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��Co. H, 84th 0. V. I., where he served about three months, when he came home, and in April, 1864, he re-enlisted in Co. A, McLaughlin's squadron, and re- turned home in November, 1865. He remained in the county until 1873, when he married Elmira Van Horn, of Rome, Blooming Grove Township ; after his mar- riage, he settled on the present farm, about one and a half miles north of Adario, where he now lives.
WOOD, MARIA, MRS.; P. 0. Adario ; wife of the late John Wood ; she was born in Richland Co. Oct. 2, 1818, and is a sister of .Jacob Clayberg, of Butler Township. .John Wood was among the first settlers in this township ; he came with his parents, in 1817, from Beaver Co., Penn. A short time after .John Wood and Maria Clayberg were married, they settled in Ash- land Co., where they lived about two years, and then bought and moved to the present farm, about two miles
��north of Adario. Mrs. Wood has raised seven children — Maman, Mary, Coridan, William, John J., Hulbert H. and Lorian ; Hulbert and Lorian are at home yet ; the rest of the family are married.
ZEIGLER, JOHN M., was born in Butler Township July 21, 1840; he is the oldest child of Henry and Margaret Zeigler, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work. He was married, Feb. 14, 1866, to Eliz- abeth Jane Cleland, who was born in Blooming Grove Township April 23, 1846 ; they have had two children ; one is still living, named Effic M.; the other one died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Zeigler have always lived in the county ;' Mr. Zeigler has paid the most of his at- tention to farming, although he is by profession a car- penter, and has worked at it some ; he now owns a farm in good repair.
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��ADAMS, DANIEL, pioneer, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Bedford Co., Penn., March 10, 1824; his father and mother, with their family of seven children, came to Ohio about 1828, and settled in Wayne Co., where they lived about ten years, and then moved to Blooming Grove Township ; they settled in the woods. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was married, and then moved to Huron Co., where he stayed two years ; he then came to Cass Township, and moved on a farm near Planktown, where he lived two years ; he then moved to Planktown, where he lived one year, and then moved to where they now reside, in the spring of 1855 ; his parents had nine children, five of whom are living. He was married to Miss Sarah A. Nelson Feb. 21, 1850; she was born in Perry Co., Penn., Aug. 22, 1822 ; her mother died in April, 1829 ; her father then left Pennsylvania with a family of five small children, and came by wagon to the then new country of Ohio ; he came to where Shelby now stands, at which time there was no town there. He married there during the winter, and, in the spring, he moved to Blooming Grove Township, where he died in 1866; his children are all living but one. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have five children, all of whom are living ; Catharine J., married to E. B. Rose ; Annie Mary, mar- ried to George 0. Dickinson ; Elizabeth, Sarah Alice and Charles Ellsworth are at home.
BACKENSTO, HENRY, pioneer and retired farmer, was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., Oct. 31, 1825; his father came to Ohio about the year 1830; brought his family by wagon, and settled in Franklin Township, Richland Co., where he remained until he died in 1851. Henry was the fourth of eight children ; he received his education in the subscription schools of the county ; at 16 years of age, he took charge of a thrashing ma- chine, which he followed for six years ; his father gave him an 80-acre tract of land, which was covered with timber ; he built a cabin on it, and moved into it in the fall of 1847 ; he, in a few years purchased several other tracts ; bought a tract of land near Shiloh, and then
��sold his farm in Blooming Grove Township ; in the year 1863, he moved to Shiloh, where he now lives ; in 1873, he built a brick block in Shiloh, which he still owns. He came of a thrifty stock of Pennsylvania farmers ; when he paid for his dwelling where he now resides, he had $15, which he earned when a boy be- tween 8 and 12 years of age, making broom-handles and whipstocks. He was married to Miss Sarah Clay- burg Oct. 28, 1847; they have nine children, four of whom ai-e living.
BEELMAN, CHRISTIAN, retired farmer ; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Dec. 10, 1806 ; his parents belonged to the class of thrifty people known as the Pennsylvania Germans. He spent bis boyhood days on the farm ; at 21, he went to learn the trade of carpenter with George Beelman, of Pennsylvania ; after learning the trade, he worked at it while he remained in Pennsylvania. Was married to Fannie Beelman in April, 1831 ; had three children ; John A Beelman and Eliza Ann are still living; his wife died in Penn- sylvania ; he, with a number of his friends and rela- tives, viz.: John Beelman and his three sons ; George Beelman, wife and two children and Joseph, his brother ; Andrew Sheely and his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Sheely, and two daughters, started in the year 1836 for Ohio ; they embarked in wagons for the wilds of the new country, coming via Pittsburgh, and crossing the Ohio River at Steubenville : the journey was by way of Massillon, Canton, AVooster and Mansfield, thence to Bucyrus ; stayed three wee)is, but not liking the county, they left, John Beelman purchasing a tract of. land in Huron Co., north of Plymouth, where they settled; he still follows his trade ; worked in Plymouth, where he lived about eleven years ; in the year 1846, he purchased the farm he now lives on, and, in 1848, moved to it ; he had the usual experience of those who purchase in a new country ; he built the present build- ings, and otherwise improved the farm, until now it is under a high state of cultivation, and a comfortable place to enjoy the remaining days of his declining
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