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Mary Vanderford (3060)

Father: William Vanderford (2012)
Mother: Sarah (Sally) Comer

b. 1807 in North Carolina [census-Ohio]

m. Feb. 20, 1828 in Hocking County, Ohio, Silas Dixon [Bowers,1989], b. May 30, 1805 in Ross County, Ohio, d. July 22, 1884 buried in Mead Cemetery, Scioto County, Ohio. Son of George Dixon and Catherine Cox. [Ancestry-Herzog]

Issue: [ancestry-Herzog]

Nancy, b. 1829 in Ohio

m. Feb. 6, 1847 in Ross Co., Ohio, Reuben Holcomb, 1823 in Ohio, son of Sylvanus Holcomb and Elizabeth McClain
issue: [census-Ohio]
Minerva, b. 1845 in Ohio
Mary, b. 1850 in Ohio
Elizabeth, b. 1854 in Ohio
Silas, b. 1856 in Ohio
Silvanus, b. 1860 in Ohio
Rebecca Mae, b. Jan. 13, 1861 in Ohio
George S., b. 1867 in Ohio
information: [census-Ohio]
1860-1880: Reuben and his family farmed in Beaver Township, Pike county, Ohio.

Rebecca, b. 1832 in Ohio

George V., b. 1834 in Ohio, d. July 25, 1913

m. June 1, 1860 in Scioto Co., Ohio, Rebecca Mead, b. 1834 in Ohio
issue: [census-Ohio]
Eunice, b. 1861 in Ohio
Sarah, b. 1867 in Ohio
John, b. June 1870 in Ohio

Emmaline, b. Dec. 17, 1835 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, d. April 18, 1890 in Kansas, buried Baptist Cemetery, Center, Kansas [ancestry-Decker]

m. Jan. 26, 1854 in Scioto Co., Ohio, Edmund Joseph Adams, b. Jan 8, 1833 in Ohio
issue: [ancestry-Decker]
Laura Ellen, b. July 3, 1868 in Iowa
  m. Harry Melbourne Reed
  issue: [ancestry-Decker]
  Rena Mary, b. June 22, 1905
Fanny
Mary
  m. Jack Bond
Sarah Alice
Celesta June
John Silas
Clara May
George Dixon

Noah, b. Jan. 11, 1840 at Eagle, Vinton Co., Ohio

m. Oct. 22, 1865, Eunice Dodge, b.1843 in Ohio, daughter of Harris Dodge and Abigail Mead
issue: [census-Ohio]
Mary E., b. 1866 in Ohio, d. Jan. 18, 1878 of drowning in the Little Scioto River
Geroge W., b. 1868 in Ohio
James S., b. 1871 in Ohio
Bertha May., b. 1876 in Ohio,
Tracy N/(boy), b. 1879 in Ohio
Gracie E., b. 1879 in Ohio, d. Sept. 18, 1882
Information: [bio-Scioto]
Noah was a member of the Free-Will Baptist church, a strong Republican, member of Scioto Post, No. 287 G.A.R., and belonged to Wheelersburg Lodge, I.O.O.F.

Jane, b. July 3, 1841 in Ohio

Sarah, b. 1844 in Ohio

Catharine, b. 1847 in Ohio, d. March, 2, 1914

Information:

1850:
Silas was a manufacturer in Harrison Township, Scioto County, Ohio and the value of his real property was $2500. His son George was working with him. [census-Ohio]

1860:
Silas was a miller in Harrison Township, Scioto County, Ohio and the value of his real property was $4000. His sons George and Noah were working with him. [census-Ohio]

1870:
Silas was working as a miller in Harrison Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His sons George and Noah were working with him. [census-Ohio]

June 3, 1875:
The Athens Messenger reports: In the Hocking Common Pleas, last week, Mr. Silas Dixon got a verdict for $483.96 against the Logan Grange Store for wool sold to defendants in 1873. [ancestry-newspapers]

September 1, 1877:
The Portsmouth Times reports that Silas Dixon was a juror on Tuesday, September 4th in Probate Court. [ancestry-newspapers]

1880:
Silas and his sons George and Noah were millers and farmers in Harrison Township, Scioto County, Ohio. [census-Ohio]

History of Lower Scioto Valley (1884):
The first mill in the township [Harrison] was built in 1804 by Emanuel Traxler, a settler of 1796, on the site of Portsmouth. Benjamin Scott, Sr., was the owner of the mill, and in the year 1836 it was remodeled and repaired by his son, Benjamin Scott, Jr. The dam was built by an old setler named Oldfield. There were several owners of the mill up to 1850, when it was purchased by Silas Dixon, he purchasing it of Joseph Smith, of the Scioto Furnace. Mr. Dixon, in 1866 sold it to his sons, George and Noah, who remained in partnership until 1880, when Noah became sole owner, and is still proprietor. A saw-mill has been added. The flouring mill has three run of burrs, with a capacity of thirty barrels of flour per day of Merchants' Brand, besides custom work. [ancestry-histories]

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