Friday, February 17, 2012

Migration Patterns- 1820

Prior to 1820 the migration routes into the Northeast Ohio region were limited. Tales of torture and massacre could not stop Ohio's destiny. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 promised statehood when the region counted 60000 settlers. Th eIndians fought furiously, howeverpeace came and in 1803 Ohio became the first state carved out of the Northwest.

The National Road or Cumberland Road was the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government. Construction began heading west in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River. It crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), on the Ohio River in 1818.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_national_road

Beyond the National Road's eastern terminus at Cumberland and toward the Atlantic coast, a series of private turnpikes were completed in 1824, connecting the National Road with Baltimore, Maryland and its port on Chesapeake Bay; these feeder routes formed what is referred to as an eastern extension of the National Road. The approximately 620-mile (1,000 km) long National Road provided a connection between the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and a gateway to the West for thousands of settlers. It was the first road in the U.S. to use the new macadam road surfacing.[1]

As wide as 80 feet and largely graveled, it carried Conestoga wagons and stagecoaches. Travelers had to gather wood, herd livestock and watch for Indians.

During this early stage the major route overland was the Seneca Road which began in Buffalo and went as far as current day Cleveland. Two major trails moved back to the east coast traveling through the New England states. The southern route was the National Pike that came through the mid section, but during this time period there was no real extension up to the Northeast.

The roads during this time period were extensions of paths that had been created by the American Indians and had been used by them for centuries to travel between tribes. At this time they were not designed for wagon travel and many of the early settlers were forced to widen the roads as they traveled. Some of the early expansion of these roads occurred by the soldiers that were fighting during the War of 1812. Travel none the less was a long and difficult journey. Northeastern Ohio became a common stopping area on people's migration trails west.

Modes of Transportation
1) Turnpikes—The first turnpike, built by private stock companies and financed by private investments and toll revenues, opened in 1794 between Lancaster and Philadelphia. Its success stimulated similar projects and it also influenced the beginning of the National Road in 1811, which reached Wheeling by 1818.
Turnpikes were relatively short-lived because of assorted economic factors: for long hauls, their value was limited because of high tolls and long travel times

3) Canals—The canal "boom" began in the 1810s as a means of connecting existing waterways. By 1816, there were 100 miles of canals in the United States; only three canals were longer than two miles, thereby indicating the prevalence of short, local connecting spurs. Major canals of the time included:

Erie Canal (1817-1825) constructed by the State of New York; served as a model for other state projects. 364 miles long.

Ohio-Erie Canal completed in 1833 at a cost of $8 million, running 308 miles from Cleveland to Portsmouth on the Ohio River.

Miami-Erie Canal built in the western part of Ohio, from Cincinnati to Dayton in 1832, and to Toledo in 1845.

http://www.connerprairie.org/Learn-And-Do/Indiana-History/America-1800-1860/Travel-And-Transportation.aspx

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

Requirements:
Any woman of good moral character, eighteen years of age or over, is eligible for membership, provided she has been invited by the Society and is the lineal descendant of an ancestor who lived and served prior to 1701 in one of the Original Colonies in the geographical area of the present United States of America. Membership is in the National Society but members join through Chapters. Admission into the Society is by invitation and the endorsement by two members, to whom the applicant is known personally, and approval of lineage papers by the President General, Registrar General and Treasurer General. Documentary proof of an ancestor's service prior to 1701 is required. There are 18 categories of eligible service as detailed in the list below, including both male and female ancestors. No person may enter the Society under known false lineage records.
Leader and Membership Contacts:
National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
1300 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1595
202-293-1700
Email

Web Site:
http://www.colonialdames17c.net/index.html

Ohio Society of Colonial Dames 17th Century holds workshop
UPublish story by Sharon Snowden
Published: August 31, 2011 - 11:13 AM
Members of the Ezekial Richardson Chapter attended a State Workshop in Columbus presented by the Ohio Society of Colonial Dames 17th Century. National Heraldry Chair, Maureen McGowan-Singer, presented an informative workshop on heraldry, beginning with an overview and history of heraldry, the application process, shortcuts to applying, and what to expect while researching your family's coat of arms. Each participant was given a CD of the workbook used during the class, with the option of purchasing a hard copy in book form. The afternoon was divided into three sessions for members, including genealogy, leadership qualities and chapter revitalization. For more information on the Ezekial Richardson Chapter, Colonial Dames 17th Century Society, please contact Diana Allison at 330-633-7546 or email diana02@gmail.com.
https://www.dar.org/natsociety/pmd/prospective.cfm

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Treaty Of Greenville

The rapidly growing Caucasian nation held a loose political power over half a continent, and yet acknowledged that it did not either rightfully occupy or own a large part of the soil over which its flag waived, and that its citizens could not move unrestricted about, either on river or land, of their own free will. The newer Americans knew they could finally exterminate the red men by force of numbers if they chose to do so. But the policy would have required another generation or two of warfare and they were not inclined to follow such a plan. They believed they could acquire the country by using methods no less effective and more peaceable, so they set forth on a program of diplomacy under which the Indian were to be treated as friend and neighbor and through which the native possessions were to be secured by purchase and pressure as speedy as possible.

To the eastward of the described Indian domain lay a part of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and all the Atlantic coast region. South was the Ohio River, Kentucky, and Tennessee, already n the grasp of the Caucasians. Toward the North was Detroit and Lakes Erie and Michigan. With their obvious importance, and in the west were the Illinois towns won by Clark and the Upper Mississippi River. These possessions of the United States were all separated from one and other, and part of them were cut off from the bulk of the white population in the east, about 1/3rd of Ohio and practically all of Indiana and Illinois. Communication and access was vital. The only travel routes were Indian trails and the rivers. Consequently, a considerable part of the Treaty of Greenville was devoted to a careful description of routes over which the Indians consented that the white men might journey. In the language of the compact the said Indian tribes will allow the people of the United States free passage along five detailed travel routes. If he found himself of forbidden soil he was out of the protection of the United States and they could punish him as they saw fit.
Over them, for years thereafter, proceeded white movement in the region so penetrated, by canoe, flatboat, pack train and feet until the trails became roads.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Home of the Oorang Indians, NFL’s Most Colorful Franchise. The Oorang Indian football team was founded by LaRue native Walter Lingo, owner of the Oorang Airedale Dog Kennels. The team, comprised of Native American Indians, played in the National Football League (NFL) Ohio Historical Society www.ohiohistory.org
Historic American Indian Tribes of Ohio 26
in 1922-23. The star player and coach was Jim Thorpe (1887-1953), a Sac and Fox Indian. Thorpe gained international fame as a two-time gold medal winner (decathlon and pentathlon) in the 1912 Olympics and was acclaimed as the “World’s Greatest Athlete.” The team gave LaRue the distinction of being the smallest community ever to have an NFL franchise.

Marion County: Harrison Military Road, War of 1812

Marion County:
Harrison Military Road, War of 1812. The first road through Marion County followed the Scioto Trail of the Native Americans. This 120-foot wide strip through Wyandot territory led from Lower Sandusky (Fremont) to the Greene Ville Treaty Line. A confederation of Ohio tribes ceded it to the United States at the Treaty of Brownsville, Michigan, in 1808. During the War of 1812, the troops of General William Henry Harrison’s Army of the Northwest traveled this road en route to Fort Meigs and the British fort at Detroit, using it to transport supplies to the army and to the chain of forts and blockhouses that protected the road. After the American victory, this area was opened for settlement by the 1817 Treaty of the Maumee Rapids, and soldiers who discovered the area while traveling the Military Road were among the first settlers. On February 4, 1822, the Ohio Legislature established a state road from Norton to Sandusky along this route. It has also been known as the War Road, Norton Road, Marion-Delaware Pike, U.S. 23, and now, State Route 423. Near here, along the Olentangy (Whetstone) River, was Fort Morrow, one of a series of forts used to house troops and the earliest settlers including the Brundiges, Drakes, and Wyatts Cemetery nearby the abandoned fort is the oldest burying place in Marion County. Buried there are many of the county’s earliest settlers and thirteen unknown soldiers of the War of 1812.


Wyandot County:
Departure of the Wyandot Indians. The 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs opened much of northwest Ohio to white settlement. In return, the U.S. Government granted the Wyandot Nation permanent use of the Grand Reserve at present-day Upper Sandusky. There, farming continued, a school was built, and in 1824, this Mission Church was constructed by Indians and Methodist missionaries. However, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 called for reaction of all eastern Native Americans to areas beyond the Mississippi River. By 1840, all Ohio Indians had been removed except for the Wyandot, who refused to leave, preferring instead to stay upon their beloved Sandusky (now known as Killdeer) Plains. Facing considerable pressure from Federal authorities, the Wyandot Nation in 1842, agreed to relinquish the Grand Reserve and move west. From this site on July 12, 1843, 664 individuals began their week-long journey to awaiting steamboats at Cincinnati. The Wyandot were the last organized Native American people to leave Ohio, settling in modern-day Kansas and Oklahoma.
The 1782 Sandusky Campaign. At the twilight of the American Revolutionary War, British forces hired American Indians to conduct attacks on pioneers living along the Ohio and Pennsylvania border. In response the 13th Virginia Regiment, and over 400-man mounted unit formed by General William Irvine, was led by Colonel William Crawford to destroy the Sandusky towns of the Wyandots and Delawares. This volunteer army departed Mingo Bottom on Mary 25, 1782, and headed west into the Ohio country. On June 4, they met an Indian force at an area called “Battle Island,: located between Carey and Upper Sandusky. The Americans held the field, but withdrew when the British reinforced the Indians with Butler’s Rangers and Shawnee Indians. Crawford was ultimately captured, tortured, and killed by Delaware Indians.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Marion Ohio Gypsies


Queen Cleo Ann Judge was traveling through Marion County with a band of gypsys in the early 1900's. She died during childbirth on March 20, 1905, and was buried in the non-Catholic section of Saint Mary's Cemetery.



She was supposedly buried in an upright position (standing up) with her coffin encased in concrete...this was a gypsy burial tradition. Her grave is marked with an old wooden cross, as well as a new stone marker. Today people claim to see her restless spirit wandering throughout the cemetery, especially near her grave. Also, it's very bad luck to vandalize her grave...she supposedly puts a curse on anyone who does!



Now for some facts regarding Ann Judge (with many thanks to SJ Koblentz of the Marion County Historical Society):
Her legal name was Ann Judge, not Cleo Ann Judge. Ann Judge was a dancer who appeared on stage at the Saint Louis Worlds Fair in 1904.





As reported in the Marion Star, Judge entered into a relationship with another performer who left her when he discovered that she was pregnant.





Alone, she turned to another group of performers (Roma/Gypsy) at the fair, one of which declared that she wasn't Simply Ann Judge, but that she was also "Queen Cleo." She began touring with this band of travellers.





While this band had been through Marion County before (prior to having Judge join them), they were allowed to make a winter camp in Big Island Township by a farmer who befriended them.
Ann died from complications following childbirth - the baby did not survive either.





The "gypsy" clan sought a local undertaker who would allow them to prepare the body of Ann and the body of her infant for burial. Telegrams were sent to other bands, and the body was displayed in the window of the undertakers until the mourners arrived in town. Then the clan removed the body and placed both remains in a coffin - the undertaker was not permitted to see this process - for burial and the excursion to the Catholic Cemetery proceeded.



Ann is buried in unhallowed ground not because she was a gypsy, but because the baby was conceived out of wedlock and wasn't baptized in the Catholic Church.


LEGEND has it that she was buried "standing up", but we can find no documented evidence to corroborate this.
For several years following her death, the clans would covene in Marion on the anniversary of her death, but haven't done so (with public acknowledgement) for many, many years.















GYPSY DIVORCE SUIT 1882 30TH MARCH OHIO

LEVI LEFFMAN HUSBAND OF MATILDA LEFFMAN /STANLEY THE GYPSY QUEEN HAS SUED HIS WIFE FOR DIVORCE HE AVERS HE WAS LEGALLY MARRIED TO HER IN BOLIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI IN JANUARY 1881 AND THAT SHE WENT TO DAYTON WITH HER FAMILY LATER THAT SAME YEAR AND ON 23RD OF SEPT WAS GIVEN IN MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM JEFFREY WITH WHOM SHE LIVED AS HIS WIFE VER SINCE.THESE GYPSIES ARE WELL KNOWN ARE WELL KNOWN THROUGH OUT THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN STATES.


1901 MAY 9TH OHIO



THE GYPSY, HARRISON/ GORMAN/ COOPER/ JEFFERIES/ TRIBES OF HORSE TRADING GYPSIES THE RICHEST AND LARGEST ROAMING BAND IN OHIO CROWNED LULA MAY GORMAN THE GYPSY QUEEN AT THEIR CAMP IN HAMILTONON ARIL 30TH THE TRIBE HAS BEEN UNDER A REGENCY SINCE THE DEATH A YEAR AGO OF THEIR QUEEN AND ACCORDING TO GYPSY CUSTOM THEIR NEW QUEEN COULDN'T BE CROWNED UNTIL SHE REACHED 19 YEARS, WHICH SHE DID THAT DAYTHE QUEEN WAS RICHLY GOWNED IN WHITE SATIN AND WAS CROWNED BY THE OLDEST WOMAN IN THE TRIBEFIVE HUNDRED GYPSIES CAME MANY COMING A GREAT DISTANCE AND AFTER THERE WAS A DANCE





1905 JUNE 4TH OHIO
PRISONER LOCKED UP FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERYEDDIE GORMAN 22 SON OF LEADER OF GORMAN TRIBE OF GYPSIES WITH COOPER TRIBE OF GYPSIES CAMPED NEAR SEVENMILE OHIO WAS ONE OF 2 MEN WHO ROBBED GRANT BLOSSOM OF HIS HORSE WHIP LAP ROBE AND $3 GORMAN WAS HELD UNDER A $ 1.00 BAIL AND KEPT IN JAIL AWAITING A HEARING THE FOLLOWING DAYIT WAS SUGGESTED GROMAN HAD BOUGHT A HORSE FROM BLOSSOM AND WHEN BLOSSOM FOUND IT TO BE A BAD TRADE ASKED FOR MONEY BACK THATS WHEN GORMAN AND LEONARD COOPER ATTACKED HIM AND ROBBED HIM.THIS MORNING GORMAN GAVE HIS BOND BY SURETY OF MR O BURNS AND WAS RELEASEDLEONARD COOPER WHO WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY IS STILL HELD IN AT THE STATON HOUSE HIS HEARING WILL BE TOMORROW.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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