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Note: Daniel3, Timothy2, Timothy1) was born September 10, 1922, on Evans Road, near York Center, OH USA. Before he started school his father moved to Shirk Road, near the intersection of Dog Leg Road, a mile south of Peoria, where the family had lived in 1919. Jim attended most of first grade in Peoria (the building was later the Peoria Grange Hall), but moved in March 1928 to West Mansfield. He attended school there until the seventh grade, when the family moved to the former home of US Vice President Charles Fairbanks, near Unionville.
About 1937 his father took the family to Madison County, where Jim attended Rosedale High School (now a Mennonite Bible College), graduating in 1941, salutatorian of his class.
Jim enlisted with the 235th Combat Engineers, 13th Army Airborne, and served honorably as a demolitions expert in the Philippines during WW II. He was on the ship Marine Tiger headed for Japan, August 15, 1945, when the Potsdam Declaration was accepted by the Japanese.
After the war he returned to Union County. In 1948 he moved to the John Thiergartner farm near Milford Center. He worked for Bob Bishop and Thiergartner, both farmers. After a few months he moved to a home owned by Harley Huffman, and worked for Huffman's nephew Reynold Huffman.
In March 1950 he moved to his father's 122.25-acre farm, located between East Liberty and Raymond on Rapp and Dean Road, in Liberty Township. Bisected by Flat Branch Creek, which had its origins on the farm, Jim purchased it from his father December 4, 1953. He kept hogs, usually Duroc/Hampshire crosses, and about thirty-five sheep, mostly Cordale/Monadale crosses. A dairy herd of twenty-five cows, mostly Holsteins, was also kept. Neighbors were Verle and Flora Poling, Chauncey Rogers, Henry Allen and Myrtle Skidmore, Thurman and Mary Skidmore, Gerald and Ann Skidmore, Mr. and Mrs. Ogle Hunt, Jr., Doan and Lorraine Robb, Elliot Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Poling, and R.J. "Wink" Rittenhouse.
The farm was sold in 1969 to the State of Ohio to be used as part of the 8,000-acre Transportation Research Center. It is now owned by Honda Motor Company of Tokyo, Japan, between the Marysville and East Liberty auto plants.
He retired in 1985 from The Scotts Company after 30 years and was a member of the Scott's 20 Year Club. During the years he farmed he was a member of the Farm Bureau.
A man of faith, he was a part of a family of Christians who gathered together from 1971. Prior to that he was a deacon at Millcreek Church of Christ, Raymond, where his wife was one of the church pianists.
After selling the farm, the family purchased five acres on Brown School Road, four miles north of Marysville. In his free time in his later years, he volunteered for the Memorial Hospital Mobile Meals program and was a member of Toastmasters.
He died Nov. 15, 2016, in Marysville. Burial was with other members of the family at Oakdale Cemetery.
He married June 2, 1948, at Union Chapel Church near Middleburg, OH, Ruth Louise Andrews, a secretary for the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, during WW II. She was born July 18, 1925, in Marion, OH, died April 5, 2010, in Marysville, daughter of Harvey Francis and Grace Odell (Russell) Andrews. A US Army veteran of WW I and a member of the Middleburg School Board, Mr. Andrews died March 24, 1991, at the age of 95, at the time the oldest living WW I veteran in Union County. Six children.
Note: JAMES PAUL9 COE (James Franklin8, William7, Rouce6, Benjamin5, Avery4,
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