Chenoweth, Thomas F.

Posted By: Jane Barr Torres
Date: 16 March 2002

Source: A HISTORY OF DARKE COUNTY, OHIO; Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co., 1880. p.752-753

THOMAS F. CHENOWETH, farmer and brickmason, Sec. 32 ; P.O. Darke ; was born in Franklin County, Ohio, July 17, 1808 ; his father, John Chenoweth, was born in Virginia, married Betsey Foster; she was born in Maryland July 16, 1788 ; he died in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1865 ; she died in Darke County, Ohio in 1876 ; the family moved to this section in February, 1818. (See biography of Jacob B. Chenoweth.) The subject of this sketch attended school with about and equal number of white and and colored children, as the Clemens (colored) settlement was made soon after they moved here ; up to the age of 21, Mr. Chenoweth followed farming, then learned the brickmason's trade, which, with farming, he has ever since followed ; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1852, and served until 1879 (twenty-seven years). He married Christina Thomas Nov. 10, 1831 ; she was born in Anderson County, Tenn., Feb. 1, 1810 ; her father, John Thomas, married Catherine Albright Oct. 31, 1799 ; she was born March 14, 1784 ; both were born in North Carolina and died in Preble County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth have had the following children, viz., Lewis A., born Aug. 6, 1832, died April 4, 1836 ; John, born Nov. 19, 1833 ; Louisa, Dec. 16, 1835 ; Nelson T., Oct 8, 1837 ; Emeline, Dec. 7, 1839, died Feb. 18, 1840 ; Catherine, born Jan. 13, 1843 ; Joel T., Dec. 29, 1844 ; Mary Jane, Sept 18, 1848 ; and Benjamin F., Sept 27, 1852 ; Louisa married Milton Jefferis, Catherine married Daniel Clapp, Mary Jane married George McClure. In the winter of 1830 and 1831, Mr. Chenoweth hauled with a four-horse team out of Greenville all the wheat that was marketed there at that time, i.e., two loads a day, twenty-five bushels to the load ; it was sold for 37 1/2 cents per bushel in merchandise. He owns a good farm of 160 acres.

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