His family moved from Loudoun County, Virginia into the Monongahela Valley in 1771, being some of the earliest settlers. He and his brother John preceded the family in a move to Columbiana County, Ohio.
He later moved his family to the Iowa region.
William married Sarah Wilson on 1 Nov 1792
He lived to be 101 years old.
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From Find A Grave contributor Mary Ann Bumgarner:
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY (Born 1766)
I was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, on the 10th day of the First Month, 1766, at the foot of a mountain called "Short Hill", a spur which puts out of Blue Mountains at Harper's Ferry, where a small stream and a great road pass through it. A village is located on the east side, called the Gap, near which I was born.
In the year 1771 my father moved his family over the mountains to a place now called Uniontown, where Henry Beeson was building a mill, and had a field cleared which father got to plant in corn. The next year he removed 11 west, where he had three tracts of land on one of which he stayed two years. When the Indian War broke out, after he had planted his corn, he decided to take his family back over the mountains and after burying his iron tools, hardware and crockery ware, started but before he got to where Uniontown is now, where they were building a fort, he broke his wagon and was obliged to leave it and stop at the fort, where we stayed all summer,and went back to his farm twice and stayed two or three days each time to tend his corn. At one time he took my older brother and me with him, and while we were there the Indians killed a family about 3 miles from us on the Monongahela, but the Indians never attacked the fort. Two years after the Revolutionary War commenced, when he sold his land and removed to what is now Washington County, six miles west of Brownsville, and lived there in danger of the Indians. In the year 1799 he bought 40 acres of land with a mill site on it at the mouth of the Little Beaver and moved to it. I having been married in the year 1792 moved with him, and we built a grist mill and a saw mill.
In Tenth Month, 1801, I moved my family to now what is called Columbiana County, Ohio, having sold our mills for $2700. I think in 1803 our County was organized, and the first court was held in Matthias Lower's barn; the jury sat on logs. The court had the appointing of County Surveyor, and at that court I was appointed to that office, and was reappointed at different times for 27 years. In the year 1805 I was appointed surveyor to divide 12 townships into sections and set corners to quarter sections. The townships had been laid out before and divided into lots of four sections each, so I had to run three lines through each township, both east and west and north and south and set quarter-section corners. My district was the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th ranges adjoining the New Connecticut, or Western Reserve Line. I began early in the spring, and after I performed the work in the woods, I had to make three plats and descriptions of every township, one to be sent to Washington and one for the land office in Steubenville, and one for the General Surveyor who kept his office in Cincinnati, where I had to go to make my returns.
I was allowed $3.00 a mile for surveying, having to find hands and diet. My fees were $1300. and my outlay $300. In the year 1840 my wife died. We had nine children. One died when he was seven years old, all the rest have families. I have had from that time to the present to live with my children. Am now living with my son-in-law, Albert F. Sharpless and his wife, my youngest daughter Lydia. When I arrived at my hundredth year, all my children living, and a number of their children, grandchildren and two of the fifth generation assembled with us. When we had dinner for them some of them made a calculation, and made out that my children, grand-children and great grand-children and two of the fifth generation, amount to 160 living.
I voted for Washington when a candidate for President, and voted at most of the presidential elections up to the present time.
William Heald
Damascus, Ohio
First Month 15th, 1866
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He later moved his family to the Iowa region.
William married Sarah Wilson on 1 Nov 1792
He lived to be 101 years old.
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From Find A Grave contributor Mary Ann Bumgarner:
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY (Born 1766)
I was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, on the 10th day of the First Month, 1766, at the foot of a mountain called "Short Hill", a spur which puts out of Blue Mountains at Harper's Ferry, where a small stream and a great road pass through it. A village is located on the east side, called the Gap, near which I was born.
In the year 1771 my father moved his family over the mountains to a place now called Uniontown, where Henry Beeson was building a mill, and had a field cleared which father got to plant in corn. The next year he removed 11 west, where he had three tracts of land on one of which he stayed two years. When the Indian War broke out, after he had planted his corn, he decided to take his family back over the mountains and after burying his iron tools, hardware and crockery ware, started but before he got to where Uniontown is now, where they were building a fort, he broke his wagon and was obliged to leave it and stop at the fort, where we stayed all summer,and went back to his farm twice and stayed two or three days each time to tend his corn. At one time he took my older brother and me with him, and while we were there the Indians killed a family about 3 miles from us on the Monongahela, but the Indians never attacked the fort. Two years after the Revolutionary War commenced, when he sold his land and removed to what is now Washington County, six miles west of Brownsville, and lived there in danger of the Indians. In the year 1799 he bought 40 acres of land with a mill site on it at the mouth of the Little Beaver and moved to it. I having been married in the year 1792 moved with him, and we built a grist mill and a saw mill.
In Tenth Month, 1801, I moved my family to now what is called Columbiana County, Ohio, having sold our mills for $2700. I think in 1803 our County was organized, and the first court was held in Matthias Lower's barn; the jury sat on logs. The court had the appointing of County Surveyor, and at that court I was appointed to that office, and was reappointed at different times for 27 years. In the year 1805 I was appointed surveyor to divide 12 townships into sections and set corners to quarter sections. The townships had been laid out before and divided into lots of four sections each, so I had to run three lines through each township, both east and west and north and south and set quarter-section corners. My district was the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th ranges adjoining the New Connecticut, or Western Reserve Line. I began early in the spring, and after I performed the work in the woods, I had to make three plats and descriptions of every township, one to be sent to Washington and one for the land office in Steubenville, and one for the General Surveyor who kept his office in Cincinnati, where I had to go to make my returns.
I was allowed $3.00 a mile for surveying, having to find hands and diet. My fees were $1300. and my outlay $300. In the year 1840 my wife died. We had nine children. One died when he was seven years old, all the rest have families. I have had from that time to the present to live with my children. Am now living with my son-in-law, Albert F. Sharpless and his wife, my youngest daughter Lydia. When I arrived at my hundredth year, all my children living, and a number of their children, grandchildren and two of the fifth generation assembled with us. When we had dinner for them some of them made a calculation, and made out that my children, grand-children and great grand-children and two of the fifth generation, amount to 160 living.
I voted for Washington when a candidate for President, and voted at most of the presidential elections up to the present time.
William Heald
Damascus, Ohio
First Month 15th, 1866
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His family moved from Loudoun County, Virginia into the Monongahela Valley in 1771, being some of the earliest settlers. He and his brother John preceded the family in a move to Columbiana County, Ohio.
He later moved his family to the Iowa region.
William married Sarah Wilson on 1 Nov 1792
He lived to be 101 years old.
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From Find A Grave contributor Mary Ann Bumgarner:
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY (Born 1766)
I was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, on the 10th day of the First Month, 1766, at the foot of a mountain called "Short Hill", a spur which puts out of Blue Mountains at Harper's Ferry, where a small stream and a great road pass through it. A village is located on the east side, called the Gap, near which I was born.
In the year 1771 my father moved his family over the mountains to a place now called Uniontown, where Henry Beeson was building a mill, and had a field cleared which father got to plant in corn. The next year he removed 11 west, where he had three tracts of land on one of which he stayed two years. When the Indian War broke out, after he had planted his corn, he decided to take his family back over the mountains and after burying his iron tools, hardware and crockery ware, started but before he got to where Uniontown is now, where they were building a fort, he broke his wagon and was obliged to leave it and stop at the fort, where we stayed all summer,and went back to his farm twice and stayed two or three days each time to tend his corn. At one time he took my older brother and me with him, and while we were there the Indians killed a family about 3 miles from us on the Monongahela, but the Indians never attacked the fort. Two years after the Revolutionary War commenced, when he sold his land and removed to what is now Washington County, six miles west of Brownsville, and lived there in danger of the Indians. In the year 1799 he bought 40 acres of land with a mill site on it at the mouth of the Little Beaver and moved to it. I having been married in the year 1792 moved with him, and we built a grist mill and a saw mill.
In Tenth Month, 1801, I moved my family to now what is called Columbiana County, Ohio, having sold our mills for $2700. I think in 1803 our County was organized, and the first court was held in Matthias Lower's barn; the jury sat on logs. The court had the appointing of County Surveyor, and at that court I was appointed to that office, and was reappointed at different times for 27 years. In the year 1805 I was appointed surveyor to divide 12 townships into sections and set corners to quarter sections. The townships had been laid out before and divided into lots of four sections each, so I had to run three lines through each township, both east and west and north and south and set quarter-section corners. My district was the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th ranges adjoining the New Connecticut, or Western Reserve Line. I began early in the spring, and after I performed the work in the woods, I had to make three plats and descriptions of every township, one to be sent to Washington and one for the land office in Steubenville, and one for the General Surveyor who kept his office in Cincinnati, where I had to go to make my returns.
I was allowed $3.00 a mile for surveying, having to find hands and diet. My fees were $1300. and my outlay $300. In the year 1840 my wife died. We had nine children. One died when he was seven years old, all the rest have families. I have had from that time to the present to live with my children. Am now living with my son-in-law, Albert F. Sharpless and his wife, my youngest daughter Lydia. When I arrived at my hundredth year, all my children living, and a number of their children, grandchildren and two of the fifth generation assembled with us. When we had dinner for them some of them made a calculation, and made out that my children, grand-children and great grand-children and two of the fifth generation, amount to 160 living.
I voted for Washington when a candidate for President, and voted at most of the presidential elections up to the present time.
William Heald
Damascus, Ohio
First Month 15th, 1866
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He later moved his family to the Iowa region.
William married Sarah Wilson on 1 Nov 1792
He lived to be 101 years old.
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From Find A Grave contributor Mary Ann Bumgarner:
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY (Born 1766)
I was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, on the 10th day of the First Month, 1766, at the foot of a mountain called "Short Hill", a spur which puts out of Blue Mountains at Harper's Ferry, where a small stream and a great road pass through it. A village is located on the east side, called the Gap, near which I was born.
In the year 1771 my father moved his family over the mountains to a place now called Uniontown, where Henry Beeson was building a mill, and had a field cleared which father got to plant in corn. The next year he removed 11 west, where he had three tracts of land on one of which he stayed two years. When the Indian War broke out, after he had planted his corn, he decided to take his family back over the mountains and after burying his iron tools, hardware and crockery ware, started but before he got to where Uniontown is now, where they were building a fort, he broke his wagon and was obliged to leave it and stop at the fort, where we stayed all summer,and went back to his farm twice and stayed two or three days each time to tend his corn. At one time he took my older brother and me with him, and while we were there the Indians killed a family about 3 miles from us on the Monongahela, but the Indians never attacked the fort. Two years after the Revolutionary War commenced, when he sold his land and removed to what is now Washington County, six miles west of Brownsville, and lived there in danger of the Indians. In the year 1799 he bought 40 acres of land with a mill site on it at the mouth of the Little Beaver and moved to it. I having been married in the year 1792 moved with him, and we built a grist mill and a saw mill.
In Tenth Month, 1801, I moved my family to now what is called Columbiana County, Ohio, having sold our mills for $2700. I think in 1803 our County was organized, and the first court was held in Matthias Lower's barn; the jury sat on logs. The court had the appointing of County Surveyor, and at that court I was appointed to that office, and was reappointed at different times for 27 years. In the year 1805 I was appointed surveyor to divide 12 townships into sections and set corners to quarter sections. The townships had been laid out before and divided into lots of four sections each, so I had to run three lines through each township, both east and west and north and south and set quarter-section corners. My district was the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th ranges adjoining the New Connecticut, or Western Reserve Line. I began early in the spring, and after I performed the work in the woods, I had to make three plats and descriptions of every township, one to be sent to Washington and one for the land office in Steubenville, and one for the General Surveyor who kept his office in Cincinnati, where I had to go to make my returns.
I was allowed $3.00 a mile for surveying, having to find hands and diet. My fees were $1300. and my outlay $300. In the year 1840 my wife died. We had nine children. One died when he was seven years old, all the rest have families. I have had from that time to the present to live with my children. Am now living with my son-in-law, Albert F. Sharpless and his wife, my youngest daughter Lydia. When I arrived at my hundredth year, all my children living, and a number of their children, grandchildren and two of the fifth generation assembled with us. When we had dinner for them some of them made a calculation, and made out that my children, grand-children and great grand-children and two of the fifth generation, amount to 160 living.
I voted for Washington when a candidate for President, and voted at most of the presidential elections up to the present time.
William Heald
Damascus, Ohio
First Month 15th, 1866
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