PART III

THE FAMILY OF PATRICIUS BART McGLONE

"Sweet their memories are . . . "
Sarah Davies Hogoboom

I believe it was in 1976 that we began "serious" correspondence with a most delightful lady from Madison, Wisconsin. As time passed, we met, and she contributed greatly to this part on Patricius Bart McGlone.

I have received her permission to quote much of her Hogoboom of Madison for this great help.

Patricius Bart McGlone was born in Ireland, some say County Mayo, and the year was 1780. He married Eleanor (Ellen) O’Connor, probably in New York City. Ellen was born in 1783, also in Ireland, and it is said she was sent off to New York by her family to part her from the company of the young "Patrick," only to find that they were passengers on the same ship. There are conflicting stories on the marriage of this young couple, but they married shortly after arriving in New York.

Sometime before 1822, they were living at Tyrone, New York. The family moved from Tyrone to Seneca County, Reed Township, Ohio, in 1833. In the 1860 Census of Ohio, Pat was living with Ellen in Wakeman, Huron County, Ohio, next to his son, Edward. At that time, Patrick would have been 80 years old and Ellen, 77. Sometime between 1860 and his death on June 20, 19865, he moved to Watrousville, Michigan, which is in Tuscola County, and Ellen was with him because she died on March 29, 19865, and is also buried at Watrousville.

Patricius and Ellen had three children, that we are sure of:

  1. Patrick will be discussed in Chapter I.
  2. Edward will be discussed in Chapter II.
  3. John James will be discussed in Chapter III.

Picture of cemetery in Watrousville.

CHAPTER ONE

CHILDREN OF PATRICIUS BART MCGLONE

PATRICK

born: May 6, 1810
died: June 24, 1844
married: Hannah Reed in March 1833

Patrick was born on May 6, 1810, in Seneca County, New York, and was brought up on a farm. Sometime in the early 1830’s, Patrick went to Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio, where he worked for a few years on a farm. He bought some land, cleared it for farming, and then married Hannah Reed in March 1833. Her father was the first settler in Reed Township, and after whom the township was named. He then bought 160 acres of land. He stayed in Rose Township some seven years and then went to Tuscola County, Michigan, arriving in Vassar on July 3, 1850. He was one of the earliest settlers there in Tuscola County 0 the only persons then living in the area were two Germans who were clearing land onto his land about three miles away. In 1851 he moved with his family onto his land and began clearing for a farm. In the house he built, he made a tavern because there was no other place for travelers to stay and in another house he built, he kept a hotel for about 14 years. He was very instrumental in building a State Road built from his area to Sebewaing. His home was in the Village of Watrousville, which was then called "McGlone Corners." Pat settled in Section 9 of the Village of Juniata and built a log house in 1851. Since this was on a thoroughfare for lumbermen, settlers, and prospectors, he built his tavern as mentioned above. Pat’s log shanty in the area was called a "lone sentinel in the wilderness" around which wolves howled nightly.

Some interesting facts about Patrick are:

  1. There are records of many land transactions on file that he participated in. Some are: (a) On March 30, 1854, Pat (McGloon) and his wife, Hannah, bought Juniata and is signed in the presence of Sarah E. McGloon. (b) Pat and Paron Watrous bought land on December 26, 1853, from Andrew Hartman of Oakland County, Michigan. (c) Pat sold land in small parcels to many people from 1856 to 1859.
  2. Pat was engaged in general farming and was also a surveyor. He was a resident of Main Street.
  3. A map of Tuscola County by F.W. Beers and Company of New York in 1875, shows land Patrick owned including the cemetery and land on both sides of Main Street.
  4. At the first town meeting of Rogers on April 7, 1851, held at the home of Levi Rogers, Patrick was elected Poor-master. The town of Rogers changed its name to Juniata in 1857.
  5. On October 17, 1857, Patrick was a Commissioner and laid out a road from Cass River to Sebeweaing.
  6. Patrick and his son, Joseph R., helped work on a road in 1852. Patrick used his team to help log it out. The crew usually stayed with Patrick.
  7. The first school in Juniata was in 1853. Patrick’s children were among the first to attend.
  8. A Committee was formed in 1873 to form a permanent Tuscola County Pioneer Society. Pat was a vice-president.

Patrick and Hannah had five children:

  1. Elza P. was born in 1851.
  2. Joseph R. will be discussed in Section I.
  3. Sarah E. married William E. Sherman in 1853. She was born in 1834.
  4. Arvilla was born in 1843 according to some records; other say she was 16 years old when she married John Dennison on November 2, 1862.
  5. Anna married a Dennison. She was born about 1839.

Reference: 29.

Ad in THE WATROUSVILLE DEMOCRAT, June 19, 1860.

Section I

Joseph R. was born in 1835 in Ohio and married Sophronia Watrous. She was born in 1843 in Connecticut. He stayed around Tuscola County with his family for some time but we know that he and his wife lived in Flint, Michigan, on December 29, 1873, because of some records of land deeds. We also know that he became a lumber dealer in Toledo, Ohio, in 1874. Joseph R. moved around a lot. He was born in Ohio in 1835, he was in Watrousville in 1852, and married Sophronia in 1859 in Vassar in the Presbyterian Church. He was back in Ohio in 1860 and in Watrousville in 1870. We believe that he took his grandparents with him when he returned to Michigan after 1860. He was in Flint in 1873 and Toledo in 1874. The had 4 children:

  1. Ida was born in 1860 and married a Gibson. She was a poet.
  2. Carie was born in 1862 in Michigan.
  3. Thurber was born in 1865 in Flint, Michigan, and married Ellen Adelaie. She is buried at the Glenwood Cemetery in Flint.
  4. Minnie was born in 1870 in Michigan and married a Peterson of the Peterson Lumber Company in Michigan.

References: 29, 134.

JUNIATA HOUSE
WATROUSVILLE - - - MICHIGAN
P. McGlone, Proprietor

CHAPTER TWO

CHILDREN OF PATRICIUS BART McGLONE

EDWARD McGLONE

born: May 3, 1817
died: March 15, 1899
married: Charlotte Ann Lawrence on September 10, 1837

Edward was born in New York and died in Florida, Ohio, and is buried there. He married Charlotte in Sandusky, Ohio, on September 10, 1837. He arrived in Seneca County, Ohio, in 1833 with his family and was 16 years old. He married four years later and it is assumed that they lived there until about 1840 when they were listed in the Census of Wakeman, Ohio. In the 1860 Census, Edward’s occupation was listed as a harness maker, making and servicing the harnesses worn by the horses which drew the boats on the Miami and Erie Canals. Edward was also a Justice of the Peace at Wakeman where he was loved and respected by all. Sometime before 1874, Edward and Charlotte, taking with them the children still at home, moved to Florida, Ohio, in Henry County. Charlotte died there probably between 1888 and 1890. Edward’s death record states his name as "McGluen", his conditions as "widowed" and his cause of death as "old age". Edward and Charlotte had 14 children:

  1. Matthew was born in 1838 and died at Vicksburg in the Civil War.
  2. Frank was born in 1839 and had three children: Hattie, Maude, and Glenna.
  3. Hiram Wilder was born in 1839 and died on April 12, 1888. He never married. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 2, 1863, while in the Civil War. He entered the service on November 20, 1861, and was a private and was discharged on July 3, 1863, at Washington, D.C., on a surgeon’s certificate of disability. He was a member of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Regiment 55, Company I.
  4. Lydia was born in 1841, married a Washburn before 1860 and had one daughter.
  5. Charles M. was born in 1842.
  6. Martha M. was born in 1844 and married a Demarest. She lived in Vassar, Michigan.
  7. Lewis will be discussed in Section I.
  8. Harriet was born in 1846 and died before 1860. She was said to have had supernatural powers.
  9. Margaret Ellen (Nell) was born in 1848 and married a Ripon. They had one daughter, May.
  10. Levi C. was born in 1850.
  11. John Edward will be discussed in Section II.
  12. Juliette (Aunt Toot) was born in 1854 and married Leander Kerstetter at Texas, Ohio, in 1869. She died in 1894.
  13. Adelbert E. was born in 1857 and was unmarried. He was know as Delbert, but buried at Florida, Ohio, as Albert.
  14. George was born in 1860 and probably died young.

References: 21, 29, 43, 61, 92, 113.

Section I

Lewis was born in 1845 and entered the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Regiment 166, Company C, and May 2, 1864, and served as a private for 100 days before mustering out with his Company on September 9, 1864. He and his wife Mary had 3 children:

  1. Fred lived in Antigo, Wisconsin, and had three children: (a) Edward (b) Alida (c) John.
  2. Will never married.
  3. Maude married Ed Putnam and lived in Farwell, Michigan.

Section II

John Edward was born in Wakeman, Ohio, on July 29, 1852, and died at Whitehouse, Ohio, on June 6, 1936, and is buried there at the Whitehouse Cemetery. He was married at Whitehouse on September 22, 1874, to Sarah Elizabeth Demuth, who was born in Whitehouse in 1853 and died in Toledo in 1927. John grew up around Wakeman Township which is located near Norwalk, Ohio. He attended school at Wakeman and at a very young age, was a "mule driver" on the Miami and Erie Canal. The express boats were drawn by two to six horses or mules, kept on a trot by the driver who rode the left rear horse with frequent relays maintaining speeds of six to eight miles per hour.

John was too young to join his brothers, Matthew, Frank and Lewis, when they enlisted for service in the Civil War. After the War, he moved with his family to Florida, Ohio, where his father worked on the canal locks. John’s activities on the canal must have taken him to the Whitehouse vicinity, for it was there that he married Sarah in 1874.

By about 1877, they had moved to Whitehouse where they lived in a log cabin on the farm on Sarah’s family, the Renatus Demuths. In the early 1890’s, they bought land adjoining the Demuth place and built a house. In 1905, the house burned to the ground and all that remained of the family’s possessions fit unto the back of a wagon. The house was rebuilt and still stands today, on Stiles Road near Whitehouse, still occupied by the McGlone descendants.

John farmed the land on Stiles Road until he died in 1936 at the ago of 84. He was a good natured Irishman who brought up his family with much affection and occasionally a switch from the "peach tree". John and Sarah had 10 children:

  1. An infant who died at birth about 1876.
  2. Renatus Martin will be discussed in Section III.
  3. George Marion will be discussed in Section IV.
  4. Lydia Laurel was born on August 2, 1884, and died in 1961 in Whitehouse, Ohio. She married George Stout.
  5. Charlotte Elizabeth was born on February 23, 1888, and died in 1971. She married Paul Cannon. Their children are Edward Cannon of Mariemont, Ohio, and Phyllis Niggemyer of Akron, Ohio.
  6. Mary Lillian was born on May 5, 1890. In the year 1979 she lives in Maumee, Ohio, with her sister, Jeanette.
  7. Jeanette Phianna was born October 15, 1894, and lives in Maumee with Mary. She was married to Dr. Benjamin Gillette.
  8. Ava Cecelia was born in June, 1899, and married Thomas Homer Davies on June 21,1927. She and her husband now live in a beautiful home in Madison, Wisconsin, and are the parents of Sarah Hogoboom, of whom we spoke earlier.

References: 21, 43, 61, 105.

Section III

Renatus (Ray) Martin was born on July 5, 1880, and died in 1955. He married Florencer Beatrix Blakely in October, 1902. Ray was a Justice of the Peace. He and Florence had 4 children:

  1. Velma Ray was born on July 14, 1905, and married Coy Young on June 29, 1936. They currently live in Virginia. Velma and Coy had an unusual and interesting marriage site -- they were married on Locomotive No. 713 in the Detroit Yard, Toledo, Ohio!
  2. Emma Blanche was born on October 16, 1911, and married Jacob Patlin on April 23, 1930.
  3. Phyllis Lucille was born on January 25, 1914, and is married to Louis Searles.
  4. John Edward was born on February 22, 1917, and died at birth.

References: 21, 43.

Section IV

George Marion was born on April 5, 1882, in Toledo, Ohio, and died in 1964 in Florida with a heart attack. He married Adelaide (Addie) Montgomery in 1904. Addie was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and died in 1949. They had 2 children:

  1. John Edward (Ward) was born in 1905 and married Lucille Link. He died on 1960 in Illinois.
  2. Delbert George (Ted) was born on August 12, 1912, in Ohio. He married Ruth Rawlings in 1945 and they had one son. (a) Terry Philip.

References: 21, 25, 105.

CHAPTER THREE

CHILDREN OF PATRICIUS BART McGLONE

JOHN JAMES McGLONE

born: 1822
died: after 1894
married: Catherine Stryker in 1848

John James was born at Tyrone, New York, and died in Ohio, probably at Wakeman. His wife was born in New Jersey in 1823. John was well-known and highly respected in the community of Wakeman. He went to Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio, when he was 10 years old. He left home at age 12 and worked on the canal near Toledo, Ohio. He married Catherine in 1848 and had 4 children:

  1. Isadorah was born in Wakeman in 1850. She married a Jackson sometime before 1870.
  2. Mary was born in 1855 and married William Hall. They lived on the McGlone farm.
  3. John L. was born in 1858 and died in 1879.
  4. Flora (Florence) was born in 1860 and died in 1879.

Since there were no male heirs to John James, his family name ceased to exist.

References: 29, 134, 135.