Last Updated on June 29, 2011 by (From Gallia County) Served from August 1, to September 4, 1813. Capt. John Roadannour Lieut Luther Shepherd Ensign Nathan Nuson Ensign John Kerr Ensign John Ellison Sergt. Anthony R. Magnet Sergt Alvan Rathburn Sergt Frederick Kerns Corp William T. Graves Corp John Vandenbender Corp William Chandler Musician, Jonah […]
Last Updated on July 8, 2012 by LEVI L. MUNSELL. Among Shannon County’s younger business men are many whose interests in this section of the Ozark Region are going to make it a few years hence what it is today as compared with a generation ago. Many of these have already made their mark, but
Last Updated on March 21, 2012 by Byron J. Thompson was born in Gallia County, Ohio, in 1848. He received a high school education, and has since devoted the most of his time to teaching, in which profession he has been very successful; was principal of the public schools of Austin, Mo., and Louisville. He
Last Updated on September 5, 2012 by Interviewer: Miriam Logan Person Interviewed: Rev. Williams Location: Lebanon, Ohio Place of Birth: Greenbriar County, West Virginia Date of Birth: 1859 Age: 76 Occupation: Methodist minister Miriam Logan Lebanon, Ohio July 8th Warren County, District 2 Story of REVEREND WILLIAMS, Aged 76, Colored Methodist Minister, Born Greenbriar County,
Last Updated on October 19, 2011 by Franklin Johns, farmer; P. O. Hutton; was born in Pendleton Co., Va., June 6, 1828; when he was 7 years old, his parents moved to Gallia Co., Ohio, and remained there three years, and in the year 1838, came to Coles Co., and the first winter settled on
Last Updated on May 1, 2021 by Lyman U. Humphrey, the eleventh governor of Kansas, was a resident of this state forty-four years. The City of Independence, which was his home all these years except the time he spent in the state capital, will always honor his name, and his upright life and splendid record
Last Updated on June 10, 2012 by Dennis J. E. Nye. By reason of long residence in Champaign County, for a period of sixty years, by the ability shown in varied undertakings and by the honesty and high character of its members the Nye family is one of the best known in the county and
Last Updated on February 24, 2014 by Dennis A Narrative of the desperate encounter and escape of Capt. William Hubbell from the Indians while descending the Ohio River in a boat with others, in the year 1791. Originally set forth in the Western Review, and afterwards republished by Dr. Metcalf, in his “Narratives of Indian
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Last Updated on January 14, 2012 by William Hebard Grayum. Perhaps one of the greatest factors in the wonderful progress that the State of Kansas had made in the last twenty years, had been the recognition of the value of education and the provision made for the extension of a sound public school system. Communities
Last Updated on June 29, 2011 by (From Gallia County) Served from August 1, until August 18, 1813. Capt. Daniel Womeldorf Lieut. Nathaniel Gates Lieut. James Bing Corp. John Cocomore Sergt. Tousaint Schouman Sergt. James Wilson Cornet, John Graham Corp. Isaac Butler Corp. John B. Noland Sergt. Jacob Moler Corp. Amos Chitwood Trumpeter James Van
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Last Updated on September 4, 2012 by Interviewer: Hallie Miller Person Interviewed: James Campbell Location: Gallipolis, Ohio Place of Birth: Monroe County WV Date of Birth: January 15, 1852 “Well, I’se bo’n Monro’ County, West Virginia, on January 15, 1852, jes’ few miles from Union, West Virginia.” “My mammy wuz Dinnah Alexander Campbell an’ my
Last Updated on October 20, 2011 by Seton Johns, farmer; P. O. Charleston; was born in Augusta Co. Va., Nov. 22, 1832; he is the second son, and came with his parents to Gallia Co., Ohio, when he was 2 years of age, and from there to Hutton Tp. in the year 1838, and lived
Last Updated on October 25, 2011 by Lewis R. Jewell, a son of Colonel Jewell, was born August 13, 1846, in Gallipolis, Ohio, and was thirteen years of age when he came to Kansas with his father. Reared on his father’s farm, he completed his education in Baker University at Baldwin. In 1864 he enlisted
