HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY

CHAPTER XXI.

ter part of 1844 he came to Albany, where he has since resided. He learned the trade of a cutler in Worcester, Mass., in 1830, in the first cutler's shop in America, and afterward learned to make spectacles, and was engaged in that business several years after coming here. Of late years he has been buying and collecting notes and doing a general brokerage business. He has sixty acres of land on section 11, Lee Township, and considerable town prop- erty. In 1849 he went to California via the isthmus, and remained eighteen months. He has been Township Assessor six years. He is a member of Albany Lodge, No. 156, A. F. & A. M. Jan. 13 1836, he married Mindwell R. Cleveland, a native of Harwinton, Conn., born Sept. 17, 1817. They have one daughter---Mary M., now Mrs. James H.Holmes. She has one child---Angie G., born Aug. 4, 1881. Mr. Dewing has the record of his father's ancestors from 1644 to the present time. Andrew Dewing, one of the first settlers of Needham, was a member of the ancient artillery of Bos- ton in 1644. S. Fauts, contractor and bridge builder, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1824, and lived there till twenty-two years of age. From 1846 to 1852 he was engaged in manufacturing windmills in Ohio and Illinois. From 1853 to 1861 he was en- gaged in general contracting and building. May 15, 1862, he en- listed in Company H, Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry, and served five months. He was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, Va., in September, 1862. In 1863 he came to Albany, and took charge of the wood work in the colored school building, and has since that time been engaged in contracting and bridge building, He has a pleasant home in Albany, where his family are surrounded with the comforts of life. He was married July 4, 1847, to Catharine Neff, a native of Pickaway County, Ohio, born May 2, 1830. They have three children---Cydnor T., Charles W. and Mary A. Mr. and Mrs. Fauts are members of the Methodist church. He belongs to Columbus Golden Post, No. 89, G. A. R., Athens. Hugh Fletcher was born in County Donegal, Ireland, May 13, 1809, and came to America in 1824. He landed in New Jersey and went direct to Greene County, Penn. In 1836 he came to Athens County, Ohio, and located in Alexander Township. In 1838 he went back to Europe but returned again to America in 1840 and settled in Lee Township. In 1843 he went to Wisconsin, and in the fall of 1846 went again to Europe. In 1851 he came again to Lee Township. He bought a farm in Waterloo Town- 616

ship and lived there till 1857, when he came to Albany, where he has since resided. He was married Jan. 17, 1855, to Margaret Entsler a native of Vinton County, Ohio. They have two chil- dren---Charles E., born April 1, 1856, and Mary E., born March 14, 1866 Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Elias Graham, born in Albany, May 8, 1825, was a son of William and Nancy (Cassel) Graham. His father was born July 2, 1783 and died May 31, 1854. His mother was born Feb. 14, 1788, and died March 26, 1851. They had a family of twelve children ---Henry (the second male child born in Lee Township), Elizabeth, Sophia, Ivy, William, James, Samuel, Hannah, Elias, Martha, Wilson and Nancy. Elias was married April 24,1838, to Dian- tha Martin, a native of this township. Four children were born to them, only three now living---Rebecca J., Martha and William T. Mr. Graham has 190 acres of good land and is engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising, making a specialty of the latter. He is a member of Lee Grange. His father built the first hotel in Athens in 1800. E. C. Humphrey, carpenter, was born in Washington County, Ohio, May 3, 1823, and in 1846 came to Lee Township, Athens County. He was married in September, 1846, to Sarah Rigg, a native of Pennsylvania, born May 29, 1826. They have had four children, only two now living---William E. and Joseph E. Their oldest son, John A., enlisted in the late war, and at the battle of Winchester, July 24, 1864, he was shot through the thigh, and as the Union forces left the field to the rebels, he fell into their hands and is supposed to have died as he has never since been heard from; Mr. Humphrey enlisted Feb. 1, 1862, in Company C, Seventy- fourth Ohio Infantry, and was discharged Nov. 5, 1862, on account of disability. March 1, 1864, he raised a company to take a wagon train to Cumberland Gap. On their arrival at Camp Nelson, Ky., it was formed into a pack-mule train, and he was appointed its Captain. During the John Morgan raid in Ohio he enlisted in the State Militia and served till after Morgan's capture. Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey are both members of the Free-Will Baptist church. George Jones was born in Belmont County, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1821, When ten years old he went to Morgan County, and in 1846 came to Athens County, where he has since resided. He has eighty- eight acres of good land on section 33, Lee Township. He was married June, 1846, to Hannah Jackson, a native of Delaware 617

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