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��county, and at present lives about one mile east of Shenandoah. Mr. and Mrs. Cline have four children, whose names are Roderick, Catherine, Gracie M. and Roll en S.

COLMAN, .JOHN, farmer; P. 0. Adario ; he was born in Columbia Co., Penn., .June 8, 1831 ; he is a son of .Joseph and Diadem Colman, who moved to Richland Co. (into what is now Ashland Co.) in 1839. The sub- ject of this sketch is the second of a family of four children. He lived at home until he was married, Nov. 18, 1852, to Magdeline Cassall, of Ashland Co., who was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., Feb. 26, 1830. After his marriage, he went to Williams Co., Ohio, where he lived about seventeen years, and then sold out and bought where he now resides in Butler Township, about one and a quarter miles northeast of Adario. Mr. Coleman has held several of the minor offices in the township. Mr. and Mrs. C. have nine children, whose names are Alice S., .John D., Orin S., Diadem H., Samantha M., George E., Theodore L., Arthur K. and Mary E.

DANCER, D. S., farmer; P. 0. Adario; he was born in Richland Co. Feb. 28, 1837. and is a son of J. B. Dancer, of Butler Township, and is the eldest of the family now living ; he remained at home until he was 17 years old, when he went to Indiana, where he re- mained one year, when he came home, and, in a few years, he went to Illinois, where he lived about five years, when he came back to Richland Co., and, in 1861, enlisted in the 2d 0. V. C, Co. M ; in .June, 1864, he, with the rest of his company, was taken prisoners ; he was in many rebel prisons and was finally released on the 28th of April, 1865. He reached home on the 7th of June, 1865, where he stayed about five years, when he married Margaret Tucker in February, , 1870, daughter of Thomas Tucker, of Butler Township. After his marriage, he moved to the present farm, about one and a half miles northeast of Shenandoah. Mr. Dancer has held some of the minor offices in the township. Mr. and Mrs. Dancer have four children — J. B.. G. K., Thomas H. and Martha H.

DANCER, .J. B., farmer ; P. 0. Adario ; he was born in .JelFerson Co. in 1815; his parents came some time before the above date from Washington Co., Penn., to .Jefferson, and, in 1831, with their family of five chil- dren, moved to Richland Co., where they lived about twenty-three years ; they then emigrated to De Kalb Co., Ind., where they spent the rest of their days. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was married in 1838 to Sarah A. Stratton, of Butler Town- ship, whose parents came to Richland in 1820 from Pennsylvania. After Mr. D.'s marriage, he settled on the farm where .James Beveridge now lives, where he resided about six years, when he sold out and lived on his father's place about three years, and then bought and moved on a farm adjoining the Beveridge place, where he resided about twelve years ; he then sold out and moved on the present farm. Mr. and Mrs. Dancer have three children, all of whom are married. His only son was in the war of the rebellion three years and nine months, ten months of which time he was in rebel prisons. Mr. Dancer can recall many incidents and privations of pioneer life and has done a great deal of hard work in his time.

��DAVIDSON, PETER, farmer ; P. 0. Adario ; he was born in Scotland May 10, 1810; he is a son of .John and Margaret Davidson; he emigrated to this State from Scotland by the way of New York, Buffalo and Cleveland, and settled in Huron (in what is now Ash- land) Co. in the fall of 1836, where he lived until the spring of 1858, when he bought and moved to his present farm. Mr. Davidson has always followed farm- ing, and is respected by all who know him. He was married in 1837 to Margaret Beatfie, who came from Scotland in 1836 ; Mr. and Mrs. B. have five children —.John, who served in the war of the rebellion ; Sarah M., Catharine .J., William and .James L. Mr. Davidson has held some of the minor offices in the township and is a man who believes in living up to the times.

DOBBIN, JOHN, farmer ; P. 0. Adario ; he was born in Brook Co., Va., March 31, 1805, and is a son of James and Jane Dobbin ; he is the eldest of a family of three children ; he remained at home until he was mar- ried, in 1839, to Ann Nicholls ; after his marriage, he moved to Allegheny Co., Penn., where he lived until after the death of his wife, who died in 1854. He was married, in the spring of 1857, to Sarah K. McCoy, of Pittsburgh, Penn., and, in the same spring, moved to Richland Co., to a tract of land in Butler Township, which is a part of the present farm Mrs. Dobbin's father, A. McCoy, served in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbin have one son — John William.

EAKIN, R. J., merchant, Adario; he was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 22, 1840, and is a son of James and Hannah Eakin ; he remained at home until he was 21 years old, when he entered school at Coolville, Athens Co., Ohio, and was in different parts of the State until 1871, when he went to Savannah, where he acted as steward in the boarding halls until 1876, when he went into the mercantile trade in Adario ; he is now doing a thriving business. Mr. and Mrs. Eakin have one child — John.

FACKLER, HENRY, farmer ; P. 0. Adario ; he was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., July 8, 1805, and is a son of Abram and Elizabeth Fackler : he is the eighth of a family of twelve children ; he remained at home until he was 23 years old, when he went to learn the tanner's trade, and, in 1829, came to Ohio and traveled back, by the way of York State, to Dauphin Co., Penn.; in 1831, he came to Richland Co., Ohio, and bought a tract of land in Weller Township. In the fall of 1831, he mai-- ried Catherine Crall, who was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., and moved, with her parents, Mathias and Eliza- beth Crall, to Richland Co. in 1819, and settled in Franklin Township. Mr. Fackler lives on a highly improved farm about one mile west of Adario, in But- ler Township. Mr. and Mrs. Fackler have ten chil- dren, 'all of whom, but one, are married; their names are Abram, Hii-am, Mary, Joshua, Mathias C, Cath- erine, Henry, Elizabeth, Louisa A. and Alice E. Matbias and Henry were in the war of the rebellion ; Mathias served in the 1st Ohio Battery; he went out in the summer of 1862, and was mustered out the 26th of June, 1865.

FORD, G. W., ftirmer ; P. 0. Adario ; he was born in Richland Co. Sept. 24, 1836, and is a son of Joshua and Elizabeth Ford, who came to this county in the

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