HISTORY OF RICHLAXD COUNTY.
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��The election list above, and the following pioneers residing in the township in 1869, who were in the county prior to 1820, will give a good knowledge in reference to the first settlers of the township :
��Age In
1869.
��James A. McCluer
Jessie Mahagan
Margaret Durbin
Abraham Stealts* ,
John RoDinson* :..
Alexander Robinson...
William Robinson
Nancy Robinson* ,
Nicholas Flaharty*
Eleanor J. Flaharty*..
Josephus Flaharty
Frederick Fitting
Susan Bell*
Daniel Mullf
Benjamin Ridenourf..
George Ridenour*
William Weaver*
Mary Weaverf
Isaac Armstrong*
Mary Armstrong*
.Josiah W. Armstrongf
Joshua Armstrong
Hezekiah Armstrongf .
John Eckey*
Samuel Shafer-j-
Reuben Evarts
Henry Swank*
John Weirick*
Mary Hardestyf
Nancy Sargent
Sharah Chronister*
Joseph Johnston*
Abi Johnston*
Philip Lash*
Elizabeth Lash*
Liza Lefever
William Colley*
Mary Holland*
Sarah Hamilton*
Lydia Hines*
Elizabeth Ball
Margaret Mastersf ....
Isaac Gatton
Rachel Gat ton*
Sarah Gattonf
Eliza Hendricksonf....
Samuel Leedy*
Lewis K. Leedy
Delilah Leedy*
Charine Lett*
- Now dead (1879).
t Born in the county.
��64 55
77 79 66 63 61 58 83 80 59 61 60 52 51 62 71 52 85 65 50 54 52 56 52 59 80 67 52 54 56 81 71 86 63 63 55 66 60 72 75 51 69 73 50 53 77 62 53 74
��Came to County.
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��Name.
��Elizabeth Lee
Susan Culver*
Lyda Zolomon
Hiram E. Gibson
Catharine Garber*....
Abraham Long
Cyrus Dayf
Richard Oldfield* ....
Almina Oldfield
Christian Aungst*....
Samuel Aungst
John Lett
James B. Miller*
Albert Farquhar
.Tames Holton*
Eve Garber
James Cleland*
George Beal*
Sarah Flemming
Rachael Swadener*.
Matilda Coursenf
John T. Dean
��Age ill 1869.
��69 78
57 57 61 64 50 68 64 65 64 69 69 65 68 63 59 55 58 75 52 54
��Came to County.
��1815 1815 1815 1818 1811 1814 1819 1810 1815 1816 1815 1815 1811 1819 1812 1813 1819 1819 1818 1817 1819 1819
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��Bellville is the only town in Jefterson Town- ship, and is located on the northeast quai'ter of Section 9 and adjoining sections. The first building within the present incorporated limits was the first in the toAvnship, erected in 1808. About 1814, Robert Bell, Sr., came from Bel- mont County, Ohio, and purchased the quarter- section of James McCluer, and, in 1855, he laid out the first plat of the town, which consisted of forty-eight lots, embracing the land between Main and Huron streets, bounded on the north by Ogle street, and on the south by the first alley north of Durbin street. Enoch Ogle pur- chased Lot No. 1, east of the Clifton House, and thereon erected a building and opened a tavern — the first in the township. These two — the block-house and a dwelling-house at the foot of Snake Hill (Bellville Cemeteiy) — were the 011I3' buildings in the village for several years. Richard Crawford set up a blacksmith-shop on Lot No. 5, in an early day. Joseph Carter brought the first dry goods to the place from Uniontown, now Ashland, and occupied a small room in Ogles tavern. Joseph Hildreth
- Now dead (1879).
f Born in the county.
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