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Listed with his father.
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Also listed with Jeremiah is Catherine I, age 18 and Joseph, age 12, both born in Ohio.
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Listed with Jeremiah is Sherman Huddle age 3 born in Ohio.
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Listed with Jeremiah is Samuel A Hottle age 17 and John W. Hottle, age 12. Occupation is given as farm laborer.
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"Maps of Mercer County, OH" lists property owned by Jeremiah as T-4-S, R-1-E, Sections 5 and 19.
"Mercer County, OH History": Jeremiah the fourth son was born in Knox County, Oh April 18, 1829 and there passed his boyhood days and received a good education in the neighboring schools. He learned both the carpenter's and the blacksmith's trades and taught school for two years near his home, and two terms in Mercer County, Oh, after his removal here. On March 5, 1851, he married Clarissa Grub, who was born in Knox county on March 15, 1832. Here parents were of Dutch descent and Dunkards in religion, and were early settlers in Knox County.
One year after their marriage, Jeremiah and his wife moved to Mercer county, Ohio on a farm which his father had entered for him. He set resolutely to clear his land, but misfortune came to him after two weeks. He was injured and was obliged to go about on crutches for a year. Although thus discouraged, he did not give up, but finally succeeded in clearing his farm and in building a home, but not until after many hardships and trials.
In 1861, he taught school near his home, and in this home their children were born. Jeremiah was converted under the ministration of Rev. Michael Johnson on February 22, 1861, in Mercer County, and joined the Church of the United Brethren in Christ on that date, and was baptized in the St. Marys River in Van Wert county on October 15, 1871. On January 13, 1875, he was licenses to preach and received the Annual Conference license on August 29,1877. He was ordained an Elder on September 11, 1881, at the Centenary church, and on June 9, was appointed to the Geneva Circuit, and served there until the close of the conference year. At the division of the church in 1889, he adhered firmly to the Constitution of 1841 (Old Constitution, or Radicals) and the Confession of Faith of 1815. In the autumn of 1889, he was appointed to the Greenville Circuit. He was one of the Examiners of the Annual Conference, and held all the different offices of the church, and performed the marriage ceremony for a great number of couples. During all this activity in the church work, he carried on arming, and was considered one of the best and most progressive farmers of the Township. He availed himself of all the modern machinery for farming and readily adopted new ideas for the improvement of crops and live-stock. In every respect he was a progressive man and foremost among petitioners for roads, bridges, etc. He helped to build a number of bridges and every church in the Township, regardless of denomination. He took particular interest in the schools and did his best to keep them abreast of the time. He was very charitable and beside raising his own family, he raised twelve orphaned children, one form the age of six weeks until eighteen years of age. Several of them were converted in his own home. Politically, he affiliated with the Prohibition Party. He once held the office of Constable, and later was candidate for county Treasurer on the ticket of his party and received the largest number of votes ever received by any candidate of that party in Mercer county. He never sued anyone and never turned a stranger or a beggar from his door. He was a preeminently a good man, loved, respected and trusted by all. In all causes that will help the coming of his Master's Kingdom, he was interested. He was a great Bible reader and had read the Bible through 21 times. He died on April 1, 1899 and his funeral was held at the Zion United Brethren Church, Mercer County, Ohio, with the sanctuary completely filled. He was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Van Wert County, Oh, State Route 33, at the age of 69 years, 11 months and 13 days. . His tomb-stone still remains, a perpetual reminder of a life well lived, not for himself alone,but for all with whom he came in contact.
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Listed with his father.
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Listed with his father.