Ohio Family Group Sheet for the Jacob HARE Family

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Husband: Jacob HARE
Birthdate: abt 1740
Birthplace: Germany
Death date: abt 1820
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
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Mother:

Marriage date:
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Wife: Christine EPHAU
Birthdate: abt 1746
Birthplace: Germany
Death date: abt 1823
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Father:
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Michael HARE
Sex: M
Birthdate: November 11, 1759
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: January 1837
Place of death: Highland County, Ohio
Marriage date: June 5, 1781
Marriage place: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Spouse's name: Isabella ROE

Child No. 2: Daniel HARE
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 5 1767
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: December 22, 1850
Place of death: Bourneville, Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date: abt 1788
Marriage place: Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Spouse's name: Martha ARMITAGE

Child No. 3: Mary HARE
Sex: F
Birthdate: May 15, 1787
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: June 16, 1845
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date:
Marriage place: Ross County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Thomas EDMISTON

Child No. 4: Jacob HARE`
Sex: M
Birthdate: August 21, 1768
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: April 8, 1862
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date: May 19, 1829
Marriage place: Ross County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Anne MELSON

Child No. 5: Elizabeth HARE
Sex:
Birthdate: 1770
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: December 7, 1803
Place of death: Twin Twp., Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date: April 3, 1794
Marriage place: Kentucky
Spouse's name: Lewis IGOU

Child No. 6: Philip HARE
Sex: M
Birthdate: abt 1774
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: February 1848
Place of death: Hamilton County, Indiana
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Mary HALL

Documentation:
Notes for Jacob Hare:
* From page 48, HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON CO. PA,: Hare's real estate consisted of four adjoining tracts of land, situated on the south side of the Juniata River, including the borough of Mapleton, and extending there from up the river and up Hare's Valley. These tracts, containing over 400 acres, were confirmed to Frances Reed by patents issued June 1794. On page 44, 100 acres and 5 acres on the Juniata R. were identified as 'The old Plowman Farm'.
* Chapter XXII HISTORY OF JUNIATA VALLEY: "In a small isolated valley, about a mile south of Jack’s Narrows, lived a notorious Tory named Jacob HARE."
* Residences(2): Where did Jacob HARE emigrate from? Page 371, HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON CO. PA.: This portion of Huntingdon County was settled almost wholly by immigrants from Maryland, who came over Indian trails amd brought their effects on theior backs.
"During the latter part of the year 1799, Jacob HARE came from Virginia and settled in the northern part of Paint township, and he was one of the very earliest, if not actually the first settler north of Amsterdam. He was a man of great determination, almost amounting to obstinacy, and well-fitted to encounter the hardships of pioneer life.
During the Revolution, he had been a strong Royalist, and bore the marks of his sentiments in his ears which zealous patriots of Virginia had cropped as a punishment for his determined Toryism. It is related of him that he hurrahed for King George on his death-bed many years after his removal to Ohio.
* He purchased the land of MASSIE, and settled about a mile and a half from Bethesda chapel. One day, while at work about his house, Mr. Hare heard a great commotion in a ravine nearby, and taking his gun and hunting knife, went to the spot where he found his dogs had attacked a large bear and brought him to bay. Fearing to shoot lest he injure the dogs, Mr. Hare attacked the bear with his knife. It reared on its hind legs and succeeded in a hold about his body, embracing him in a manner more close than affectionate. While in this position, Mr. HARE plunged his knife into the body of his huge enemy time after time until its hold relaxed and it fell dead, leaving him none the worse except for a few scratches."
* Remarks: The above account, particularly the statement "bore the marks of his sentiments in his ears which zealous patriots of Virginia had cropped as a punishment for his determined Toryism." fairly clearly confirms that this Jacob Hare and the one described on page 46 of the HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY, PA. are one and the same. The only discrepancy is he statement "patriots of Virginia" since the HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY describes that occurrence as happening in that local area.
* Local Color: The following is copied from page 340 of HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO: "The early settlers had their times for enjoyment and jollity, among which were gatherings for log rollings, house raising, corn hucking, etc. At such times rhymes were made and sung, in which the names of most of the settlers were brought in something as follows:
"I see a bear,
Said Jacob HARE
Shoot him down
Said George BROWN
He's very poor
Said Ben McCLURE
Poor as carrion
Said Sam Irwin
Throw it to the dogs
Said Alex SCROGGS" etc.
* Laurence A. Weaver, Jr. is the complier.
In the compiler's file 47, generation 6 will be found a photocopy of a very old hand-written document which appears to be in very bad condition. The hand-writing seems old-fashioned and belabored. There are apparently two documents photocopied on the same paper, so that wording below follows the positioning, misspelling etc. as closely as possible:
"Jacob HARE was born about 1730 in Germany. Died about 1820 in Ross County O. and buried in Twin Township. This wife Christine Afau was born about 1734 in Germany. Lived in Huntington County, Pennsylvania on Hares Valley. Died in Ross County O. about 1823. Their children were Michel, Daniel, Jacob, Philip and Elizabeth HARE. Lewis Igo married Elizabeth HARE in Kentucky Apr 3d 1794.
* HISTORY OF JUNIATA VALLEY, Chapter XXII, pages 259-265, go in to details of the exploits of Michael's father, Jacob HARE RIN183, no where in the passage is any mention of Michael's participation. However, the last paragraph of page 264 says in part: ... but, after peace was declared and the treaty between the United States and Great Britain ratified, HARE returned, and claimed the benefit of that part of the treaty which restored their possessions to all of his Majesty's subjects that had not taken up arms against the colonists. As there was no direct evidence that he had killed LOUDENS-LAGER, Congress was compelled to purchase back and restore his property to him."
Compiler's comment: "If the above is correct it has a direct bearing on the Deed -Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book H-1, pages 158-159 - 6 March 1801 - 'Deed - Jacob HARE & Daniel HARE By their atty Hezekiah RICKETTS to Joseph RICKETTS'. This Deed which gives the residence of both Jacob and Daniel as Adams County, North West Territory contradicts page 265 of the Juniata Valley history which states that Jacob return and lived the reminder of his life in Hare's Valley."

More About Jacob Hare:
Age at time of death: 92Y 7M 18das8
Burial: South Salem Cemetery, Ross County, Ohio9

More About Anne Melson:
Age at time of death: Abt. July 20, 1803, 57Y 2M 21das
Burial: South Salem Cemetery, Ross County, Ohio10

Notes for Daniel Hare:
* PIONEER RECORD AND REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENT OF ROSS COUNTY, OHIO - pages 56-57 - By Mrs. MCKENZIE-1091, mother-in-law of Mr. William Igo-156.
"Her father, Daniel HARE-187, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, and from there to Ohio, in 1796. Her husband's grandfather was a drum-major in the Revolutionary War, and served seven years. Her husband, Mr. MCKENZIE, was in the war of 1812, as the captain of a company for some time, when the companies were consolidated, which relieved him. died aged about eighty years. He was for many years a leader in the M.E. Church. Mrs. MCKENZIE says her father came to Ohio without bringing his family, for the purpose of hunting and laying up a supply of meat for the next summer. He first chopped down a large tree, and cut it off some twelve or fifteen feet long; this her split in two and dug them out in the shape of troughs; the one half he filled with buffalo, bear, deer, and wild turkey, and salted them down; then placing the troughs together, one on top of the other, he covered it with a lot of brush so as to deceive the Indians, telling them that when he came out in the spring, and the brush had become dry, he intended to burn that log up. In the spring when Mr. HARE and his family arrived, they found their meat all right. At one time Mr. HARE went to watch a deer lick, and after fixing up a blind and being seated sometime, he heard something approaching him through the brush in his rear, and upon turning around, near him, was a large panther crouching, and in the act of springing upon him; he fired his rifle at the panther, when it made one terrible cream and took off through the thick woods one way and Mr. HARE the other, fully satisfied to leave for the present.
Mrs. MCKENZIE is now aged about seventy-nine years; she and her mother were the first two white women who settled on Paint creek. Her playmates were the young squaws, and she says 'many a romp I had with them, and as fearless of danger as though they had been white children 'When we first settled on Paint creek, father had to go to Limestone for our meal and salt; some times we would use the hominy block in lieu of going to the mill for meal.' At one time when her father was away from home, some Indians came to their cabin and asked her mother for salt, they being very fond of that article. The old lady refused to give them any. One Indian became enraged, and said: 'My gun shoot by and But the old lady did not give them salt, and they left seemingly much enraged. She, after they left, feared they would return before her husband and do some mischief. But they did not; and when he returned, she told him how the Indians had treated her in his absence, whereupon he went to the Indian camp and informed their chief that one of his men had been at his cabin and insulted his wife. The chief called up the guilty Indian, and snatching the hatchet from Mr. MCKENZIE'S belt, he beat the Indian over the head with it at a terrible rate. The Indian cried piteously during the castigation, and when the chief returned Mr. MCKENZIE'S hatchet, he told him that that Indian would not trouble his family any more, and he did not. Mrs. MCKENZIE says her father was a great hunter in his time and killed many bears, turkeys, panthers, buffalo, etc. The buffalo used to mix with their farm cattle and were quite tame. Her father first settled near the big falls of Paint creek, on MASSIE'S land, and while living there she has heard the screams of the panther and wolf in the night quite near their cabin. The first school teacher was David REED; the first preachers were William and Edward CARNES; the first schoolhouse was built on lands now owned by Howard NEWMAN."

More About Elizabeth Hare:
* Burial: Hare Cemetery, Metcalfe Farm, Ross County, Ohio

Notes for Lewis Igou:
* From page 292, HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO -"One of the first settlers was Lewis IGO. He was a native of Maryland, born near Baltimore in the year 1767. In the fall of 1797 he came from Kentucky to the Scioto valley, purchased a tract of land of General MCARTHUR, on Lower Twin, and built a cabin on the farm now owned by his son William. The following spring he brought out his family and was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Philip HARE."
* Complier Laurence A. Weaver, Jr.
In the compiler's file 47, generation 6 will be found the original letter dated November 5, 1982 from Miss Josephine METCALFE:
"Dear Mr. WEAVER
We are enclosing some Xeroxed copies of the IGOU and HARE lines that might help you. They were researched by a cousin in Las Vegas who hand-carried them to the Mormon Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City and saw them put on microfilm and then into the Granite Mountain Vault. Elizabeth HARE was the first wife of Lewis IGOU. She is buried on one of the knolls on the back of our farm. There are 3 or four other stones with no readable markings. They had 5 children. Nancy MARSH was the second wife - 3 children.
I am the sixth generation on the farm and the old log cabin, second built in Twin Township 1800-1801 is still standing. Please feel free to ask any questions. I might know the answers.
Sincerely, Josephine METCALFE"
In the letter was a rough sketch of the tombstone:
DEC 7 ELIZABETH 80 - 1803.

More About Lewis Igou and Elizabeth Hare:
* Marriage: April 03, 1794, Kentucky
* Information provided by Laurence A. Weaver, Jr., Noblesville, Hamilton Co. IN.
In 1829, the family moved to Hamilton County, Indiana, where Philip bought land on Stony Creek, a little southeast of Noblesville, on which was a grist mill formerly owned by Albert G. BETTS. The mill was operated by the HARE family and the land around it was farmed by them. The mill was sold in 1840 to William STOOPS. Various transfers of land and lots in Noblesville are on record at the County Court House. Several members of the HARE family migrated to Iowa -- Daniel and wife, Eleanor with daughter, Sarah, to Cedar County in 1837. Daniel died there in 1852. A daughter, Elizabeth and husband, Jacob MAHIN (MAHAN) and daughter. Amanda, went to Muscatine County. Another daughter, Mahala and husband, John RIDGEWAY went to Cedar County in 1839 or 1840. John McKenzie (HARE?) and wife, Margaret, went to Cedar County also in 1846. He died there in 1854. Margaret and her family returned to Noblesville. There are no known records of the birth of the 12 children. The source of this information was collected through public records - - census reports, various Ohio and Indiana history accounts of early settlers, final distribution and settlement of Philip HARE's estate."
E-Mail, "Electronic," Laurence A. Weaver, Jr., at sfvoeb7@icubed.net.
* Complied by Ross County Genealogical Society, Tombstone Inscriptions Twin Township, Ross County Ohio. Family Search, GD6L-OD.
* 1840 United States Census Paint Twp., Ross co., Ohio, pg 357C.
* Faye Christmas Tucker, Doddridge and Teter Some Ancestors and Descendants, (1986, Dallas, Texas - Copy of book is in possession of Donna Barnes Clark), pg 34.
* Ross County Marriages 1798-1849.
* South Salem Cemetery, pg. 18.
* South Salem Cemetery Buckskin Twp., Ross County, Ohio, "Electronic."