OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
WILLIAM BITZER, residing near Hallsville, has been connected with the agricultural development of Ross county during a period embracing all of the great modern inventions relating to farm work. When he, as a barefooted boy, first commenced to plant corn, there were no sulky plows or machines for drilling, and when later he was putting in his own crops there were no reapers, harvesters, binders and other labor-savers now so common. He has seen all the "ups and downs" of the business and in his quiet, unassuming way has done his share to keep Ross county at the front as one of the great farming regions of the west. Mr. Bitzer comes of honorable lineage on both sides, one of his ancestors having been a Revolutionary veteran and another in the war of 1812. His parents were Jacob and Rosan Barbara (Metzger) Bitzer, both natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ross county in 1812 and here ended their days, the mother dying at seventy-nine and the father when eighty-six years old. Of their four sons and three daughters, only William is now living. William Bitzer was born in Green township, Ross county, November 30, 1823, and there he has spent all the supervening years. He obtained but a scant amount of "book learning" from the rather inferior country schools of those days, but he learned to do all sorts of farm work and acquired the habits of industry which remained with him throughout his future life. Since the beginning of his adult years he has always owned a farm and is at present in possession of eighty two and one-half acres in Colerain township. February 14, 1860, he was married to Mary A. Creachbaum, who was born in Harrison township, Ross county, March 5, 1835. She was the daughter of John and Catherine (Rowe) Creachbaum,.who came from Pennsylvania and married after their arrival, having seven children, of whom five are yet living. William Bitzer and his wife have four children, who are thus briefly recorded in order of birth: Leah married Peter Dumm and has two children, Harrison L. and Cleo M.; Flora, wife of Jacob Heffner, has one child dead (Pearl) and one living, Mabel D.; Mary C. is the wife of C. J. Noble; William R. married Jessie Dumm and has three children, Russell E., Nolan D., and Marie. Mr. Bitzer's grandfather on the mother's side served as a soldier under Washington during the war for American independence arid his father bore arms for the government in 1812.
Source #1 - The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio by Henry Holcomb Bennett - Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902..
WILLIAM BITZER, residing near Hallsville, has been connected with the agricultural development of Ross county during a period embracing all of the great modern inventions relating to farm work. When he, as a barefooted boy, first commenced to plant corn, there were no sulky plows or machines for drilling, and when later he was putting in his own crops there were no reapers, harvesters, binders and other labor-savers now so common. He has seen all the "ups and downs" of the business and in his quiet, unassuming way has done his share to keep Ross county at the front as one of the great farming regions of the west. Mr. Bitzer comes of honorable lineage on both sides, one of his ancestors having been a Revolutionary veteran and another in the war of 1812. His parents were Jacob and Rosan Barbara (Metzger) Bitzer, both natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ross county in 1812 and here ended their days, the mother dying at seventy-nine and the father when eighty-six years old. Of their four sons and three daughters, only William is now living. William Bitzer was born in Green township, Ross county, November 30, 1823, and there he has spent all the supervening years. He obtained but a scant amount of "book learning" from the rather inferior country schools of those days, but he learned to do all sorts of farm work and acquired the habits of industry which remained with him throughout his future life. Since the beginning of his adult years he has always owned a farm and is at present in possession of eighty two and one-half acres in Colerain township. February 14, 1860, he was married to Mary A. Creachbaum, who was born in Harrison township, Ross county, March 5, 1835. She was the daughter of John and Catherine (Rowe) Creachbaum,.who came from Pennsylvania and married after their arrival, having seven children, of whom five are yet living. William Bitzer and his wife have four children, who are thus briefly recorded in order of birth: Leah married Peter Dumm and has two children, Harrison L. and Cleo M.; Flora, wife of Jacob Heffner, has one child dead (Pearl) and one living, Mabel D.; Mary C. is the wife of C. J. Noble; William R. married Jessie Dumm and has three children, Russell E., Nolan D., and Marie. Mr. Bitzer's grandfather on the mother's side served as a soldier under Washington during the war for American independence arid his father bore arms for the government in 1812.
Source #1 - The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio by Henry Holcomb Bennett - Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902..
OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
WILLIAM BITZER, residing near Hallsville, has been connected with the agricultural development of Ross county during a period embracing all of the great modern inventions relating to farm work. When he, as a barefooted boy, first commenced to plant corn, there were no sulky plows or machines for drilling, and when later he was putting in his own crops there were no reapers, harvesters, binders and other labor-savers now so common. He has seen all the "ups and downs" of the business and in his quiet, unassuming way has done his share to keep Ross county at the front as one of the great farming regions of the west. Mr. Bitzer comes of honorable lineage on both sides, one of his ancestors having been a Revolutionary veteran and another in the war of 1812. His parents were Jacob and Rosan Barbara (Metzger) Bitzer, both natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ross county in 1812 and here ended their days, the mother dying at seventy-nine and the father when eighty-six years old. Of their four sons and three daughters, only William is now living. William Bitzer was born in Green township, Ross county, November 30, 1823, and there he has spent all the supervening years. He obtained but a scant amount of "book learning" from the rather inferior country schools of those days, but he learned to do all sorts of farm work and acquired the habits of industry which remained with him throughout his future life. Since the beginning of his adult years he has always owned a farm and is at present in possession of eighty two and one-half acres in Colerain township. February 14, 1860, he was married to Mary A. Creachbaum, who was born in Harrison township, Ross county, March 5, 1835. She was the daughter of John and Catherine (Rowe) Creachbaum,.who came from Pennsylvania and married after their arrival, having seven children, of whom five are yet living. William Bitzer and his wife have four children, who are thus briefly recorded in order of birth: Leah married Peter Dumm and has two children, Harrison L. and Cleo M.; Flora, wife of Jacob Heffner, has one child dead (Pearl) and one living, Mabel D.; Mary C. is the wife of C. J. Noble; William R. married Jessie Dumm and has three children, Russell E., Nolan D., and Marie. Mr. Bitzer's grandfather on the mother's side served as a soldier under Washington during the war for American independence arid his father bore arms for the government in 1812.
Source #1 - The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio by Henry Holcomb Bennett - Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902..
WILLIAM BITZER, residing near Hallsville, has been connected with the agricultural development of Ross county during a period embracing all of the great modern inventions relating to farm work. When he, as a barefooted boy, first commenced to plant corn, there were no sulky plows or machines for drilling, and when later he was putting in his own crops there were no reapers, harvesters, binders and other labor-savers now so common. He has seen all the "ups and downs" of the business and in his quiet, unassuming way has done his share to keep Ross county at the front as one of the great farming regions of the west. Mr. Bitzer comes of honorable lineage on both sides, one of his ancestors having been a Revolutionary veteran and another in the war of 1812. His parents were Jacob and Rosan Barbara (Metzger) Bitzer, both natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ross county in 1812 and here ended their days, the mother dying at seventy-nine and the father when eighty-six years old. Of their four sons and three daughters, only William is now living. William Bitzer was born in Green township, Ross county, November 30, 1823, and there he has spent all the supervening years. He obtained but a scant amount of "book learning" from the rather inferior country schools of those days, but he learned to do all sorts of farm work and acquired the habits of industry which remained with him throughout his future life. Since the beginning of his adult years he has always owned a farm and is at present in possession of eighty two and one-half acres in Colerain township. February 14, 1860, he was married to Mary A. Creachbaum, who was born in Harrison township, Ross county, March 5, 1835. She was the daughter of John and Catherine (Rowe) Creachbaum,.who came from Pennsylvania and married after their arrival, having seven children, of whom five are yet living. William Bitzer and his wife have four children, who are thus briefly recorded in order of birth: Leah married Peter Dumm and has two children, Harrison L. and Cleo M.; Flora, wife of Jacob Heffner, has one child dead (Pearl) and one living, Mabel D.; Mary C. is the wife of C. J. Noble; William R. married Jessie Dumm and has three children, Russell E., Nolan D., and Marie. Mr. Bitzer's grandfather on the mother's side served as a soldier under Washington during the war for American independence arid his father bore arms for the government in 1812.
Source #1 - The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio by Henry Holcomb Bennett - Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902..
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