Ebenezer Baughman

E. BAUGHMAN.

Among the old settlers of this county were the parents of the subject of this brief memoir. The father was Jacob Baughman.

I who was born in Muskingum county, this, state, and the mother was formerly Mbs Rachel Wymer, a native of Pennsylvania.

: Subject's grandparents on both sides were also natives of the state of Pennsvlvanin. Jacob Baughman grew to manhood on his father's farm in Muskingum county. During his boyhood the county was very new I and the forests which covered the land were tilled with wild and dangerous animals. He j was fortunate to receive a fair education in the old subscription schools, and his summers were spent at hard work in the forest and on the farm. Work then was almost wholly done by hand, there being no lalvirsaving machinery as at the present time. The sowing was done by hand among the stumps of the clearings and raked in by

6do rude harrows, which were dragged around among the stumps. The grain when ripe was reaped with either a sickle or a cradle, both methods requiring the expenditure of plenty of muscle. Mr. Baughman removed from Muskingum county to Wyandot county in 1838 by team and at that time subject was about fourteen years old, having been born in Muskingum county June 13. 1824. This part of the state at that time was a wilderness, the land being covered with unbroken forests of the heaviest timber. There were no roads whatever, the only traveled highway being trails through the dense woods. Very often while on the journey the men were forced to go ahead and cut a path from the— brush and fallen trees, or repair a stream from which the rude bridge had been washed, or were obliged to fell enough brush to form a bridge such as could be crossed. The trip was very hard and is vividly remembered to this dav by subject. They halted in Salem township and entered two hundred acres of heavy timber land and at once put up a rude log cabin, eighteen by twenty feet, in the dense woods before a clearing of any size had been made. Upon this farm the parents resided until their respective deaths, the father dying August 25, 1873, and the mother about 1855. The father was born August 25, 1794, and was thus exactly seventy-nine years old at the time of his death. Plis life was filled with hard work, but had its bright sides. He was a man of strict jones tv and he and wife were people of high character. In early years he had learned the trade of carpentering, which he followed more or less all his life in conjunction with farming. It is claimed that he secured the first petition for a road ever issued in Salem township. He was township trustee for several years and held other positions of trust, and was a pioneer of the best and highest type and a man of unusual capacity. He was a Democrat and a member of the Bible Society. To him and wife were born ten children, as follows: George, dead; David, dead; Ebenezer. subject; Hannah, dead; Rachel, dead; Xotchie, dead; Susan, dead; Jacob; James, dead, and Lucy. Ebenezer lived at home until the age of j twenty-five years. He then married Miss Mary Werner on July 4, 1850. She was a native of Tuscarawas county, a woman of most estimable qualities, who died March 16, 1871. To subject and wife these children were born: Cornelius, who wedded Miss Delila Fenstemacher and lives in Ridge township; George, who married Miss Serinda Mohart and resides with his father: Elizabeth; Rachel, who married Joseph Fenstemacher and after his death wedded John Wright, of Carey; Emanuel, who married Miss Delila Searfoss and lives in Hancock county, his wife being dead; Melinda, who died unmarried; Emma, who married Charles F. Smith and died in December, 1900; Levi, who married Mbs Ella ohlgamuth and is now living in Salem township; Phoebe, who wedded George j Amarine, of Ridge township: and Ellen.

who married Simon Stahl and died in 1897.

After his marriage subject located in Salem i township. His father gave him eighty acres of woodland, and upon this he erected a log cabin and began to clear off the timber. He cleared about half of the place and made to it an addition of twenty-two acres. He lived there until the fall of 1866, w hen he bought his present farm of eighty acres of John A. Morrison. Mr. Baughman is well and favorably known throughout the county. He is a Democrat and has served as trustee of the township. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

As printed in Biographical memoirs of Wyandot County, Ohio : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... embellished with portraits of many national characters and well known residents (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.