Part II, Family, Section 2

Elizabeth “Betsy” Baldwin Darragh

Daughter of Captain John Baldwin

Elizabeth Baldwin was captured by the Indians

Taken from a written account by Joshua Baldwin 1853

as told to him by his father Jonah Baldwin

It was in the year 1790, the oldest daughter of this family, whose name was Elizabeth, was taken prisoner of Indians on Dunkard Creek, Monongalia County, Virginia.  She was hunting cows in the morning in the spring of the year.  She out ran one Indian, but there was another “undiscovered” by her, so she was captured and taken to northwestern Ohio and to Detroit.  They crossed the Muskingum River at the falls, nine miles below Zanesville, passed by Jonathons Creek to an Indian town called Bowling Green on the Licking River, near what is now Newark, Ohio. (Today is located in Bowling Green Township in Licking County, Ohio)  They went thence to Lake Erie at the Maumee Bay, thence up the Maumee to Fort Wayne where she was purchased by an Indian trader called , Captain Wilson, for $40 and she satisfied him by sewing or m_________ up 172 dozen shirts (so imperfectly made that she could make one dozen a day.)  When they received the intelligence of the advance of Wayne’s army, she was removed by the, she was removed by the trader and the Indians to Detroit.

After the Battle of Falling Timbers and Wayne’s Treaty, her brothers Jonah, aged 20,  and Francis, aged 16, descended the Monongahela to Pittsburgh and there hired as boatmen to push the keel boat up the Allegheny as far as navigable - - thence they crossed to Lake Erie where they met with a ship and went on board as hands to Detroit. Not finding there sister there, they hired on as hands on a vessel and went down the lake to a point where they found her. They obtained her and returned to Detroit.  They then procured a canoe and passed the south margin of the lake in it, to what is now called Port Clinton, opposite Sandusky Bay. Being fearful of attempting to run aground at the point of land, they abandoned the canoe and carried what they could with them to the bay. They then made a bark canoe, and crossed the bay in that.  They then took their course through the wilderness toward home and ran out of provisions and were for one week destitute of food and did not see any game or living thing during that time. At the end of that time they discovered and killed a small bear, and encamped until they ate it up.  They then pursued their journey home and soon reached the undulating land in the neighborhood of the Ohio, where game was plentiful.  They found one house on the Ohio side, crossed over and passed home by way of Washington, Pennsylvania.  One of her brothers was snake bit on the trip.  When she returned home she found her father and family greatly delighted to see her.  She had been absent four years. Alexander Legg and his two daughters were taken with Elizabeth, but after they got out into Ohio, they were separated and did not see each other again during their captivity.

Elizabeth (b, 1775 in Berkeley Co., Va.) married Joseph Darragh (Jonas Dorrah), who was born in 1767 in Pa.,  and settled on Jonathon Creek, four miles west of Zanesville, Ohio on a tract of land which she had seen while a prisoner. There she raised a large family and where she resided until her death... 

The Child of Elizabeth Baldwin and Joseph Darrah

Francis (b. 1808 in OH)

Hannah Baldwin

Daughter of Captain John Baldwin

Hannah (b. 1782 in Berkeley Co., Va.) married William Allen and resided after the marriage in Guernsey County, Ohio

Mary Baldwin

Daughter of Captain John Baldwin

Mary (b. July 26, 1785 in Berkeley Co., Va.; d. Nov. 26 in Johnson Co., MO) married the son of Hendryk Corson and Margaret Cornell, Richard Corson (b. Dec. 12, 1781 in Bucks Co., PA; d. Oct.31 1838 in White Oak, OH.), in Virginia on November 3, 1808 and lived in Fayette County, Ohio but moved to Missouri where she died in Johnson County.

The children of Mary Baldwin and Richard Corson.

John (b. Sept. 17, 1809 in Berkeley Co., VA; d. Aug. 31, 1875 in OH) married

             Elizabeth Blizzard on November 16, 1837 in Ohio.

The Children of John and Elizabeth Corson were Richard, Mary, William, James, Benjamin, Hester, Sarah B. and Amelia Corson.

Henry (b. Nov. 19, 1810 in Muskingum Co., OH) married Harriet Smith.

Margaret (b. Feb. 19, 1812 in Fayette Co.; d. in Fayette Co., OH) married James E. Stanford.

Hannah Jane (b. Sept. 17, 1813 in Fayette Co., OH; d. Mar. 10, 1888 in Fayette Co., OH) married Morgan Counts on August 26, 1845 in Fayette Co., OH.

Abraham (b. Aug. 22, 1815 in Fayette Co., OH; d. May 5, 1846 in Mount Sterling, OH) married Dinah Counts on December 28, 1845 in Shelby County, Ohio.

Thomas (b. April 23, 1817 in Fayette Co., OH)

Benjamin Corson (d. July 18, 1819 in Fayette Co., OH; d. July27, 1860) married Nancy S. Baldwin on October 23, 1843 in Fayette County, Ohio.

Mary Jane Corson (b. Aug. 5, 1821 in Fayette Co., OH; d. Dec. 11, 1912) married Albin.

Martha A. Corson (b. Feb. 14, 1824 in Fayette Co., OH) married Carter.

Richard Corson (b May 19, 1826 in Fayette Co., OH) married in 1863 to Mary Grimm.

Elizabeth Corson (b. April 13, 1829 in Fayette Co., OH) married Peter Lohr in Fayette County on May 22, 1850.

Margaret Baldwin

Daughter of Captain John Baldwin

Margaret (b. 1794 in Monongalia Co., Va.) was married a Cowen and lived in Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Baldwin

Daughter of Captain John Baldwin

Rebecca (b. 1798 in Berkeley, Co. Va.) no further information.

Martha Baldwin

Daughter of Captain John Baldwin

Martha (b. Aug. 8, 1792 in Berkeley, Co. Va.; d. on January 6, 1864 in La Rue, Ohio) married Lewis Cookus on February 27, 1817 in Fayette County, Ohio.

Document: Thomas Baldwin and Richard Courson, Executors, last will and Testament of John Baldwin.

***Lewis Seaman Baldwin

Son of John Baldwin

Lewis Seaman Baldwin (b. July 27, 1819; d. August 2, 1869) married Mary Jane Fisher the daughter of John and Elizabeth Fisher who live at Bethel (Danville) in Range Township. Seaman Baldwin was a Range Township trustee in the 1850’s and 1860’s preceding his death in 1869.  He along with Mary Jane Fisher who died in 1880 are buried Houseman Cemetery at Bethel (Danville) in Range Township, Madison County. This couple were the parents of twelve children and only one stayed in Ohio and continued the Baldwin Name. His name was George Washington Baldwin.

Mary Jane Fisher

Daughter of John Fisher

Mary Jane Fisher (b. Dec. 3, 1924, d. Nov. 20, 1880) married Lewis Seaman Baldwin on Feb. 5, 1946 the daughter of John and Elizabeth Fisher who lived at Bethel (Danville). Mary Jane’s parents were from Virginia and since they settled near John and Martha Frost Housman (Houseman) of Winchester, Virginia it can be assumed that they were either from Berkeley County or Frederick County, Virginia. John Fisher died on April 7, 1869 at the age of 92 and was buried in the Houseman or the Bethel M.E. Church Cemetery on

State Route

323. His wife Elizabeth Fisher died April 16, 1850 and was survived by daughter Mary Jane Fisher Baldwin and Lydia Fisher Brown.   John Fisher and his wife Elizabeth Fisher were founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bethel.  It was first organized in their home.  Apparently a brother of John Fisher, Isaac Fisher, founded the first church organized in Range Township, the Methodist Church of Midway (Sedalia), and Ohio.

The Children of Lewis Seaman Baldwin and Mary Jane Fisher

Twins (September 2, 1846, d September 13, 14, 1846) were the first born and died within 11 days of their birth and they are buried beside their parents in the Housman Cemetery.

Elizabeth Caroline (b. August 4, 1847, d. October 6, 1850) is buried beside her parents and the twins in the Housman Cemetery.

John Wesley (b. April 18, 1849; d. April 28 1849) is buried beside his parents and the twins in the Housman Cemetery.

Isaac Fisher (b. April 15, 1850; d, May 21, 1873) is buried beside his parents and brothers and sisters in the Housman Cemetery.

Martha Ann “Mattie” Baldwin

Daughter of Lewis Seaman Baldwin

Mattie (b.  Feb. 8, 1852 in Madison County, OH; d. Feb. 9, 1908 in Tulare, CA) never married.  She worked most of her life in Columbus, Ohio before moving to Hanford, California in 1893.  She became ill from with stomach cancer and died at the home of her sister Mrs. W. E. (Ida Belle) Brown in Tulare California.

Mary Jane (b. Jan. 27, 1854; d. May22 or 24, 1856) is buried beside her parents and brothers and sisters in the Housman Cemetery.

Angeline Harrison Baldwin

Daughter of Lewis Seaman Baldwin

Angeline Harrison (b. Nov. 28, 1857; d. 1920’s) married Henry Trowbridge in 1880 and sometime soon after Harry E. Evans and moved to North and South Dakota to homestead in the early 1880’s. She wrote letters home as to how unhappy she was living in Wolsey, SD and then in Belden,  and Van Hook, North Dakota. She had two children Roy Harrison Evans and Anna Belle Evans Stover.  Angeline, apparentlyas the children grew into adults,  returned to Madison County, Ohio and received a divorce from Harry Evans.  She then married H.E. Prose and might have returned to Wolsey, South Dakota.

The Children of Angeline were Roy Harrison and Anna Belle Evans

Quinn Minshall Baldwin

Son of Lewis Seaman Baldwin

Quinn Minshall (b. Oct 31, 1859; d. June 10, 1926) was named after a popular Methodist minister in Madison County, Jonathon Minshall and his son James Quinn Minshall.  Quinn left Madison County after the death of his beloved friend Edith B. Kilgore, whose obituary he still had in his wallet at the time of his own death. In 1887 Quinn went to California to visit his younger sister Ida Belle Brown and stayed until possibly 1900 or longer. He returned from California in poor health and lived much of the rest of his life at the Madison County Infirmary (name change in 1850 from the County Poorhouse).  Quinn never married, but was active in the I.O.O.F (Independent Order of  Odd Fellows) Lodge and died while living at that Lodge’s address in London, OH.  He is buried in the Kirkwood Cemetery located on Route 42 south of London.

James Douglas (b. Sept. 7, 1861; d. Oct 28, 1881) died of appendicitis and the family had a portrait painted of him which is still in the family.

Ida Belle Baldwin

Daughter of Lewis Seaman Baldwin

Ida Belle Baldwin (b. Dec. 29, 1863; d. Oct. 28, 1943) was the last child born to Seaman and Caroline Baldwin. She was reared in Range Township (Bethel/Danville) Ohio where she was a member of the Bethel ME Church.  She married William E. Brown (b. 6, 1858 in Pike Twp., d. June 25, 1917 in Tulare CA) on September 17, 1882, a Monday morning, by Rev. Jacob Martin, at his residence on Water Street in London, Ohio. The newly married couple went to Columbus where they spent a few days, after which they visited friends and relatives around Madison County. After a few weeks of preparation the couple headed west and to settle in Tulare County, California on the Cartmill ranch among the orange groves. This couple learned to be fruit growers and bought property in the Enterprise district, residing there until 1912 when they sold their ranch and moved into Tulare and lived at 307 North E Street.   William Brown passed away on June 25 in 1917. Ida was survived by 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.

The Children of Ida Belle Baldwin and William E. Brown (all are buried with parents in family plot in Tulare, CA)

Floy Fidelia Brown (Hyde/Dailey)

Daughter of Ida Belle Baldwin Brown

Floy Fidelia (b. Aug. 8, 1884 in Tulare Co., CA; d.?) First marred a Hyde and moved to Missouri and returned to Tulare and married a Dailey. Was a cashier at the Rochdale(r) Hull House, Also was listed as a bookkeeper in the 1910 census before she was married Hyde and moved to Missouri. Floy then later returned and married Dailey.

Tessa Terissa Brown (Twaddle)

Daughter of Ida Belle Baldwin Brown

Tessa Terissa (b. Nov. 15, 1886 in Tulare Co., CA; d. Dec. 18, 1970 in Woodlake, CA) graduate from Tulare High School and then married Forest J. “Harry” Twaddle on December 24, 1907. Harry was a fireman and they lived at

772 Mariposa Avenue in Tulare.  The couple had at least three children, the first was Viola Belle born on May 10, 1911. Viola lived a very short life with her death coming on May 31, 1914.

Tessa was a charter member of the Pocahontas Lodge in Tulare and a member of the Women of Woodcraft.  She died at 84 in a convalescent home in Portersville, CA and was survived by two of her children, Phoebe Twaddle Matlock of Half Moon Bay and Allen (A. W.  or “Brick” as he was most often called because of his red hair) Twaddle living in Portersville. She was survived by brother Warren Brown living in Corcoran and five grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.

The Children of Tessa Terissa Brown and Forest J “Harry” Twaddle.

Allen or A. W. “Brick” Twaddle graduated from Tulare High School with the class of 1933 or 34 and was quite the character. He became an alcoholic and spent quite of bit of time in the Tulare County Jail

Phoebe Twaddle Matlock of Half Moon Bay, CA

Marjorie Twaddle married Virgil Kanady

The children of Virgil and Marjorie Kanady

Arnold

Jim married a Sue

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Ivy Irene “Rene” Brown (Berry)

Daughter of Ida Belle Baldwin Brown

Ivy Irene “René” Brown (b. abt. 1888 in Tulare Co., CA) married Benjamin B. Berry on March 3, 1909.

Edna Elaine Brown (Harris)

Daughter of Ida Belle Baldwin Brown

Edna Elaine Brown (b. July 21, 1891in Tulare Co., CA) married a Harris.   

Warren McKinley Brown

Son of Ida Belle Baldwin Brown

Warren McKinley Brown (b. Nov. 15, 1893 in Tulare, CA; d. Nov. 6, 1973 in Portersville, CA) grew up in Tulare and attended Tulare High School. He was a World War I veteran and  he lived his last fifteen years in Corcoran, California. He was a member of the Corcoran Veterans of Foreign Wars. He farmed and was a truck driver most of his life, but his last job was as a carrier for the Fresno Bee.  Warren married Louie Light right after his return from the war in 1918 in Bakersfield. The Light family was one of pioneer families of Bakersfield. She died in 1957, a few years before Warren. When Warren M. Brown died at age 80 he was survived by his two daughters, Norma (Robert) Nighswonger from Portersville and Colleene Brown Post also of Portersvile, as well as eleven grand children and eleven great grandchildren.

William Edgar Brown

Son of Ida Belle Baldwin Brown

William Edgar Brown (d. 1958) might have married Leslie T. and was the manager of Tulare Ice Company and lived at 776 E. Joaquin Street in Tulare. His daughter Letha married Jewell Larimer and after his death married again and became Letha Welch.

Harry Quinn Brown

Son of Ida Belle Brown

Harry Quinn Brown (d. June 6, 1931) no further information known.

***George Washington Baldwin

Son of Lewis Seaman Baldwin

George Washington Baldwin (b. February 27, 1856 near London, Madison County, OH; d. July 26, 1937 near Mechanicsburg, OH) He married Caroline Retta Dulaney on October 26, 1880 in Madison County. George Washington Baldwin (b. Feb 27, 1856 near London, Madison County, OH; d. July 26, 1937 near Mechanicsburg, OH) met Caroline Retta Dulaney and they were married on October 26, 1880 and had six children. The couple lived in three different Ohio counties Madison, Clark and Champaign. They seemed to never actually own the farms on which lived, so they moved a number of times.  While their children were young they lived on a farm near Vienna X Roads (now South Vienna at least some of the children attended Harmony School (located on the National Road (Route 40) and Plattsburgh for high school.  The farm was close to the Interurban that ran through Springfield and through Columbus making travel to those cities as well as Dayton fairly easy for that time. The couple lived on farms near South Charleston, Vienna X Roads, Catawba and finally the one on which they both died near Mechanicsburg, Ohio. They are buried in Paint Township Cemetery near Newport, Ohio on Old Xenia Road

in Madison County.

There had been twelve children in his father’s family, he being the eldest son. All of his brothers and sisters preceded him death, excepting one, Ida Belle Brown of Tulare, California.  His marriage with Caroline produced four sons and two daughters.  Caroline and his son Benjamin Franklin predeceased him.  His obituary reads that “he led a long active life and kept his faith with God by the trust and prayer and the reading of the bible and other good literature.  He was a loyal and good companion and an affectionate father and a kind neighbor.”  One might believe this in its entirety, except for the one fact that George W, Baldwin, Se. and sons Robert and Louis got caught up in the anti-black, Jewish and Catholic furor of the 1920’s and belonged to the Ku Klux Klan.  How active these men were and exactly, what was their participation is not known.

At his death he was survived by two daughters Mrs. J. O. (Zanetta) Mumma of Detroit, Michigan and Mrs. J. A.  (Ruthe) Koogler of Fairfield, Ohio. Three sons, Robert J. and Louis P. of Springfield, Ohio and George W. JR. still living at home in Mechanicsburg. He was also survived by 10 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

His funeral services were held at the M.E. church in Mechanicsburg and conducted by Rev. J. A. Jenkinson of Springfield.  The memoir was prepared by Dosie Linebaugh and Miss Mary Sidner sang three favorite hymns “nearer my God to Thee,” “The Old Rugged Cross” and “Going Down the Valley.”  Pallbearers were sons Robert and Louis Baldwin., Son-in-Law J. O, Mumma, Grandson Howard Mumma and Russell Cotter, husband of Granddaughter, Betty Baldwin Cotter.

Caroline Retta Dulaney

Daughter of Joseph and Mary A. Dulaney

Caroline Retta Dulaney (b. Mar. 14, 1858 near London, OH; d. Dec. 26, 1931 in Goshen Township, Champaign Co., OH) was daughter of Joseph Dulaney and Mary A Lloyd both of whom were born in Virginia. She married George Washington Baldwin in 1880. She was a farmer’s wife living near Mechanicsburg at the end of her life. She was a member of the Catawba Methodist Episcopal Church and the Ladies’ Aid Society. She was ill for four years before she passed away at home on a Saturday night. The funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Catawba where her pallbearers were sons Robert J., Louis P., and George W. Baldwin Jr., Also lifting the precious weight were son-in-law J. O. Mumma and grandson Clarence Mumma.

The Children of George Washington and Caroline Retta Dulaney

Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (b. Jan. 5, 1882; d. Dec. 25, 1885) who was mentioned to be too “smart to live” and was always seeing angels was buried in Paint Twp. Cemetery, Madison County, OH

Robert Jesse Baldwin (b. August 27, 1886; d.) married Carrie K.  Morgan and they had one daughter Betty.

Zanetta Isabella Baldwin (b. November 11, 1890; d. St. Petersburg, FL buried in Detroit, MI) married Orval Mumma and they had three children Janice, Clarence and Howard.

Ruth Baldwin (b. Dec. 1891; d. Dec. 12, 1962)  married Jacob “Jake” Anderson Koogler and there wedding took place on March 16, 1914 in the C. R. Parish furniture store in Springfield, Ohio as they were the winning couple in the “Jack and Lillian Wedding “ bride and groom contest.  After marriage they located in Fairfield, Greene County, Ohio where Jake became an inspector of base supply at Wright-Patterson Air force Base.

Ruth became an agent for the Dayton Journal-Herald for which she wrote society news about Fairfield and Osborn, Ohio.  She was, also the town treasurer for Fairfield when the two towns merged to become Fairborn, Ohio.

The Children of “Jake” and Ruth Koogler

Louis Elden Koogler (b. April 23, 1915 in Fairfield, Oh; d. Dec. 31, 1991i La Mesa, CA) married Evelyn (b. Oct. 10, 1912) on February 8, 1947.

Carol Isabelle Koogler (b. July 23, 1918 in Fairfield, OH; d. October 11^th 1942 in Fairborn, OH) Carole married Robert Early Kline on April 11, 1946 after graduating from Capital University.

The children of Robert and Carole Kline

Robert Jr. was shot and killed at a bar in Dayton while home on vacation from College.

Kathy “Kitty” (No other information)

Phyllis Jean Koogler (b. August 15, 1924 in Fairfield, OH) married Harold L. Shoemaker twice on Oct. 31, 1945 (Divorced April 13, 1954) and on May 28, 1960 (divorced May 24, 1968). This union resulted in the birth of a son Jerry Shoemaker.  Finally Phyllis marred William C. Robinette on October 12, 1974.

Louis Postle Baldwin b. Jan. 9, 1895, d. Jan. 30, 1967 in Springfield, OH) a World War I veteran with a disability pension for lung damaged by mustard gas.  He married on February 6, 1924, Gwynethe Watson, and they had eight children. Seven Boys lived to maturity and their sister died in infancy.

George Washington Baldwin (b. April 7, 1897; d. Jan. 1, 1977); married Anna Shelpman on June 22, 1938 and died at his home in Johnstown, Ohio and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetary in Alexandria, Ohio. 

Joseph Dulaney

Father of Caroline Retta Dulaney

Joseph Dulaney (b. in County Armagh, No. Ireland) Irish Immigrant from the County Armagh arrived in America in 1840. Married Mary A. Lloyd who was born in Virginia to Nelson and Margaret Lloyd.

Mary A. Lloyd Dulaney

Daughter of Nelson and Margaret Lloyd

Mary A. Lloyd (b. May 12, 1817 in VA; d. May 26, 1998 in Madison County, OH) married Joseph Dulaney in 1934 and they moved to Clark County, Ohio in 1937 and lived there until moving to Madison County in 1861 where she was a resident until her death. She joined the M. E. Church when she was 17 and was a member of the Newport M. E. Church until her death. She was a faithful wife and loving mother and was loved by all who knew here. Her last words were: “I am going home to Jesus.” She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jonah Trowbridge, in the West End of London on a Thursday Morning. She bore four girls and three sons and four of them lived to mourn her death. Her services were conducted by Rev. Wright of Lafayette and interment was in Paint Township cemetery.

The children of Joseph Dulaney and Mary A. Lloyd

Thomas Dulaney (no further information)

Denton Dulaney (no further information)

Margaret Dulaney married Jonah Trowbridge and is buried in Paint Twp., Madison County, Ohio

 Evaline Dulaney

Daughter of Joseph and Mary A. Dulaney

Evaline Dulaney married Robert O. Evans on December 13, 1866. Robert Evans was born near Vienna X Roads, Clark County, Ohio on October 25, 1847 and died February 9, 1908

The Children of Evaline Dulaney and Robert O. Evans

Pearl G. – living near Vienna X Roads, OH in 1908

D. H.  – living in Brighton, Ohio in 1908

Lawrence – living in Columbus, Ohio in 1908

Effie N. Moore – living in Brook’s Station, Ohio in 1908 after marrying Earl Moore

Granddaughter - Grace Evelyn Moore m. William Ammerman