Joseph Garrard

As printed in 1902

JOSEPH GARRARD.

Joseph Garrard is a retired farmer of South Charleston owning a valuable tract of-land on the dividing line of Greene and Madison counties, in Stoke township of the latter county. There he has two hundred and thirty acres which is well improved and returns to him a good annual income. Mr. Garrard is a native of Madison county, his birth having occurred in Union township, November 15, 1842, his parents bemg Stephen and Nancy (Davis) Garrard.

He was reared upon a farm, acquired a fair common school education and when nineteen years of age he offered his services to the country to aid in the suppression of the rebellion in the south. It was in May, 1862, that he enlisted in the Union army, becoming a member of Company F, Fortyfifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was sent to Camp Chase and after two weeks was ordered to the front being first under fire at Richmond, Kentucky, early in July of that year. He afterward went with the army to the Ohio river. He was in thirty-one pitched battles besides many skirmishes, these including engagements at Dutton Hill, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Lovejoy Station the siege of Atlanta and others. After going about fifty miles with Sherman on his march to the sea, his regiment was ordered back and returned to Nashville under General Thomas. Mr. Garrard then participated in the battles of Pulaski, Tennessee, Franklin, the siege of Nashville and the battle of Philadelphia, Tennessee, where the Union troops were forced back to Knoxville. They were there besieged and nearly starved suffering almost untold hardships. Mr. Garrard was wounded at that place, being shot through the left leg. He did not go to the hospital but had the wound bound up where he was and remained with the regiment, which at that time was mounted. He followed Morgan on the raid through Indiana and Ohio, and was always found at his post of duty. He was never captured and was in the hospital for only twenty-four hours. A brave soldier boy, he was fearless and faithful in his defense of the old flag and the cause it represented and made for himself a most creditable military record. In June, 1865, he was honorably discharged and mustered out, after which he returned to his old home in Ohio.

Mr. Garrard then began working by the month in Clark county, following that pursuit for several years. He was married in Springfield on the 22d of October, 1872, to Miss Amanda M. Hill, whose birth occurred in this county and who was a daughter of C. C. and Delilah (Briggs) Hill. She acquired a fair common-school education and was reared on a farm in South Charleston. The young couple removed to Henry county, Misouri, where Mr. Garrard purchased land and made his home for ten years. He then returned to Clark county, Chio, and for several years lived upon a farm belonging to his father-in-law. In 189% he purchased one hundred and eighty-seven acres of good land in Fayette county, Ohio, which

= he made his home for a year after which he spent a few months in Springfield and then bought one-hundred and seventy-five acres near South Charleston. On selling that tract he bought the farm which he now owns in Madison county. On the various purchases and sales which he has made he has realized quite handsomely and from his investments he has thus acquired a good income.

The home:of Mr. and Mrs. Garrard has been blessed with two children: John Howard, who is now engaged in the livery business in Springfield, married Ida Sprague. Anna is still with her parents. While in the army Mr. Garrard cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln and has always been a Republican, He is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church as one of its active and earnest workers and his wife served as superintendent of the Sunday-school while they were living in Madi-.

son township, Clark county. They have a pleasant home in South Charleston and many friends extend to them the highest regard.

It will be interesting in this connection to note something of the family history of Mrs. Garrard. Her father, Calderwood Covington Hill, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, November 13, 1814, and was a son of Robert and Margaret (Harvey) Hill, who were natives of Virginia, whence they removed to Pickaway county, Ohio, when their son Calderwood was about four years of age. They spent four years in that county and then came to Clark county, where the grandfather died at the age of thirty-eight years. At the time of his marriage the father of Mrs. Garrard owned land four miles from South Charleston, where he cleared and improved a farm, making his home thereon through a long period. During the last six years of his life he was a resident of South Charleston. He married Delilah Briggs, a daughter of. Joseph=and Mary Briggs, who were early settlers of Ohio, probably coming to this state from Visginia. Mrs. Hill was born October 11, 1818, and died August 20,1894, at her home in South Charleston. Mr. Hill afterward made his home with his daughter,

Mrs. Garrard, until his death, which oc-

‘curred February 9, 1896. He was the owner of three hundred and ten “acres of good land and was well known as an honorable and progressive farmer. In politics he was a Republican and for many years he served

„as trustee of his township. "An active and influential member of the Methodist Episcopal church, he served as one ot its class leaders and was largely instrumental in the building of Williams chapel near his farm.

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.