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Pioneer Women of Cleveland 807 Pioneer Women of Cleveland 807 PIONEER WOMEN OF CLEVELAND CUYAHOGA COUNT Y. 1796- 1816 The fi rst white woman to step foot in o n the Cuyahoga river attended t.he Cleveland was <teventeen year old Talitha mother and her little one in their bel~ E lderkin, the bride of J ob Pbelps Stiles. lessness and dire need. Cha.rles died m Both were natives of Granville, Mass., Illinois in 188Z, aged eighty-nine yea.rs. an(! both had been school teachers in The family r emained in Cleveland Vermo n t. about fifteen years, the greater part of The number of pioneer families who that time on their 100 acre lot on Wood­ came from Vermont and New H ampshire hill Road. Both returned to Vermont leads one to suspect thnt land promoters where they died very aged in Brandford in the employ of the Connecticut Land ! hat state. Company were kept busy in both those Mrs. Elijah Gu n {Anna Sartwell~ was states previous to 1796. and for some the second pioneer won1nn to arnve in years following the date of settlement Cleveland. The Gun family had accom­ here. panied the surveying party into Ohio as j ob P. Stiles and his wife accompanied far as Conneaut, where it remained un· the M oses Cleaveland expedition, which til the spring of 1797. It consis£ed of arrived at their destination in June of the pa.reots and four, perhaps six chil­ that year. The husband worked for the dren. The eldest one, Philcna, was six­ company, and the wife made herself teen years old. She married Capt. Allen useful in assisting in the preparation of Gaylord, an ea.rly pioneer. meals for it. The Guns lived for three years on River The couple announced their intention S t reet in a log cabin, then excl1ang ed it­ of becoming permanent settlers o f the for another one on a hundred acre lot township, and accordingly Talitha Stiles on the comer of Harvard and Woodhil) won the gift offered by the Connecticut Road, which bad been donated to Mrs. Land Company to the first woman set­ Gun by the Connecticut Land Company. tler. It consisted of three parcels of land In company with other settlers, they were two acres in the Hamlet, ten acres on driven to higher ground by the prevalena> S t . Clair St. near East 18th Street.. and of malaria from the swamps near th" 100 acres on Woodhill Road, a1f of river. ~bich she sold in 1841, and while living Mrs. Guo was best known as a com­ '" Vermont, for $ 150.00. petent nurse, who went in and out o f W hen the surveyors returned east in fever-stricken homes, ministering to tho! the Fall of 1796, they left the young needs of the sick and dying, attending couple in a. log ca.bin erected on tlteir to the dire necessities of young mother s lot, northeast corner of Superior and or relieving the bereaved of last oflioes W est 6th Streets. The following winter for tbei.r dead. And all this without. a little son was born to them, Charles money and without price. P helps Stiles, Cleveland's Mrs. Gun had a luge family of her FIRST NATIVE WHITE C H U.D. own, and many household duues while thus holding herself in readiness, by The souaws of a M ohawk tribe encamoed nillht or dav. to resDOOd to the Pioneer Women of Cleveland 808 CLEVELAND CALL OF DUTY OR MERCY. FEAR OF THE INDIANS, It is to be hoped that this good woman who, harmless when sober, were a men. bad a. far easier life in her declining ace when aroused by drink, some of years than was accorded to her in her which Mr. Carter, with the custom of younger days. She was thirty-eight the times, dispensed to them. A drunken years old when she came to Cleveland. brave once chased her, hatchet in hand, The youngest daughter, Minerva Gun, around a wood pile, but was caught in married and clied young. Christopher the act by her husband, who put a sud­ Gun married Ruth Hickox, daughter of den stop to the sport. Abram Hickox. the Cleveland blacksmith. Mrs. Carter had nine children, six of Charles married Betsey Mattock, Horace, whom married and left descendants. The Anna Pritchard, and Elijah Gun, Jr. daughters were Laura, who married married Eleanor Grant. Erastus Miles, and secondly James Rebecca Fuller, aged twenty-eight Strong; Polly who became Mrs. William years, daughter of Amos and Mercy Peets; Mercy married Asahel Abels; and Taylor Fuller, was the wife of Lorenzo Betsy married Orison Cathan. Carter, the noted Cleveland pioneer. Lucy Carter, s ister of Lorento Carter, They started from Castleton, Vt., in the married Ezekiel Hawley of Castleton, late summer of 1796, with three children, Vt., and with her husband accompanied respectively two, four and six years of her brother's family on their trip to Ohio. age. When the family reached the small Little can be gleaned of her life in Cleve­ hamlet of Buffalo, it was deemed best land save that she was every inch a to postpone the remainder o£ the journey, Carter or a Buell, on the maternal side, and in order to secure shelter, they whichever it was that handed down to crossed the Niagara river into Canada. her and her brother characteristics of Before spring arrived another child had courage, self reliance, fortitude, and the be.on born, little Henry, who was after­ instinct for wisely directing and guiding wards drowned when teo years of age. others. They arrived in Cleveland about the Her family of living children was middle of May, 1797, and settled in the small, but others may have died young. usual log cabin on a two acre lot near Pioneer life took constant toll of infancy. the foot of St. Clair Ave., close to the Her daughter Fanny married Theodore river bank. The lot cost Mr. Carter but Miles, and her son Alphonso married $47.50. This first log house on the river Juliette Jackson. was the scene of many activities. It was The Hawley family lived first on West a dwelling, Indian trading post, store, 9th Street, near the corner of Superior and head-quarters for all the settlement. Ave., and within three years removed Here was celebrated in 1801 the Fourth to a more healthy-location on Broadway, . of July witb simple refreshments, and near Woodhill Road. The parents were with dancing. Soon afterward Mrs. victims of the epidemie of fever that Carter took possession of a new log swept the township in 1827. house on the northeast comer of Super­ Eunice Waldo was the daughter of ior and West Ninth Streets. This was John and Hannah Carleton Waldo.. Her a village tavern for several succeeding grandfather, Lieut. John Carleton, her years, and here Mr. Carter died of a lin­ father and his two brothers reinforced gering and painful illness in 1814. the garrison of Ticonderoga when it was More has been retained of his wife beseiged. than of most of our pioneer women, all of it worthy of perpetuation. She came She married Judge James Kingsbury from Carmel, a beautiful little village of Alstead, N. H. He was caught in the in eastern New York, and was descended OHIO LAND BOOM from fine New England stock. She was of 1796, and with his family of wife and spiritually minded, sympathetic, kind three children, the youngest an infant, hearted, and open-handed. Very timid, and a nephew named Carleton, started she suffered much through for the future Cleveland. They brought Pioneer Women of Cleveland CLEVELAND 809 ~th them a horse, cow, yoke of oxen Mrs. Eunice Kingsbury died in 1843 and a few household necessities. aged seventy-three years; therefore she Probably no pioneer woman of this" was but twenty-six, when as a mother city endured the hardship, privation and of I our Children she suffered such dire mental suffering that Eunice Waldo experience in the wilderness. What was Kingsbury experienced in that western mortal of her lies in Erie Street Ceme­ trip. After reaching Conneaut her hus­ tery. May her ashes never be disturbed. band returned to New Hampshire on a THE FIRST WEDDING business errand leaving her alone in the in Cleveland was that of a little Cana­ ~lderness with her little ones. Winter dian maid, who accompanied the Carters set in before his return. Meanwhile an­ from Canada to Oeveland in order to other child was born. In this case, also, help Mrs. Carter with her little children. squaws attended her. But the friendly Her sweetheart, William Clement, fol· Indians left Conneaut. The cow died lowed her to Cleveland shortly after, and !rome ating poison leaves and there was claimed her hand in marriage. The no milk for the children. Fever dried wedding was solemnized July 4th, 1797. up her natural sustenance and the in­ The Rev. Seth Hart officiated, and as fant starved. Mr. Kingsbury was stricken custodian of the Connecticut surveyor's with malarial fever upon his arrival in stores, he supplied the materials for the his eastern borne and his recovery and wedding feast. The fatller of Clement return barely saved tlte lives of his whole was an American Tory. who at the close family. The story is a thrilling one and of the Revolutionary War settled on the can be found in detail in Canadian side of the Nidgara river. "THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF The future life of the bride, Chloe CLEVELAND. VOLUME 1." Inches, was one of prosperity and ease.
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