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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: Re: [OHADAMS] grave yards
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:49:29 -0400


You will note Manchester is no near either Ohio Brush Creek,or Scioto
Brush Creek. The earliest Manchester fort people mostly moved inland.
Wrightsville is closer,but still not drained by Ohio Brush Creek. Isreal
Donaldson
might be one of the few who stayed at Manchester fort-town.
Ellison's,also. ,in part.
Even one of the Ellison's moved on Lick branch of Ohio Brush-RT 41 N West
Union,today.
Big power plant moved some family cemetaries just west of Manchester in
the 1960's.
Ohio River banks eroding took more. Peterson's migrated inland west of
RTS 32-41 INTERSECTION,ON Ohio Brush Creek's . Nathanial
Massie,surveyor,founded Manchester all right,but he had land all over sw
Ohio.He got paid 1\3- 1\2 of the land he surveyed. He moved to
Chilacothe,Ross Co,Oh ,1798,and then to Bainbridge,w Ross Co [US 41 AND
us rt 50, He owned a portion of Marble Iron Furnace,on east fork of Ohio
Brush not far north of Peterson's 1808 land. Massie had a desc,Janet
Smith,who married my own basketball coach,Bill Bick.

On Wed, 15 May 2002 15:17:49 -0600 "Carol Hoskins" <>
writes:
> Are there any really old grave yards around the Manchester area that
> are not in use today?
>
> In Bond Co., IL, I went to an old farming community that had a
> Peterson cemetery which had been abandoned. The Petersons buried
> there started out in Adams Co., OH and we believe their ancestors
> should be buried around the Manchester, Adams Co., OH area.
>
> I'm looking for Nancy Peterson married to William Peterson SR. Last
> document recorded with Nancy's name on it was for land she and
> William Sr sold to their son William Jr. That document was Sept. 8,
> 1808 and then William Sr married his second wife May 7, 1809.
>
> So, I am thinking some time between Sept 1808 and May 1809 Nancy
> Peterson died.
>
> The Peterson land in 1803 was lying on the West Side of Ohio Brush
> Creek containing 231 acres and bounded as follows "to wit beginning
> at three buckeyes & hickory sixty poles above the mouth of a branch
> that empties into the creek & small distance above William
> Petersons house & lower corner to a survey of 400 acres made in the
> name of said Massie".
>
> I see by the Adams Co., map that Wrightsville is between Bush Creek
> and Manchester. Maybe there is an old grave yard there?
>
> We are also missing William Peterson SR after 1811 so he could be
> buried some place around that area too. His 2nd wife Ruth Rubart
> Shahan Peterson ended up in Pike Co., IL with their son Benjamin
> Peterson.
>
> Hoping to find some clues.
>
> Carol Brown Hoskins
> Buffalo, Wyoming
>
>
>
>
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