HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY

CHAPTER XIX.

of view. Dr. Bean was married in December, 1845 to Adaline Culver, daughter of James Culver, of Athens County. They have three children---Emma Jane, Curnce Ann and Ida May. Dr. Bean and family are members of the Methodist church. David Beasley, son of George Beasley, a pioneer of Athens County, was born March 12, 1838. During his early life he re- sided at home, attending the farm of his father. Nov. 12, 1861 he enlisted in Company G., Fifty-third Ohio Infantry; was wound in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and discharged on account of disability. Regaining his health, he re-enlisted in the same regi- ment, Feb. 13, 1864. He was captured while on a foraging expe- dition and remained a prisoner forty-two days. He was discharged June 19, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio. After his return home he settled in Bern Township; then lived in Dover Township two years, in Ames Township two years, and on a farm in Alexander Township nine years. He then went to Hebbardsville and en- gaged in merchandising and keeping a hotel two and a half years when he traded his property there for the place he now owns in Pleasanton. Nov. 8, 1857, he married Nancy, daughter of Aaron Evans, of Ames Township. They have three children---L. D., Florence and G. E. Their eldest daughter, Rachel Malvina, died at the age of three and a half years. Politically, Mr. Beasley is a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Samuel B. Blake, born March 2, 1817, in Alexander Township, was a son of S. L. Blake, a native of Connecticut, who came to this township in 1816, and resided here till his death, March 15, 1859. He resided at home till twenty-six years of age, receiving his education in the common schools. He was married March 25, 1845, to Polly C., a daughter of John Camp, and a native of Con- necticut. They have six children---William H., Henry C., Hattie, Mary, John and Charles. Mr. Blake has a farm of 157 acres where he has lived since 1848. He has a large two-story frame house and good farm buildings. Politically he is a Republican. He has held the office of Township Trustee for fifteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Blake are members of the Free-Will Baptist church. Hosmer Chace was born on his father's farm in Alexander Town- ship, Athens County, Oct. 2, 1833. Here among the beautiful hills of his nativity he spent his boyhood days, received his edu- cation and grew to manhood. July 1, 1862, Mr. Chace enlisted in the war for the Union and was mustered in as Sergeant of Company I, Seventh Ohio Cavalry, and was subsequently promo- 556

ted to Lieutenant. Mr. Chace was married to Miss Nancy Reeves, of Meigs County, Ohio, and to them six children were born---Els- worth, Ellwood, Annie, Celia, Ella, and Mary Alice. Mr. Chace married for his second wife Sarah Ellen Robison, Oct. 23, 1877, who was a native of Alexander Township, Athens County. Three children were born of this union---Bertha, Ada and Ida; the two latter were twins. Seven of the nine children survive, all living with their father on the beautiful homestead where they were all born. J. J. Coe, born in Knox County, Ohio, Nov. 11, 1829, is a son of John K. and Isabella Coe, natives of Washington County, Pa. He was the fourth of a family of seven children, and when five years of age his parents came to Athens County, locating at Chaun- cey where they lived five years and then removed to Meigs County. When twenty years of age Mr. Coe came to Hebbardsville and worked at the shoemaker's trade a year with J. G. Wilson. He then went to work for himself, and by his fair dealing has gained a good custom, both in shoe and harness making. He has been Post- master of Hebbardsville twenty years, and has been Township Trustee three terms. In May, 1856, he married S. W., daughter of John Calvert, of Meigs County. They have nine children--- Anna, Lizzie, Estella, Edith, John, Mary, Maggie, Daisy and Earl. Mr. Coe is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge No. 156, Albany. W. T. Dean, an enterprising farmer of Alexander Township, was born Jan. 14, 1850. His father, W. T. Dean, died when he was sixteen months old, and his mother, Mary J. (Beard) Dean, when he was six years old. He was reared by D. M. Clayton, of Athens, and received his education in the schools of that place. During the late war he enlisted, but was rejected on account of his age. When seventeen years of age he commenced to learn the trade of a stone mason and followed that occupation several years. He now has a fine farm of 103 acres and one of the best residences in the township. He was married Feb. 21, 1872, to Mrs. Kate (Walters) Coates, of this county. She had two daughters---Bell K. and Emma M. Coates. Mr. Dean is a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge No. 25, Athens. William Dickson, born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 29, 1819, is a son of Henry Dickson, a native of Maryland. When he was a child his parents moved to Guernsey County, and when he was fifteen years old came to Athens County. March 16, 1843, he 557

married Maria Lentner, a native of Delaware, and a daugher of Jacob Lentnet. They have eight children---J. M., Joanna, Albert, Hanford, J. W., Nancy, Mary L. Lizzie M. and Elisha B. In 1854 he bought the farm where he now resides. He has 310 acres of good land which is under a good state of cultivation. Politi- cally, he is Republican. 558

P. G. Hebberd, born in Dover Township, Athens County, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1830, is the second of four sons of Alanson and Becca (Grow) Hebberd, his father an early pioneer of Athens County, coming here from Vermont in 1819, and his mother a daughter of Judge Peter Grow, of Meigs County, Ohio. He was reared on a farm and educated at home under his father's instruction. He afterward taught seven years. April 20, 1854, he married Jane E. Davis, of York Township. They have seven children, six still liv- ing---Mary E., Emma J., Charles A., Becca B., P. G., Jr., and Nettie. Mr. Hebberd has a fine farm of 163 acres, but makes a specialty of stock dealing, at which he has been very successful. His youngest daughter is a musical prodigy, and when two and a half years old could play accurate accompaniments on the piano to the most difficult pieces, and now, though but six years of age, is a musical wonder. 559

S.H. Kenney, son of Nathan Kenney, was born in Athens County, Ohio, March 1, 1825. In 1850 he came to Alexander Township, where he has permanently located, being one of its prominent citizens. He owns a farm of 160 acres in Alexander Township. He has served in all the offices of the township. Polit- ically he was a Jackson Democrat until 1880, when he became a staunch Prohibitionist. He was married Jan. 8, 1850, to Minerva, daughter of Daniel Drake, of Athens County, Ohio. They have reared a family of nine children, whose names are---Augusta B., Lafayette H., Winfield W., Wayne B., Webster D., Luelma M., Murdock D., Missouri R., Sierra Nevada, all of them residing in Athens County. 561

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