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 HISTORY or RICHLAND COUNTY.

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��taken from a photograph, but his body was never recovered — it sleeps on tlie blood-stained field of Chickamauga. William Curtis, the sec- ond son, was elected Captain of Company C, Oiie Hundred and Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to Virginia, Fort Reno, in the lUO-days service. Quite a numl)er of his company was made up of recruits from this township — Joseph H. Brown, Second Lieu- tenant ; Peter Sterritt, First Lieutenant ; Jacob Rohrer, First Orderly Sergeant ; James Hughes, Orderly ; David Berry, Levi Nelson, Allen Haverfleld, Ben Fgner, Chief Artificer ; Isaac Connelly, Third Sergeant ; William Houston, Winfield Houston, Benjamin Crabbs. Thomas Hughes. Joe Balderson, Amos Jump. M. Ozier, Marvin Seaton. J. W. Tucker, privates.

After his return from the service, he married the youngest daughter of John E. Palmer, and on the death of his father, which took place in 1864, he inherited the old homestead, which he sold, and moved to Illinois. He was not con- sidered a very efficient officer, and was very un- popular with his men.

In addition to the company raised for the 100-days service above mentioned, most of which were from this township, quite a numl)er of volunteers went into other companies. Jacob Ward went in the Fifteenth, and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga ; Joseph W. Palmer, John Fickes, Bent Martin, Joseph Haverfield, Steven Clifl^brd and J. Miller were in the cavalry service — the former three in McLaughlin's squadron. Clifford re-enlisted, and went into the Ohio Battery. H. O. Pittenger, Milton Charles, Newton Charles went into the One Hundred and Second ; Martin Taggart. in the One Hundred and Twentieth ; was taken pris- oner, and confined nineteen months ; Elmer Nel- son was in the Fifteenth ; was taken prisoner and confined in Lil)by Prison and Anderson- ville ; Franklin Osbun, Lemuel Pittenger, I. Pittenger, Freeman Osl)un, Melvin Osl)un. James Weagl}', James Mason were in the One Hun-

��dred and Sixty-third. Gaylord Ozier and his brother, Kemp Ozier, were taken prisoners, and kept in Andersonville ten months.

Henry Newman settled on the quarter section on which the Franklin M. E. Church stands in 1822, and donated the church one acre of ground, when that edifice was built. He was the oldest son of Jacob Newman, of Mansfield, one of the proprietors of that town ; came with his father before the war, when a boy, to where Mansfield now stands, and, with others at that day, encountered many difficulties and dangers from Indians and other sources. He taught school several terms when young. In the spring of 1822, he commenced opening up his farm, and soon after married Miss Jane Ward. He had three sons and four daughters ; all his boys went into the service. Capt. Jacob New- man (the oldest) was shot through the body at the battle of Shiloh ; the surgeon, considering his case hopeless, refused to di-ess his wound for twenty-four hours after the battle. He was sent to Pittsburgh on the lioat. where his mother met him, and nursed him into life, and he re- turned to sendee. Joseph, the second son, was mortally wounded at the battle of Mission Ridge, and died soon after. He was for some time attached to the staff of Gen. Williams.

Capt. Andrew Newman, the third son, went through the entire service ; at the battle of Jonesboro, behind Atlanta, half his regi- ment fell. After the close of the war, he en- tered college and studied law, but his constitu- tion was shattered, and he broke down, and slowly sank to rest.

William Houston, of 01ivesl)urg, came from the State of Delaware in 1815. and entered a half-section of land adjoining what is now the village of Olivesburg. He had five sons — JomUhan, Richard. Joseph. William and Robert. He was chiefl}' instrumental in the building of the first Presbyterian Church, and also the first schoolhouse. He furnished all the siding for the church, and hauled it with his team from

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