The Workman Families of Coshocton County, Ohio

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William and Barbara MaVkly, the grandfather and grandmother of William Workman, came from Frederick county, Maryland. William Makly died November 25, 1835, aged fifty-five years. Barbara Markly died March 16, 1877, aged ninety-eight years. Adam Markly, the great-grandfather of William Workman, came from Frederick county, Maryland, in April, 1808, and settled in Bethlehem township, this county. He brought with him eight sons and four daughters, viz.: Martin, William, John, Frederick, Amos, David, Abraham, Benjamin, Hester, Catharine, Elizabeth and Anna.

William Workman was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. In April, 1877, he went. to California on account of his health, intending to make it his permanent home, but, being dissatisfied with the State, he returned in September of the same year, and has since remained, engaged in farming.

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WORKMAN JESSE H., Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Coshocton; farmer; born June 12, 1859, in Coshocton; son of Jesse H., a native of Maryland, and grandson of Isaac Workman, whose father was a native of Holland. His mother's maiden name was Eliza Helabrant. She died in 1866 and his father in 1876; they are buried in the Coshocton cemetery. Jesse Workman is at present proprietor of a 375 acre farm, one and a half miles north of Coshocton, in the Tuscarawas valley.

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WORKMAN H. B. (Tiverton township); farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1838, in this county. His father, James Workman, was born in 1812, in Belmont county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1824. He was married in 1833, to Miss Hannah Walker of this county, who was born in 1816. He died in 1878, she died in 1858. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch being the second. He was married in 1860, to Miss Isabella Parmenter, of this county, who was born in 1841, near Hornesdale, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Albert, Calona B., Ida J., Alexander, Mary E., Irvin, Nettie and Pery W.

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JOSEPH WORKMAN. Joseph Workman is engaged in general agricultural pursuits and owns seventy-four acres of rich and well improved land in Tiverton township. He was born on a farm in Tiverton township, May 14, 1851, a son of Jesse and Nancy (Conner) Workman. The father was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1810, and was a lad of ten years when he came to Coshocton county, where he was reared. He followed farming as a life work, mainly in this county. In 1837, however, he went to Sullivan county, Indiana, and there remained until 1845, when he returned to Coshocton county, where he was engaged in farming until just before his death, when he removed to Holmes county and there passed away in 1873, his remains being interred in Tiverton. His first wife, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Conner, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 1863. She became the mother of ten children, namely: Nealy and Grace, who are deceased; Solomon, who follows farming in Sullivan county, Indiana; James R., Lewis, Maria, John and Ruey, all of whom have departed this life; and Mary and Joseph, twins, but the former is deceased. Following the death of his wife, Jesse Workman was again married, his second union being with Maria Parsons, by whom he had two children:

Alvie J., a telegraph operator in Marshallville, Ohio; and Willis T., who follows farming in Tiverton township.

Joseph Workman, the immediate subject of this sketch, was educated in the district schools of Tiverton township and remained under the parental roof until he had reached the age of twenty-two years. During this time he had been trained in the duties of the home farm, so that at that age he was well prepared to carry on farming on his own account. He owns seventy-four acres of land in Tiverton township, twenty-four acres in one tract and fifty acres in another, the latter tract being well adapted to the raising of wheat. Mr. Workman is successful in his work and Is numbered among the substantial citizens of his locality.

Mr. Workman was married in 1895 to Miss Lizzie A. Lonon, a resident of Coshocton county. In politics he is a democrat and in 1902-03 served as assessor of his township. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church and are people of the highest respectability, commanding the confidence and esteem of a large circle of friends.

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