HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY

CHAPTER XLVIX.

Joseph L. Devault, farmer, a native of Harrison County, Ohio, was born March 8, 1837. At the age of twelve years he came to Vinton County where he has since made his home. When thir- teen years old he commenced to learn the carpenter's trade at which he has been engaged more or less since 1878, since which he has fol- lowed farming and makes the raising of fine sheep a specialty. He has a fine farm of 257 acres on fraction 24, Wilkesville Township. He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in July, 1862, in Company B, Ninetieth Ohio Infantry, and participated in the battles of Per- ryville and Stone River, Tenn., after which he was placed in the Pioneer Corps, and served with the Engineer Corps at the close of the war. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., when he re- turned to his home in Vinton County. June 3, 1867, he was mar- ried to Eveline S. Hawk, born in Vinton County in 1846. She died in October, 1882. They were the parents of six children--- Ulysses, Lizzie, John, Homer, Flora and Frank. He was married a second time on April 18, 1883, to Anna Morrison, born in Gallia County, Ohio, April 22, 1838. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Devault belongs to the Presbyterian church. Dr. George K. Ewing was born in Gallia County, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1858, and lived in that county till 1879 when he went to Wilkes- ville County. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine and attended the Ohio Medical College in 1878-'79, and in the same year, 1879, commenced the practice of his profession. In 1882 he went to Baltimore, Md., and graduated there at the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons. He was married Dec. 24, 1879, to Elizabeth Jones, born in Meigs County, March 8, 1862, and daughter of W. T. Jones, of Meigs County. They have one child living named Edgar L., born March 5, 1882. The Doctor and his wife are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church. W. W. Fierce is a native of Athens County, Ohio, born Jan. 28, 1840. He received his literary education at Valparaiso College, Indiana. He left the college in 1862, and Aug. 9 of the same year he enlisted for three years in Company H, Eighty-seventh Indiana Infantry. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma and Chickamauga, and all the skirmishes on to Tullahoma, Tenn. During the war he contracted rheumatism of the heart and was obliged to leave the service. He was finally dis- charged at Louisville, Ky. He then returned home and a year later commenced the study of medicine. He took one course of lectures 1358

vice and discharged July 8, 1865, when he returned to his home in Pine Grove, Ohio, in a state of broken-down health. He then re- sumed his practice, devoting himself almost entirely to operative surgery. In April, 1879, he resumed business with Dr. Cline at Wilkesville with whom he remained till March, 1883, when he re- opened his present office in Gallipolis, March 15, 1856. Mr. Gard- ner was married to Louzette Walker , a native of New York State. He is a member of Fearing Post, No. 79, G. A. R. He was a del- egate to the Encampment at Cincinnati in 1882. Charles E. Hawk, undertaker, a native of Vinton County, was born Oct. 20, 1839. He has always been a resident of the county. He lived on a farm till he was twenty-one years old when he learned the carpenter's trade which he has followed more or less ever since. He, in company with Mr. H. B. Strong, commenced his present business in 1879. Feb. 22, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, Third Ohio Infantry, and served till June 13, 1865, when he was mus- tered out at Gallipolis, Ohio. He then returned home, since when he has been engaged in his present business. He was married Sept. 13, 1860, to Christine Barger, a native of Harrison County, Ohio. They have been blessed with seven children---Arminda, Viola F., Orestus G., Docia, Emerson M., Michael and Jennie M. Mr. Hawk and wife are members of the Presbyterian church, as are also the three eldest children. He is a member of the G. A. R. Fletcher Hawk, teacher, is a native of Wilkesville Township, Vinton County. He received his education in the township, and at the age of seventeen years commenced teaching, which he fol- lowed with success for a number of terms. He has been a corre- spondent for the Hamden Enterprise for the past three years, and Dec. 4, 1882, was appointed to fill the vacancy of Village Clerk, caused by the removal of W. H. Lucas. This expired May 3, 1883. Mr. Hawk is a strong advocate of the Temperance cause. He in- tends for the future to follow the profession of school-teaching. Jonah Hawk, his father, was born in this township about 1826, and has followed farming and still resides on the place where he was born. Matilda Hawk, mother of our subject, was born in Ireland about the year 1826, They had three children, viz.: Fletcher (our subject), born April 8, 1857; Dora, born Sept. 28, 1860, and Ella, born Aug. 26,1866. 1361

J. H. R. Hawk, farmer, was born in Gallia (now Vinton) County, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1826, and is living at present in his native place, where he has 287 acres of good land on section 5, Wilkesville Township. He was educated in the county and learned the car- penter's trade, at which he worked three years, but not agreeing with him he quit it and followed farming. He was married March 9, 1856, to Matilda Fletcher, a native of Ireland, who died May 25, 1875. They were blessed with three children---Fletcher, Dora and Ella. He enlisted Feb. 7, 1874, in Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Ohio Infantry, and served nine months. He was dis- charged at the end of the war. He was married a second time, Jan. 22, 1879, to Mrs. Mary Bowen, a native of Meigs County, Ohio, born Aug. 5, 1842. They have one child---Morato, born Feb. 13, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Hawk are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Thirty-three of his relatives served in the late war at the same time. His grandfather, Isaac Hawk, a native of England, deserted the English army and came to America and fought in the Revolutionary war. He Jived to be 115 years old; was buried in Greenbrier County, W. Va. His wife was also a native of Eng- land, where she remained till after the Revolutionary war when she joined her husband in America. She died at the advanced age of 117 and was buried in the same graveyard. Oscar F. Hawk, a native of Wilkesville Township, Vinton Co., Ohio, was born Feb. 22, 1847. He was educated in a common dis- , trict school, and attended college a short time in Athens. In the . late war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment of the Ohio National Guards, and served four and a half months. He re-enlisted March 6, 1864, in Company D, One Hun- dred and Ninety-fourth Ohio Regiment, and served nine months. Since his return home he has been engaged in farming and burn- ing charcoal. He has also been engaged in the saw-milling busi- ness, and at the present time owns a share in a saw-mill. At pres- ent he is making a specialty of raising sheep. He was married Feb. 21, 1869, to Mary E. Miller, born in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Aug. 25, 1850. Their children are---Edgar, born Dec. 24, 1870; Lucella, Dec. 6, 1872; Mittie C., March 21, 1875; Maud, Sept. 10, 1877; Marion, April 10, 1880. Mr. Hawk has 450 acres of good land and a residence on section 30, Wilkesville Township. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 1362

his wife of French origin. Robert Bay served in the war of 1812 as a Colonel under General William H. Harrison, and after its close located in Guernsey County, Ohio, where he lived till 1852. He then removed to Vinton County, locating near Zaleski, where he died in 1855 aged seventy-seven years. He was the father of seven children---Harrison, Eliza, Lindley, Cynthia, Thomas M., Irenus and Ann. His wife died when our subject was a child. A. A. Cozzens, proprietor Hamden Fleming Mill. This mill was built in 1859 by E. W. Royer. It contains two run of burrs and is fitted up with modern machinery throughout, and has a manufacturing capacity of twenty-five barrels per day. In 1814 Mr. Cozzens bought out the former proprietors and immediately afterward put in the new machinery, and at present is sole pro- prietor. He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1830. He was reared in the mill, and in 1855 came to Vinton County and took control of a mill at McArthur. He is a thorough and intelligent miller in every respect. He is one of the Infirmary Directors of the county, having been elected first in 1877 and re-elected in 1881. In 1858 he was married to Mandana W. Pierce, by whom he had four children---Allie, Mary, William and Maggie. Mrs. C. died in 1879. He is an acceptable and worthy member of the order of Masonry, and holds membership in the McArthur Lodge. S. F. Cramer, harness-maker, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1832, and is a son of William and Drusilla (Clarey) Cra- mer. His father was born in Germany and came to America in 1806. His mother was a native of Maryland. They were married in Muskingum County, and settled one and a half mile west of McArthur in 1840, on a farm of eighty acres. Here they lived ten years, losing their farm on account of a defective title. They were the parents of ten children, three of whom are living in Vinton County---Margaret, wife of Voss Hoffhines; Drusilla, wife of Rich- ard Craig, Surveyor, of Vinton County, and S. F. Mr. Cramer died in December, 1868, aged eighty-four years. Mrs. Cramer died in 1873, aged sixty-three years. Our subject was eight years old when his parents located in this county. He began learning the harness making trade at McArthur in 1848, and in 1851 located at Hamden Junction, where he carried on his trade till 1857, when he moved away, and returned in 1863. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1878, and was re-elected in 1881; was elected Mayor of the town of Hamden J unction in 1868, and is now serving his third term. He is a member of Mineral Lodge, A. 1372

F. & A. M. He was married in 1854 to Theresa Grimes. They have six children---Hattie (wife of Charles Denig), Edgar, Allie (wife of Gus Gossman), Frank, Anna and Grace. Mrs. Cramer died in September, 1875, aged thirty-eight years. 1373

his death; he was also one of the original organizers and stock- holders of the Hamden furnace. Our subject was married in 1872 to Mary E. Buckley. He was elected to the office of County Com- missioner in 1880; he has also been largely identified with the offices of the township. He owns 256 acres of well-improved land. One child has been born to him---Ernest B. F. R. Kolb, dealer in groceries, glassware, etc., came to Hamden Junction in 1873, and was first in the employ of the M. & C. R. R. as night watchman, in which capacity he served four years. He then assumed charge of their telegraph office for one year having learned telegraphy previously. In 1878 he went into his present business. He carries a general and complete stock and has one of the best stores in the place. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1853. His early life was passed in various ways, but principally on the farm. Before attaining his majority he began railroading on the M. & C. R. R. He lost his right arm on the road while coupling cars on a trestle. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Hamden Lodge, .No. 517. He was married in 1879 to Miss Mattie Foster. They have one child---Stephen F. A. L. Lewis, dealer in drugs and notions, came to Hamden, in April, 1865, and began photographing, which he followed one sum- mer together with silversmithing. He was born in Gallia County, in 1829. His early life was passed upon the farm, and he received the rudiments of his education in the common schools which was developed by a course of study in a High School. In 1858 he began teaching in Ohio. In 1861 he taught in Virginia, after which he returned to Ohio and taught two terms. In 1848 he began the study of medicine under his own direction at first and afterward under the direction of a regular physician. In 1856 he began prac- ticing and has made a specialty of chronic diseases. He has been very successful in the treatment of such cases, having cured many serious cases. In 1865 he removed back to Gallia County, and for three years traveled quite extensively, and returned to Hamden in 1868. He now carries a full line of drugs. He owns a good property in the village, consisting in a dwelling and business house. T. F. McClure, proprietor of Hamden Foundry and Machine Company, was born in Shelby County, Ohio, in 1852, and is a son of John B. McClure, who settled in Shelby County, Ohio, in an early day, and afterward removed to Jackson County, Ohio. Our subject began business at Hamden Junction in 1873, by keep- ing hotel and livery, which he continued four years. Then went to 1374

Cincinnati and engaged in the carriage business; for five years traveling for Anderson, Harris & Co. In August, 1882, he bought an interest in the Hamden Foundry and Machine Company and assumed charge of the business in January, 1883. They manufact- ure stoves, castings of all kinds, build and repair machinery. They give employment to about eighteen men. Capital stock about $20,000. Commercial rating of the firm about $150,000. They also carry a general stock of hardware. Mr. McClure is a member of Hamden Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 517; Secretary of the lodge. He was married in 1873 to Miss Cordelia Burt, daughter of Hamil- ton Burt, of Jackson County, Ohio. They have three children--- Stanford B., Ethel and Edward Earl. S. W. Monahan, M. D., was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1844, and is a son of James and Maria (Walker) Monahan, of Maryland, who became a pioneer family in Belmont County. The Monahans were originally from Ireland, and the Walkers from England. The early life of our subject was passed upon the farm, and in the district school he obtained the rudiments of an educa- tion which was developed by a course of study in the Coolville Seminary. In 1863 he enlisted in the Sixty-third Ohio Infantry, of which he was hospital steward, retaining the position until dis- charged in 1865. He attended school a part of one year after his return from the army, and taught two winters. In 1867 he began the study of medicine under his brother, Dr. I. T. Monahan, of Jackson County, Ohio, who was his preceptor during his studies. He attended two full courses of lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, from which institution he graduated in 1870. Immediately after, he began the practice of his profession at Ham- den Junction, where he has since paid exclusive attention to the demands of a large and increasing practice. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Hamden Lodge, No. 517, being a charter member. The Doctor was married in 1870 to Miss Chassie Burt, daughter of Hamilton Burt, of Jackson County, Ohio, who has borne him five children---Ora B., Grace, Francis H., Stephen W. and Bertha. The Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of the village. B. R. Paine, farmer, was born on the old homestead in 1848 and is a son of Lemuel Paine, of whom mention is elsewhere made. He received a practical education in the district schools and has followed the avocation of farming. In 1878 he was married to Alice Wilcox. They have one child---Howard. Himself and wife 1375

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