[] Listed as first settler of Hamilton county In, Washington Twp.5/9/1834
May be same as Edmund Parry
Born - 08 Jun 1792
Christened - 15 Jul 1792 Saint Olave, SouthwestLDS Baptism 30 Jan 1974 SGEOR
LDS Endow 19 Feb 1974 SGEORParents - Father - Joseph Parry
Mother - EstherLDS Sealed to Parents - 26 Feb 1974 SGEOR
BIRTH: Richard Edde (okierick@azalea.net) lists Samuel Mellor Sr's Birthplace as Norton, Cheshire, England
DEATH: Place Conflict: Waterford Twp or Watertown, Washington, Ohio
BURIAL: Wolf Creek Chapel Center Cemetery, Waterford Township, Washington, Ohio, USA
HISTORY: From Washington County Ohio History - WILLIAMS (Published 1882) Page: 645
About 1795 Samuel MELLOR, Sr. and his brother-in-law, Matthew CORNER emigrated with their families from England and settled on donation lands along the west bank of Wolf Creek (probably east branch of Wolf Creek in "Bear Creek Allotment") in Watertown Twp. There were five sons and four daughters:
1. Samuel Mellor, Jr.
2. Jesse Mellor b: 14 Sep 1810 Married: Mary Ann KIDWELL
(See: Washington County Marriage Records under: MELLOR/CAMP)CENSUS: Ohio Census, 1790-1890
Name: Samuel Mellor
State: OH
County: Washington County
Township: Waterford Township.S
Year: 1803
Record Type: State or Colonial Census
Database: OH Early Census Index
Source Information: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Ohio Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.s database contains indexes to the Ohio (U.S.A.) portion of the 1790-1870 U.S. Federal Censuses as well as indexes to the 1840 Pensioners List, the 1890 Veteran's Schedule, and other early censuses. Information contained in these indexes can include name, state, county, township, year of record, and name of record set.CENSUS: Ohio Census, 1790-1890
Name: Samuel Mellor
State: OH
County: Washington County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1810
Record Type: Tax list
Page: 116
Database: OH 1810 Washington Co. Census Index
Source Information: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Ohio Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
RESEARCH-LEAD: Mr Jody Dee Jones
2619 Newgate Court
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525-9006
PRF Compact Disc #43 Pin #680618RESEARCH-LEAD: Emily Shrope
907 South 4700 West
Cedar City, Utah 84720
PRF Compact Disc #122 Pin #603261
PRF Compact Disc #126 Pin #4010207IMMIGRATION: In 1795, Samuel, along with his wife, Mary and family, irmmigrated to America.
SOURCE: http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=okierick&id=I0476
The Edde/Conner Family Page
Richard Edde (Rickyflyfishr@aol.com)FAMILY: Mellor, Samuel
Birth : 1749 Neston, Cheshire, England
Gender: Male
Family:
Children:
Miller, Eleanora
Family:
Marriage: 3 AUG 1775 in Chelford, Cheshire County, England
Spouse:
Corner, Mary
Birth : 26 NOV 1755 Chelford, Cheshire, England
Death : 24 MAY 1835 Waterford, Washington, OH
Gender: Female
Parents:
Father: Corner, George
Mother: Dumville, Martha
Children:
Mellor, Edward
Mellor, George
Mellor, Samuel
Mellor, Elizabeth
Mellor, William Birth : 19 SEP 1781 England Gender: Male
Mellor, Matthew Birth : 14 MAY 1783 England Gender: Male
Mellor, Joseph Birth : 3 NOV 1784 England Gender: Male
Mellor, Mary
Mellor, Sarah Birth : 1 APR 1788 England Gender: Female
Mellor, Jane Prudence
Mellor, JohnSOURCE: http://www.familyworkings.com/gedcoms/ferrell/dat1.htm#6
` Mary Josephine Angelina CORNER
BURIED: The Chapel Cemetary at Wolf Creek
BIRTH: Mary is shown as being born about 1771 in Cheshire England on the ordinance work Batch F868611 #4 Film 1396288.
MARRIAGE: She married Samuel Mellor. Most of their descendents became Miller or Millor.
HISTORY: For Additional information, see: http://www.familyworkings.com/gedcoms/ferrell/dat1.htm#6
BURIAL: Center Cemetery
Waterford Township, Washington, Ohio, USA
Marriage Notes for `(I) Samuel Mellor and ` Mary Josephine Angelina CORNER-408562
Marriage also listed as Chelford, Cheshire County, England
BIRTH: About 1781 Of, Almondbury, Yorkshire, England - Father - John Mellor (Source - IGI)
Rachel and Isaac Guthrie settled on a farm adjoining the old John D. Guthery farm near LaRue, Ohio, Bowling Green Township now (1956) owned by William Guthery, their grand nephew. All of their children were born there and they continued to live there until their children were grown. They were married when they were quite young and the family coming early made a lively household. A niece, Elizabeth Guthrie, was with her aunt a great deal during these years and she remarked that they were children with their children - - - fun going on all the time. Isaac was rather short for a Guthrie, with red hair, plump too and jovial. Rachel was tall, straight and slender, a lovely gracious woman.
Their sons and daughters all went away to school after their country schooling and all of them taught school. Minnie was in school in Caledonia when her brother, Upton, was Superintendent there, according to a little Memory Book in possession of her daughter, Rachel Thompson. This was in 1879-80, and inscribed among her schoolmates is the name Warren G. Harding. The next year she went to Ohio Wesleyan Female Seminary. Her twin sister, Libbie, likely followed the same pattern. On the flyleaf of her Caesar's Commentaries is her name: Minnie Guthrie, Monnett Hall, Delaware, Ohio.
Isaac was Justice of the Peace for many years and County Commissioner in 1869. He was a Member of F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 462, LaRue, Ohio.
They lived in Ohio fifty-eight years. They were on a farm in 1877, as a grandniece, Grace Gray Hoch, remembers being there at an all day party which she says was the in-fair for their son Philip's wedding. Likely they moved to Marion soon afterward which subsequent events seem to prove.
Their house in Marion was on West Church Street, just across from their daughter, Ollie, and her husband, Lester Clelland. Living next door to the Clellands was the George B. Christian, Sr. family. The son, George, Jr., was to be President Warren G. Harding's private secretary. The site of these two houses is now occupied by the Eber Baker School, but the Isaac Guthrie house still stands and is not much changed.
In 1892 their son, Upton, defeated Warren G. Harding for County Auditor. The Marion Star later carried an eulogy of Upton as auditor and said he was "ideal" for the position, a form of expression then currently in vogue. But whatever Upton Guthrie did was done with all his integrity.
From Rachel Starrett Thompson comes the information of why and how they went west. She had this from her mother's and grandmother's scrapbooks and notes on family affairs by her uncle, William Guthrie.
"In the fall of 1878 William E. Guthrie, aged 29, made a trip west to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, partly for adventure and partly to investigate the open range cattle business then at its peak." His brother, Silas, was at this time Sheriff of Marion County. "He liked the west so well that he stayed and next year in 1879 his brother joined him and, together with their father, they established a fine cattle ranch on the La Bonte Creek, about one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Cheyenne.
Their brother, Upton, made a trip to Wyoming in 1880. Father I.F. Guthrie came for a visit in 1881. Mother Rachel Guthrie spent the summer of 1882 with her boys on the ranch and gained back her failing health. Then three years later her health began to fail again and plans were made to come west again for the change of climate. The home farm was leased to the youngest son, Philip, and Father and Mother Guthrie and the two younger daughters, Minnie and Libbie, moved in November, 1885, to Clarks, Nebraska, and established a home there. Mother's health improved. Father soon began to buy cattle to ship to Omaha and finally bought a farm and thought less and less about returning to Ohio.
He had never been ill a day until he was attacked by what we now think was acute Appendicitis on 23 December 1887. He was buried Christmas Day, 1887, at Clarks, Nebraska. After her husband's death, Rachel continued to live in Clarks, next door to her daughter, Minnie Starrett, and her family.
Ollie and her husband, Lester Clelland, went to Wyoming in the eighties. They bought the abandoned buildings of old Fort Fetterman and developed a good stock ranch irrigating farm lands about twelve miles from Douglas, Wyoming. Both are buried at Douglas.
Philip took his family west in 1892 and operated a ranch near Kearney, Nebraska, later at Clarks.
Upton did not move west but lived in Marion all his life. He was one of the county's most prominent men, constantly holding public office. Silas and William Guthrie went through and were participants in the dramatic period of the Johnson County War. Silas nearly lost his life and William was among those imprisoned. The story is outside the range of this account and may be read in the historic accounts of that time.
William's notes on their holdings are as follows: "Our cattle company had established feed yards at Clarks for the purpose of feeding such of our steers as did not get fat on the Wyoming range. Our feeding operations developed into quite an extensive business. For several years we fed about one thousand steers each winter. These were shipped to Omaha stock yards and from there to eastern markets and to England. This business required the personal management of either my brother (Silas) or myself and our feeding deal finally developed into a second headquarters for our cattle company." From their nephew, Sam F. Russell, whose father J. B. Russell, husband of Libbie Guthrie, managed the Omaha ranch and was an important factor in the success of the enterprise, comes the following: "My two uncles, Silas and William Guthrie, owned a large ranch in partnership with a Mr. Gibson from Omaha. I was born on this ranch. The post office was La Bonte, Converse County, Wyoming. We received our mail once a week in summer, but in winter blizzards sometimes made passage impossible for weeks. The Guthrie-Gibson ranch was very profitable. Both sheep and cattle were carried, one of the first in the great range country to handle both cattle and sheep in one operation. Thirty thousand breeding ewes and three thousand head of Hereford cows were kept for breeding. There was also a large herd of semi-wild horses. Cattle were on one side of North Platte River, Sheep on the other. Cowboys and sheepherders were kept separate too, but they managed to get together once for a brisk shooting war in which several good hot-headed citizens were killed. The Guthries maintained their interests her for a generation."
Silas was President, William General Manager of the company. William was Director of the Wyoming Livestock Association in 1883. In 1888 he conducted the famous Last Roundup in Nebraska's North Platte Valley. He and his men camped near Scottsbluff. He was elected to the 11th Territorial Legislature in 1890. Amusingly the Cheyenne Sun said Mr. Guthrie is politically a Democrat but not in any respect an offensive partisan. Which seems to imply that he was somewhat of a political phenomenon, it also gives us an inkling of the political leanings of the Cheyenne Sun. He was on the Standing Committee on Statehood and Credentials to Congress; Stockraising and Stock Laws; Internal Improvements and Public Highways; also Engrossment. In 1898 he moved to Omaha. The Annals of Wyoming for July, 1927, carried an article by him on the Open Range Cattle Business in Wyoming. In 1900 he sold his share to his brother, Silas, and Mr. Gibson, and moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where he developed a sugar beet business. In 1914 he moved to Bridgeport, Nebraska, where he was a first citizen, among many activities being director of the irrigation project and for the planting and distribution of the Chinese elms so notable in that city.
Silas sold his interest to Mr. Gibson and moved to Moorcroft, Wyoming, where he ran a large sheep ranch until his death. He was one of the important men of the country round and it has been said that his interests and accomplishments would make a book in themselves. He did not keep a record of his life for us to draw from but he remains in men's minds one of the noble figures in Wyoming history. He was President of the big cattle firms of Guthrie, Hord & Co.; Guthrie & Oskamp from 1882 to 1887, two of the brands were the U shape and also a diamond shape with a straight line drawn from the left point out to the left. Their ranges were La Bont, Wagonhead and La Prele Creeks.
Both Isaac Frazier Guthrie and Rachel Frederick are buried at Clarks, Nebraska.
Rachel and Isaac Guthrie settled on a farm adjoining the old John D. Guthery farm near LaRue, Ohio, Bowling Green Township now (1956) owned by William Guthery, their grand nephew. All of their children were born there and they continued to live there until their children were grown. They were married when they were quite young and the family coming early made a lively household. A niece, Elizabeth Guthrie, was with her aunt a great deal during these years and she remarked that they were children with their children - - - fun going on all the time. Isaac was rather short for a Guthrie, with red hair, plump too and jovial. Rachel was tall, straight and slender, a lovely gracious woman.Their sons and daughters all went away to school after their country schooling and all of them taught school. Minnie was in school in Caledonia when her brother, Upton, was Superintendent there, according to a little Memory Book in possession of her daughter, Rachel Thompson. This was in 1879-80, and inscribed among her schoolmates is the name Warren G. Harding. The next year she went to Ohio Wesleyan Female Seminary. Her twin sister, Libbie, likely followed the same pattern. On the flyleaf of her Caesar's Commentaries is her name: Minnie Guthrie, Monnett Hall, Delaware, Ohio.
Isaac was Justice of the Peace for many years and County Commissioner in 1869. He was a Member of F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 462, LaRue, Ohio.
They lived in Ohio fifty-eight years. They were on a farm in 1877, as a grandniece, Grace Gray Hoch, remembers being there at an all day party which she says was the in-fair for their son Philip's wedding. Likely they moved to Marion soon afterward which subsequent events seem to prove.
Their house in Marion was on West Church Street, just across from their daughter, Ollie, and her husband, Lester Clelland. Living next door to the Clellands was the George B. Christian, Sr. family. The son, George, Jr., was to be President Warren G. Harding's private secretary. The site of these two houses is now occupied by the Eber Baker School, but the Isaac Guthrie house still stands and is not much changed.
In 1892 their son, Upton, defeated Warren G. Harding for County Auditor. The Marion Star later carried an eulogy of Upton as auditor and said he was "ideal" for the position, a form of expression then currently in vogue. But whatever Upton Guthrie did was done with all his integrity.
From Rachel Starrett Thompson comes the information of why and how they went west. She had this from her mother's and grandmother's scrapbooks and notes on family affairs by her uncle, William Guthrie.
"In the fall of 1878 William E. Guthrie, aged 29, made a trip west to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, partly for adventure and partly to investigate the open range cattle business then at its peak." His brother, Silas, was at this time Sheriff of Marion County. "He liked the west so well that he stayed and next year in 1879 his brother joined him and, together with their father, they established a fine cattle ranch on the La Bonte Creek, about one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Cheyenne.
Their brother, Upton, made a trip to Wyoming in 1880. Father I.F. Guthrie came for a visit in 1881. Mother Rachel Guthrie spent the summer of 1882 with her boys on the ranch and gained back her failing health. Then three years later her health began to fail again and plans were made to come west again for the change of climate. The home farm was leased to the youngest son, Philip, and Father and Mother Guthrie and the two younger daughters, Minnie and Libbie, moved in November, 1885, to Clarks, Nebraska, and established a home there. Mother's health improved. Father soon began to buy cattle to ship to Omaha and finally bought a farm and thought less and less about returning to Ohio.
He had never been ill a day until he was attacked by what we now think was acute Appendicitis on 23 December 1887. He was buried Christmas Day, 1887, at Clarks, Nebraska. After her husband's death, Rachel continued to live in Clarks, next door to her daughter, Minnie Starrett, and her family.
Ollie and her husband, Lester Clelland, went to Wyoming in the eighties. They bought the abandoned buildings of old Fort Fetterman and developed a good stock ranch irrigating farm lands about twelve miles from Douglas, Wyoming. Both are buried at Douglas.
Philip took his family west in 1892 and operated a ranch near Kearney, Nebraska, later at Clarks.
Upton did not move west but lived in Marion all his life. He was one of the county's most prominent men, constantly holding public office. Silas and William Guthrie went through and were participants in the dramatic period of the Johnson County War. Silas nearly lost his life and William was among those imprisoned. The story is outside the range of this account and may be read in the historic accounts of that time.
William's notes on their holdings are as follows: "Our cattle company had established feed yards at Clarks for the purpose of feeding such of our steers as did not get fat on the Wyoming range. Our feeding operations developed into quite an extensive business. For several years we fed about one thousand steers each winter. These were shipped to Omaha stock yards and from there to eastern markets and to England. This business required the personal management of either my brother (Silas) or myself and our feeding deal finally developed into a second headquarters for our cattle company." From their nephew, Sam F. Russell, whose father J. B. Russell, husband of Libbie Guthrie, managed the Omaha ranch and was an important factor in the success of the enterprise, comes the following: "My two uncles, Silas and William Guthrie, owned a large ranch in partnership with a Mr. Gibson from Omaha. I was born on this ranch. The post office was La Bonte, Converse County, Wyoming. We received our mail once a week in summer, but in winter blizzards sometimes made passage impossible for weeks. The Guthrie-Gibson ranch was very profitable. Both sheep and cattle were carried, one of the first in the great range country to handle both cattle and sheep in one operation. Thirty thousand breeding ewes and three thousand head of Hereford cows were kept for breeding. There was also a large herd of semi-wild horses. Cattle were on one side of North Platte River, Sheep on the other. Cowboys and sheepherders were kept separate too, but they managed to get together once for a brisk shooting war in which several good hot-headed citizens were killed. The Guthries maintained their interests her for a generation."
Silas was President, William General Manager of the company. William was Director of the Wyoming Livestock Association in 1883. In 1888 he conducted the famous Last Roundup in Nebraska's North Platte Valley. He and his men camped near Scottsbluff. He was elected to the 11th Territorial Legislature in 1890. Amusingly the Cheyenne Sun said Mr. Guthrie is politically a Democrat but not in any respect an offensive partisan. Which seems to imply that he was somewhat of a political phenomenon, it also gives us an inkling of the political leanings of the Cheyenne Sun. He was on the Standing Committee on Statehood and Credentials to Congress; Stockraising and Stock Laws; Internal Improvements and Public Highways; also Engrossment. In 1898 he moved to Omaha. The Annals of Wyoming for July, 1927, carried an article by him on the Open Range Cattle Business in Wyoming. In 1900 he sold his share to his brother, Silas, and Mr. Gibson, and moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where he developed a sugar beet business. In 1914 he moved to Bridgeport, Nebraska, where he was a first citizen, among many activities being director of the irrigation project and for the planting and distribution of the Chinese elms so notable in that city.
Silas sold his interest to Mr. Gibson and moved to Moorcroft, Wyoming, where he ran a large sheep ranch until his death. He was one of the important men of the country round and it has been said that his interests and accomplishments would make a book in themselves. He did not keep a record of his life for us to draw from but he remains in men's minds one of the noble figures in Wyoming history. He was President of the big cattle firms of Guthrie, Hord & Co.; Guthrie & Oskamp from 1882 to 1887, two of the brands were the U shape and also a diamond shape with a straight line drawn from the left point out to the left. Their ranges were La Bont, Wagonhead and La Prele Creeks.
Both Isaac Frazier Guthrie and Rachel Frederick are buried at Clarks, Nebraska.
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