Published in the Bucyrus News Forum in March 1858:
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
One by one the pioneers of the county, those strong and sturdy men who by unremitting toil converted a wilderness into the blooming garden Crawford now is, are passing away. Another has fallen. Mr. Joseph S. Merriss of this township, died on Monday night last, of Lung Fever, after an illness of only three days. Mr. Merriss was one of the first settlers of the county, having removed here from Cortland Co., N.Y., thirty years ago. He was seventy years of age. Mr. M. was in all respects an exemplary man. He was honest and upright, a sincere Christian, and zealous and ardent in whatever he deemed right. His loss will be deeply felt.
Joseph married Mary Price about 1807/8 NY, she was born Dec. 11, 1787 and died in Bucyrus Feb 4, 1854 aged 66y 1m and 24d.
As of June 1814, Joseph and his young family were living in Homer, Cortland Co. NY, where he placed an ad in the local newspaper called the Repository.
The ad was replicated in a book entitled:
The History of Cortland County
Edited by: H. P. Smith 1885
Syracuse, N.Y.
Publishers: D. Mason & Co.
Chapter 7 "The Second Decade" page 67
Joseph and Mary moved their family to Ohio from Homer, Cortland Co., NY around 1818 and settled in Chagrin Township, Cuyahoga County, and are found on the 1820 census for that location. They remained there until about 1827. A new county had formed not too long before 1827, so they moved to Bucyrus in Crawford Co. where Joseph acquired 80 acres of land which they farmed until their deaths.
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
One by one the pioneers of the county, those strong and sturdy men who by unremitting toil converted a wilderness into the blooming garden Crawford now is, are passing away. Another has fallen. Mr. Joseph S. Merriss of this township, died on Monday night last, of Lung Fever, after an illness of only three days. Mr. Merriss was one of the first settlers of the county, having removed here from Cortland Co., N.Y., thirty years ago. He was seventy years of age. Mr. M. was in all respects an exemplary man. He was honest and upright, a sincere Christian, and zealous and ardent in whatever he deemed right. His loss will be deeply felt.
Joseph married Mary Price about 1807/8 NY, she was born Dec. 11, 1787 and died in Bucyrus Feb 4, 1854 aged 66y 1m and 24d.
As of June 1814, Joseph and his young family were living in Homer, Cortland Co. NY, where he placed an ad in the local newspaper called the Repository.
The ad was replicated in a book entitled:
The History of Cortland County
Edited by: H. P. Smith 1885
Syracuse, N.Y.
Publishers: D. Mason & Co.
Chapter 7 "The Second Decade" page 67
Joseph and Mary moved their family to Ohio from Homer, Cortland Co., NY around 1818 and settled in Chagrin Township, Cuyahoga County, and are found on the 1820 census for that location. They remained there until about 1827. A new county had formed not too long before 1827, so they moved to Bucyrus in Crawford Co. where Joseph acquired 80 acres of land which they farmed until their deaths.
Published in the Bucyrus News Forum in March 1858:
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
One by one the pioneers of the county, those strong and sturdy men who by unremitting toil converted a wilderness into the blooming garden Crawford now is, are passing away. Another has fallen. Mr. Joseph S. Merriss of this township, died on Monday night last, of Lung Fever, after an illness of only three days. Mr. Merriss was one of the first settlers of the county, having removed here from Cortland Co., N.Y., thirty years ago. He was seventy years of age. Mr. M. was in all respects an exemplary man. He was honest and upright, a sincere Christian, and zealous and ardent in whatever he deemed right. His loss will be deeply felt.
Joseph married Mary Price about 1807/8 NY, she was born Dec. 11, 1787 and died in Bucyrus Feb 4, 1854 aged 66y 1m and 24d.
As of June 1814, Joseph and his young family were living in Homer, Cortland Co. NY, where he placed an ad in the local newspaper called the Repository.
The ad was replicated in a book entitled:
The History of Cortland County
Edited by: H. P. Smith 1885
Syracuse, N.Y.
Publishers: D. Mason & Co.
Chapter 7 "The Second Decade" page 67
Joseph and Mary moved their family to Ohio from Homer, Cortland Co., NY around 1818 and settled in Chagrin Township, Cuyahoga County, and are found on the 1820 census for that location. They remained there until about 1827. A new county had formed not too long before 1827, so they moved to Bucyrus in Crawford Co. where Joseph acquired 80 acres of land which they farmed until their deaths.
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
One by one the pioneers of the county, those strong and sturdy men who by unremitting toil converted a wilderness into the blooming garden Crawford now is, are passing away. Another has fallen. Mr. Joseph S. Merriss of this township, died on Monday night last, of Lung Fever, after an illness of only three days. Mr. Merriss was one of the first settlers of the county, having removed here from Cortland Co., N.Y., thirty years ago. He was seventy years of age. Mr. M. was in all respects an exemplary man. He was honest and upright, a sincere Christian, and zealous and ardent in whatever he deemed right. His loss will be deeply felt.
Joseph married Mary Price about 1807/8 NY, she was born Dec. 11, 1787 and died in Bucyrus Feb 4, 1854 aged 66y 1m and 24d.
As of June 1814, Joseph and his young family were living in Homer, Cortland Co. NY, where he placed an ad in the local newspaper called the Repository.
The ad was replicated in a book entitled:
The History of Cortland County
Edited by: H. P. Smith 1885
Syracuse, N.Y.
Publishers: D. Mason & Co.
Chapter 7 "The Second Decade" page 67
Joseph and Mary moved their family to Ohio from Homer, Cortland Co., NY around 1818 and settled in Chagrin Township, Cuyahoga County, and are found on the 1820 census for that location. They remained there until about 1827. A new county had formed not too long before 1827, so they moved to Bucyrus in Crawford Co. where Joseph acquired 80 acres of land which they farmed until their deaths.
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