Athens County

Athens Presbyterian Church, Athens County, Ohio

Athens County

The First Presbyterian Society of Athens was organized in the autumn of 180y by the Rev. Jacob Lindley. The original members of the organization were but nine in number, viz: Joshua Wyatt and wife, Josiah Coe, Arthur Coates, Dr. Eliphaz Perkins, Alvan Bingham, Mrs. Sally Foster and the Rev. Jacob Lindley and wife. Public service was held for a time in the little brick school house which stood just east of the present site of the Presbyterian church, and afterward in the court house until the year 1828, when the present brick church was built. In 1815, the church numbered […]

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Athens County, Ohio History

Athens County

Athens County, Ohio History The county of Athens was established by the following act: “An act establishing the County of Athens. SECTION I. Be it enacted, etc., That so much of the county of Washington as is contained in the following boundaries, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate county, which shall be known by the name of Athens, viz : beginning at the southwest corner of township number ten, range seventeen; thence easterly with the line between Gallia and Washington counties, to the Ohio river; thence up said river to the mouth of Big Hockhocking river;

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Dunmore’s War

Athens County

Dunmore’s War Probably but few of the present inhabitants of Athens county are aware that a fort was established within its limits, and an army marched across its borders, led by an English earl, before the Revolutionary war. The building of Fort Gower at the mouth of the Hockhocking river, in what is now Troy township, and the march of Lord Dunmore’s army across the county, thirty years before its erection as a county, forms an interesting passage in our remote history before the earliest settlement by the whites. “Dunmore’s war” was the designation applied to a series of bloody

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Dover, Athens County, Ohio Genealogy

Athens County

Dover, Athens County, Ohio Genealogy Daniel Weethee was born in New Hampshire in 1779. He was a cooper by trade, and saved money enough, during his youth, to buy a tract of land in what is now Dover township. At the age of nineteen he set out for the northwestern territory, made the tedious journey on foot and alone, and reached Marietta about the middle of December, 1798. The next spring he and another young man, Josiah True, came out to Dover, traveling through the woods by the aid of a compass. Arrived here they built a log cabin for

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Dover, Athens County, Ohio History

Athens County

The township of Dover originally formed a part of Ames, and as such was settled as early as 1799. It was not, however, separately organized as a township till 1811. On the 4th of April, 1811, the county commissioners ordered: “That so much of the township of Ames as lies west of the thirteenth range, be erected into a separate township by the name of Dover. 1 Ordered, further, That the clerk of the board notify the inhabitants of the township of Dover to meet at the house of Othniel Tuttle in said township, on Saturday, the 20th of April,

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Athens County, Ohio Census Records

Athens County

Free Athens County, Ohio Census Records Census Records at Access Genealogy Ohio Tax Lists Athens County, Ohio 1810 Tax List 1820 Census Index Alexander, Ohio 1820 Census Index Ames Ohio 1820 Census Index Athens Ohio 1820 Census Index Canaan Ohio 1820 Census Index Carthage Ohio 1820 Census Index Dover Ohio 1820 Census Index Elk Ohio 1820 Census Index Homer Ohio 1820 Census Index Lee Ohio 1820 Census Index Rome Ohio 1820 Census Index Troy Ohio 1820 Census Index York Ohio 1820 Census Index Census records at RootsWeb’s USGenWeb Archives List of Adult Males 1800 and 1803 – Residents of the

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Athens County, Ohio Cemeteries

Athens County

For considerably more than half a century after Athens Township was settled, the dead were buried in the old grave yard northwest of town, which was set apart for that use by the trustees of the university in 1806. The place never was ornamented to any extent, and for many years past only a few forest trees have given it their grateful shade. Here, a little apart from their surviving friends, rest the fathers of the village. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock’s shrill clarion or the echoing horn No more

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Carthage, Athens County, Ohio Genealogy

Athens County

The first white settler within the limits of what is now Carthage township was Asahel Cooley, Sen. He came from near Springfield, Massachusetts, to Belpre in 1797, moved to what is now Athens county in 1799, traversing a dense wilderness between the Muskingum and the Hockhocking, and settled within the present limits of Carthage. With the aid of his grown up sons he had soon cleared a piece of land and prepared a home which was known long afterward for its good cheer and genuine hospitality. Esquire Cooley was a man of well-informed mind, active business habits and gentlemanly manners.

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Carthage, Athens County, Ohio History

Athens County

This township, originally a part of Troy, was separately organized in 1818. The following appears in the records of the county commissioners 11 November 10th, 1819-Resolved, that all that part of the township of Troy included in township No. 5, in the 12th range and the east half of township No. 4, in the 13th range, be a – separate township by the name of Carthage.” And at the same session the inhabitants were directed to meet on a specified day and elect township officers. The first justice of the peace in Carthage was Milton Buckingham. Joseph Guthrie and Francis

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Canaan, Athens County, Ohio Genealogy and History

Athens County

It is difficult to separate the first settlement of Canaan township from that of Athens, of which Canaan was originally a part. It will have been noticed that the pioneer settlements clung pretty closely to the water courses. In the absence of roads or any other means of communication, the navigable streams always decide the movements of emigration. The Hockhocking was, from all accounts, a considerably deeper stream and carried much more water seventy-five years ago than now, and was easily navigable for heavily laden barges. It thus became valuable as a means of communication and supplies, and the regions

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