Anita Louise 7(Bowers) Short 1938-2009 (Otho Dale6 Bowers, Susanna5 (Shields) Bowers, Isaac M.4, Isaac3, Patrick2, Daniel1 Shields) Anita, along with her mother, Zelma Ruth (Hoover) Bowers (1908-1997), were our early SHIELDS family researchers. |
DELISLE, DARKE COUNTY, OHIO
Deed Book D-1 Pages 19-20 Darke County, Ohio (Transcript) The Town of Delisle is laid out in the North East part of NW quarter of Section 32 Township No 9 Range No 3 East of 1st Meridian. The Streets of said town run East and West except Rail Road Street which runs North 32 degrees 15 W and S 32 degrees 15 E. The lots are number consecutively from 1 to 14 and are three perch in front and ten perch deep except fraction lots No. 1 and 14 the length of the bounds of which are designated on the plat, the width of the Streets are also shown on the plat. A Stone is set at the NW corner of lot No one 30 feet S of North line of said Section and 25 Chs East of Greenville and Dayton Rail Road track. |
To all whom these presents may come. Know ye that I Thomas Brown have laid out and established the town of Delisle in the county of Darke and State of Ohio conformably to the within plat and notes thereof signed by the Surveyor of said county. |
Before me a Justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Thomas Brown above named and acknowledged the signing and sealing the above instrument for the uses and purposes therein expressed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of March A.D. 1853 |
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scale 1 ch. Per inch
Magnetic variation 4 degrees 11 E
DELISLE
Located primarily in Section 32 of Van Buren township, a small portion was later located across the road in Section 29. The hamlet was located on what was then called the Jefferson Road and what we now (2008) know as the Delisle-Fourman Road at its intersection with Drew Road. The school was located about a half mile west of the village in the northeast corner of the Delisle-Fourman and Myers-Tilman Roads.
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Residents in 1860John Cox farmer renterCatharine Fairchild widow lot owner Jesse Leas merchant lot owner1 Henry Shafer blacksmith lot owner John Shafer blacksmith lot owner John Drew farmer renter Wilson Reed cooper lot owner James Brown day laborer lot owner John Grise brick mason lot owner Andrew Hildenbrad wagon maker lot owner S. W. Allread farmer lot owner 1 Mr. Leas was running a grocery in Sampson in 1850. |
Residents in 1870Joseph Eichelberger saw mill fireman lot ownerStephen Allread farmer lot owner Wilson Reed grocer lot owner Franklin Shields teamster renter1 Patrick Shields retired grocer lot owner2 Carmen Lambertson wagon maker renter Alfred Floid (Floyd) teamster lot owner Nelson J. Lambertson wagon maker lot owner John Shower teamster lot owner William C. McCool dry goods & general merchandise lot owner William H. McCool dry goods & merchandise clerk boarder John W. McCool dry goods and general merchant lot owner Abram Williams farmer lot owner Francis Meadows country blacksmith - renter 1Benjamin Franklin Shields (1847-1944), s/o Patrick Shields (Daniel) & (2) Selina Freeman 2Patrick Shields (1784-1877), s/o Daniel Shields & Mary [--?--] |
There is now living at Delisle a man who has had a rather eventful life. Pat Shields was born in the north of Ireland, September 15, 1784, and is consequently now in his 92d year. He came to America in 1791, and after living for three years in Pennsylvania, he removed to Cincinnati, where he landed Oct. 15, 1794. He lived for a time with General Harrison, and attended school at his expense. He went as a substitute in the army of Hull, and was present at the disgraceful surrender of that General. He was afterwards an express-rider for Gen. Harrison, and in 1814 rode from Fort Meigs to Cincinnati in two days. He passed through Cleveland in 1814, when there were but three log cabins there. He had been married twice, and has had twenty-two children, twelve of whom are yet living. His first marriage license was issued June 16, 1806, during a total eclipse of the sun, so that the candles had to be lit. He has been in twenty-three States and Territories, and in his time was considered the best auctioneer and one of the keenest lawyers in the western country. He is now supported by a pension, and although his frame is bent with the weight of years, his mind is still vigorous and his memory unimpaired. |
Residents in 1880George Allread farmerOlliver Roe laborer Wilson Reed merchant Nelson Lambertson wagon maker William Meadows blacksmith Jacob Garbig farmer1 William Meadows blacksmith Julia Vanlieu servant Stephen Allread merchant Marion Swope carpenter John Curtner laborer John Walters laborer Jacob Sherer farmer William McCool retired farmer Abram Williams farmer Foster Williams laborer 1Jacob Garbig (1850-1923) m. Mary Alice Shields (Patrick S., Isaac, Patrick, Daniel Shields) |
Van Buren Township S. W. Allread, Merchant and farmer, Delisle P.O. .he is now the owner of 87 acres of good land in Delisle, where he now lives; he is associated in the mercantile trade in Delisle with W. Reed, and is also carrying on an extensive trade in buying and shipping grain. |
Van Buren Township William Drew, P.O. Delisle. ..married Mary Bitner March 9, 1837; they first settled at Delisle, on the place nown owned by S.W. Allread, where they remained two years; then moved to a farm in the neighborhood for a short time, then back again, and engaged in merchandising about six months; then sold out and moved to present place of residence where they have since resided and followed farming, except two years in which he was in mercantile trade in Delisle. |
Delisle Located Van Buren township, 7 miles southeast of Greenville on D&U Ry. Alread & Ganvey, saw mill J.W. Davis, post master, dry goods and groceries Daniel Deifenbaugh, blacksmith Frank Meadows, blacksmith Wilts Reed, general store |
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Arcanum News Mar. 12, 1900 Another tragic affair took place at Delisle Friday evening. Frank Sheets and Mr. Ryan got in a quarrel and Mr. Brown, the grocer, told them he would not allow such conduct in his house so they went out to continue the contest and it is said that as Mr. Sheets approached Mr. Ryan the latter struck him with a stone inflicting as is supposed, a mortal wound; his skull was so smashed that a portion was taken out when the doctors dressed his wound and the brain was badly bruised. He was still living yesterday. Some claim it to be a case of self defense, but it is a case that a just court will determine. |
Revised: 13 June 2010