...from Samuel Long's A PIONEER HISTORY OF WAYNE TP, DARKE
COUNTY, OHIO, Radabaugh & Fahnestock, 1901, pg 31-32.....
(Hugh Davidson was William English's brother-in-law; I (Wally
Garchow) descend from Hugh's daughter Jane)
Hugh Davidson was owner
of the quarter section east of Metzcar, and on the east
side of Swamp creek. He was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian.
Of his family were James, Allen, Robert, Eliza, Rebecca,
Jane, Ellen, Margaret, and Cassie. The family was well known
and all became prominent citizens, and their generation
quite a number. William English was the owner of a quarter
section east of Greer and "Watty" Brandon. He
too was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian and Elder of that congregation,
the preachers of which are educated divines,
who held forth from his residence or the old school house
hard-by. The congregation of its time was not such a small
one. His residence was the finest in the settlement. On
his farm was a very large orchard, and he had the great
cider press of that time, and two half barrel kettles for
making the apple butter. He was owner of the first threshing
machine of the settlement, "chaff-piler" called,
run by his sons, James and Samuel, two of the strongest
young men in the country to lift heavy loads. He was a leading
farmer and quite wealthy for his time. Of his children there
were James, Samuel, William, and Mary Ellen. They all became
prominent citizens, and of their generation a goodly number.
This book is on-line at:
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