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Born 1859
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)
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.
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.
Their biographies name Jesse H. Workman: William Workman (b. 1833)
The printed record stops around 1881. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.