Joseph M. McDonald II (1811-1898) - Find a Grave Memorial

Joseph M. McDonald II

Birth

1811

Muskingum County, Ohio, USA

Death

5 Mar 1898 (aged 86–87)

Athens County, Ohio, USA

Burial

McDonald Cemetery

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Joseph M. McDonald was the son of Joseph & Josinah (Dew) McDonald. He was born in 1811 in Muskingum Co., OH. Some time before 1833, he married Dorinda Mingus & they had one child, born in OH:

- Eliza Ann (1833-1910)

Joseph then married Christiane Hall on Aug. 3, 1839 in Athens Co., OH. They had twelve children, all born in OH:

- George Martin (1841-1930)
- David Wesley (1844-1921)
- Joseph DeLoss (1848-1936)
- James M. (1850-1933)
- Lydia A. (1852- 1930/31)
- Thomas (abt 1855-abt 1865)
- Anganette J. (1859-1931)
- Amherst (1859-1931)
- Lewis Jefferson (1862-1933)
- Autorie (1864-1937)
- Amos (unknown, died at 3-4 yrs of age)
- Jennie (unknown, died at 2 years of age)
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From "A Brief History of Trimble Township, Athens County, Ohio - It's Towns, Villages, and People" by James G. Blower, 1965

Chapter 2, pg. 14

THE MCDONALDS, GEORGE AND JOSEPH, BROTHERS

Adjoining the Arnolds on the south and the Newtons on the east, the lands of the McDonalds, George and Joseph, brothers, reach across the entire valley, the old road, and the hills to the west. It consisted of 700 acres of bottom land and hills covered with fine timber. On the east side of the road, now number 13, on a small knoll, they built a log house. Then on the opposite side in a smaller valley between the hills, they built a small but very efficient small saw mill enclosed in a long shed built of logs. This also enclosed a small grist mill for their own personal use. However, they were gracious and kind enough to, at times, grind rough cattle feed for other settlers nearby and receive one sixth of the ground feed for their pay. They cut lumber on the same basis of pay, and in a few years, , they went ahead and installed a small planer in the shed. Cutting their own timber and planing it into clapboards, they decided to tear down the old log house and built a new home of clapboard siding the first in that entire locality. It was a long, graceful, beautiful home of a story and a half. Ripened with the century of rain and sun, it became a beautiful grey color and looked like a giant mushroom growing out of the ground. In 1959, it still stood as a beautiful monument to the memory of the pioneer energy and visions and dreams of the McDonald brothers. It is endowed with the crisp and honest sentiments of their neighbors that the two "McDonalds know how to cut their own mustard". This beautiful, historical old landmark is now gone into the limbo of past memories. One of our new fangled bungalows built on the spot is probably more convenient, but not nearly as pretty as the old house preceding it.