Margaret Weaver
1812 - 1891 (79 years)
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Name Margaret Weaver [1, 2, 3, 4] Born 11 May 1812 South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio 
[3, 4, 5] Gender Female Census 1880 Monroe Township, Allen County, Ohio Residence Farm of Henry Morris Died 07 Sep 1891 Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio [3] Buried Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio [5] Person ID I21 Hiltner Last Modified 21 Jan 2023
Father George Weaver, b. 1774, Hardy County, Virginia , d. 1829, South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio (Age 55 years) Mother Elizabeth Hempleman, b. 1777, Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , d. 1870, South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio (Age 93 years) Married 1800 Hardy County, Virginia Family ID F20 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Henry Morris, b. 14 Apr 1806, Bracken County, Kentucky , d. 08 Jan 1877, Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio (Age 70 years) Married 30 Aug 1832 London, Madison County, Ohio [3, 4, 5, 6] - Met at church. Were married in Margaret's home, the finest home in the state of Ohio. [4]
Children + 1. George Morris, b. 02 Oct 1833, Allen County, Ohio , d. 16 Oct 1927, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio (Age 94 years)+ 2. Elizabeth Morris, b. 28 Sep 1835, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 31 Aug 1923, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio (Age 87 years)+ 3. Lavina Morris, b. 3 Apr 1837, Allen County, Ohio , d. 10 Nov 1857, Allen County, Ohio (Age 20 years)+ 4. Dr. Joseph Morris, b. 10 Dec 1838, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 24 Jan 1902, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio (Age 63 years)5. Sarah Morris, b. 06 Oct 1840, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 04 Apr 1864 (Age 23 years)+ 6. Henry Morris, b. 3 Dec 1842, Ohio , d. 30 Apr 1895, Watonwan County, Minnesota (Age 52 years)7. Mary Morris, b. 05 Aug 1845, Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio , d. 10 Oct 1902, North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio (Age 57 years)8. John Benjamin Morris, b. 22 Jul 1847, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 19 Nov 1895, Neosho Falls, Woodson County, Kansas (Age 48 years)9. Ellen Morris, b. 25 Jul 1849, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 11 Nov 1923, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio (Age 74 years)10. Catherine Morris, b. 7 Aug 1851, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 25 May 1934, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio (Age 82 years)Last Modified 23 Dec 2022 Family ID F19 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 11 May 1812 - South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio 
Married - 30 Aug 1832 - London, Madison County, Ohio 
Census - 1880 - Monroe Township, Allen County, Ohio 
Residence - - Farm of Henry Morris 
Died - 07 Sep 1891 - Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio 
Buried - - Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Documents 
1880 Plat Map of Monroe Twp Allen County Ohio.png
Atlas of Allen County, Ohio
https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll9/id/4627
Headstones Margaret Weaver Morris 1812-1891 
Henry Morris 1806-1877
Histories 
History of the Hempleman Family in America PDF
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Notes - Von Hof Erbert or Hofferbert Family History
by Florence Hofferbert Brenneman
A letter of Margaret Weaver Morris, (date and recipient unknown)
“We started for our new home October 2, 1832, with a yoke of oxens, a team of horses and a cow, which we had no trouble with for she followed the oxens. We had very little trouble from my father’s home to Bellefontaine as the path or road was wide enough for our wagons, but o the mud was deep, or so we thought then. We were told there was a good road cut through the forest to a small place called Lima, northwest of Bellefontaine, but this was not so. There was a path most of the way, but only wide enough for a horse or one man to walk through. We spent many days, and yes weeks, cutting down trees and dragging them out of the way, and then the mud was hub deep. It was bitter cold before we reached Lima. And when we did reach Lima we were a little disappointed, it was nothing but swamp. There were four families and a bachelor living in Lima. We met them all, they came cutting into the forest to meet us. I guess they were as glad to see us as we were to see them. I’ll never forget them. I was so afraid they would be the last white people I would see for a long time as my husband wanted to go north till he found good land. Their names were, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cole, Dr. and Mrs. William Cunningham, Mr. John Brewster and a baby girl, daughter of the Brown’s. Of all that we had to go through I believe the hardest for me was to leave Lima, not because it was beautiful, but because of the people. Maybe I should write something in this letter about Lima, I have already told you about the people, so I’ll tell you about the corn mill that was there. It was a stump of a big trees center burned out and a log attached to the end of a young sapling bent over to act as a pestle. It worked alright but it took a day, from sunrise to sunset to convert a bushel of corn into samp. There was no newspaper, no inlet or outlet either by rail or earth. There was one small creek, where Indians had learned to raise hogs and drove the hogs to the creek to water each day and so the Indians called it Keshko sepe, meaning hog river and the white men called it Hog Creek. That was Lima, Ohio. We tried to find a path cut through to the north but they told us there wasn’t any, that no one but Indians were north of Lima and their paths went in from some other way. There was a family that went west of Lima that same year and settled on something that sounded like sugar creek. But my husband wasn’t going west, he was going north, so we came north. I knew we did not come straight north as some of the trees were too big for us to cut so we went around them. But the road we cut was traveled by many a settler and is still being used as a road. It was winter when we finally reached a ridge of good farming land. We staked off 160 acres of this government land on the ridge and paid $1.25 per acre for it. We built a house 16 ft. square out of poles and my husband chink and daub the house. We built a fire in one end of it, allowing the smoke to go out of the house through the cracks and crevices. The door was also the window, as it grew colder, much below zero, my husband fashioned a door of poles, and made hinges of hides. We lived this way for a year. We then built a log cabin with puncheon floor, and a square hole with paper pasted over it for a window. This was equal to the finest home in these parts.
We brought three barrels of flour with us which lasted a year, with corn meal. We had plenty of wild meat, such as deer and turkey, and we gathered wild berries. But I remember one winter, I think it was in 1834 as George was just a baby, we were without bread for four months, as the nearest place we could get grinding done was Cherokee, in Logan county, or Sidney in Shelby county. But we had plenty of pumpkins and squashes and a few potatoes. My husband worked hard clearing the ridge and as soon as we would get a spot cleared we would plant it. The country was beautiful here, but I did get lonesome for other people. My husband, Henry, was born in Kentucky, the son of Joseph and Lavina, and he knew nothing but fighting the Indians or making friends with them and clearing forest. He was a small boy when he came to Ohio with his father but he remembers it so clearly and how he worked with his father to cut a road from the Ohio River to Oldtown and then to their homestead near South Charleston, Ohio.
O, the joy I felt when one day Henry was out hunting for meat for our dinner and he was east on the ridge and he thought he saw a piece of white cloth blowing in the wind through the trees. He went very quickly to see what it could be and discovered we had neighbors. After almost four years of loneliness we had neighbors. Their name was Turner and they had taken up a homestead a few miles to the east of us. They were as glad to see us as we were to see them. A few days after this our first little girl was born and we named her Elizabeth.” [7]
- Von Hof Erbert or Hofferbert Family History
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Sources - [S43] Hardesty's Atlas of Putnam County 1880, https://www.ohiohistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hardesty-s_Atlas_of_Putnam_County_1880.pdf, (https://www.ohiohistory.org/preserving-ohio/state-historic-preservation-office/historic-atlases/), page 223.
PLEASANT TOWNSHIP
DR. JOSEPH MORRIS – The subject of this sketch was born in Monroe township, this county, December 10, 1838. His parents, Henry and Margaret Morris, settled here in 1832. Dr. Morris has been twice married; his first wife, daughter of James and Mary Smith, was born in this county April 6, 1839; the second and present wife, Diana, daughter of Daniel and Catherine Seitz, was born in Fairfield county Mary 8, 1837. Children: Galenus, born July 23, 1861; Alfred, October 1, 1862; Josephine, July 11, 1864, deceased; Sarah Lucinda, born September 21, 1866, died August 5, 1877; Frank, born May 25, 1868; Rosella, January 17, 1870; Robert D., May 28, 1877; Lizzie, July 20, 1879. Dr. Morris’s father and mother were the first settlers in Monroe township (this township has since been struck off to Allen county). They settled on the farm where mother Morris now lives, and here she lived six weeks without seeing the face of a woman. Soon afterward other families came in, William and Rebecca Turner being the first family to settle in Pleasant township. Dr. Morris has practised medicine and surgery in Columbus Grove since 1870. - [S4] Genealogical Records of Edith France.
- [S6] History of the Hempleman Family in America, Whiteley, George, (1912), PDF on this site https://hiltner.com/hiltner/showmedia.php?mediaID=110&medialinkID=206.
- [S39] Elizabeth Morris Hartman's History, Wm Morris, (self published, copy from Allen County Historical Society, Lima, Ohio).
- [S3] find-a-grave.
- [S5] Ohio County Marriage Records.
- [S18] Hofferbert Family History, Florence Hofferbert Brenneman.
- [S43] Hardesty's Atlas of Putnam County 1880, https://www.ohiohistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hardesty-s_Atlas_of_Putnam_County_1880.pdf, (https://www.ohiohistory.org/preserving-ohio/state-historic-preservation-office/historic-atlases/), page 223.