Thomas Seton from February to August 1813. As aggressions between Native Americans and early pioneers progressed, Wilson felt the need to register with the Ohio Militia and served as a private under Capt. In March of 1807, they arrived in Shelby County with their three children and began preparations for a farm. Wilson’s family arrived in Warren County, Ohio, in 1801.
Wilson was born in 1774 in Grayson County, Virginia, and in 1799 he married Anna Webb, a native of Georgia and descendent of English royalty who had been a mail courier in her youth during the Revolutionary War. Settling a year later along the banks of Turtle Creek in 1807, came John Wilson and his family. One of them, Abraham, stayed in Clinton Township to help on Charles Starrett’s farm, living in a log cabin that later served as a meeting place until the first court house was built. He and his wife had a total of seven children. Cannon and his family moved a final time in 1815, where they built a home in Turtle Creek Township just outside of Hardin. By 1808, Cannon moved his family onto the area of land that would eventually become Sidney, his family most likely being the first to make improvements on it. He worked as a tanner’s apprentice for two years before joining the Continental Army where he served under the command of Gen. 12, 1756, and came to the United States at the age of 15. James Cannon and his family arrived shortly after the Mellingers in 1806, settling first in part of Orange Township before moving to the mouth of Loramie Creek. Joseph was elected as one of the first County Commissioners in 1819, while David owned the piece of land surveyed by Jonathon Counts in 1837 that became the canal hub of Lockington. From what can be gathered, the family moved to Ohio from Kentucky. This family was extremely interconnected, naming their children after other family members still living, which is a genealogist’s nightmare. David, John, and Joseph all settled near what became Lockport and later Lockington. The Mellinger brothers were the next to arrive in 1806. moved to Van Wert County by about the 1850’s.
Thatcher remained until the county’s inception and helped survey the first roads. There is much still unknown about this family, however it is believed they came north from Kentucky. He and his wife, Hester Cox, made their way with their infant son from the Great Miami River to the Loramie Creek area where they took up residence in the northwest part of what is now Washington Township. James Thatcher was the first pioneer to arrive in Shelby County in 1805. “Give me back the days of old let me go back to my log cabin home beside the Miami, where I took my youthful bride where with empty hands, but with brave and honest hearts, we fought out the battle of life where we knew naught of envy, strife, or pride.” Life was not easy for those brave enough to venture into the Miami Valley region at the turn of the nineteenth century however hardships along the way did not stop the early pioneers from blazing their own trails.Īs quoted in the thoughts of an old pioneer: There were no easily accessible roads, the only means of communication were letters on horseback, and the only schools and churches were lessons taught in your own homes. SIDNEY - Imagine a realm of dense, unbroken forest for as far as you can imagine, with no form of modern civilization anywhere nearby, and you have a vision of what Shelby County was like to its first white settlers.
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Harmar Military Trail marker is placed where James Thatcher, the first Shelby County resident, built his cabin in 1805.Įditor’s note: in conjunction with the 200th celebration of the establishment of Shelby County, the Sidney Daily News will be publishing a year long series about the county’s history.
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