BENJAMIN DAVIS built the first horse-mill in the county. He purchased a book in 1781, for which he paid forty-five dollars; in the book is inscribed the following:

"Don't steal this book for fear of shame,

For above there is the owner's name."

The portrait and name is in the book: "T. Dilworth, author; printed and sold in the year MDCCLXXIX."

DAVID GARRINGER emigrated at an early day. His son, David, married Serimo Yeoman, by whom he had nine children, as follows: Sarah, Angeline, Manda, Semantha, Osa D., Albert, Stephen, Thomas B., and James J.; all living. They never employed a doctor, using roots and herbs. When he died he left $10,000 to each child. He was a successful, safe farmer and stock raiser; he was a Baptist, and a good neighbor, and attended to his own business.

BY MRS. M'ELWAIN.

GEORGE HEATH was a very early settler in Wayne Township. During the war of 1812 his brother was killed by an Indian, and, in retaliation, he killed an Indian, and stuck him in the cedar hole; he shot an Indian on the high banks of Main Paint; he was in the war of 1812. By occupation, a farmer. He was the father of two sons and eight daughters; the sons dead; girls all dead but Anna Wilson, Elizabeth McCartney, and Matilda Hixon; her husband, Reuben Hixon, who lives in Good Hope, owns a saw and grist-mill; also a farmer and stock dealer, and a man of enterprise.

GOOD HOPE DIRECTORY.

Joseph Duens, John D. Raper, and Mr. Bodwell, dry goods merchants; Marian Peel, drugs; A. W. Ross, grocer; George Tulwider, shoe store; Sant Sears and James Davis, blacksmiths; Nancy Ann Sanderson, milliner; James Harper and Jonathan Rife, broom-makers; Reuben and Geo. Hixon, millers; Joseph Parker, justice; Abram Baker, physician; Marian Peel, livery stable; Isaac Bainter, Isaac Depoy, W. B. Depoy, James Murry, Joseph Parker, and Robert Scott, carpenters; Daniel Goen and Mr. Clinedenst, wagon and bug

gy makers; C. W. Bostwick, J. W. Parker, Rev. Barber, and Rev. Baker, preachers; Turner and Dewese, school trustees; one Baptist and one Methodist Church.

EDWARD SHOBE was an early settler; a tanner; his family moved West.

ISAAC DRAISE was an early settler; a farmer; married the sister of Peter Buffinbarger; he was killed by the cars.

BY BENJAMIN DAVIS.

FELTA POST was an early settler in Wayne Township; a farmer; was in the war of 1812. He raised a family of nine children; six boys living. Jacob lives on the old farm; Andrew lives in Union Township, and is a large land holder; Ella lives in Union; John N. lives near Martinsburgh, as a farmer; Wesley, farmer; Abram, farmer, lives in Jasper Township.

HENRY SAWYERS was an early settler of Wayne; cleared and owned the farm Benjamin Davis, Jr., now owns. He moved to Madison Township, Madison County, Ohio, in 1850; had no children.

CHARLES and Young Stafford were emigrants from North Carolina in 1800, when the Indians and wolves were the inhabitants. They were noted hunters; were both in the war of 1812; both raised large families. A. Jackson and Chas. Stafford, Jr., live in Fayette County; Zerubabel in California, now in Nevada, a single man. He has four girls in Fayette County, who are married; one in Indiana. Charles Stafford had five sons-Robinson, Solomon, Waymon, Stephen, and Charles, who were farmers, millers, &c. Five girls, all married; three dead. The following are the names of his daughters: Rachel, Rebecca, Nancy, Jane, and Hannah. Jane and Rebecca are living near Stanton.

REV. JOHN BOYD settled in Wayne Township on his large tract of land of 1,000 acres, in 1843, and moved to Marietta in 1848. He was a man of talent; he belonged to the Covenanter order; he was a son of Dr. John Boyd, and grandson of General Boyd, of the revolution.

DANIEL DAVIS emigrated from Virginia to Fayette in 1818, and settled in Wayne Township. His sons, who came with him, were: G. W., Thomas, Joseph, Robert, and Polly. G. W. Davis, farmer and millwright, carpenter and blacksmith; he occupies the old homestead. Thomas is dead ; Joseph was in the war of the rebellion, and belonged to the cavalry, and died of sickness; Robert's occupation, a shoemaker, in Rockville; never was married; Polly married Daniel Figgins, a farmer. G. W. Davis had five sons-Armanus, James M., Henry C., Scott H., and Milton. They were in the late rebellion, and returned home sound. James was a lieutenant in the 114th O. V. I.

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CAPT. JOHN LOWERY was in the war of 1812; he was an early settler; says he is now 101 years old, and farm; he still walks about, but is rather feeble. still living.

JOHN HOPPER was an early settler; he is dead. His sons are Jacob, John, Hinton, and Henry; the girls are Betty, Nancy, Polly, Margaret, Jane, and Sarah. Jacob, Sarah, and Polly are dead; John is a farmer, and lives in Indiana; Hinton owns the old homestead, and is a farmer and large landholder; Henry lives in Missouri; Margaret married Abraham McCoy, farmer, trader in stock, &c.; balance of the girls live outside of the county; Polly is dead; Sarah died in Fayette County; Nancy, wife of John Hopper, went to Indiana on a visit and died; she was an excellent woman.

The following are the children of Benjamin Davis, omitted by Mrs. Ellen Davis in her record, but given in by Benjamin Davis, Jr.:

John, Hiram, Joel, Zerubable, Ester, Sarah, and Polly. John was a tanner and farmer; Hiram is a farmer, and the father of thirteen children; had five boys in the late war; Joel, farmer; Zerubable is dead; girls all married; Sarah and Polly are dead.

WILLIAM SNYDER was an early settler; he was a farmer and wholesale stock shipper. John Snyder, brother to William, is dead; was a farmer. William Snyder, Jr., lived on the old farm until 1868, and then sold out and moved to Topeka, Kansas.

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

BY S. FISHER AND T. MOON.

This Township is one of the original Townships,-taken from the territory of Ross. It is well watered by the several branches of Paint running through; the surface is generally level and very productive; farmers wealthy and their improvements good and substantial. The following are the names of pioneer and early settlers handed in by Samuel Fisher, Esq., and T. Moon: Robert Irvin, farmer and surveyor; John King, a minister and served in the war of 1812, he was a farmer; John Orr, merchant and farmer; Samuel Edwards, farmer and mill-wright, and was in the war of 1812; Robert Scott, a farmer and served as Justice of the Township two terms; Robert Anderson, farmer, was in the war of 1812; David Garringer, carpenter; James Crothers, farmer; he served as an Associate Judge two terms; he was a man of talent and influence, and ably represented the County in the Legislature two terms; William S. Cockerill, farmer and school teacher, was in the war of 1812; John Priddy, a neat farmer and benevolent man; John Smith, farmer; Barnabas Cochran, farmer; Solomon Tracy, farmer, was in the war of 1812, a brave man; Warner Tracy, a farmer; John Beard, farmer; Mathias Vandeman, farmer; he served as a soldier in the war of 1812, a man well known; Samuel Sollars, farmer; Conrad Goodright, farmer, was in the war of 1812; Samuel Mooney, farmer and was a Judge of the Court; Richard, Jacob and Abner Todhunter, were all farmers and good neighbors; Robert Eyre, a farmer, and served Perry Township twenty-one years as Justice of the Peace, and Fayette County nine years as a Commissioner; he was a man of prominence; his constituents placed confidence in him; James Smith, Sr., was a neat farmer; Isaac Henderson, farmer and trader; William Linnis, farmer and tanner; John Doster, Nathaniel Bonner, Isaac McAdams and Thomas McAdams, were all successful and hardy farmers. Thomas Stout erected the first mill in Perry Township; John

Christy was the first school teacher in the Township. The first Methodist class organized in Fayette County was held in John King's cabin; the class leader was the venerable John King, father of Methodism in Fayette County. William Pierson and his father were farmers; Thomas Ellis, farmer and first cooper, was the founder of the village of Martinsburg. The first school-house in the Township was built on the farm of Robert Scott, Esq., the first church on the farm of Barnabas Cochran; the first store was kept by Thomas Ellis, Jr., in Martinsburg; first house carpenter, David Garringer.

MOUNDS AND RELICS.

Large skeletons have been exhnmed from an acient burial depot on the farm of William Bush; one was found in an upright, erect position. There was, as late as 1811, an Indian camp near a large Sulphur Spring on the farm of Robert Scott, Esq., also a mound on the same farm.

Cedar Bluff is a place of note, wild and romantic, called by the Indians Mollie's Leap. Cedar Pond is a deep water under the cliffs, surrounded by tall and majestic Cedar trees. It was in early days a place of great resort by noted and daring hunters, a celebrated place for game. It was the property of Mathias Vandeman, who was the original owner, but has now fallen into the hands of Anderson Iriom, Esq.

NAMES OF EARLY PIONEER HUNTERS.
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George and Samuel Viniger, James Stewart, John Hase, David Baldwin, John Gest and Hamer H. Harmer.

SECOND SETTLERS.

WILLIAM SMITH, tanner; John Orr, merchant and farmer, also stock dealer; Z. Bryant, farmer and blacksmith; Matthew Anderson, farmer and stock dealer; William Sturgeon, farmer and miller; William King, farmer, justice, school teacher and minister; Elias Brakefield, William Merchant and John C. Capps, all successful farmers; Samuel Hains, farmer, stock dealer, and breeder; Trustin Adams, large farmer and retired merchant; Anderson Irwin, Harrison Britton, Isaac Johnson,