reuben P. Summers. Dr. Summers' son Alec lived on this forty acres and raised two sons, Mack and Tom. Tomms a lawyer in Marietta and Mack had an insurance business there. Then another son of Violet Summers moved from Caldwell to the small farm. This was Johnny Summers who reared his children and spent the remainder of his life here. John Summers' children were? Reuben, nRube"; Eliza- beth; William, who was killed by the kick of a horse, and Chase. Reverend Frank Y/harton owned and lived on forty acres which joined the Summers farm on the north side and the Allen and Charles Snyder farm on the west side. Rev. Wharton raised a family of several children on this small farm. It Is good lime- stone soil as is most of Barnes Ridge. Frank's children were: May, William, Lewis and Olive. If there were others I do not remember them. Rev. Wharton was finally called to a full time preaching assignment with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pow- hatan, Ohio, and spent the remainder of his life there. About 1909 an oil and gas company from Pittsburgh, pa., leased the Wharton farm and drilled a well to the Berea grit sand, 1936 feet deep. The well came in a powerful gas well making (3,250,000) three million two hundred fifty thousand cu.ft. of gas per day. I was there when the well was drilled in and also when it was tubed. It made an ear piercing whistle which caused the workman to use cotton in their ears while tubing the well. At 16 cents per thousand cu.ft. this well would have grossed the Pittsburgh owners $>487.50 per day. If Rev. Wharton had received one eighth of the gas, it would have paid him $60 per day. But the lease was written, promising to pay $150 per year for a gas well, plus free gas for one dwelling. Therefore it is reported that the preacher only got $150 per year out of this powerful well since no one lived on the farm and the house had been torn down. The hill where the e&s well was drilled is 1287_Jft. above sea level and is one of the highest hills in Eastern Ohio. 1^ has always been called Wharton's Hill and was nicknamed Pike's Peak by John L. Barnes who had seen Pike's Peak in Colorado. The next eighty acre farm north and east of the Rev. prank Wharton Farm was owned at an early date by Alexander Franklin. Whether he bought if from the government, I do not know. He passed it on to his daughter, Rosa P. Gulick. It has been known as t he Gulick farm since Mrs. Gulick inherited it. It was inherited I believe by Mrs. Gulick's son, John Gulick and then sold to the Bode Brother's, merchants of Summerfield. I believe it is now owned by the Hanna Coal Company, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. The first people living on the Gulick farm that I know of was the Whittington family^ One daughter, Margaret Whittington married Marion Snyder, and spent her life on the Snyder farm, one son, Dr. Whittington practiced medicine in Marietta, Ohio. Two or three other Whittington sons went to Mar- ietta and engaged in truck farming. The next occupant or renter of the Gulick farm was Jason Moore whose sons were: Taylor, Edward; Jason married Kinsey Johns' sister of State Rt. 78. They had one daughter who married John Morris, a school teacher; and I believe another daughter, who married William Bates. The next renter on the Gulick farm was George Miller who operated a coal mine for many years. His children were; Otis, Paul, who was killed in World War II, Pearl, Margaret, Elsie and one or two more girls whose names I do not remember. Otis operated the mine for a while after his father died. Milton Van Dyne, lived in a house on the Newton Meek farm, and operated a coal mine for many years. He also lived on the Summers farm and farmed and operated a coal mine. Milt was an excellent shot and a good gunsmith. His children werej Inez, Aimee, Matil- da, Harry, and I believe one or two others. Newton Meek owned and lived on the next farm south of the Gu- lick farm. He married Sxisanna Snyder. He was a Covil War Veteran. He was badly wounded in the leg and was crippled badly. His children were: John, Charles, Manie and one girl who married a carpenter and lived at Indian Lake. Frank Meek, a brother of Netwon, and Will Meek, married Ellen Snyder. The Newton Meek fnrm was sold to Jesse Gordon who had married a daughter of Jake King. Jesse's children were: Herman, one son who was killed in India by a falling tree during World War II, Willard who for a while owned the Marion Snyder farm, Cleo, Mary, Lloyd and possibly one or two more. Willard sold the Marion Sny- der farm to the coal company. Jease Gordon owned forty acres of the Marion Snyder farm which he sold to the coal company. Fawcett Craig was born in 1843. See page 392 in the History of Noble County, Ohio, for a history of this family. Fawcett owned the next farm to the east of the Gulick farm. This farm joined the west boundary of the seven Ranges of Townships which was surveyed in 1786. Fred Gordon married Clara King of East Union and bought the Charles Floyd farm and farmed and operated a coal nine for years and then bought the adjoining farm occupied by George "Squire" Barnes. George was a brother of Wilson and Allen Barnes. Fred built a new house and lived here for many years and was the first in this community tosell to the Hanna Coal Co. He then bought the Charles Morrison farm near Fredericksdale where he died of injuries received in World War I. John Moore married a Miss Miller a sister of John Miller of East Union. Mr. Moore was a carpenter by trade. He lived at the bottom of the church hill on County Road number 51, where Raymond Hill now lives. Moore's children were: Alvin, Truman, George, Joe, and one daughter who married "Preach11 McElfresh of Summerfield, Andy Young owned a farm that joined the Wilson Barnes farm. Andy had a son, Ross, who went to school at Barnes Ridge. Andy sold the farm to James Donnelly and moved to the area of Mansfield, Ohio, around 1900. Andy's farm was mostly on the north side of the old Federal Road. Amelia Barnes, daughter of William Barnes, married Asbury Wharton. Asbury's children were: Amanda Wharton Meek, William Wharton, Arthur Wharton, who married George Caterfs sister, Nath- an "Nace" Wharton and Mrs. Gib Pringle of Steamtown. Asbury Whar- ton lived beside the old Federal Road on the farm later owned by Will Meek. Asbury first lived on land formerly owned by William Barnes his father-in-law. About 1830 three brothers and a sister left Frederick County Maryland for eastern Ohio country, now in Noble county. They were, Frederick snyder, John Snyder, Samuel Snyder and a sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 3all. Samuel Ball bought and settled on forty acres immediately south of the summers farm in Section 13, Range 8. Ball sold his forty acres to John Snyder and moved to the first farm west of Sarahsville now on State Road 146. John Snyder bought and settled on Section 24, Northwest quarter consist- ing of one hundred sixty acres. He now owned 200 acres. Sam Sny- der bought forty acres in the southeast corner of Section 14 of Range 8^from Joe Davidson in 1838. He also bought eighty acres from a man and his wife from New Jersey at about the same time. Sam now had one hundred twenty acres. Frederick Snyder settled on the ridge one half mile south of Mt. Ephraim Station, on State Route 146. Frederick Snyder was married twice and had eleven children by his first wife, and three by his last wife. One son, Tom, moved to Columbus, Indiana, and operated a hardware store all his life. One daughter married a Brandt, one a •L(ove, of near Caldwell and one a Coen. We have lost track of the other children from Frederick's first wife. By his second wife, Frederick had Homer Snyder, Margaret Snyder Graham and Emma Jane who married Rev. Jojan Stewart. Frederick Snyder's first wife is buried at whigville. His second wife was Nancy Morrison Capel born 1819, died 1874. Frederick Snyder was born in 1791, died 1875. Homer snyder married Margaret Pettay of Sarahsville. Homer had one son, Clyde, who married Lou Davidson of Fredericksdale. Samuel Snyder's children were wLishw or Ulyston, a civil War Veteran; Mahlon who was killed in the Civil War at Missionary Ridge; Elizabeth who married Samuel King; and another daughter, who married a Hayes at Middleburg. Lish's second wife was a Love. John Snyder, also spelled Snider in old records, married Anna Neisonger, also spelled Nisswonger and Nlswonger, and had ten children as follows: Marlon, Rich, Allen McGee, Shepherd, Sus- anna Snyder Meek, Ellen Snyder Meek, Cornelia Snyder Scharf, Emily Snyder Burris, Caroline Snyder Guiler, and Catherine Sny- der Wharton. Marion married Margaret Whittington and bought the home farm. Marion's children were? Clarence, Harry and Inez. Clarence married Berta Meek. They died in Dayton. Harry married Grace Robison of Monroe County and they bought a farm in Champaign County, Ohio, where they have many descendants. Inez married Howard Franklin and they have one daughter, Victoria, who married Richard Horton. Rich Snyder married Lillian, a daughter of Mahlonj Rich had a general store in Sarahsville for many years and then bought a farm near Whigvilie. Mahlon Snyder's wife was Karen Hamilton, a sister of Joe Richner's mother of Sarahsville. Allen Snyder married Christiana Beymer. Allen's f&her died when Allen was sixteen years old. His mother said she would cook for the three boys if they would raise large crops of tobacco and pay off the other heirs. Therefore, Allen was paying for a farm when he was sixteen years of age. Marion took the south half and Allen the north half of the farm. John Snyder bought Sam Snyder»s farm about 1850. That was the part of the farm that Allen got. Sam moved to a farm near Ava. Sam's first wife died about that time. Allen Snyder's children were: Charles R., Dick Pearl, and Myrtle. Charles Married Violet Franklin and she died at age forty-two, leaving the following childrenj Marsh, of Columbus, Shirley Trigg of Zanesville and Matilda Archer of Z^nesville. For his second wife, Charles married Sula Thompson, They had one son, Charles Jr., who lives on the home farm which sits astride the center of Barnes Ridge. The land for the school and church both was furnished by the Snyder family. The church and school were both on County Road 51. Rich Snyder's children were: Elsie Snyder Bode, Herb who married Dick 0'Neils daughter and had Paul and Nedra. John married a Gibson and they had one son, John jr. , of Caldwell, Ohio John Sr. bought the home farm near Whigville and farmed for several years and then held a county office for many years. Shepherd Snyder served four years in the Civil War and attain- ed the rank of lieutenant. He came home after discharge, and then went to Macksburg to work in the oil fields. He married a Smith- son and had one son, Howard and Howard had one daughter named Elizabeth. Shepherd and then Howard operated a store in Macksburg for many years. Violet Franklin Snyder was born January 27, 1874 in a beautiful red brick home which was about one air line mile due north of Barnes Ridge School and in the direction of Whigville. This house was built by Alexander Franklin the grandfather of Violet. Alexander was a bricklayer in Pittsburgh before he came to this area. He first built a log cabin beside the Federal Road and then burned the brick on his land and built the brick house with a basement and first and second floors with a hallway through the center of the house on both floors. The front of the house faced east toward Steamtown and summerfield. I have slept in an up- stairs bedroom and the sun would rise over the ridge road and shire into my eyes and wake me up. There was an addition to the house extending westward, of two stories and containing a large room on the first floor, plus a kitchen, and sleeping rooms up- stairs. All downstairs rooms had coal and wood fireplaces. A beautiful portico graced the east front of the house. The hallway through the main part of the house exited onto this portico. Comfortable covered porches were built on each side of the west addition full length. The hallway exited to the west on one of these porches. The north end room on the first floor was used as a parlor. It had etched glass knobs five Inches in dia- meter to hold back the bottoms of the window curtains. The knobs were placed about waist high on the side of the window frames. I assume that this house was built about 1830. John Amos Franklin Violet's father was born in 1837. He said the house was built, cracked and rebuilt before he could remember, A solid pine hedge was planted and kept trimmed one hundred yards long from the house to the barn. Also a flagstone walk five feet wide led from the house to the barn. John A. Franklin had the house plumbed for gas about 1915. John Amos Franklin*s mother was a member of the Amos family who founded the Cambridge Jeffersonian newspaper. The beautiful pine hedge was flanked on the west by a very large garden and also by a very large orchard to feed the ten Franklin children of John A»J JJin Aôs Franklin died in 1928 and I Be- lieve the farm was sold to Austin Hurst of Caldwell. It is now owned by the Hanna Coal Company. The old brick can be seen at a distance of one half mile from County Road 51. The Barnes Ridge Road and also from State Route 146. Wouldn't that have been a sight to see that beautiful brick house about 1840, standing In endless woods and only log cabins far and few between. The closest brick houses were at East Union and Summerfleld and that is still true. The large magnificlent bank barn Is still stand- Ing. While hunting deer I love to walk into the old brick. It brings tears to my eyes because I have fond memories of uncles, a unts, and beautiful scenery, of people, martins gracefully fly- Ing and catching mosquitos and other insects* For more information on pioneer families of Barnes Ridge and Noble County, see, "Noble County History," "stories of Guernsey County, Ohio" and "Connor and Masters, Pioneer Families of G uernsey County, Ohio, " by E. Margaret Conner and her husband. Families named in the above named books are; Stewart, Stone, Finley, Beymer, Snyder, Lemmas, Franklin, Danford, Cochrane, Capel, Weems, Find lay, and many others. E. Margaret Masters Conner is a granddaughter of Reverend John Stewart. Mrs. Conner and her husband lived in Cambridge, Ohio, until recently. I have information that they have moved to Arizona. Mrs. Conner in her book has braced her ancestors back to France and other European countries, back about a thousand years.

TO - STUDENTS, of Caldwell, Shenandoah, and other High Schools. (By Marsh Allen Snyder)

Do you want to go to Dental College? If so you may be able to get a loan at three percent Interest by contacting the secretary of the Dental College at the Ohio State University. Dr. William Dew, a native of Summerfleld, Dr. Dick Pearl Snyder, an illus- trious native of the Summerfield Community, willed more than one million dollard ($1,000,000) to the Ohio State University, four hundred thousand dollard ($800,000) to the medical college for research and 3ix hundred thousand (#600,000) to the dental college for loans to dental students at 3fl interest. Dr. Snyder was born June 14, 1883, within 200 yards of the Barnes Ridge School and died in August 1971 at his home in Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus. Dr. Snyder was head of the Oral Surgery Department for many years.

ADDRESS J Marsh Allen Snyder 91 East Northwood Avenue Columbus, Ohio 4 3201