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Note N1644 Index

Welcome was a farmer in Ohio and, later, a hotel keeper in Edwardsburg, Cass County, Michigan.

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Note N1646 Index

Simeon was a farmer in Monroe.

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Note N1647 Index

Julia was a younger sister to Hannah Prince Curtis (Noah's father's second wife).
Noah was a farmer, and hotel/tavern keeper.

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Note N1648 Index

Jacob served two enlistments in the Army during the Civil War. The first was a three-year enlistment as a Private in Co. K of the Ohio 52nd Infantry Regiment. He enlisted (at age 44 ) on 1 June 1862. This unit spent the fall and winter of 1862 and the summer of 1863 in various marches and detail work in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Its first major combat engagement was at Chickamauga, Georgia, in September 1863. The 52nd Ohio had a "prominent part" in that battle and was one of the last regiments to leave the field. Other battles in which the unit took part included Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Peach Tree Creek and Louisville (all in Georgia) and Averysboro and Bentonville, North Carolina. During its term of service, the Ohio men earned a reputation for discipline, courage and endurance under fire. The final mustering-out of this unit was on 3 June 1865.
Jacob's second enlistment was with Co. I of the 155th Indiana Infantry, which he joined on 16 March 1865. This unit was organized at Indianapolis. They left Indiana 26 April 1865 and proceeded to Alexandria, Virginia, then to Dover, Delaware. At Dover, the companies of the 155th were detached and sent to Centerville and Wilmington, Delaware, and Salisbury, Maryland. They were brought together again at Dover and mustered out 4 August 1865.
Jacob spent his last years at the Soldiers Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, entering the Home on 9 September 1887. His Death Record gives the cause of death as "senile disability."
Louisa was granted a Widow's Pension on 28 April 1892. She is listed as "Louisa, widow of Jacob Scribner" in the 1890 Census, living in Nankin Township, Wayne County, Michigan (NARA Microcopy M123, Roll 17, E.D. 190, House 623, Family 633).

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Note N1654 Index

John was a farmer in Monroe, Ohio, for several years, after moving there from Vermont.
There is much confusion about his two Ohio marriages because, uniquely, both wives were named Betsey, and both were born in Vermont, apparently on the same day His marriage to Betsey Scribner does not appear to have lasted very long (no more than 3 years). We do not know what sort of relationship they had (if any) following their separation. It also appears that Betsey (now Hutchins) kept that name, did not re-marry, and lived in Ashtabula County until her death in 1884.
During the 1870's, John and Besey (Shattuck) Hutchins left Ohio. In 1880, he and Betsey were living in one of the northern-most towns in the State of Illinois (Oneco, in Stephenson County). Their son, Samuel, and his wife, Amanda, were living and farming there, only a few houses away. But, they must have returned to Ashtabula County sometime after 1880, and lived out the rest of their years in Ohio.

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Note N1661 Index

Wilma was a teacher. She apparently preferred to be known by her middle name, Irene.

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Note N1662 Index

In 1816, Eli and Rhoda and their young family made their way to Ohio. They first went to Buffalo, New York, by way of the Erie Canal. Then, they sailed on Lake Erie to Ohio, where Eli took up farming in Pierpont Township (he had purchased a 90-acre tract from the old Connecticut Land Company).
Eli and Rhoda were active in establishing the Pierpont Free Will Baptist Church. It has been written of them that "they were of kindly nature, and she helped those who were sick and he was always there to bring food or labor for those who were unable to get around at times" (Upton, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE [op.cit.], 1120). Eli and Rhoda had a total of 11 children.

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Note N1668 Index

Eli settled in Wisconsin in 1868. A very interesting article about Eli is printed in COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE UPPER WISCONSIN COUNTIES OF WAUPACA, PORTAGE, WOOD, MARATHON, LINCOLN, ONEIDA, VILAS, LANGLADE AND SHAWANO [op. cit.] pages 827-828. Parts of that article follow:

"Eli P. Scribner is a typical American farmer, one possessed of a physique of which an athlete might be proud. He is a stanch advocate of temperance and good morals; believes thoroughly in education, and is giving his children the benefit of his ideas upon the subject. He is a prosperous agriculturist, and progressive in his methods.
[In January of 1868] he came to Buena Vista township, Portage county, Wis. Here he bought eighty acres of wild land, and for a month lived in an old log cabin until his present home could be erected.
In politics Mr. Scribner is a stanch Republican. Himself and wife are active and prominent members of the M.E. Church at Keene."