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Note: Wells Township was created in 1823 from Warren Township, which was one of the first five original townships formed in Jefferson County. It has 23 full sections and five fractional sections. Pioneers could be found hunting throughout the area. This territory was known to be populated with Indians and was considered Indian Territory, which included Mingo Village (now Mingo Jct.). It was an enchanted land full of sugar maples, elms, cherry, hickory, wild grapes, rye, wild vegetation and various berries. Some of the early pioneers were: Nation, Tarr, Dean, Barrett, Hyndman/Hindman, Matthews, Everson, Hook, Bucy/Bucey, Riddle, Scamehorn, Taylor, Spriggs, Doddridge, Jackson, Dawson, Parsons, Wheeler, Rose, Jacks, Linton, Everson, Roe, and Riley. Cross Creek Township was created June 4, 1806 and was the sixth township formed. It has rich coal veins, and plenty of tributary streams. At one time it had the best farms in the county, wool growing, grain, textile fabrics, cotton factory, and distilleries. It has many hills and valleys. Warren Township was created May 30, 1803 and was reduced in size when Wells Township was taken at the northern end in 1823. That left 25 full sections and 5 fractional sections. The first white child was born west of the Ohio River in this township. Rich in coal and was considered “Indian Territory.” Blockhouses were found throughout the township below the mouth of Rush Run. Wells Township Jefferson County, Ohio Remote area, recently heavily logged, overgrown, pole fence down due to logging and neglect. This cemetery is in deplorable condition. It appears that most tombstones are intact. Some call this pipe fenced cemetery Everson Cemetery but it was called the Mathews Cemetery by Mr. James Bennett Everson. It is located south of County Road 151, down Buckingham Ridge Road on County road 162, about one mile to a deep valley to the west. Then follow the crest of the valley, on foot, 300 steps west, south 365 steps along that you will see the valley on the west side of the ridge, then go south along the backbone of the ridge for 300 steps to arrive to this cemetery. All trees were clear from the enclosure but sassafras bushes knee high cover the enclosure. Mr. Everson reported his grandfather, James Everson was born Aug. 26, 1805 in Utica, N.Y. and came to Wheeling WV in 1824 (Virginia at that time) before going to Iowa. He married in Iowa and two children were born of that marriage, namely Samantha and Elmer. His wife was so surprised to see someone peeking through the window that she dropped dead of fright. After his wife’s death by fright, his grandfather returned to Ohio and married two more times. Second marriage was to a Long and the third to Elizabeth Carey. His grandfather’s son, Elmer’s stone was found in the Mathews Cemetery but Samantha’s was not found, although Mr. Everson said she was buried there. Taken from two sources, Souvenir of Brilliant, Ohio, founded 1819, and The History of Jefferson Co. by Caldwell.} Jefferson County was organized in 1797 but histories of Ohio tell us that Wells Township, a part of Warren Township until 1823, was settled earlier. A blockhouse was built at the mouth of Blockhouse Run, near the present site of the Tidd Plant of the Ohio Power Company, about 1790. And from the early days of the county there was a ferry across the Ohio River to Wellsburg (now West Virginia), then called Charles Town, Virginia. Several roads led to the ferry, the most important coming over the hills of Cadiz. There were early schools in the township but the first records date back to Sept. 15, 1826, when the trustees met at the house of the clerk, Robert A. Sherrard and divided the township into seven districts: No. 1 Point Finley: No. 2 Middle; No. 3 Jefferson; No. 4 Adams; No. 5 Monroe; No. 6 Center; and No. 7 Franklin. On March 3, 1845, District No. 8 was formed from residents of No. 4 and called La Grange. No. 9 Pleasant Hill was formed from parts of Wells and Cross Creek by April 1858. Joint districts No. 10 and 11 was formed on Sept. 17, 1878. It was called Blue’s Run, and was formed from Districts 2 and 3 in Wells and District 2 of Warren Twp. Brilliant then had a neat three room school house and others located in Section 36 of Range 1 and the following sections of the second range: 9 (Tarr), 10 (Salt Run), 11 (Riddle’s), 21 (Merryman), 22 (Runyon), 23 (Cusick), 24 (McIntyre), 29 (Willard), 30 (Cole), 34 (Sixsmith), 35 (Scott), 36 (Rose). Hall/ Benjamin Farm Cemetery Warren Township Jefferson County OH One tombstone was located in the woods, near Hall property, all else gone, local logging project, neighboring his brother who was Reuben Hall, Patriot from the Revolutionary War. (Jeff Co Genealogical Society) Benjamin is listed in genealogies by others as a son of Reuben Sr. and his date of birth fits in where they did not have a child. Evidence from the Jefferson County Genealogy Society says Reuben and Benjamin lived by each other in Warren/Cross Creek Township Jefferson County. Places of birth are difficult to check as PA, NJ, CT, NY, and Massachusetts borders are in close proximity. A map of Warwick Township shows it overlaps into Berks and Lancasteer Counties Buried in Hall Cemetery. Logging and mining have destroyed it. Brothers Benjamin and Reuben lived close to each other in Warren Jefferson Ohio. Reuben ended up living in Steubenville; he is in the 1830 town os Smithfield census along with Thomas Carr father of Samuel Price Carr who married Benjamin's granddaugter by William, Eliza Ann Hall. After Benjamin's death his son William lived in Warren Townhip in 1850. In 1870 Charles Hall was in Wells Township, New Alexandria. He was there also in 1860 born Ohio a farmer with wife Rebecca and children Eliza, William, Martha, Angeline, Oscar, Sarah E. similar names to children of William and his son Henry. Perhaps he was another son of Benjamin's since William must have died sometime after the 1850 census. He and William both may have been in the early censuses in which only Benjamin was listed. 1726 New York Genealogical Records Benjamin Hall about 1756 New York United States. 1790 First census of the US in Massachusetts, Raynham Town, Bristol County, both a Benjamin (2 males 18 and p, 1 under 16 and 3 females) and Reuben Hall (2 males 18 and up; 1 under 16, 6 females). Doubtful ours. 1805 early land Ownership Ohio Meridian, Ohio River Base, Benjamin Hall. 1820 census in Warren Jefferson Ohio on August 7.Males: 4 under 10;1 10-15; 1 26-44; 1 45 and over. Females: 2 uinder 10; 1 26-44. 2 engaged in agriculture. Familiar names on census are James & George Belle; Benjamen Well;, Daniel and Daniel Jr. Bell; Thomas Dean; Samuel Litten; Robert & James Hindman; William Carr; John & Archibald Armstrong; Thomas Purviance; John Hall; finley McGrew; Gideon Lupton; Wm. Sprigg. 1820 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents Benjamin Hall at Land Office Seubenville 79.38 acres; signed document; issued 12 November 1832; no meets and bounds; statutory reference 566; multiple warantee names (o); treaty 24 April 1820 multiple patentee names (no;) sales cash entries; Land Description: 1 WSW Ohio River Survey No. 9 N 7 W 9. 1823 Benjamin Hall civil date 1823 Smithfield Township Jefferson Ohio. 1824 (in unknown Jeff. OH in 1820, 1821, 1822) listed in Warren Jefferson Ohio on tax records for 1824 through 1834, 1836. Perhaps he didn't die until 1836 or under his name with son(s) operating the farming. 1830 census in Warren Jefferson Ohio. Males: 1 5-9; 2 10-14; 1 15-19; 1 40-49; 1 50-59. Females: 1 10-14; 1 15-19; 1 40-49. Familiar names including John, William, Jacob Rine; Rhomas Buce, James Hindman, Wm Spriggs. 1850 census mortality for Benjamin Hall Jefferson County IN age 92 (birth 1758) born RI no occupation, cause of death: old age, male died in January. Perhaps this is another BH. Several items do not match.
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