Sipes Family History
Snyder Family History
Sullivan Family History
Telfer Family History
Whitesell Family History
Yoder Family History
Zug History
Henry and Margaret moved to Perry County, OH in 1826 and then moved to Morrow County, OH in 1831. They had seven sons and three daughters. Henry and his sons built the Pleasent Hill Methodist Episcopal Church about 1846. It was located about 3/4 mile west of the village of West Point. Henry and Margaret were members of this church.
Margaret died 15 Dec 1858. Henry then married on 16 Mar 1859 to Sarah Karney. Henry died 5 Jun 1877 in Washington Township, Morrow County, OH. Henry and Margaret are both buried in Iberia Cemetery in Morrow County.
Henry and Margaret's son, Jacob N. SIPES, was born 13 Aug 1823 in Bedford Co., PA. On 14 Mar 1843 he married Sarah LONGSTRETH, the daughter of John LONGSTRETH. She was born 14 Jan 1824 in Bedford Co, PA. Jacob died 26 Apr 1903 in Galion, Crawford Co, OH. Sarah died 20 Jul 1920 in Galion. They are both buried in Iberia Cemetery.
Jacob and Sarah had ten children. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Charles Garverick on 9 May 1867. They lived four miles south of Galion, OH near West Point, OH.
The earliest known ancestor in the SNYDER line is Daniel SNYDER who was born circa 1789 in Pennsylvania. He married Barbara (?). They eventually moved to Marshall County, Indiana and Daniel died in Marshall County on 11 July 1868.
David SNYDER, son of Daniel and Barbara, married Eva WHITESELL. Their only son was John Riley SNYDER.
By Robert Sullivan
John Riley SNYDER was born on October 4, 1866 in a log cabin in West Township in Marshall County, the only surviving child of David and Eva (WHITESELL) SNYDER. John had little formal education and early in life chose to be a farmer as his father had. John's mother died at the age of 52 when John was only 12. John and his father continued living in the log cabin and farming until David died in June, 1890 at the age of 66. He was buried not far from their farm next to his wife in the Union Church Cemetery between Plymouth and Culver.
On 25 Nov 1890, John married Rosa Anna ANDERS. They sold the 80 acre farm which his father had homesteaded and moved to a rented farm near Inwood. For the next 45 years John lived on farms throughout Marshall County both owning and renting. During these years in order to supplement his farming income and to support a growing family, John worked for other farmers, worked at the sawmill in Inwood, helped to build the Pennsylvania Railroad through Marshall County and also hauled milk from the surrounding farms to Plymouth.
Rosa (ANDERS) SNYDER died in 1929 and John Riley Snyder died on 25 Dec 1965 at the age of 99. John and Rosa's daughter, Orpha, married John SULLIVAN. She wrote the following poem for her father:
FOR DAD AT NINETY-NINE
I was born just west of here
In a little log cabin,
I remember my mother died
When I was only eleven.
It is lonely growing up
Without the love of a mother,
As I was an only child,
I'd no sister and no brother.
As I worked about the place,
Sometimes the tears would flow;
While I was washing dishes
Or mixing up some dough.
In spite of all, I grew up
And then my father died;
It was a short time later
That I brought home my bride.
Twas a wonderful life together,
We knew sorrow, we knew pain;
We took the bitter with the sweet,
We had sunshine and some rain.
We had a large family
Which was our pride and joy;
A half a dozen girls
And a half a dozen boys.
Sometimes it was a struggle
To fill each plate and cup,
But just in the nick of time,
Something would turn up.
Five children God called home,
Seven of them remain;
My wife was called home early
Then life seemed all in vain.
I've had a good life, a long life.
And now at ninety-nine,
When ever God shall call me
I am ready anytime.
Copyright 1976 by Orpha Sullivan. All rights reserved.
The earliest known ancestors in the SULLIVAN line are James and Lucy (SULLIVAN) SULLIVAN. James SULLIVAN was born circa 1795 in Virginia. He married Lucy SULLIVAN on 16 Mar 1823 in Jefferson County, Indiana. Lucy was also born in Virginia circa 1805.
In 1850, the SULLIVAN family was living in Tipton County, IN. The 1860 census, lists the family in Marshall County, Bourbon Township. James died near Plymouth 2 Jun 1861 when he fell off his roof while fixing a leak.
James and Lucy's son, John W. SULLIVAN, married Zella Belinda Adams on 24 Feb 1856 in Marshall County, IN. They had two sons, William and Robert. Zella died in Jackson County, IN in 1863. John then married Sarah Martin on 27 Oct 1864. John joined Company I of the 151st Regiment of the Indiana Infantry on 25 Jan 1865 and was discharged on the 28 Jun 1865. His muster card gives the following information: Birth Place: Jefferson County, IN, Age: 38 years, Height: 5 feet 10 inches; Complexion: Dark; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Occupation: Farmer. John died 8 Aug 1903 in Marshall County, IN.
John and Zella's son, Robert Franklin, married Lillie Jane Canaan. Robert was a farmer in Marshall County, Center Township. They had ten children and their son, John Franklin, married Orpha Belle SNYDER on 5 Sep 1914 in Plymouth, IN.
Alexander TELFER, a native of Scotland, came to America and settled in Pennsylvania. A deed in the Juniata County, PA Court House lists children James, Thomas (married to Jane), Samuel, and Elizabeth (married to Joseph ROBINSON). A will is mentioned, but has never been located. Thomas and Samuel were both teachers and the Telfer's were members of the Presbyterian church. It is known that Thomas died in Pennsylvania and James and Samuel both moved their families to Jefferson County, OH. Jefferson County Cemetery Inscriptions lists James TELFER, born 1788 and died in 1841.
The 1850 census lists a family headed by Margaret TELFER in Jefferson County, OH. It is believed that Margaret TELFER is the widow of James TELFER. The family included 6 children aged 12 through 32. It is possible that James and Margaret TELFER were the parents of Nathaniel TELFER who married Sarah McINTIRE 29 Dec 1836 in Carroll County, OH. This theory has not yet been proven.
Nathaniel and Sarah (McIntire) TELFER lived in Carroll County, Ohio. They had three sons and a daughter. Their son, Samuel, died of disease in LaFayette, Tennessee while serving in the Civil War. Another son, James, was a school teacher in Carrol County, Ohio. Their son, William Morris TELFER married Margaret Jane KEAN and lived in Ohio and West Virginia before moving their family of seven children to Grant County, Indiana. William Morris was a glass worker and died in Jonesboro, Indiana 28 Mar 1909.
William and Margaret's son, Charles Elmo, married Lena PARKER in Tennessee. Charles and Lena TELFER lived in Jonesboro and Elwood, Indiana before moving to Alexandria, Indiana. Charles worked as a glassworker and in several factories. Charles and Lena also operated an old people and children's home in Alexandria. Their children were Roscoe Alden, Margaret Catherine and Sadie Mary TELFER. Sadie died at the age of 22 in 1936. Roscoe married Beatrice TOMLINSON and Margaret married Paul OLIVER. They both raised families in Alexandria.
The WHITESELL family is of German descent. By 1813, a WHITESELL family was living in Ohio. A daughter of this family, Eva WHITESELL married David SNYDER. They resided in Marshall County, IN. It appears that the WHITESELL and SNYDER families were very close as two of Eva's sisters and one brother also married SNYDER's. The WHITESELL and SNYDER families moved to Marshall County IN around 1855. One WHITESELL descendant, Joseph C. WHITESELL, served as mayor of Plymouth, IN from 1813 to 1817.
David and Eva's son was John Riley SNYDER.
Elizabeth YODER married Samuel PLETCHER 30 Mar 1771 in Lancaster PA. In the 1790 census, the family was living in Huntingdon County, PA. It is not known where or when Elizabeth died. Her parents were Ulrich and Magdalena (?) YODER. They lived in Lancaster County, Martich Township, PA and had at least five children. See Ulrich YODER's will on the documents page.
Hans ZAUG of Switzerland was a Mennonite preacher incarcerated in 1659 in Berne, Switzerland with six other elders of the church. They were kept for some time at hard labor and supplied with bad food - spelt and rye. They remained in prison until Dec 1671 when the States General and a Regent of the cities of Netherland and Holland petitioned the council at Berne for the liberation of the prisoners. They were liberated on the condition that they should leave the country and not return without special permission. They were released and departed to the Department of Doermstein in Germany.
John ZAUG was a descendant of Hans ZAUG. John's son, Christian, came to America with his wife, Anna, an infant daughter, Anna, and possibly a second daughter Barbara born about the time they landed in Philadelphia. They arrived on 21 Sep 1742 on the ship "Francis and Elizabeth".