(4946.) IRA T. HIATT (2831.) (1128.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 18-3mo-1895; a Dunkard Minister of near Fortville, Indiana; m. LULU RICHIE; has three sons. (R121).
+ 60 viii. James Martin Jessup (1176) James (1176) was born 9 Aug 1849 in Stokes County, NC. He married Mary Jane Jessup (1838) 31 Mar 1872 in Surry Co., N.C.
+ 97 ii. Mary Jane Jessup (1838) Mary (1838) was born 23 Oct 1850. She married James Martin Jessup (1176) 31 Mar 1872 in Surry Co., N.C.
He was of Manchester, Ohio at time of marriage.
Moved to Ohio with his father's family before 1797.
He was of Manchester, Ohio at time of marriage.Moved to Ohio with his father's family before 1797.
There may have been two other children of this marriage, John and a daughter, who died in infancy.
There may have been two other children of this marriage, John and a daughter, who died in infancy.
Lydia Guthrie Peters granted the following interview which was published in the Pike County Republican Newspaper of Waverly, Ohio 4 April 1872:
OLD FOLKS OF PIKE COUNTY INTERVIEWED.
NUMBER XXII
There was, in the early settlement of the Valley of the Scioto river, one name preeminent above the others, in the territory now composing Pike county. The head of the family was John Guthery, a name, we presume, spelled in other localities and in the old country, G-U-T-H-R-I-E. We suppose it to be of Scotch origin, for John Guthery's progenitors came to this country from Ireland. From this fact, one might suppose that he was of Irish descent, but this does not follow. In Oliver Cromwell's time (Lord Protectorate 1653-1658), he went over into Ireland from England, and subdued the northern part of Ireland, especially Londonderry and vicinity, and induced emigrants from England and Scotland of the Protestant faith to go in and possess the land. Hence, there are many purely English and Scotch persons to be found in Northern Ireland, who do not prefess to have any Irish blood circulating in their veins. Those who were descended from the English claim to be English still, and those who recognize their descent as from Scotch ancestry, call themselves Scotch-Irish. Some of the best men and women who settled in the American colonies were Scotch-Irish. Such settled Londonderry, Derry and Derryfield (now Manchester), in Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, also in and about Ryegate, in Vermont, and certain localities in New York State and Pennsylvania. This leads us to believe that John Guthery was of the old, stern Pennsylvania stock, and was Scotch-Irish, though his progenitors emigrated from Ireland. Although the name of Guthery was numerous and influential when Pike county was organized in 1815, we believe that not one lives, today, who bears that honored name. Yet, there linger two of John Guthery's daughters among us, and it is these persons whom we propose to interview in this issue, under the name of the youngest of the family, viz:
LYDIA PETERS
My maiden name was Guthery. I was born in Pennsylvania, October 17, 1794, and am the youngest of a family of twelve children - eight sons and four daughters. Their names were William, Archibald, John, Francis, George, Elizabeth, Priscilla, Aaron, Rebecca, Moses, Joseph and Lydia,(myself).
Except Francis, all the family came to Ohio in 1797 or 1798, and settled just below where John M. Barnes now resides, in Seal township. The homestead farm now constitutes a part of the celebrated Vanmeter and a part of the Barnes farms. There my father sat himself down in the dense wilderness with a wife and eleven children, who had been used to life in civilized and refined society, and all the enjoyments such society affords. It may seem very strange to the reader that my father should have sold out a large and well cultivated farm, together with a large chattel property, turn his back upon his associates and endearments of more than fifty years, to take up an abode in an unbroken wilderness, for there was then but one house within miles of him, on the east side of the Scioto river, and that was the residence of a Hopkins family, which stood near the Scioto river in a due west course from the residence of the late Dr. Phelps, of Piketon, now owned and occupied by David O. Bailey. His plea was then, as now by the same class of men, want of more acres to provide his sons with plenty of land. When my father sold his farm and personal property in Pennsylvania, he received the cash therefor, which enabled him to purchase a large tract of land, including the present site of Piketon, extending a mile or more below on the south, and east towards Beaver a great distance. We started from near Greensburgh, in Green county (now Greensboro, Greene County), came down the Monongahela river to Pittsburgh, thence down the Ohio river to where Portsmouth now is, though then not a tree of the primeval forest was cut, ascended the Scioto river with his goods in a keel-boat, while some of the family rode on horseback over a blazed track, and others came on foot. We passed but one house the whole distance this side of Portsmouth, and that was on the river bank, near where Lucasville stands. We camped there overnight, and resumed our journey the next morning. When we reached the spot where our future home was to be, father had, per force, to commence felling the forest trees to give even room for the erection of a log cabin, to shelter him and his from the storms and rains of heaven, which he immediately proceeded to do. Of course, he had to depend in great part, upon the wild game, which was then everywhere abundant in Ohio, for the subsistence of those who were dependent on him. Not to have been a good hunter in those days, was as unusual among the settlers as for ducks to refuse to take to water. In the course of years, a large farm was cleared, and his sons and daughters were married and settled around him. Population increased and crowded upon him and he was induced to part with a portion of his real estate to immigrants. But the greater part he apportioned to his seven sons. To his daughters he made largesses in money and other property. So he provided for all his children equitably. In the course of time, his sons disposed of their real estate, as many sons have done before them and since, where their patrimony was not entailed by the laws of primogeniture.
My father is remembered as Col. Guthery. He was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution, and rose to the position of Colonel. When he came west, that title, honorably won, accompanied him, and he is remembered to this day by that distinction. He was a leading man, and often honored by his fellow citizens with responsible trusts. I am unable to furnish any very explicit history of my father, but his family bible, now in my possession, informs us that he was born April 14, 1744, and that he married Lydia Baldwin, March 13, 1771, and died June 1, 1823. I remember that it was traditional in our family, that my father's family came from Ireland. Baldwin is an English Name, and while I do not know much of the family away back in the generations that are passed, I am able to give the time of birth and marriage of her whose Christian name I bear. She was born in Virginia, February 12, 1755, and married my father when she was but little less than 17 years of age. She was eleven years younger than my father, and preceded him to the grave by nearly seven years, in her 61st year, namely, July 14, 1816.
1.My brother WILLIAM GUTHERY was born January 4, 1772. He married Catharine Theobald. They had six children. He moved to, and died in, Illinois.
2.ARCHIBALD GUTHERY, born January 20, 1774, married Nancy Phillips. They had two children. He moved to, and died in Indiana.
3.JOHN GUTHERY, born October 25, 1776, married Ellen Howard, from whose family Howard run takes its name. They had three daughters - Cynthia, Drucilla, and Eliza. 1. Cynthia married Jacob Grimes and removed to Illinois, where she now resides. They had seven children. 2. Drucilla married Captain Elisha P. Peters, January 18, 1820, by whom she had 13 children, viz: Jackson Monroe, Harriet, Clinton, John, Milton C., Franklin H., James, Eliza, Drucilla M., Sarah J, Elisha B., William, and Charles A. Elisha P. Peters died March 24, 1851, since which time Drucilla has lived a widow. She resides in Scioto township, near by me, on the homestead hewed out of the forest by her husband. But of her children: 1. Jackson Monroe, born August 19, 1821, died three weeks thereafter. 2. Harriet, born November 27, 1822, married Abraham F. Millar, March 3, 1840, by whom she had four children, viz: George Bliss, born in February, 1842, who married Miss Carre, of Portsmouth; (they have two children, one of each sex); Charles, William and Elizabeth Reynolds, the dates of whose births and deaths I am unable to give; and Franklin F. Abraham F. Millar died in 1868. His wife still lives on the homestead. 3.Clinton, born August 24, 1825, married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Slavens. They had five daughters and two sons. The sons died in infancy. The daughters are all living; two are married and live in the west. Clinton was killed in battle in May, 1863, at Resaca, Georgia. 4. John, born November 21, 1827, married Sarah, daughter of Stewart Slavens, of Scioto county. They have five children - two sons and three daughters - Clinton, Stewart, Ellen, Sarah Jane and Clarissa Viola. They reside in Wayne county, Iowa. 5. Milton C. was born May 5, 1830. He married Ruth Slavens, sister to Sarah, John's wife. They have had 8 children - viz: Elisha Franklin, Margaret Alice, Carrie Ida, Sarah Jane, William Rosencranz, Luella, John, and Nellie C. G.. The first Elisha F., was born September 18, 1852: killed by being gored by a cow, on the 22d of June, 1858, aged about six years. Margaret A., born December 3, 1854. Carrie I., born January 27, 1858. Sarah J., born December 6, 1860. William Rosencranz, born April 21, 1863, Luella, born August 11, 1865. John, born April 9, 1867; died June 2, 1870. Nellie C. G., born January 4, 1871. 6. Franklin Howard, born January 11, 1833. He died in his 18th year, Christmas day, 1849. 7. James W., born February 15, 1835; died of scarlet fever, when about seven years of age, April 3, 1842. 8. Eliza Ellen, born February 21, 1837, married Milton Johnson. They reside in Scioto county, near Portsmouth. 9. Drucilla Maria, born May 10, 1839. She married Edward McFadden, February 25, 1858. They reside with her mother, on the homestead. 10. Sarah Jane, born September 16, 1846, married John S. Taylor. They reside in Iowa. Have five children - Fanny Bailey, John Milton, Mary and Drucilla. 11. Elisha B., born February 15, 1844, died June 17, 1865. 12.William Harrison, born August 20, 1846; married Hattie, daughter of John Feurt, more than four years ago. They reside in Portsmouth, and have two children - Lillie Gertrude and Birdella. 13. Charles A., born April 15, 1850. He makes his home with his mother, and teaches school. Elisha P. Peters lived on the farm he cleared about 30 years, and his widow resides there still. Eliza married Cornelius Wilbank Bailey, February 3, 1831. Mr. Bailey was born in Sussex county, Delaware, July 14, 1807. His father's family came out to Ohio in 1812, and settled near Piketon. He has resided in Scioto and Pike counties ever since. They at present reside in Piketon, and are living retired, and comfortably, on the avails of a fortune earned by foresight and honest industry. They have had seven children, viz: John Ore, Mary Jane, Sarah Ann, Cynthia Ellen, Drucilla, Elizabeth, and Louisa C. John O. Bailey was born January 2, 1832. He married Minerva Jones, August, 1856. They had five children - Fanny, James, Fallis, Ann Eliza, Cornelius Willbank and John. James F. and Ann are living; the others died when quite young. Mary Jane Bailey, born January 4, 1834, married Benjamin H. Johnson, November 2, 1854. They have two children - Cornelius William, born December 2, 1855, and Sarah Eliza, born July 4, 1861. Sarah Ann Bailey, born February 4, 1836, died in April, 1842. Cynthia Ellen Bailey, born December 6, 1838, married Wilder N. Middleton, August 28, 1861. They have two children - William Howard, born July 19, 1864, and Bailey, born October 23, 1871. Drucilla Bailey, born November 8, 1800. Elizabeth C. Bailey, born April 25, 1842, died September 12, 1843. Louisa C. Bailey, born June 15, 1847, married Presley T. Talbett, March 2, 1864. They have three sons - Charles C., born December 17, 1864, Delbert W., born January 2, 1866 and Cornelius Bailey, born November 29, 1869.
4.FRANCIS GUTHERY, born January 1, 1778, died in infancy.
5.GEORGE GUTHERY, born March 26, 1779, married Sarah Howard, cousin to Ellen Howard who married my brother John. They had four children, Samuel, Baldwin, John and Priscilla. George moved to Illinois and died there. I know nothing of his family since they went west. They are nearly all dead.
6.ELIZABETH GUTHERY, born January 26, 1781, married Johnathan Clark. They had five children - Minerva, Joseph, Aaron, Lovie and Charlotte. The last I knew of 1. Minerva Clark, she was in Oregon, and wife of Robert Grimes. 2. Joseph Clark is dead. He did not marry. Died of consumption in Iowa. 3. Aaron Clark married Eliza Orms. They lived in Scioto County and have four children living, viz: John, Lovie, Minerva and Aaron. 4. Lovie Clark married a man by the name of Reed, who died several years ago. 5. Charlotte married, first, John Ord. Had two children - daughters. They lived near Portsmouth, and he died there; she next married a man by the name of Rockafellow, and they moved to, and the last I knew of them they lived in Iowa.
7.PRISCILLA GUTHERY, born January 1, 1783, married William Collings, of Manchester, Ohio, January 1, 1807. Mr. Collings was born in Maryland, December 11, 1780. He came out to Ohio, with his father's family, at an earlier day than my father Guthery did. The way sister Priscilla became acquainted with William Collings...
8.AARON GUTHERY, born 31 December 1784, married Nancy Howard and had three children William, Alfred and Hannah. 1. William married Elizabeth___________ and they had five children. They reside in Missouri.(a report has lately come to their friends in Pike County, that William Guthery has lately deceased.) 2. Alfred married Julia Brown, of Scioto County, where he died. He left three children - Aaron, William, and a daughter. His widow and two of his children reside in Illinois. 3. Hannah resides in Kansas. My brother Aaron was for some years a Justice of the Peace.
9.REBECCA GUTHERY, born January 21, 1786. She married James Daniels. They had only two children - Hiram and Eliza. Rebecca Daniels died in Piketon June 16, 1817. Mr. Daniels afterwards married a Miss Cockerill, in Scioto County, who shortly afterwards died, and he married a third time, Lydia Wood, of Piketon. He removed to Gallipolis, and died there childless, so far as his second and third wives are concerned. 1. Hiram Daniels married, but I cannot say who. He resides in Pomeroy and is extensively engaged in merchandizing and furnace business. 2. Eliza Daniels married a Mr. Coover of Gallipolis, and moved to McArthur, Vinton County. He died childless, and Eliza again married a Mr. Steward. I have no knowledge of her having had any children.
10.MOSES GUTHERY, born February 12, 1787, married Hannah Hastings. They had three children - Jane, Silas and Eliza. 1. Jane married William Daily of whom a more particular account was given in the Republican of March 14, 1872. 2. Silas married Nancy March, of Scioto County. They had children, but one only, William, survives. Silas is in Northern Missouri, and his son William lives near him. 3. Eliza married Jonathan Ward formerly of Tennessee. They had three children - Silas, Eliza Jane and Jonathan. Silas Ward married in Scioto County, moved to Northern Ohio, where his wife died, and he returned to Scioto County. Eliza Jane married, and died. Jonathan I know nothing of, unless he lives, with, or near, his mother. Jonathan Ward, senior, is dead and his widow (Eliza Guthery) married a man by the name of Sutton. My brother Moses lived and died in Pike County, and is still remembered as Esquire Guthery, for he was some years Justice of the Peace. He died about the year 1826, as near as I can recollect.
11.JOSEPH GUTHERY, born March 20, 1790, married Hannah Devers. They had three sons - William, John and Isaac. 1. William married, and died, leaving a family of children. 2. John and 3. Isaac have families and are wealthy men. William died well off in this world's goods. Brother Joseph moved to Marion County, Ohio where he died, leaving his sons there, where they now reside. He was Justice of the Peace many years.COLONEL JOHN GUTHERY IN OHIO
Lydia (Guthery) Peters, youngest daughter of Colonel John and Lydia (Baldwin) Guthery, has left an
interesting account of the migration of the family to Ohio. In her Memoirs she says that her father left
Greene County after living there fifty years. He bought a great tract of land extending a mile South and
East to Beaver Creek. He left for what was then a wilderness just so his children could have good farms or money and a good start in life. His wife became very homesick for her old home on the Monongahela and the friends she had left, so they started back with their little girl, Lydia (Guthery) Peters, on a visit and got as far as Chillicothe, when the little girl fell sick. The father continued to journey to close up some business back here, but the homesick mother had to return to their home in the wilderness until the girl recovered. Later they made the treck back together, but by that time all their friends were gone and so many changes were made that she did not want to stay. They returned to Ohio where the mother was contented to live the rest of her life. This hardy pioneer woman trapped wolves for the rewards offered for the ___ and each morning accompanied by the older sons, would go out to the traps to see how many they had caught during the night, some times finding two or more of entangled beasts.
Lydia tells that she was ferried across the Scioto River to school by her big brothers, where one of her brothers, Aaron Guthery, taught school. She is described as being a Guthery absolutely, large blue-grey eyes far apart, close, rather thin lips, a very straight nose with “wing” nostrils.
Lydia Guthrie Peters granted the following interview which was published in the Pike County Republican Newspaper of Waverly, Ohio 4 April 1872:OLD FOLKS OF PIKE COUNTY INTERVIEWED.
NUMBER XXII
There was, in the early settlement of the Valley of the Scioto river, one name preeminent above the others, in the territory now composing Pike county. The head of the family was John Guthery, a name, we presume, spelled in other localities and in the old country, G-U-T-H-R-I-E. We suppose it to be of Scotch origin, for John Guthery's progenitors came to this country from Ireland. From this fact, one might suppose that he was of Irish descent, but this does not follow. In Oliver Cromwell's time (Lord Protectorate 1653-1658), he went over into Ireland from England, and subdued the northern part of Ireland, especially Londonderry and vicinity, and induced emigrants from England and Scotland of the Protestant faith to go in and possess the land. Hence, there are many purely English and Scotch persons to be found in Northern Ireland, who do not prefess to have any Irish blood circulating in their veins. Those who were descended from the English claim to be English still, and those who recognize their descent as from Scotch ancestry, call themselves Scotch-Irish. Some of the best men and women who settled in the American colonies were Scotch-Irish. Such settled Londonderry, Derry and Derryfield (now Manchester), in Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, also in and about Ryegate, in Vermont, and certain localities in New York State and Pennsylvania. This leads us to believe that John Guthery was of the old, stern Pennsylvania stock, and was Scotch-Irish, though his progenitors emigrated from Ireland. Although the name of Guthery was numerous and influential when Pike county was organized in 1815, we believe that not one lives, today, who bears that honored name. Yet, there linger two of John Guthery's daughters among us, and it is these persons whom we propose to interview in this issue, under the name of the youngest of the family, viz:
LYDIA PETERS
My maiden name was Guthery. I was born in Pennsylvania, October 17, 1794, and am the youngest of a family of twelve children - eight sons and four daughters. Their names were William, Archibald, John, Francis, George, Elizabeth, Priscilla, Aaron, Rebecca, Moses, Joseph and Lydia,(myself).
Except Francis, all the family came to Ohio in 1797 or 1798, and settled just below where John M. Barnes now resides, in Seal township. The homestead farm now constitutes a part of the celebrated Vanmeter and a part of the Barnes farms. There my father sat himself down in the dense wilderness with a wife and eleven children, who had been used to life in civilized and refined society, and all the enjoyments such society affords. It may seem very strange to the reader that my father should have sold out a large and well cultivated farm, together with a large chattel property, turn his back upon his associates and endearments of more than fifty years, to take up an abode in an unbroken wilderness, for there was then but one house within miles of him, on the east side of the Scioto river, and that was the residence of a Hopkins family, which stood near the Scioto river in a due west course from the residence of the late Dr. Phelps, of Piketon, now owned and occupied by David O. Bailey. His plea was then, as now by the same class of men, want of more acres to provide his sons with plenty of land. When my father sold his farm and personal property in Pennsylvania, he received the cash therefor, which enabled him to purchase a large tract of land, including the present site of Piketon, extending a mile or more below on the south, and east towards Beaver a great distance. We started from near Greensburgh, in Green county (now Greensboro, Greene County), came down the Monongahela river to Pittsburgh, thence down the Ohio river to where Portsmouth now is, though then not a tree of the primeval forest was cut, ascended the Scioto river with his goods in a keel-boat, while some of the family rode on horseback over a blazed track, and others came on foot. We passed but one house the whole distance this side of Portsmouth, and that was on the river bank, near where Lucasville stands. We camped there overnight, and resumed our journey the next morning. When we reached the spot where our future home was to be, father had, per force, to commence felling the forest trees to give even room for the erection of a log cabin, to shelter him and his from the storms and rains of heaven, which he immediately proceeded to do. Of course, he had to depend in great part, upon the wild game, which was then everywhere abundant in Ohio, for the subsistence of those who were dependent on him. Not to have been a good hunter in those days, was as unusual among the settlers as for ducks to refuse to take to water. In the course of years, a large farm was cleared, and his sons and daughters were married and settled around him. Population increased and crowded upon him and he was induced to part with a portion of his real estate to immigrants. But the greater part he apportioned to his seven sons. To his daughters he made largesses in money and other property. So he provided for all his children equitably. In the course of time, his sons disposed of their real estate, as many sons have done before them and since, where their patrimony was not entailed by the laws of primogeniture.
My father is remembered as Col. Guthery. He was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution, and rose to the position of Colonel. When he came west, that title, honorably won, accompanied him, and he is remembered to this day by that distinction. He was a leading man, and often honored by his fellow citizens with responsible trusts. I am unable to furnish any very explicit history of my father, but his family bible, now in my possession, informs us that he was born April 14, 1744, and that he married Lydia Baldwin, March 13, 1771, and died June 1, 1823. I remember that it was traditional in our family, that my father's family came from Ireland. Baldwin is an English Name, and while I do not know much of the family away back in the generations that are passed, I am able to give the time of birth and marriage of her whose Christian name I bear. She was born in Virginia, February 12, 1755, and married my father when she was but little less than 17 years of age. She was eleven years younger than my father, and preceded him to the grave by nearly seven years, in her 61st year, namely, July 14, 1816.
1.My brother WILLIAM GUTHERY was born January 4, 1772. He married Catharine Theobald. They had six children. He moved to, and died in, Illinois.
2.ARCHIBALD GUTHERY, born January 20, 1774, married Nancy Phillips. They had two children. He moved to, and died in Indiana.
3.JOHN GUTHERY, born October 25, 1776, married Ellen Howard, from whose family Howard run takes its name. They had three daughters - Cynthia, Drucilla, and Eliza. 1. Cynthia married Jacob Grimes and removed to Illinois, where she now resides. They had seven children. 2. Drucilla married Captain Elisha P. Peters, January 18, 1820, by whom she had 13 children, viz: Jackson Monroe, Harriet, Clinton, John, Milton C., Franklin H., James, Eliza, Drucilla M., Sarah J, Elisha B., William, and Charles A. Elisha P. Peters died March 24, 1851, since which time Drucilla has lived a widow. She resides in Scioto township, near by me, on the homestead hewed out of the forest by her husband. But of her children: 1. Jackson Monroe, born August 19, 1821, died three weeks thereafter. 2. Harriet, born November 27, 1822, married Abraham F. Millar, March 3, 1840, by whom she had four children, viz: George Bliss, born in February, 1842, who married Miss Carre, of Portsmouth; (they have two children, one of each sex); Charles, William and Elizabeth Reynolds, the dates of whose births and deaths I am unable to give; and Franklin F. Abraham F. Millar died in 1868. His wife still lives on the homestead. 3.Clinton, born August 24, 1825, married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Slavens. They had five daughters and two sons. The sons died in infancy. The daughters are all living; two are married and live in the west. Clinton was killed in battle in May, 1863, at Resaca, Georgia. 4. John, born November 21, 1827, married Sarah, daughter of Stewart Slavens, of Scioto county. They have five children - two sons and three daughters - Clinton, Stewart, Ellen, Sarah Jane and Clarissa Viola. They reside in Wayne county, Iowa. 5. Milton C. was born May 5, 1830. He married Ruth Slavens, sister to Sarah, John's wife. They have had 8 children - viz: Elisha Franklin, Margaret Alice, Carrie Ida, Sarah Jane, William Rosencranz, Luella, John, and Nellie C. G.. The first Elisha F., was born September 18, 1852: killed by being gored by a cow, on the 22d of June, 1858, aged about six years. Margaret A., born December 3, 1854. Carrie I., born January 27, 1858. Sarah J., born December 6, 1860. William Rosencranz, born April 21, 1863, Luella, born August 11, 1865. John, born April 9, 1867; died June 2, 1870. Nellie C. G., born January 4, 1871. 6. Franklin Howard, born January 11, 1833. He died in his 18th year, Christmas day, 1849. 7. James W., born February 15, 1835; died of scarlet fever, when about seven years of age, April 3, 1842. 8. Eliza Ellen, born February 21, 1837, married Milton Johnson. They reside in Scioto county, near Portsmouth. 9. Drucilla Maria, born May 10, 1839. She married Edward McFadden, February 25, 1858. They reside with her mother, on the homestead. 10. Sarah Jane, born September 16, 1846, married John S. Taylor. They reside in Iowa. Have five children - Fanny Bailey, John Milton, Mary and Drucilla. 11. Elisha B., born February 15, 1844, died June 17, 1865. 12.William Harrison, born August 20, 1846; married Hattie, daughter of John Feurt, more than four years ago. They reside in Portsmouth, and have two children - Lillie Gertrude and Birdella. 13. Charles A., born April 15, 1850. He makes his home with his mother, and teaches school. Elisha P. Peters lived on the farm he cleared about 30 years, and his widow resides there still. Eliza married Cornelius Wilbank Bailey, February 3, 1831. Mr. Bailey was born in Sussex county, Delaware, July 14, 1807. His father's family came out to Ohio in 1812, and settled near Piketon. He has resided in Scioto and Pike counties ever since. They at present reside in Piketon, and are living retired, and comfortably, on the avails of a fortune earned by foresight and honest industry. They have had seven children, viz: John Ore, Mary Jane, Sarah Ann, Cynthia Ellen, Drucilla, Elizabeth, and Louisa C. John O. Bailey was born January 2, 1832. He married Minerva Jones, August, 1856. They had five children - Fanny, James, Fallis, Ann Eliza, Cornelius Willbank and John. James F. and Ann are living; the others died when quite young. Mary Jane Bailey, born January 4, 1834, married Benjamin H. Johnson, November 2, 1854. They have two children - Cornelius William, born December 2, 1855, and Sarah Eliza, born July 4, 1861. Sarah Ann Bailey, born February 4, 1836, died in April, 1842. Cynthia Ellen Bailey, born December 6, 1838, married Wilder N. Middleton, August 28, 1861. They have two children - William Howard, born July 19, 1864, and Bailey, born October 23, 1871. Drucilla Bailey, born November 8, 1800. Elizabeth C. Bailey, born April 25, 1842, died September 12, 1843. Louisa C. Bailey, born June 15, 1847, married Presley T. Talbett, March 2, 1864. They have three sons - Charles C., born December 17, 1864, Delbert W., born January 2, 1866 and Cornelius Bailey, born November 29, 1869.
4.FRANCIS GUTHERY, born January 1, 1778, died in infancy.
5.GEORGE GUTHERY, born March 26, 1779, married Sarah Howard, cousin to Ellen Howard who married my brother John. They had four children, Samuel, Baldwin, John and Priscilla. George moved to Illinois and died there. I know nothing of his family since they went west. They are nearly all dead.
6.ELIZABETH GUTHERY, born January 26, 1781, married Johnathan Clark. They had five children - Minerva, Joseph, Aaron, Lovie and Charlotte. The last I knew of 1. Minerva Clark, she was in Oregon, and wife of Robert Grimes. 2. Joseph Clark is dead. He did not marry. Died of consumption in Iowa. 3. Aaron Clark married Eliza Orms. They lived in Scioto County and have four children living, viz: John, Lovie, Minerva and Aaron. 4. Lovie Clark married a man by the name of Reed, who died several years ago. 5. Charlotte married, first, John Ord. Had two children - daughters. They lived near Portsmouth, and he died there; she next married a man by the name of Rockafellow, and they moved to, and the last I knew of them they lived in Iowa.
7.PRISCILLA GUTHERY, born January 1, 1783, married William Collings, of Manchester, Ohio, January 1, 1807. Mr. Collings was born in Maryland, December 11, 1780. He came out to Ohio, with his father's family, at an earlier day than my father Guthery did. The way sister Priscilla became acquainted with William Collings...
8.AARON GUTHERY, born 31 December 1784, married Nancy Howard and had three children William, Alfred and Hannah. 1. William married Elizabeth___________ and they had five children. They reside in Missouri.(a report has lately come to their friends in Pike County, that William Guthery has lately deceased.) 2. Alfred married Julia Brown, of Scioto County, where he died. He left three children - Aaron, William, and a daughter. His widow and two of his children reside in Illinois. 3. Hannah resides in Kansas. My brother Aaron was for some years a Justice of the Peace.
9.REBECCA GUTHERY, born January 21, 1786. She married James Daniels. They had only two children - Hiram and Eliza. Rebecca Daniels died in Piketon June 16, 1817. Mr. Daniels afterwards married a Miss Cockerill, in Scioto County, who shortly afterwards died, and he married a third time, Lydia Wood, of Piketon. He removed to Gallipolis, and died there childless, so far as his second and third wives are concerned. 1. Hiram Daniels married, but I cannot say who. He resides in Pomeroy and is extensively engaged in merchandizing and furnace business. 2. Eliza Daniels married a Mr. Coover of Gallipolis, and moved to McArthur, Vinton County. He died childless, and Eliza again married a Mr. Steward. I have no knowledge of her having had any children.
10.MOSES GUTHERY, born February 12, 1787, married Hannah Hastings. They had three children - Jane, Silas and Eliza. 1. Jane married William Daily of whom a more particular account was given in the Republican of March 14, 1872. 2. Silas married Nancy March, of Scioto County. They had children, but one only, William, survives. Silas is in Northern Missouri, and his son William lives near him. 3. Eliza married Jonathan Ward formerly of Tennessee. They had three children - Silas, Eliza Jane and Jonathan. Silas Ward married in Scioto County, moved to Northern Ohio, where his wife died, and he returned to Scioto County. Eliza Jane married, and died. Jonathan I know nothing of, unless he lives, with, or near, his mother. Jonathan Ward, senior, is dead and his widow (Eliza Guthery) married a man by the name of Sutton. My brother Moses lived and died in Pike County, and is still remembered as Esquire Guthery, for he was some years Justice of the Peace. He died about the year 1826, as near as I can recollect.
11.JOSEPH GUTHERY, born March 20, 1790, married Hannah Devers. They had three sons - William, John and Isaac. 1. William married, and died, leaving a family of children. 2. John and 3. Isaac have families and are wealthy men. William died well off in this world's goods. Brother Joseph moved to Marion County, Ohio where he died, leaving his sons there, where they now reside. He was Justice of the Peace many years.COLONEL JOHN GUTHERY IN OHIO
Lydia (Guthery) Peters, youngest daughter of Colonel John and Lydia (Baldwin) Guthery, has left an
interesting account of the migration of the family to Ohio. In her Memoirs she says that her father left
Greene County after living there fifty years. He bought a great tract of land extending a mile South and
East to Beaver Creek. He left for what was then a wilderness just so his children could have good farms or money and a good start in life. His wife became very homesick for her old home on the Monongahela and the friends she had left, so they started back with their little girl, Lydia (Guthery) Peters, on a visit and got as far as Chillicothe, when the little girl fell sick. The father continued to journey to close up some business back here, but the homesick mother had to return to their home in the wilderness until the girl recovered. Later they made the treck back together, but by that time all their friends were gone and so many changes were made that she did not want to stay. They returned to Ohio where the mother was contented to live the rest of her life. This hardy pioneer woman trapped wolves for the rewards offered for the ___ and each morning accompanied by the older sons, would go out to the traps to see how many they had caught during the night, some times finding two or more of entangled beasts.
Lydia tells that she was ferried across the Scioto River to school by her big brothers, where one of her brothers, Aaron Guthery, taught school. She is described as being a Guthery absolutely, large blue-grey eyes far apart, close, rather thin lips, a very straight nose with “wing” nostrils.Lydia_Peters_Interview_p86
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The following is from Mary Gray May's "The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families".
Joseph Guthery's three sons, William, John Dever Sr. and Isaac Frazier Sr. were all brought up to follow their father's habit of spelling their family name......Guthery. Then when Isaac's two older sons went to college at Ohio Wesleyan, an English professor told them only illiterate people would corrupt the proper form which was Guthrie. They and their branch of the family for the most part followed the suggestion and so did William's children, but John and his family by that time had too many legal documents made out in the former way and could not without much trouble change. And William's grandchildren who remained in Marion County, in common with the second cousins living about Marion, went back to their great grandfather's "illiterate" style. Many Gutherys have attended Ohio Wesleyan since that time. Maybe English professors have grown more tolerant. No one has called them illiterate for their original way in this respect.
JOSEPH AND HANNAH DEVER GUTHERY.
Joseph Guthery, youngest son of Colonel John and Lydia Baldwin Guthery, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, the eleventh child and eighth son. His birth date was March 29, 1790. He was married to Hannah Dever March 2, 1815. Hannah Dever was born January 8, 1796, the daughter of Lieutenant John and Hannah Cubberly Dever. Her mother was the daughter of Dr. James Cubberly, a surgeon in the American Revolution.
Hannah Dever Guthery was particularly loved and respected by her grandchildren. Elizabeth Guthery Gray, a granddaughter, admired and loved her for her fine womanly qualities and for her fine mind and said of her "She could talk with any man on any subject". Surely a tribute to a frontier woman whose chief care must be the bearing and bringing up of her children and the difficulties that beset her in a new country.
Joseph Guthery was in the War of 1812 and received land bounties for his services. From the Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, published by the Adjutant General of Ohio, 1916, p. 154, is the Roll of Captain David Shelby's Mounted Company (probably Ross County) served from September 4th until October 14th, 1812.
Rank and name of soldiers:
Guthery, John Jr.(Private)
Guthery, John Sr.(Private)
Guthery, Joseph(Private)Pike County was not formed until 1815 and it was partly formed by Ross County, the others being Highland, Adams, Scioto and Jackson. The 1810 Ross County, Ohio Taxables List gives us land which originally owned by John Guthrie now being owned by Aaron Guthrie, Archibald Guthrie, George Guthrie, Joseph Guthrie, Moses Guthrie, and William Guthrie.
John Jr. was thirty-six years old when he served in the War of 1812. His brother was twenty-two and their father was sixty-eight.
Later Joseph was engaged in buying, selling and shipping produce and merchandise while he lived in Pike County. This was placed on a raft built for the purpose and rafted down the rivers to New Orleans. In the year 1826 he used all his means and credit in buying a cargo consisting of pork, corn, wheat and general produce and furs and with two others started the raft down to Scioto, down the Ohio and on down the Mississippi to New Orleans. On the way the raft struck a tree that had fallen into the water and the produce was lost. The men barely escaped with their lives.
After settling his debts he began all over again. He was thirty-six years old and life was long before him. So, having left the old troubles behind, he emigrated to newer and fresher troubles. He took his family to the new and unsettled country in Marion County, Ohio toward the north. This was in 1827. His three boys were respectively nine, seven and five years of age. First he located in Salt Rock Township, from there they moved to Big Island Township and a later move took them to Montgomery Township, on what was known as the Flaherty Bottoms. At this place they must have thought a plague had descended upon them for they had a hard time to make a living. All their stock died from a common disease called milksickness, their corn was drowned out by a July freshet, and what remained was eaten and destroyed by squirrels. Executions were issued and everything sold but the cow, which the constable refused to take. (I wish we knew that excellent man's name.) He even went security for the balance, which amounted to something like $16.00. This amount was paid from money earned in the harvest field of a Mr. Alcott at three shillings a day, which was thirty-seven and a half cents a day for Joseph and two shillings or twenty-five cents a day for the second boy, John Dever Guthery. I do not think we can pass over these trials of our people and the fine way they were met without some devout feelings over the honor and industry that was theirs. We must be proud to have the blood of Joseph Guthery in our veins. His three sons never forgot this experience. John Dever often related this story of travail after he himself was an old and prosperous man. It is such a story as many early settlers of our land could relate.
In 1829 they moved across the river into Bowling Green township, the three boys helping to cut timber for a cabin and making troughs for use in collecting the sap from sugar trees out of which to make their sugar for the coming year. In 1837 they moved again, this time to what was later known as the Old Homestead on the banks of Rush Creek, a tributary of the Scioto River. Here Joseph Guthery died in the nearby home of his son, William, on February 5th, 1856. He lived to be only sixty-six years old. But that was a long life for those days.
After his death, his wife Hannah Dever Guthery, went to live with her children, and it was at the home of her youngest son, Isaac, that she passed away on March 7th, 1864, eight years after her husband's death. These two pioneers left behind them a record of unblemished lives as heritage for their many descendants.................a record of personal nobility and worth. They were always mentioned with affection. Both were buried in the Guthery Cemetery at what was then Parr Town, and now near them lie other Gutherys.
Children of Joseph and Hannah Dever Guthery: William, John Dever, Isaac Frazier, Joseph (died in infancy) born 1826, died at one year of age, 1827.
The following is from Mary Gray May's "The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families".Joseph Guthery's three sons, William, John Dever Sr. and Isaac Frazier Sr. were all brought up to follow their father's habit of spelling their family name......Guthery. Then when Isaac's two older sons went to college at Ohio Wesleyan, an English professor told them only illiterate people would corrupt the proper form which was Guthrie. They and their branch of the family for the most part followed the suggestion and so did William's children, but John and his family by that time had too many legal documents made out in the former way and could not without much trouble change. And William's grandchildren who remained in Marion County, in common with the second cousins living about Marion, went back to their great grandfather's "illiterate" style. Many Gutherys have attended Ohio Wesleyan since that time. Maybe English professors have grown more tolerant. No one has called them illiterate for their original way in this respect.
JOSEPH AND HANNAH DEVER GUTHERY.
Joseph Guthery, youngest son of Colonel John and Lydia Baldwin Guthery, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, the eleventh child and eighth son. His birth date was March 29, 1790. He was married to Hannah Dever March 2, 1815. Hannah Dever was born January 8, 1796, the daughter of Lieutenant John and Hannah Cubberly Dever. Her mother was the daughter of Dr. James Cubberly, a surgeon in the American Revolution.
Hannah Dever Guthery was particularly loved and respected by her grandchildren. Elizabeth Guthery Gray, a granddaughter, admired and loved her for her fine womanly qualities and for her fine mind and said of her "She could talk with any man on any subject". Surely a tribute to a frontier woman whose chief care must be the bearing and bringing up of her children and the difficulties that beset her in a new country.
Joseph Guthery was in the War of 1812 and received land bounties for his services. From the Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, published by the Adjutant General of Ohio, 1916, p. 154, is the Roll of Captain David Shelby's Mounted Company (probably Ross County) served from September 4th until October 14th, 1812.
Rank and name of soldiers:
Guthery, John Jr.(Private)
Guthery, John Sr.(Private)
Guthery, Joseph(Private)Pike County was not formed until 1815 and it was partly formed by Ross County, the others being Highland, Adams, Scioto and Jackson. The 1810 Ross County, Ohio Taxables List gives us land which originally owned by John Guthrie now being owned by Aaron Guthrie, Archibald Guthrie, George Guthrie, Joseph Guthrie, Moses Guthrie, and William Guthrie.
John Jr. was thirty-six years old when he served in the War of 1812. His brother was twenty-two and their father was sixty-eight.
Later Joseph was engaged in buying, selling and shipping produce and merchandise while he lived in Pike County. This was placed on a raft built for the purpose and rafted down the rivers to New Orleans. In the year 1826 he used all his means and credit in buying a cargo consisting of pork, corn, wheat and general produce and furs and with two others started the raft down to Scioto, down the Ohio and on down the Mississippi to New Orleans. On the way the raft struck a tree that had fallen into the water and the produce was lost. The men barely escaped with their lives.
After settling his debts he began all over again. He was thirty-six years old and life was long before him. So, having left the old troubles behind, he emigrated to newer and fresher troubles. He took his family to the new and unsettled country in Marion County, Ohio toward the north. This was in 1827. His three boys were respectively nine, seven and five years of age. First he located in Salt Rock Township, from there they moved to Big Island Township and a later move took them to Montgomery Township, on what was known as the Flaherty Bottoms. At this place they must have thought a plague had descended upon them for they had a hard time to make a living. All their stock died from a common disease called milksickness, their corn was drowned out by a July freshet, and what remained was eaten and destroyed by squirrels. Executions were issued and everything sold but the cow, which the constable refused to take. (I wish we knew that excellent man's name.) He even went security for the balance, which amounted to something like $16.00. This amount was paid from money earned in the harvest field of a Mr. Alcott at three shillings a day, which was thirty-seven and a half cents a day for Joseph and two shillings or twenty-five cents a day for the second boy, John Dever Guthery. I do not think we can pass over these trials of our people and the fine way they were met without some devout feelings over the honor and industry that was theirs. We must be proud to have the blood of Joseph Guthery in our veins. His three sons never forgot this experience. John Dever often related this story of travail after he himself was an old and prosperous man. It is such a story as many early settlers of our land could relate.
In 1829 they moved across the river into Bowling Green township, the three boys helping to cut timber for a cabin and making troughs for use in collecting the sap from sugar trees out of which to make their sugar for the coming year. In 1837 they moved again, this time to what was later known as the Old Homestead on the banks of Rush Creek, a tributary of the Scioto River. Here Joseph Guthery died in the nearby home of his son, William, on February 5th, 1856. He lived to be only sixty-six years old. But that was a long life for those days.
After his death, his wife Hannah Dever Guthery, went to live with her children, and it was at the home of her youngest son, Isaac, that she passed away on March 7th, 1864, eight years after her husband's death. These two pioneers left behind them a record of unblemished lives as heritage for their many descendants.................a record of personal nobility and worth. They were always mentioned with affection. Both were buried in the Guthery Cemetery at what was then Parr Town, and now near them lie other Gutherys.
Children of Joseph and Hannah Dever Guthery: William, John Dever, Isaac Frazier, Joseph (died in infancy) born 1826, died at one year of age, 1827.Guthery_Joseph
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THE FAMILY BACKGROUND OF HANNAH DEVER GUTHERY
The father of Hannah Dever Guthery was Lieutenant John Dever, her mother was Hannah Cubberly, daughter of Dr. James Cubberly, a surgeon in the American Revolution. Of the Cubberlys we shall have more to say.
Lieutenant John Dever was born in Loudon County, Virginia, October 22, 1756. His father was John Dever and his mother was Mary Barnes. They were married in Hampshire County, Virginia (West Virginia since 1863). They had three children: John, James and George, all born in Virginia. The mother, Mary Barnes, died when the youngest son, George, was born in 1770. According to two descendants of George, Miss Margaret Dever Slavens of Jackson, Ohio and Mr. Samuel Slavens, her brother, of Detroit, Michigan, the older John was of Irish ancestry and was born October 20, 1746 (this date of birth was more likely 1736). Tradition has it that the ancestry had its origin in early Irish kings of Crusade times. They were "Devergons". The meaning of Devergon is obscure. Professor John V. Kelleher, authority on Mediaeval Irish history at Harvard University, in a letter to Mrs. Carroll H. May on June 10, 1954 says in respect to the Dever family of Ireland:
The name Dever is the same as Dwyer..........the Irish form is O'Duibhidhir of O'Dubhuidhir...........the name of several families of whom the most important were the chiefs of Coill na manach, now Kilnamanagh barony in West County Tipperary. They were originally from Leinster. Dever is usually a northern form of the name. Our branch has believed we are descendants of the great DeVere family of England.
When John Dever, the second, was twenty years old he enlisted with the Colonial troops of the 3rd Maryland regiment on December 10th, 1776. Loudon County is on the Virginia-Maryland line near his home. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Mordecai Gist. John Dever was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant April 1st, 1777. His name is found on the muster rolls of his company for the months of August and September, 1778 as 1st Lieutenant. This rank he held until his discharge on April 8th, 1779.
An old newspaper clipping says he was a soldier under Washington and was with General Gates at the time of Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777. Six years after his discharge from the army he was married to Hannah Cubberly, in 1785. She was then twenty-two years old, having been born June 25, 1763. Their family of eight children were all, excepting possibly the youngest, born in Virginia by 1800. They brought their family to Ohio in 1797, when the new Congressional lands were opened for settlement under a soldier's grant, and settled in Scioto County. Two of his sons served in the War of 1812 and are buried in Scioto County, Ohio. (Our line says it was William and James as John was too young at the time of the war.) George Dever, son of John Dever and Mary Barnes, followed his brother, Lieutenant John Dever, to Ohio with their two children, Solomon and Noah in 1797.
Another account says Lieutenant Dever went to Ohio in 1799 and settled on the west side of the Scioto River, two miles west of the present village of Lucasville and eighteen miles north of Portsmouth. His claim was at the mouth of Big Bear Creek on Virginia Military Bounty land. His brother, George, settled on the east side of the river on Congress lands near Jackson, Ohio. There is no comment on the other brother James. George's descendants still live in Dever valley and in Portsmouth, Ohio. The families came to be known as the East Side Devers and the West Side Devers, from living on opposite sides of the river. Judge Noah Dever of Portsmouth is a descendant of the East Side Devers, his ancestor being George Dever. The old newspaper article says Lieutenant John Dever was a leading citizen and a prosperous man of his day. He was a great lover of horses and cattle. The farm where he settled was owned and lived on by his descendants continuously for over a hundred and fifty years, always with the Dever name. Tradition tells us this was a fine family and we wish we knew for a certainty their origin and more about John Dever himself. He is buried on the Old Homestead in the private burying ground of the family, not far from the house where the present Devers live. On his gravestone is his military record and a square and compass and this epitaph:Lieutenant John Dever
Who Departed This Life
November 10, 1827, 71 years old.And also the following lines:
He too was of that patriot band
Which once did aid our native land;
He drew his sword in freedon's cause,
He did protect his country's laws.
His memory blest shall ever be,
By all true friends of Liberty.Before passing to the story of Hannah Dever Guthery's mother's family, the Cubberly's, and the record of her own children, it will be interesting to have a backward look at the European background of the Devers. For, whether in Ireland or England, they were most notable. There is good reason to believe that both originated from the same race, though proof is not available and probably never will be. The name has gone through many changes in spelling, in some cases only a close study by experienced antiquarians could find any relation to the original DeVere. Here are some of the surprising changes the centuries have made in a name that began in northern France. To begin with it was De Ver. Then De Vere or Vere and this was the accepted spelling in England and Ireland through many generations. Then as descendants spread farther and farther down the years and became more remote from the early holdings and family traditions they even forgot their descent from a proud race. And in the struggle of life forgot their true name. An "s" was added: Devers, then Devor, Davor, Divier, Divyor, Dayvor, Deavor, Deever, Deavour and Devore. And de Vere became Viar, Fears, Wire, Wyer, Weir, and Weer. How our family came to preserve the name in its true form with no more corruption than a small "v" instead of a capital "V" is a thing we shall not know. But we changed the pronunciation. We call it Dee-Ver. History says De Vere was pronounced De Ver.
The following is from Mary Gray May's "The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families.
THE MATERNAL ANCESTRY OF HANNAH DEVER GUTHERY. THE CUBBERLYS.
Hannah Dever's mother was Hannah Cubberly, daughter of Dr. James Cubberly, a surgeon in the American Revolution. Virginia war records are silent concerning his service, but it must be remembered that many of the Virginia records are missing, having passed through fire. The family legend is so persistent from descendants as far scattered as the state of Washington down to Southern California, across to Ohio and on to Connecticut, that we must accept it as fact. Some think he lived in Maryland. Boundaries were very indefinite then and Loudon County, from where his daughter emigrated, is on the Maryland border. However, the Potomac River has always formed the boundary between Maryland and Virginia. In Revolutionary War times, Loudon County, Virginia, was across from Frederick County, Maryland. Dr. Cubberly may have seen service with Maryland troops as John Devers did, although he was a Virginian. A great great granddaughter, Mrs. E. F. Ragan, owns a set of scales which he used............the type used by surgeons of that day. She has, besides, his knee buckles and other interesting objects that her great-grandmother preserved. Mrs. Elizabeth Gould of Santa Monica, California, has a silver snuffbox that belonged to him. Mrs. Harrison Shafstall of Marion, Ohio, owns a pair of hand wrought silver cuff links that were worn by her ancestor, Hannah Cubberly, Mrs. Shafstall's great great grandmother. They are marked "H. C.".
A letter, dated 24 January 1937, to Mrs. Fred Hoch from the late distinguished Prof. Ellwood Cubberly, of Leland Stanford University, gives us all we have of the American Cubberlys. He says it was a tradition in his family that two brothers came from England in the early 18th century. His progenitor was James Cubberly, who settled first on Long Island, then purchased land in Burlington County, New Jersey in 1718. He bought three hundred and fifty acres. From there the family moved westward to Middletown, Ohio, and from there to Richmond, Indiana. This was Ellwood Cubberly's own line. The brother emigrant which Professor Cubberly believes was our Ancestor went South "probably to Virginia and later his descendants went into the deep South". He had found them in New Orleans and also in St. Louis. The first Virginia census lists two Cubbelys of Hampshire County.
Cubberly is another very ancient name. It dates back to Saxon times in England. It is found in the Domesday Book as Coberleie and in the annals of Gloucester Abbey, v. 3 of the Bristol of Gloucestershire Archaeological Society publications Cubberly is difined. The name had its origin in Gloucestershire. Ducberlei, another formation, means Cuthbert's lea; lea............old form lei which is lee or meadow. Cuthbert's meadow. There are many forms of spelling which must be when a name is so venerable. Here are some of the spellings that have come down the ages: Cudberlei, Cudberleye, Cutberley, Cubberleg, Cubberley, Cubberley, Cubberly, Coberlei, Coberley, Coburly, coberly, Cobberlee, Cobberl, Coburley, Coberle, deComberlie and Coverly. Lately was seen in a current issue of a popular magazine Coverley.
Cuthbert's meadow was the locality where the parish of Cubberly was set up long ago in Gloucestershire. The village of Cubberly was founded, which was dependent on Cubberly Hall or manor. This noble house has been reduced to the size of a farmhouse, with a very few of the ancient walls standing, and the arms of a branch of the great Berkeley family still to be found upon it. They were very rich and grand in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and were called the Berkeleys of Cubberly. Sometimes they used only Cubberly for a surname. They owned the Cubberly lands and a great deal more in surrounding parishes. Volume 16 of the Archeological Society before mentioned says: "The use of Coberley as an alternative surname was not uncommon in the family. Even in the next century when people's names were much more settled we find Sir John de Coberle summoned as a juror to replace Sir Thomas de Berkeley de Coberle in 1336. While in 1372 the last Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Coberley is called in his Probatio Aetatis Thomas de Coberley."
If our Doctor James Cubberly was descended from this house he was a Berkeley, one on the great families of England. But there is an even chance that his family was not so notable.
Children of HANNAH CUBBERLY and JOHN DEVER are:
Mary Dever, b. 18 December 1785; m. Benjamin Fort, 26 January 1800.
Notes for Benjamin Fort: Fort may have been Feurt.
Sarah Dever, b. 9 October 1787; m. William McDowell, 28 November 1809.
Elizabeth Dever, b. 7 January 1789; m. walter Wilcoxen, 24 December 1810 & they had a daughter - Sarah Wilcoxen.
James Dever, b. 2 July 1791; m. Mary Barnes, 16 March 1816.
William Dever, b. 7 March 1794; m. Asenath McDougal, 16 May 1816 and had a son - Joseph Dever.
Hannah Dever, b. 18 January 1796, Kentucky; d. 1864, Marion Coutny, Ohio.
John III Dever, b. 10 February 1798; m. Nancy Barnes, 27 September 1827.
Rachel Dever, b. 15 September 1800, never married.Notes for William Dever: (Hannah Dever Guthery's brother)
As stated by Mary Gray May in her Guthery Family of Greene County Pennsylvania book.................. It was William's descendant, William Thomas Dever, who was the last of the name as male heir to live on the original Dever homestead, the farm near Lucasville, Ohio in the Dever name for over a hundred and fifty years. The descent from Lieutenant John Dever, first owner of the land, was his son William, his son Joseph, and his son William Thomas Dever.
Of his sons, James and John, and their families, we have no record. James and Mary Dever of Lacon, Illinois and their brother William of Bloomington, Illinois were descended from one of these brothers. (Correction - James & Mary & William were brothers and sister) The Illinois descendants left no issue.
William's son Joseph had seven children. We do not know whether William had other children beside Joseph.
THE FAMILY BACKGROUND OF HANNAH DEVER GUTHERYThe father of Hannah Dever Guthery was Lieutenant John Dever, her mother was Hannah Cubberly, daughter of Dr. James Cubberly, a surgeon in the American Revolution. Of the Cubberlys we shall have more to say.
Lieutenant John Dever was born in Loudon County, Virginia, October 22, 1756. His father was John Dever and his mother was Mary Barnes. They were married in Hampshire County, Virginia (West Virginia since 1863). They had three children: John, James and George, all born in Virginia. The mother, Mary Barnes, died when the youngest son, George, was born in 1770. According to two descendants of George, Miss Margaret Dever Slavens of Jackson, Ohio and Mr. Samuel Slavens, her brother, of Detroit, Michigan, the older John was of Irish ancestry and was born October 20, 1746 (this date of birth was more likely 1736). Tradition has it that the ancestry had its origin in early Irish kings of Crusade times. They were "Devergons". The meaning of Devergon is obscure. Professor John V. Kelleher, authority on Mediaeval Irish history at Harvard University, in a letter to Mrs. Carroll H. May on June 10, 1954 says in respect to the Dever family of Ireland:
The name Dever is the same as Dwyer..........the Irish form is O'Duibhidhir of O'Dubhuidhir...........the name of several families of whom the most important were the chiefs of Coill na manach, now Kilnamanagh barony in West County Tipperary. They were originally from Leinster. Dever is usually a northern form of the name. Our branch has believed we are descendants of the great DeVere family of England.
When John Dever, the second, was twenty years old he enlisted with the Colonial troops of the 3rd Maryland regiment on December 10th, 1776. Loudon County is on the Virginia-Maryland line near his home. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Mordecai Gist. John Dever was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant April 1st, 1777. His name is found on the muster rolls of his company for the months of August and September, 1778 as 1st Lieutenant. This rank he held until his discharge on April 8th, 1779.
An old newspaper clipping says he was a soldier under Washington and was with General Gates at the time of Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777. Six years after his discharge from the army he was married to Hannah Cubberly, in 1785. She was then twenty-two years old, having been born June 25, 1763. Their family of eight children were all, excepting possibly the youngest, born in Virginia by 1800. They brought their family to Ohio in 1797, when the new Congressional lands were opened for settlement under a soldier's grant, and settled in Scioto County. Two of his sons served in the War of 1812 and are buried in Scioto County, Ohio. (Our line says it was William and James as John was too young at the time of the war.) George Dever, son of John Dever and Mary Barnes, followed his brother, Lieutenant John Dever, to Ohio with their two children, Solomon and Noah in 1797.
Another account says Lieutenant Dever went to Ohio in 1799 and settled on the west side of the Scioto River, two miles west of the present village of Lucasville and eighteen miles north of Portsmouth. His claim was at the mouth of Big Bear Creek on Virginia Military Bounty land. His brother, George, settled on the east side of the river on Congress lands near Jackson, Ohio. There is no comment on the other brother James. George's descendants still live in Dever valley and in Portsmouth, Ohio. The families came to be known as the East Side Devers and the West Side Devers, from living on opposite sides of the river. Judge Noah Dever of Portsmouth is a descendant of the East Side Devers, his ancestor being George Dever. The old newspaper article says Lieutenant John Dever was a leading citizen and a prosperous man of his day. He was a great lover of horses and cattle. The farm where he settled was owned and lived on by his descendants continuously for over a hundred and fifty years, always with the Dever name. Tradition tells us this was a fine family and we wish we knew for a certainty their origin and more about John Dever himself. He is buried on the Old Homestead in the private burying ground of the family, not far from the house where the present Devers live. On his gravestone is his military record and a square and compass and this epitaph:Lieutenant John Dever
Who Departed This Life
November 10, 1827, 71 years old.And also the following lines:
He too was of that patriot band
Which once did aid our native land;
He drew his sword in freedon's cause,
He did protect his country's laws.
His memory blest shall ever be,
By all true friends of Liberty.Before passing to the story of Hannah Dever Guthery's mother's family, the Cubberly's, and the record of her own children, it will be interesting to have a backward look at the European background of the Devers. For, whether in Ireland or England, they were most notable. There is good reason to believe that both originated from the same race, though proof is not available and probably never will be. The name has gone through many changes in spelling, in some cases only a close study by experienced antiquarians could find any relation to the original DeVere. Here are some of the surprising changes the centuries have made in a name that began in northern France. To begin with it was De Ver. Then De Vere or Vere and this was the accepted spelling in England and Ireland through many generations. Then as descendants spread farther and farther down the years and became more remote from the early holdings and family traditions they even forgot their descent from a proud race. And in the struggle of life forgot their true name. An "s" was added: Devers, then Devor, Davor, Divier, Divyor, Dayvor, Deavor, Deever, Deavour and Devore. And de Vere became Viar, Fears, Wire, Wyer, Weir, and Weer. How our family came to preserve the name in its true form with no more corruption than a small "v" instead of a capital "V" is a thing we shall not know. But we changed the pronunciation. We call it Dee-Ver. History says De Vere was pronounced De Ver.
The following is from Mary Gray May's "The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families.
THE MATERNAL ANCESTRY OF HANNAH DEVER GUTHERY. THE CUBBERLYS.
Hannah Dever's mother was Hannah Cubberly, daughter of Dr. James Cubberly, a surgeon in the American Revolution. Virginia war records are silent concerning his service, but it must be remembered that many of the Virginia records are missing, having passed through fire. The family legend is so persistent from descendants as far scattered as the state of Washington down to Southern California, across to Ohio and on to Connecticut, that we must accept it as fact. Some think he lived in Maryland. Boundaries were very indefinite then and Loudon County, from where his daughter emigrated, is on the Maryland border. However, the Potomac River has always formed the boundary between Maryland and Virginia. In Revolutionary War times, Loudon County, Virginia, was across from Frederick County, Maryland. Dr. Cubberly may have seen service with Maryland troops as John Devers did, although he was a Virginian. A great great granddaughter, Mrs. E. F. Ragan, owns a set of scales which he used............the type used by surgeons of that day. She has, besides, his knee buckles and other interesting objects that her great-grandmother preserved. Mrs. Elizabeth Gould of Santa Monica, California, has a silver snuffbox that belonged to him. Mrs. Harrison Shafstall of Marion, Ohio, owns a pair of hand wrought silver cuff links that were worn by her ancestor, Hannah Cubberly, Mrs. Shafstall's great great grandmother. They are marked "H. C.".
A letter, dated 24 January 1937, to Mrs. Fred Hoch from the late distinguished Prof. Ellwood Cubberly, of Leland Stanford University, gives us all we have of the American Cubberlys. He says it was a tradition in his family that two brothers came from England in the early 18th century. His progenitor was James Cubberly, who settled first on Long Island, then purchased land in Burlington County, New Jersey in 1718. He bought three hundred and fifty acres. From there the family moved westward to Middletown, Ohio, and from there to Richmond, Indiana. This was Ellwood Cubberly's own line. The brother emigrant which Professor Cubberly believes was our Ancestor went South "probably to Virginia and later his descendants went into the deep South". He had found them in New Orleans and also in St. Louis. The first Virginia census lists two Cubbelys of Hampshire County.
Cubberly is another very ancient name. It dates back to Saxon times in England. It is found in the Domesday Book as Coberleie and in the annals of Gloucester Abbey, v. 3 of the Bristol of Gloucestershire Archaeological Society publications Cubberly is difined. The name had its origin in Gloucestershire. Ducberlei, another formation, means Cuthbert's lea; lea............old form lei which is lee or meadow. Cuthbert's meadow. There are many forms of spelling which must be when a name is so venerable. Here are some of the spellings that have come down the ages: Cudberlei, Cudberleye, Cutberley, Cubberleg, Cubberley, Cubberley, Cubberly, Coberlei, Coberley, Coburly, coberly, Cobberlee, Cobberl, Coburley, Coberle, deComberlie and Coverly. Lately was seen in a current issue of a popular magazine Coverley.
Cuthbert's meadow was the locality where the parish of Cubberly was set up long ago in Gloucestershire. The village of Cubberly was founded, which was dependent on Cubberly Hall or manor. This noble house has been reduced to the size of a farmhouse, with a very few of the ancient walls standing, and the arms of a branch of the great Berkeley family still to be found upon it. They were very rich and grand in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and were called the Berkeleys of Cubberly. Sometimes they used only Cubberly for a surname. They owned the Cubberly lands and a great deal more in surrounding parishes. Volume 16 of the Archeological Society before mentioned says: "The use of Coberley as an alternative surname was not uncommon in the family. Even in the next century when people's names were much more settled we find Sir John de Coberle summoned as a juror to replace Sir Thomas de Berkeley de Coberle in 1336. While in 1372 the last Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Coberley is called in his Probatio Aetatis Thomas de Coberley."
If our Doctor James Cubberly was descended from this house he was a Berkeley, one on the great families of England. But there is an even chance that his family was not so notable.
Children of HANNAH CUBBERLY and JOHN DEVER are:
Mary Dever, b. 18 December 1785; m. Benjamin Fort, 26 January 1800.
Notes for Benjamin Fort: Fort may have been Feurt.
Sarah Dever, b. 9 October 1787; m. William McDowell, 28 November 1809.
Elizabeth Dever, b. 7 January 1789; m. walter Wilcoxen, 24 December 1810 & they had a daughter - Sarah Wilcoxen.
James Dever, b. 2 July 1791; m. Mary Barnes, 16 March 1816.
William Dever, b. 7 March 1794; m. Asenath McDougal, 16 May 1816 and had a son - Joseph Dever.
Hannah Dever, b. 18 January 1796, Kentucky; d. 1864, Marion Coutny, Ohio.
John III Dever, b. 10 February 1798; m. Nancy Barnes, 27 September 1827.
Rachel Dever, b. 15 September 1800, never married.Notes for William Dever: (Hannah Dever Guthery's brother)
As stated by Mary Gray May in her Guthery Family of Greene County Pennsylvania book.................. It was William's descendant, William Thomas Dever, who was the last of the name as male heir to live on the original Dever homestead, the farm near Lucasville, Ohio in the Dever name for over a hundred and fifty years. The descent from Lieutenant John Dever, first owner of the land, was his son William, his son Joseph, and his son William Thomas Dever.
Of his sons, James and John, and their families, we have no record. James and Mary Dever of Lacon, Illinois and their brother William of Bloomington, Illinois were descended from one of these brothers. (Correction - James & Mary & William were brothers and sister) The Illinois descendants left no issue.
William's son Joseph had seven children. We do not know whether William had other children beside Joseph.