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��knowledge of her husband's trade, she continued to ply the needle with fair success ; her eldest son, who had enlisted as a private in Company A, 64th O. v. I., Oct. 16, 1861, and served with credit till Febru- ary, 1863, when he was honorably discharged on ac- count of ill health, and returned home, never recovered from the shock his constitution had received ; con- sumption had become firmly seated, and baffled the skill of the best physicians ; he lingered a few months ; de- parted this life Dec. 2, 18G3, and was buried with the honors of war in the Newville Cemetery ; her second son, William H., died of consumption Feb. 24, 1870; by industry and economy, Mrs. Hughes has been able to maintain herself and family ; her eldest daughter married James Ross, of Lucas, who is now mail agent on the Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railroad ; her youngest daughter married George Sweasinger, a blacksmith, formerly of Perryville, now of Newville, Ohio ; Alexander has been in the West for many years ; Irwin I'esides with his mother. Mrs. Hughes has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church more than fifty years, and has always contributed her share toward the support of the Gospel and other religious purposes.

KOOKEN, H. C, shoemaker, Newville. H. C. Kooktn was born southeast of Ashland September 3, 1837 ; he is of German and French extraction. His father, William H. Kooken was born in Bedford Co., Penn., about 1801 ; Mr. Kooken, at 14 years of age, began to learn the shoemaking trade, at which he still works; married Susan Devenbaugh May 12, 1836; she was born April 8, 1804, in Westmoreland Co., Penn, and came to Ohio at 10 years of age. William Kooken settled near Ashland in 1831 ; he lived here thirty years, then removed to Miiflin Township, this county ; after nine years he removed to Monroe Township ; they were the parents of twelve children, of whom three only are alive, viz., Henry Kooken, William Kooken, Jr., and Louisa Fulton ; Henry Kooken learned the shoemaker's trade. September 25, 1862, he married Mary Elizabeth Pearce, a daughter of Louis Pearce. Her father was born in Allegheny Co., Penn., June 19, 1797; December 80, 1850, he died on his way home from California ; his first wife was his cousin Susan Pearce, whom he married in 1821 ; she died De- cember 20, 1822. Susan Kooken' s father, Daniel Devenbaugh, is said to be the first white man that was in Richland County. He drove a baggage wagon in Geo. Wayne's army, was also an Indian Trader, he and the old Indian chief, Jerome, used to camp together on Jerome Fork. John Kooken, William Kooken, Sr.'s father, served as a private in the war of 1812. Henry Kooken has two sons and four daughters, viz., Landon McG., Esther C, Luella V. (now dead) Lizzie E., Mary (now dead) and Louis. James Pearce, Sr., and his wife, Sarah (Horn) Pearce, were great-grandchildren of Will- iam, Prince of Orange They settled in New Amster- dam. Stephen Pearce' s wife, Mary Kinney, daughter of Louis Kinney, married in Sussex Co., N. J., in 1762 ; they came to Allegheny Co., Penn., from there to Columbiana Co., and laid out New Lisbon, and then to Richland Co, close to Perryville, where the wife died and was buried ; they are said to have been great-grand- children of Louis XIV, of France ; their parents fled

��to Holland during the persecution, and from there to America. Some of their descendants are supposed to be the Vanderbecks, Waldrons, Browers, Webbers, Du- bois, Bogart, Delamater and Bogardus.

LEEDY, HARVEY A., farmer; P. O.Butler. Mr. Leedy was born Nov. 2, 1856, in Jefferson Township ; Jacob B. Leedy, his father, was born in April, 1831, he was a carpenter by trade, at which he worked for ten or twelve years ; he was married to Barbary Garber in 1853 or 1854 ; this lady became the mother of four sons and two daughters, viz., Mary Alice, Harvy A., Casper N., John Sherman, Rowan M. and Florence N. Leedy ; Mrs. Leedy was a daughter of Michael Garber, a citi- zen of Jefferson Township. Jacob Leedy enlisted in the hundred-day service in the spring of 1864 ; he was there but three months when he died at Fortress Mon- roe, in Virginia ; his widow had 40 acres of land ; on this, assisted by a pension, she raised her children ; she died Dec. 4, 1872. Harvey Leedy, the subject of this sketch, was raised a farmer ; Oct. 12, 1875, he was married to Nancy A. Divelbiss, a daughter of David Divelbiss ; Mr. Leedy worked on a farm for a year or more after his marriage ; in 1877, he bought 80 acres of the Divelbiss estate, one half of same being be- queathed to his wife.

LIME, MARTIN, agent; P. 0. Newville. M. L. Lime was born five miles from Mansfield, on Lime's hill, July 15, 1835. His father, Michael Lime, was born in Cumberland Co. Penn., in 1805 or 1806; he was of German origin; during his earlier years, he farmed, afterward became the servant of the State, filling such places of public trust as Deputy Sheriff, Constable, Justice of the Peace (which office he still holds). He married Christena Ridenour ; she became the mother of one son and two daughters ; one of the girls is dead. They (Mr. and Mrs. Lime,) lived together eight or nine years, when the mother died ; after remaining a widower four years, Mr. Lime married Lydia Culver; she bore him one son ; as they could not live amicably, they were divorced. He then married Elizabeth Henry : they raised a daughter, who is married and living at Crestline, Ohio. Michael Lime's eldest son, Martin, was a bricklayer by trade, also an engineer; followed these trades alternately for fifteen years ; next went into the dry-goods and notion business, which he followed for five years ; for the past nine years, he has been sewing-machine agent for various companies ; he now represents the Howe Company ; in 1860, he was mar- ried to Susan Wetzler, daughter of H. Wetzler ; she was born about the year 1837 ; they are the parents of four sons and one daughter (the daughter Alice is now dead); the boys are, Augustus Y., Victor, William A. and Clifton E. Mr. Lime lives in the village of Newville, where he has lately erected a new house ; he and his wife are in the prime of life, with the pros- pect of many useful years before them.

LONG, ABRAM, farmer ; P. 0. Butler ; was born in Bedford Co., Penn., A. D. 1805 ; his father, John Long, was born in Maryland, A. D. 1780; John Long was of German descent ; he was a farmer by occupation ; he was married to Miss Susannah, daughter of Abram Leedy, of Bedford Co., Penn., by whom he had twen- ty-one children, nine sons and twelve daughters. He emigrated to Knox Co., Ohio, in 1816, and entered 135

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