SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE MEETING-HOUSE

At Tarlton, Ohio, in 1830
 

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SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE MEETING-HOUSE
At Tarlton, Ohio, in 1830

By William Hamilton Hannum

The following subscription-list containing the names of fifty-four early settlers of Pickaway Co., Ohio has been found
among the effects of William Hamilton. Know all men by these presents that we the Undersigned Subscribers here Constitute & Appoint David Agustus Israel Todd & John Agustus Jnr A Board of trustees with full power to Appoint their own treasurer and Collector and fill all Vacancies in their own body for the purpose of building a Meeting House or Church in or Near the Town of Tarlton Pickaway County & State of Ohio which building Shall be begun and Finished As
soon as expedient after Sufficient Subscribers Shall have been Obtained in Size Not less than 36 feet in length & 30 in breadth one Story High building when Completed Shall be the property of the Presbyterian Society whch now are or Mav Hereafter be established in the Said town of Tarlton Who May Preach in the English Language with the privilege of the house Extended to all Other Christian Societies When Not Occupied by the Afforesaid proprietors the said building to be built of Brick In order to Carry the said Object into Effect we hereby bind Ourselves unto David King Treasurer & Collector of the Said trustees to pay him or his order Severally the Amount of our Subscriptions As follows (to wit) the one fourth thereof on the first day of Sept. 1830 and the Remaining three fourths Quarter Annually thereafter excepting Articles of Trade which if Grain or Whiskey Shall be delivered to the Said Treasurer on or before the first of Jan 1831 At Market price in Cash in the Said Town of Tarlton if Materials for building or labor when Called for any person or persons Subscribing Hailing or Labor Must board themselves of the Said building to the Trustees of Presbyterian Society as soon as it Shall be so far Completed as to be occupied beneficially by them & Submit there accounts of the Expenses thereof to there Examination holding themselves Responsible to them for the faithful Application of the funds Committed to there Charge arising Either from Subscriptions or donations June 3, 1830.

The meeting-house was eventually erected on the northern edge of the village of Tarlton, on the Zanesville and Maysville Turnpike. It may have been north of the line in Fairfield County. The 'Presbyterian Society' was under the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. The present building of the Presbyterian Church, two blocks south of the turnpike, was for many years used by the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation.

The subscription-list shows 54 names, counting one cancelled because of duplication, that of George Dresbach. Opposite the name of John Lyons Jnr. the entry of settlement was cancelled, having been erroneously entered for him instead of Fred Julien.

William Hamilton's name is next to the last(53rd). He was the eldest child of David and Mary (Alexander) Hamilton and
was born in 1808 at Great Cove, in Bedford (now Fulton) County, Pa. He came in infancy to a farm near Beuna Vista
(now called Middlefork) in Perry Township, Hocking County, Ohio. The patent, granting that tract to David Hamilton is
signed by James Madison in 1812 and counter-signed by Edward Tiffin. William was 22 years old when he placed his signature on this list, and was a farmer, and teacher. Nine years later he married Rebecca, daughter of John Augustus Sr.: they lived just south of Oakland, Clearcreek Township, Fairfield County. William was an elder in the Church at Tarlton. In 1833 he became major of the 2nd Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Ohio Militia, and in 1839 Colonel, After serving about 3 years as county-surveyor at Lancaster, Ohio he died there in 1856, and was buried beside the graves of his 3 little sons in the cemetery at Tarlton.

James Chambers, (No. 3 on list), was William Hamilton's step-father, and lived in Clearcreek Township. The patent for
James' farm there, bears the signature of J. Q. Adams, dated in 1827. James the eldest of 4 sons of Alexander and Isabelle Chambers, was born in 1770, probably in County Tyrone, Ireland, and is thought to have studied theology in Edinburgh, Scotland. The preamble of this list appears to be in his neat handwriting, as are also probably 40 or more of the Subscribers' names. Till 1802 he was in the employ of Robert Hamilton, Pa., grandfather of William. James's business-experience seems to have made him the custodian of this list. His wife Mary (Alexander, Hamilton), died in 1843, and was buried at Tarlton.

When their daughter, Mary Ann Chambers, had been married to Mahlon Ashbrook in 1849, James sold his farm and removed to Sidney, Ohio., where he died in 1858. The Ashbrooks lived at Ashville, Pickaway 0., till 1859, when they removed to St. Joseph. Mo. where some of their descendants still live.

John Chambers (28) was a younger brother of James. His first wife, living at the time of this subscription, was Elizabeth, daughter of John McFarland, who lived at Mullaughban, near Ballygawley, County Tyrone. John Chambers resided about 4 miles east of Tarlton in Perry Township, Hocking County, near where James had lived. John had 4 sons and 1 daughter and their descendants are living in Pickaway, Alien and other counties in Ohio.

John Augustus Sr. (6) was the eighth of 11 children of John and Elizabeth (Springer) Augustus of Wilmington, Del.,
and was born in 1775. He married Hannah Hendrickson, both being of the old Swedish and Dutch community. After a stay in Virginia they came about 1805 to Ohio, settling in Clearcreek Township, Fairfield County, about 2 miles northeast of Tarlton.

He was a farmer, and in 1817 was elected as associate judge and so served about 5 years in Lancaster. He died in 1847, and was buried, with his wife and several children, in the Augustus cemetery on his farm.

David Augustus ( 7), who is named as a trustee of the building fund, was the eldest of the 7 children of the foregoing John, and was born in 1799, probably in Wilmington, At the age of 21 he married Catherine Rice of Lancaster, where they lived for a time, removing to Clearcreek Township, where he took up experiments in agriculture. He later went west, probably first to Illinois, but his death occurred in 1858 at Carthage, Mo., where his son William was living.
John Augustus Jr., who is named as a trustee, was the second child of Judge John Augustus, and was born in 1802 in
Delaware or Virginia. His first wife Anna, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Kirkwood, died about 2 years after the time of
this subscription, and her grave is in the Augustus cemetery.

They had 3 children, of whom the eldest, dark, removed to Bloomington, ILL., and had a large family. John married twice afterward. He removed to Cincinnati and probably about 1849 to Newport. Ind., and later to Bloomington, ILL., where he died in 1883.

Jacob Larrick (25) owned a farm on the north edge of the village, and is said to have been the proprietor of a tannery in Tarlton, and to have removed later to Adelphi about 6 miles south. The grave-record at Tarlton shows his birth about 1779 in Virginia and death 23 July 1862. He seems to have been connected with the Augustus family, for Maria, daughter of David Augustus, is thought to have been married to a Larriek, perhaps a son of Jacob. Maria and her family lived near Bloomington. Wesley Larrick, who lived in Platt Co., ILL., many years, removed to Decatur, and later lived in the Soldier's Home at Danville, may have been Jacob's son. A family named Larrick was keeping a hotel in Tarlton about the time of the civil war or before, and the proprietor may have been Wesley.

Jacob Reams (43) was of a family whose name was also spelled Ream and Rheem, and this Jacob was probably the person known in the family records as Daniel Rheem. The record in the Probate Court at Lancaster states the marriage of Jacob Ream and Sarah Augustus on the 17th April 1834, solemnized by Rev. Henry King, and Daniel Rheem was there clearly meant. Daniel was a son of Samuel and Susan (Wunderlick) Rheem, and had come from Carlisle, Pa. His Wife, Sarah, was a daughter of Judge John Augustus. Daniel lived in Madison Township, Fairfield Co., about 4 mile northeast of Tarlton, and later kept a mill about a mile southwest of Lancaster. He removed with his family, about 1867, to a farm near Lonejack, Jackson Co., Mo., and his descendants live in Missouri, Kansas, California, etc. Daniel (alias Jacob) was probably connected with the large family of Abraham Reams, who operated a mill in Bern Township, Fairfield Co. Both families had come about two generations before from Germany.

William Willson (16) had married Ann, sister of Mary (Alexander-Hamilton) Chambers. The Willsons had come from
Bedford Co., Pa., and they lived near Buena Vista, on a farm adjoining that of David Hamilton, and there they died, leaving no children.

Susanna McClelland (15) was the widow of James McClelland and younger sister of Mary and Ann Alexander. James
was a son of Robert, who was born in 1754, probably in Lancaster Co., Pa.; migrated to Hocking Co., O., probably about 1805; died there in 1834, and was buried at Tarlton. Robert was probably related to Captain John McClelland, who was born in 1734 in Lancaster Co., removed to Westmoreland Co., was active in the Revolution and died on his farm, probably near Buena Vista, Pa., in 1819. James was born there in 1781 and came to Ohio about 1805. He erected on his farm near Buena Vista, 0., the stone house which still stands, marked with his name and the year of its completion, 1825, which was the year of his death. The barn had been built in 1813, and it was then that David Hamilton was killed by a falling log. David was buried at Tarlton, where his wife was laid beside him nearly 30 years later. James McClelland also was buried there, and Susanna too, who died within a year after signing this subscription. They had 3 sons and 5 daughters, and their descendants are numerous in Ohio and other States.

Samuel Noble(l) lived on a farm a mile south of Tarlton. He had come probably in 1816, from Virginia. His will, made
20 Sep. 1832 and recorded at Circleville, names his wife Mary, with 2 sons and 4 daughters. The elder son was Colonel John Noble, who had come to Lancaster, O., about 1815 as a tailor, but he owned and managed the Union Hotel on Main Street, on the site of the later Tallmadge House and Kirn House* In 1832 he opened the National Hotel on High Street in Columbus, on the spot where the erection of the Neil House was begun in 1839. He was a member of the City-Council in Columbus, and in 1846 he was elected to represent Franklin County in the General Assembly. He then became proprietor of the Pearl House in Cincinnati, where in 184S or 1849 he entertained President-elect Zachary Taylor. John Noble had 2 sons and 3 daughters.

One was John W. Noble, who lived in S't. Louis, Mo., and was Secretary of the Interior in President W. H. Harrison's brief administration. The other son was Henry C. Noble, a prominent attorney of Columbus. The daughters were the wives of leading men of that city. One of Samuel Noble's daughters was Mary, who in 1816 was married to Samuel Effinger, a coppersmith in Lancaster. Her gravestone in Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster, gives the record: 'Born Emmetsburg, Md., May 24, 1796; Died March 25, 1859' Samuel died in 1833 soon after the completion of his brick house on the public square. The house, after about 100 years, was demolished, and its front door with some interior parts is preserved in the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts.

Another of Samuel Noble's daughters, Anne, was married in 1836 to Hugh Wilson. whose farm was close to the Nobles'. She died in 1839, leaving 2 children. Hugh was a son of John Wilson. and was born in 1813 in Ireland. The Wilsons came about 1825 to Washington Co., Pa., and about 1835 to Ohio.

Hugh in 1842 married Margaret Kinnear, by whom he had 3 children. In 1851 he married Mary, daughter of Judge John Augustus (Mentioned above) and widow of James Earhart. She had no children, and died in 1855 and was buried in the Augustus cemetery. Hugh in 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa., married Susan, daughter of Samuel Lybrand of Tarlton (mentioned lielow) Hugh died in 1875, and his son by the second wife, David K- Wilson, occupied the home-place till his death in 1930.

Robert P. Noble (2) was the son of Samuel Noble. Robert's will, made 30 Oct. 1847, names his 2 children, Samuel and Isabella. Robert Carnes of Scotch Irish descent, had come from Virginia, having been born in 1785. In 1806 he married Nancy Stewart. whose borth occurred in 1785 and death in 1851. They removed from the vicinity of Tarlton to a farm about 3 miles southwest of Lancaster, on the pike, where he bought a section of land and built a tavern, obert died in 1853; he and Nancy were buried in the cemetery at Ainanda. His granddaughter, Miss Ellen M. Carnes of Lancaster, has a copy of the coat-of-arms and crest of the family and some of the heirlooms.
 

Samuel and Charles C. Lybrand (10, 11) lived in Tarlton and worked in the tannery later operated by David Alien Hamilton, brother of William. Samuel had been, from 1818 to 1824, a member of the House of Representatives for the Hocking Pickaway District.

George S. Binkley (17) kept a store. James Chamber's ledger has an inscription on the fly-leaf in James's hand: 'Bot.
of Geo. S. Binkley Tarlton Ohio Jan. 14th 1830 Price .87'1/2 Cts.

Joseph A. Starling was the minister, probably leader of the movement for the church-building, and thought to be related to Lyne Starling, the pioneer settler of Columbus. Joseph afterward lived in Lancaster. This grave is in Elmwood
Cemetery there. The stone bears the record; Rev. Joseph A. Starling, Died June 25, 1855. Aged 56 years. Eleanor Starling Died July 9, 1881. Aged 82 years.

Henry Sehrung (20) lived about 4 miles west of Tarlton. The name commonly has been spelled Zehring, as in the mar-
riage-record in the Probate Court at Circleville, (III. 19) 1832 Mar. 15 License to Henry Zehring and Susanna Wallace.
He was an uncle of John, who is remembered as a tinner in the village.

Elijah Hedges (23) was one of several families of the name. Hedges, in Saltcreek and Clearcreek Townships. Some
of that name were buried in the Augustus cemetery.

N. Couldron (22), commonly spelled Coldren, lived about 2 miles northeast of Tarlton. His son Andrew long continued on the same farm.

Nimrod Davison (34) was a druggist in Tarlton. He had 2 daughters, one of whom was the wife of James Cregor, who
was probably a son of William (43).

George S. Nigh (45) is thought to have been the keeper of the tavern in the western part of the village. George was
probably the father of Frederick W. Nye, a prominent citizen.

John Shaver (50), otherwise spelled Shaeffer, probably lived about 5 miles northeast of Tarlton, in Madison Township, near Mechanicsburg, a place now known as Drinkle.
 

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