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From: "The Farm" <>
Subject: Re: 1856: Earliest Portsmouth, Ohio City Directory
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:31:10 -0400


My mom and dad did that...lived in Portsmouth and married in Greenup while
my grandparents went the other way....lived in Ky and married in Portsmouth.
Mom used to tell me that the Ohio river wasn't as wide or as deep as it was
when she was a child. In the winter, she said you could walk across it when
it froze...and that was most of the winter.
Maybe, instead of a ladder propped up against the house, parents gave the
kids ice skates..... ;o)


-----Original Message-----
From: Randal W Cooper <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, August 22, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: 1856: Earliest Portsmouth, Ohio City Directory


>Dear Subscribers to the Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio Mailing List,
>
>When I visited the public library in Portsmouth, Ohio two years ago, I
>found that the oldest city directory for Portsmouth in their collection
>was 1856.
>
>I had hoped to search for my third-great grandfather William COOPER
>before 1846, which was the year he married Martha Ann BARNEY in Greenup
>County, Kentucky, and also the year he first appeared on the Tax Lists
>of Greenup County. I still have not found his pre-1846 whereabouts, and
>I have formed a suspicion that he did not want to be found!
>
>I have come upon at least one couple who chose to marry in Portsmouth,
>Ohio who were residents of Greenup County, Kentucky, and have heard that
>there were quite a few. Such was the case with my great great
>grandparents Adoniram COOPER and Martha Ann MESSER, who married 18 Jan
>1870 in Portsmouth, but who were lifetime residents of Greenup County.
>
>This MAY have been true of another couple: Richard APPLEGATE and Rebecca
>SPRIGGS, who tied the knot in 1847 in Portsmouth and were enumerated in
>the 1850 Census of Greenup County.
>
>Once again we touch upon the subject of River Hopping, seemingly a
>favorite pastime of nineteenth century Ohio River Valley folks!
>
>Randal W. Cooper
>Lorain, Ohio
>
>
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