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on Catherine in 1820 she married Israel Swinehart in Tuscarawas OH. where he died prior
their coming to Kosciusko area she had several children with him to issue Mariah wife of
Sylvester William Hall .Later she married Jacob Stutsman.
John Leatherman, Sr.,"Johnney"
(1776 - 1867)
John Leatherman was the youngest son of Elder Daniel Leatherman. He was born, 1776,
Frederick County, Maryland, and died at the ripe old age of 90 years, 8 months and 21
days. He was married to Catherine "Caty" Miller in Kosciusko County, Indiana.
She died September 16, 1850, at the age of 73 years, 2 months, and 20 days. Both are
buried in the Krumbaugh Cemetery.
When he was a young man he moved to Tuscarawas County and lived there for more than 30
years. During this time he was ordained to the ministry of the Dunkard Church. In 1837 he
organized a congregation which worshipped in houses. Later he granted land for school and
church purposes. This became the Turkey Creek Church. He was elder and was in company with
Elder John Miller and Elder Daniel Creps. He served for years on committees and elders
body at Annual Meeting. According to the Minutes of Annual Council, 1850, 1851, 1855, 1856
he served on the Stand Committee and gave his Elder's signature to various documents
of Annual Meeting. thus, he was sharing the problems of Annual Meeting with his
son-in-law, Henry Dorsey Davy. He attended his last conference in Maryland. This was
during the time he was living with his son, Joseph, for immediately after his wife died,
he made his home there. (Milford, Indiana). In the community where he lived he was known
as "Old Johnny Leatherman!
", the German Baptist Minister. The family of Children were ten in number: Daniel,
Sally, Catherine, Nancy, Elizabeth, Joseph, Issac, Polly, John and Hannah.
Source: Academic Term Paper written by Ralph Hodgden, 1956
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1860 Indiana Census shows Rev John Leatherman living with his son John Jr. & family
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Rev. John Leatherman,
likely the youngest of Elder Daniel Leatherman's sons,
since he was the last son mentioned in Elder Daniel's will, was
b near Myersville, Frederick Co., Md., 1776,
d Kosciusko Co., Ind., Feb.21, 1867,
at the age of 90 years, 8 months, 21 days (tombstone record);
m Frederick Co., Md., Nov. 20, 1798(mariage record)
Catherine "Caty" Miller
who d in Kosciusko Co., Ind., Sept. 16,1850,
at the age of 73 years, 2 months, 20 days(tombstone record);
both lie buried in Brumbaugh Cemetery near Gravelton, Kosciusko Co., O.,
where the family lived for 30 years and where he was ordained to the
ministry of the Dunkard Church.
Deeds on record show that on
Feb. 17, 1812, he bought a lot in New Philadelphia, O., which lot was sold at
sheriff's sale to satisfy a damage claim against the county commissioners who owned
the lot.
On Apr. 20, 1812, he bought a tract of land of 151 acres more or less for $453.00 from
Samuel Lappin in the Township of One Leg, Tuscarawas Co., O. This farm had come to Samuel
Lappin
Nov. 14, 1807, by patent granted by President Thomas Jefferson. John and Caty Leatherman
sold the same farm on Apr. 7, 1836 for 2,300.00. (One Leg Township later formed a part of
Carroll Co. and the name was changed to Orange.)
In the fall of 1836 John Leatherman and Andrew Sheely followed Jacob Brumbaugh, who had
gone in the spring of 1836, to Jefferson Twp., Kosciusko Co., Ind., and settled on
sections one and two, about four miles west of Milford.
In 1837 these early settlers organized the Dunkard congregation there and worshipped in
the houses of the neighborhood. Later the Rev. John Leatherman granted to the township a
plat of land for school and church purposes.
By 1854 worship was held in the schoolhouse on this plot. The congregation became known as
the Turkey Creek Church. Rev. John Leatherman was later elected to the eldership of his
church in which he was a lowly leader. He was elder in company with Elder John Miller and
Elder Daniel Creps and was elected or appointed as a member of long service committee.
During his advanced age near the close of his life he attended church conferences in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Maryland, his last attendance being in Maryland which gave him the
opportunity of once again seeing his people in his old home community.
After his wife Catharine died he made his home with his son Joseph who lived on a part of
the farm near Milford, Ind. He was known as "Old Johnny Leatherman". Ger. Bapt.
Minister, farmer. C: Daniel, Sally, Catharine, Nancy, Elizabeth, Joseph, Isaac, Polly,
John, Hannah.
*Source: All Leatherman kin history : a brief history and genealogical record of
Leatherman families and their descendants in the North American continent, with records of
wills, transfers of real estate, and special activities in the lives of some of the
subjects, with portraits and other illustratios Nappanee, Ind.: E.V. Pub. House, 1940, pg.
298-299.
JOHN LEATHERMAN
Elder John Leatherman, the first elder of the Turkey Creek church, was born in Maryland in
1776. Some of the Leathermans had come to America with Alexander Mack. When a young man
John moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he lived thirty years. While here he was
called to the ministry and ordained. He moved to Elkhart County in 1836. Here he found a
few members. The following year this little band was organized as the Turkey Creek church,
with Elder Leatherman in charge.
" Old Brother Johnny Leathermarr," as he was commonly called, was not known as
an eloquent speaker, but he was a good man and one of the best presiding elders of his
day. He was loved by all his brethren. He was widely known in Indiana and in the
Brotherhood. He served twice on the Standing Committee.He was the father of eight
children. One daughter became the wife of Elder H. D. Davy, of Ohio. Sister Leather- man
died in 1850. From then until his death he made his'home with his son, Joseph
Leatherman. A daughter of Joseph married Aaron Miller, a brother of Elder John H. Miller.
He has furnished important data for this account.History of the Church of the Brethren in
Indiana
By Otho Winger
Brumbaugh Cem, Jefferson Twp
John Leatherman d, 21FEB1867 90y, 7m,, 21d
Catherine Leatherman wife/ J. d.16SEP1850 73y, 2m, 20d
Finley McGrew died, unmarried, before removing to Warren Township, and James McGrew
became, by purchase, the owner of his Western estate. He removed to it from Westmoreland
County, Penn., several years after the Lappins arrived. He was of Quaker ancestry, and,
after a residence of many years in Warren Township, moved to Sandusky County, Ohio, where
he died. John Leatherman was also a Pennsylvanian, and emigrated to Section 35, with a
large family, about the time the McGrews came. He was a Dunkard minister, and conducted
religious services at his own cabin. Later in life he became a resident of North Bend,
Ind., where he died at the age of ninety-three years. EXCERPT TUSCARAWAS COUNTY HISTORY
John Leatherman found in:
US - Census Index (1820)
Township: Warren
County: Tuscarawas
State: Ohio
Page: 171
Roll: 95
Image Number: 179.01
1830 United States Federal Census
about John Leatherman
Name: John Leatherman
Township: Warren
County: Tuscarawas
State: Ohio
SYLVESTER HALL.
In this sketch is given a brief synopsis of the life of one who holds precedence as one of
the oldest living settlers of Kosciusko county. So far as active and consecutive effort is
concerned, he has been closely identified with this part of the commonwealth since the
early pioneer days, when were essayed the initial efforts looking to a reclamation of the
country from its sylvan wilds. His long residence in the county and the conspicuous part
he has taken in all work and important movements for the advancement of the general good
and the development of the country's resources have gained him a personal
acquaintanceship that makes his name a familiar one in every household in the community.
His active connection with the history and growth of Kosciusko transcends the limits of
sixty years and within this time he has been not only an eye witness of the many
remarkable changes that have taken place, but an active participant in the same, nobly
bearing his part in winning for t!
he county a proud position among the most enterprising and enlightened sections of the
Hoosier state.
Sylvester Hall is the son of Isaac and Prudence (Huff) Hall, the father a native of Ohio
and the mother born in York state. These parents were married in Knox county, Ohio, about
the year 1833 moved to the county of Seneca, where they resided till 1837, in June of
which year they loaded their household effects and a few agricultural implements on a
wagon and started for northern Indiana, their objective point being Kosciusko county.
After a trip of over a month's duration, attended with many difficulties and
hardships, they finally reached their destination and located temporarily with a family by
the name of Tusong, living about three miles south of Warsaw. For some weeks thereafter
Isaac Hall traveled over the county quite extensively in search of a favorable location,
and finding the land in Jefferson township coming nearest his ideal concluded to purchase
a farm there and make that section his home. In due time he invested in a tract of one
hundred and sixty acres and as!
soon as he could conveniently do so moved his family to the same and at once began
improving the land, in which he was assisted by his older sons. He cleared and developed a
good farm and lived upon the same a number of years, later purchasing a place in the
township of Van Buren to which he changed his residence. Here, about 1864, the wife died
and a few years later Mr. Hall chose for a companion a Mrs. Baker, of Milford, moving
sometime thereafter to Marshall county where he spent the remainder of his life, dying
there in the year 1869.
Isaac Hall was the father of the following children: John, deceased; Sylvester, whose name
introduces this review; Lorenzo; Charles M., deceased; Richard H., a soldier in the war of
the Rebellion, killed at the battle of Chickamauga; Sarah, deceased; George, deceased;
Eliza, deceased; Elizabeth, widow of the late Cyrus Fuller; Isaac B. and Isaac H., the
last two dead, and one that died in infancy.Sylvester Hall was born October 2, 1825, in
Knox county, Ohio, and accompanied his parents to Indiana when twelve years of age. From
that time until reaching the years of manhood he bore his part in clearing and fitting the
farm for cultivation and early learned by practical experience the true meaning of honest
toil. Reared amid the stirring scenes of the pioneer period, he had little time for
acquiring an education, his training in that direction being confined to a couple of
months attendance of winter seasons upon such inferior subscription schools as the country
at that time af!
forded. He remained with his father until twenty years of age and then took up
carpentery, in which he soon acquired great proficiency and for a period of sixteen years
thereafter worked at the trade in various parts of the country, husbanding his earnings
with the most scrupulous care, with the object in view of ultimately purchasing a farm and
engaging in agricultural pursuits.
In 1858 Mr. Hall bought one hundred and sixty acres of woodland in section 9, Jefferson
township, but did not immediately move to the same, continuing at his trade until about
the year 1862 when he began his first efforts towards making a home. At that time his
place was thickly covered with tall forests and dense undergrowth and the outlook was
anything but encouraging. Strong arms, backed by a strong and determined will, in due
season overcame the difficulty and within a few years Mr. Hall found himself the possessor
of a good farm, which, gradually increasing in value, with the enlargement of its tillable
acreage, in time became one of the best and most desirable places in the township of
Jefferson. To his original purchase he afterwards added forty acres adjoining and at the
present time the two hundred acres in one body is one of the best cultivated and most
highly improved places of the same area in the county.
Mr. Hall has been twice married, the first time, April 1, 1847, to Miss Mariah Swihart,
who was born in Ohio about the year 1823. She came to Kosciusko county with her mother and
grandmother in 1836, her father having died in Ohio some years prior to that time. Mrs.
Hall bore her husband five children and departed this life in the year 1855. The names of
the children are as follows: Milton, deceased, Simon, Sarah, Emmeline, deceased, and
Isaac. On the 2nd day of February, 1857, Mr. Hall married his present companion, Harriet
Landis, a union blessed with the birth of six children: Elizabeth, Lucy, Emanuel, Richard,
Caroline and Lorenzo, all living at this time.
As a farmer Mr. Hall early took high rank and sustained the reputation of an enterprising
and successful man until advancing age admonished him to retire from active labor. From
the time when he knew full well what it was to have a home far removed from other
settlers, in the midst of a dense forest, through which wolves prowled and deer roamed, to
the date of his retirement, his life was characterized by industry and consecutive toil,
and his energies, directed and controlled by correct judgment, gradually materialized into
the comfortable fortune which he today enjoys. He continued actively engaged in the
management of his agricultural and other business interests until 1895, when, finding
himself in possession of more than a sufficiency of this world's goods to render the
remainder of his life free from care or anxiety, he rented his place and since then has
been enjoying the restful quiet which only such as he know fully how to appreciate. He now
has a beautiful and comf!
ortable home situated on two acres of ground in the village of Milford, where, surrounded
by all that is calculated to make existence agreeable and happy, he is passing the evening
of life at peace with the world and his Maker, receiving day by day the congratulations
and well wishes of his many friends, all of whom desire that he may be spared many years
to bless the world with his presence. In such lives as that of Mr. Hall there are no
startling incidents nor any eccentricities of character . In a quiet manner he has pursued
the even tenor of his way, content to cultivate his acres and reap therefrom golden
rewards for labors bestowed, taking little part in the active, hustling affairs of the
busy world. Recognizing the fact that every citizen is under certain obligations to
society and the state, he has kept in touch with public affairs to the extent of
exercising the elective franchise and using his influence to promote all movements and
enterprises having for their en!
d the advancement of the community along social and moral lines. He is
a man who strongly attracts the best elements in the community and when he makes friends
they are for a life time. Mr. Hall is a zealous Christian and, with his good wife, belongs
to the German Baptist church. His long and useful life has been fruitful in good works and
his name will long be remembered as one of Kosciusko's most exemplary characters and
popular citizens.
Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902
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