John Harrison, son of Peter and Sarah (Bunting) Harrison, was born 01 August 1796 at Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

John served in the War of 1812 as a private in the Army in Captain Andrew Correll's Company. He enlisted 28 July 1813; Discharged 20 August 1813.
Sources: Ohio, Soldier Grave Registrations, 1804-1958, Ancestry and Graves Registration Card, Fold3

John married first Margaret Dysert, from Virginia, 30 April 1815.
They had eleven children.
NOTE: I have located seven children at this time: Sara Jane, Hannah, William, Elizabeth, Nancy, John Harrison and Stephen.

Margaret died 24 June 1866 at Franklin Twp., Wayne County Ohio.
Source: Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2011, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

John married second Hannah Shreve 24 June 1869 at Holmes County, Ohio.
They had one child: Richard Harrison, born 07 August 1870; died 08 April 1949

John made his will 02 July 1873 at Franklin Twp., Wayne County, Ohio.
Son William and Son-in-Law Jonah Shreve named as Executors in his will; Witnesses: Lucas Flattery and John K. McBride. Probate Date: 02 December 1889 at Wayne County, Ohio.
His will can be found on the Family Search Website
Will Book 11; Film #005870606; Image #302; Page 528 of Book

John died 19 October 1889 at Franklin Twp., Wayne County, Ohio.
Source: Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2011, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time; pages 609-610

John Harrison

John Harrison was born 01 August 1796, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, seven miles south-west of Uniontown.

His father's name was Peter Harrison, a farmer, who was raised in Maryland, but removed from there to Fayette county, and from thence to Columbiana county, Ohio, and again to Harrison County, where he died. Peter Harrison had fifteen children, all of whom but the oldest and the youngest lived to be men and women.

John and Elisha Harrison are the only two of that family who came to Wayne county to live. John came in May 1816, having been married April 30, preceeding to Margaret Dysert, of Virginia.

He and his young wife came to Wayne county on horseback, packing 150 pounds of flour in his wife's bed, seventy miles, from Harrison county, Ohio, and settled down in the woods, within a mile of their present residence in Franklin township.

They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom (three sons and three daughters) are living.

Mr. Harrison is one of the best citizens of Franklin township.

William Harrison, his uncle, came to Franklin township as early as 1813, and settled on the farm now owned by the widow of James Finley.

Recollections of John Harrison:

Salt was worth six cents per pound when I cam here. Bought a two-horse waong from old Billy Poulson, about 1826, and paid for it in salt; went to Cleveland for it; obtained one barrel there and one barrel ten miles out of the city. These two barrels of salt paid for the wagon-price, thirty dollars. A bushel of wheat would pay for a pound of coffee, the former being of little cash account until the canal was opened. There were some Indians about-plenty of them on Martin's creek. Old chief Dan. Lyon remained after the other Indians left; he would make wooden ladles and exchange them for bacon; had smart children.

Old Jonathan Grant lived on the Holmes county side of the line, but in Wayne county then. He was sort of a spy, and an agent to look after the interests of first settlers. The Government had him employed, and donated him one hundred and sixty acres of land where he lived. He lived in true aboriginal style-in an open shanty, between the logs of which dogs could jump; had no floor, and was covered with bark; was a great hunter; bear and deer-skins covered his shanty; prayed and swore in the same breath. The Larwills waited on him in his last sickness; died of cancer, over fifty years ago.

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