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Note: ....as one generation goes Man that is born from a woman lives But a few days. He comes forth like a flower That soon wilts down. He flees like a shadow and stays not. But there is hope in a tree if it Is cut down that it will sprout again, and the Tender branch will not Cease but survive..... as one generation goes Another one comes..... unknown
Ohio Census Bureau: 1850
Listed In David's family -
David, Nancy, Margaret Stunbaugh and (John age, 5yrs.)
Lived on Borum Rd. in Clinton County near the Fayette County, Ohio line....
Grace Eakins Yarger
Born 1826 near Elmville, Ohio in the southeastern section of Highland County, Ohio, the 7th child, David gew up on a small farm with 5 brothers and 3 sisters.
Three of his brothers moved out of state; Benjamin to Illinois, Joseph Jr. & John to Indiana. After getting married to Nancy Puckett in North Uniontown, Ohio in 1849, he followed his oldest brother, Benjamin, to Ross County, Ohio. With 2 daughters, Mary & Sarah, and 1 son, Allen, they settled there and gave birth to another child, William T. (1854) who later died at an early age in Fayette County, Ohio.
Benjamin and Hannah had four children, all born in Hillsboro, Ohio. After their son Joseph died in Ohio in 1850 they moved to southern Illinois near Vandalia, living there for about a year before moving back to Ohio. Two years later they returned to Illinois by wagon, stopping off at Stark county, Illinois for a year before moving to Cornwall twp for the Winter and Spring of 1853. Finally, they settled 2 miles south of Atkinson in Henry county, Illinois. Their home was located just north of the Grand View Cemetery where they are both buried. Hannah lived with her son Hugh, after Benjamin died in 1877.
With Benjamin now gone to Illinois and deciding not to move back to Highland County, David & Nancy loaded up the wagon with their meager belongings and with the four children in tow migrated north in the late Spring of 1855, settling in Fayette County, Ohio near Milledgeville and later living on Borum Rd. in Clinton county which is roughly half-way between Sabina and Milledgeville, Oh. The rich fertile soil proved to be good farm land and the family remained here permanently, enjoying the busy, typical life of a pioneer family, giving birth to 4 more children before the Civil War. They would visit the mercantile store in Milledgeville for supplies and on other occassions go to Sabina for supplies, depending on the needs. Seven children, all under the age of 10 and a threat of war looming on the horizon it was unlikely David would serve in the War, yet, this is what he later did.
Word had reached David in 1863 that soldiers had raided his father's homestead in Highland County, burning several out buildings and causing considerable damage to all the property. *(1)Of course these hostilities would not go unchecked and after visiting his father, Joseph, helping to repair the damage, he joined the Army. David served in the civil war only for a brief time in 1864. Stationed at Lytle Barracks at Camp Denison in Cincinnati, Ohio he had contracted the measles and after his wife, Nancy arrived to visit him in late August of 1864 he was discharged from the service because of failing health.
Company C 168th Ohio Voluntee Infantry PVT. Case# 9956.
Post War Era...........................................................
Except for David's poor eyesight as a result of his bout with the measles, life had returned to normal again. A common term used in these times for an unwed woman was 'Spinster'. Her job was to help spin cotton in order to make clothing and bed clothes for the rest of the family. This, undoubtly, was true for Mary (Polly), who at the tender age of 15 in 1865 had the chore of helping mother spin cotton for 7 children with one on the way (Joseph S. 1866). The routine of everyday farm life continued until tradgedy struck in February of 1871 when Charles died at birth and again in May of 1872 when a combination of pneumonia brought about from typhoid took the life of William T. He was 18 at the time. Rebecca had arrived in 1868 (Fayette County) and finally John Lewis Yarger, (Fayette County), who was born in 1873.
The earliest known photograph of this family is estimated to be around 1885.
It's a family portrait and the next photograph is estimated to have been taken about 1900.
............The state of Ohio was strongly antislavery from its inception, and its cities became famous stops on the Underground Railroad for escaping slaves. During the American Civil War (1861-1865) Ohio furnished large contributions of money and troops to the Union forces. Although no major battles were fought in the state, in 1863 Morgan's Raid, a series of attacks by Confederate troops under General John H. Morgan, caused severe damage in southern Ohio.
(1) "Ohio," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 96 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. (c) Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. All rights reserved.
Melvin Parker remembers conversations involving details about raids by soldiers on land owned by settlers in the area of Dunkard Ridge.
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