JOHNSON Mary Ann

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HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY OHIO A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress Its People and its Principal Interests ay ji ba &Uh&Vn ASSISTED BY ROBERT F BART LETT ILLUSTRATED VOL I THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK 1911

In the township are the villages of South Woodbury and West Liberty. South Woodbury contains one church, three stores, two wagon and blacksmiths shops, two physicians, one school and a resident minister; also an Odd Fellows' hall. The town was laid out in 1830, by Daniel Wood. The first building, a log cabin, was erected by Joseph Horr. The first frame building was erected by Andrew Schofield, as a storeroom. The first hotel was erected by Shadrach Hubbell and Eli Johnson, during the year 1832-33. The first mail carried from Delaware to Woodbury on contract, was by Shadrach Hubbell, and in this the Hon. J. Randolph Hubbell acted in the capacity of post-boy. The first hotel was erected by Shadrach Hubbell and Eli Johnson, in 1832 and 1833. They were succeeded by Solomon Westbrook.

The organization of the township of Lincoln in 1828, was mainly due to the efforts of Collins Buck, Steiner and Shadrack Hubbell, who had come to maturity, married, and settled down in a cabin on the site of Pearson's brick house. The first election was held on the first Monday in April, 1828, at Hubbell's cabin, and resulted in the election of Edmund Buck as Justice of the Peace, and each one of the voters to one or more offices, as there were but seventeen men to fill twenty-four positions.

From The Delaware Gazette - May 27, 1886: In memoriam. Mrs. Rebecca Randolph Hubbell died at the home of her son-in-law Jackson Hipple, Esq., in the 87th year of her age. She was an early pioneer of Delaware Co., having immigrated to this county with her parents Mr. James and his wife Catharine FitzRandolph in the year 1818. The family settled on a farm in Peru Twp now in Morrow Co. The farm is still in the family, and is now owned and occupied by her grandson, Mr. Orville Westbrook. In the 23d year of her age she was married to Shadrack Hubbell, who died of small pox in the winter of 1851, at his home in Morrow Co. He had contracted the disease on a business trip to Chicago. By this marriage she had eight children, Bowen C., James R., Asa C., Hiram, Harriet, Catharine, Susan and Minerva, all of whom preceded her to the grave except James and Hiram, now a resident of Ross Co., and Mrs. Susan Hipple of this city with whom she had lived since the death of her daughter, Mrs. Westbrook in 1868. Her parents were of Quaker descent, but early in life and previous to her marriage she joined the Baptist Church.

A Hubbell family history says he died of smallpox in 1847.
( From section on early settlers of Gilead township) Part No 4 Eli Johnston from Jefferson county(Ohio) and Rufus Dodd from Knox county settled on section 35 about 1824 In 1826 Mrs Campbell from Jefferson county settled on section 35 In 1830 Andrew Dalrymplc and Ezckicl Clark settled on sections 26 and 35

1880 census
Name: Eli Johnson Residence: Emporia, Lyon, Kansas Birthdate: 1800 Birthplace: Ohio, United States Relationship to Head: Father-in-law Spouse's Name: Spouse's Birthplace: Father's Name: Father's Birthplace: United States Mother's Name: Mother's Birthplace: United States Race or Color (Expanded): White Ethnicity (Standardized): American Gender: Male Martial Status: Widowed Age (Expanded): 80 years Occupation: Farmer NARA Film Number: T9-0387 Page: 307 Page Character: C Entry Number: 7310 Film number: 1254387 HouseholdGenderAge Martin Lambert M 55 Child Adaline Lambert F 40 Marshell Lambert M 22 Finley Lambert M 19 John Lambert M 13 George Lambert M 11 Eli Johnson M 80 Jennie Mccastle F 22

1870 census
Name: Eli Johnson Estimated Birth Year: 1802 Gender: Male Age in 1870: 68y Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Missouri, United States HouseholdGenderAge Eli Johnson M 68y Ada Johnson F 61y George Ruble M 28y Ada E Ruble F 22y William E Ruble M 3y Maria Ruble F 4m

1860 census taken June 13th. Eli is 58 and born in Penn. Wife is listed as Hubbell is 51 and was born in New York. Eli is in Knox county ill. Children listed are Hubbell age 16 and adah age 12.

1850 census
Name: Eli Johnston Residence: Knox county, part of, Knox, Illinois Age: 50 years Calculated Birth Year: 1800 Birthplace: Ohio Gender: Male Race (original): Race (expanded): Death Month: Death Year: Film Number: 7686 Digital GS Number: 4193362 Image Number: 00450 Line Number: 9 Dwelling House Number: 1713 Family Number: 1775 Marital Status: Free or Slave: HouseholdGenderAge Eli Johnston M 50y Ady Johnston F 40y Shadrie Johnston M 20y Meriah Johnston F 16y Joseph Johnston M 11y James Johnston M 8y Hubble Johnston M 6y Ady Johnston F 2y Hannah Overlander F 3y

1840 Census Knox County Ill. Eli is listed as head of house hold age 30-40. Children are 2 males under 5, one male 5-10, one female under 5, 2 age 5-10, one 10-15, and one female age 30-40.

Some discrepancy exists on where Eli was born. Several censuses list his birth place as Ohio, where others list his birth place as Penn. Hubbell Johnson lists Eli’s birth place as Penn on Joseph Johnson’s death certificate. The census taker would have asked Eli where he was born. Ohio became a state on March 1, 1803. In 1801 Ohio was known as the Northwest Territory. The Ohio River defined the boundary between Pennsylvania and Ohio. Jefferson county Ohio is right on the northern border of Pennsylvania and Ohio and about 70-80 miles from New York. The Johnson family bible place Eli’s birth place as Pennsylvania.
Early references place Eli in Morrow county Ohio in 1824. Delaware Ohio is about a day’s travel to the west of south Woodbury whereas Pennsylvania is to the east implying that Eli probably lived in south Woodbury and went to the closest church to get married. The logic here is that Ada was young and had other family in the area namely her brother Shadrach. She was probably living here when Eli showed up. Ada was probably born on the trip to Ohio as her father came from Connecticut and her birth place is listed as New York which is between Connecticut and Ohio. Ada’s brother Shadrach was also married in Delaware, Ohio in 1821, Ada probably had to wait to get married as in 1822 she would have been 16 or possibly Eli was not in Ohio yet? In 1832 and 1833 Eli was in south Woodbury Township. 1850 Eli is in Illinois. The 1800 and 1810 Ohio census was destroyed in the war of 1812. Only records for Washington country exist. A systematic search of all existing census records for Ohio and Pennsylvania produce several possibilities for Eli’s father and builds at least an argument that Eli was not born in Ohio.

Time line for Eli Johnson:
1801, Born November 29 probably along the Ohio/Pennsylvania border
1822, Married Ada Hubbell in June, Delaware Ohio
1825-1837, Various children born
1830 Shadrack is born in Ohio (1850 CENSUS)
1832-3, Built the first Hotel in South Woodbury, Ohio
1835, Myra was born in Ohio (1850 CENSUS)
1839, Joseph Johnson born on August 27 in Victoria, Knox county ill.
1840, Census places Eli and Ada in Knox county Ill.
1844, Hubbell Johnson born on April 7 in Versailles, Ill.
1850, Census Places Eli and Ada in Knox county Ill.
1860, Census place Eli and Ada in Knox county Ill
1870, Census places Eli and Ada in Missouri
1880, Census places Eli in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas


Several sources list Eli as dying in pilot grove, Ill Is this possible if he is in Kansas in 1880. Travel back to Ill would have been difficult especially for someone 80+ years old. Trains were invented but the more likely mode of travel would have been horse and wagon. Perhaps Eli is buried in Kansas? Eli’s body could have been shipped back to Ill, but that would have been expensive. The CK&N rail road went from Kansas to Chicago and was active during the decade of 1880-1890. Eli did spend 25 years in Knox County, Ill so perhaps he did have a burial plot there. Pilot grove is along the rail road line from Kansas to Chicago and is about 70miles south west of Knox County. The 1870 census and the 1880 census place Eli with his children in Missouri and Kansas respectively. Did Eli have family in Pilot grove? Joseph James and Hubbell are in Nebraska. Adaline and Shadrach “did their turn” so that leaves the two oldest daughters Myra or Eli jr. or William. Eli and William are the two easiest as we know there last names, however I come up empty. The remaining daughter probably married and took other surnames which are not known? The case for Pilot grove is not impossible but also not supported. Where is Ada buried? Pioneer cemeteries are replete with single family member who died en route to their destinations.

Criteria for possible fathers of Eli are:
1 must have same last name
2 must be of reasonable age born before 1780
3 must have a son born in 1801
4 must be in the right location Ohio or Pa with emphasis on those closest to the border
5 secondary searches do not rule them out

Eli married HUBBELL Adah in Jun 1822 in Delaware Co, OH. Adah (daughter of HUBBELL Ephraim and COLLINS Elizabeth) was born on 25 Aug 1806 in Seneca, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married COLLINS Elizabeth in 1794 in CT. Elizabeth (daughter of COLLINS Benjamin and SARGENT Thankful) was born in 1774 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married SARGENT Thankful on 18 Dec 1768 in Mansfield, CT. Thankful (daughter of SARGENT Jacob and ROOT Mindwell) was born in Sep 1744 in Mansfield, CT; died in Jun 1797 in Mansfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]