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Born 1831, New Castle township
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
CULLISON JAMES W., Franklin township; born in New Castle township, July 16, 1831; son of Moses Cullison, who was born in Maryland, and married there Mary Wantland, of Connecticut, both of English ancestry. His grandfather Cullison was an emigrant from Scotland. In 1836, he moved to Perry township, where his mother died the following year. In June, 1841, 'his father's household was scattered by the marriage of his eldest daughter, and James found a home with William and George Given, of Jeflferson township. Two years later, his father died, and he was bound out to the Givens till he was eighteen, when he began the struggle of life for himself, working on the farm in summers, and attending school in winters, first in the country, then several years at the West Bedford academy. He then learned the carpenter trade with his cousin, Jeremiah Cullison, worked at it during summer and taught school in winter till his marriage, December 30, 1858, with Sarah A., daughter of George A. McCleeary. Since then he has been farming, also dealing in stock and selling agricultural implements extensively. His children are- William Bell, deceased, Seth McCleeary, George Harvey, Kinsey Sherman and John Elmer.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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