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Descendants of John Locke

35. JACOB LINZA⁴ LOCKE (WILLIAM³, GEORGE W², JOHN¹) was born October 19, 1817, and died in Stephens City, Frederick County, VA. He married ELINOR CUNNINGHAM October 13, 1845 in Berkely County, West Virginia ⁴¹. She was born Abt. 1820.

Notes for JACOB LINZA LOCKE:
The narrative of the will for Jacob refers to him as Jacob L Lauck, but it is signed as Jacob L Locke.

The will reads:
I, Jacob Lauck, a farmer of Stephens City, Frederick County, Virginia make this the last will, I give, devise and bequeath my Estate and property personal and real, as follows: that is to say I give my loving wife Ellen Locke, all of my personal and real estate during her life, at her death to my daughter, Alcinda M Locke. To my son John M Locke one dollar, as I have given him a portion of my estate. I appoint my wife as executor.

In witness whereof I have signed, sealed and published and declared this instrument as my last will at Newtown, Frederick County, VA Nov 29, 1881.

(This them contains his seal with the signature Jacob L Locke).

Witnesses:
C. F. Mayers
C. W. Trussell
Thos M. Miller

This will went to the county court on Monday February 2, 1886 and the court executed the will for Ellen R Lauck the (it notes her surety as F. M. Cunningham).

Children of JACOB LOCKE and ELINOR CUNNINGHAM are:

	i.		ALCINDA M⁵ LOCKE⁴².
	ii.		JOHN M LOCKE⁴².

36. BENJAMIN F⁴ LOCKE (WILLIAM³, GEORGE W², JOHN¹)⁴³ was born September 25, 1819 in VA⁴³, and died March 11, 1882 in Pr. Wadesville, Virginia⁴³. He married RHUAMA VAN CLEAVE December 18, 1845 in Clarke County, Virginia ⁴⁴. She was born January 21, 1823 in PA.

Notes for BENJAMIN F LOCKE:
Benjamin was listed as a farmer in the 1860 Wadesville, Berryville, Clarke County, VA federal census. His mother Catherine is living with them. It also appears that the family of his sister Sally (Catherine Dunn) is also living with them. The reference to Barbara is believed to be Rhuama.

Page 189a, 291/291, 12th District

Farmer , Value: $98.
Benjamin Lock , White Male , age 30 , b. Virginia
Barbara , White Female , age 27 , b. Virginia
Lucinda F. , age 7 , b. Virginia
Ann V.? , age 3 , b. Virginia
Sarah L.? , age 2 , b. Virginia
Catherine , age 62 , b. Virginia
Also in House Hold:
Frank Ingle , White Male , age 25 , b. Virginia , is a Laborer
James Dunn? , White Male , age 17 , b. Virginia , is a Laborer , Value: $98.
Catherine Dunn? , White Female , age 18 , b. Virginia

More About BENJAMIN F LOCKE:
Burial: Brucetown Methodist Church cemetery - Bructown, VA

Children of BENJAMIN LOCKE and RHUAMA VAN CLEAVE are:

	i.	ANN VIRGINIA⁵ LOCKE, b. September 30, 1846.
	ii.	NATHANIAL H LOCKE, b. Abt. 1849, Clark, VA ⁴⁵; m. MARY JOHNSON, October 26, 1876, Berkely County, West Virginia; b. Abt. 1850.
	iii.	SARAH ISABELLA LOCKE⁴⁶, b. Abt. 1851; m. JEFF HINTON, December 20, 1871, Jefferson County, West Virginia; b. Abt. 1847.
91.	iv.	MOLLIE F LOCKE, b. 1852, VA; d. 1935.
	v.	FRANCIS LOCKE, b. Abt. 1843, VA⁴⁶.
92.	vi.	WILLIAM C LOCKE, b. Abt. 1854, Berkely Co, VA.
	vii.	CATHERINE LOCKE, b. Abt. 1856, VA⁴⁶.

37. SIMEON⁴ HIETT (SARAH³ LOCKE, GEORGE W², JOHN¹) was born 1800. He married ROSELLA VANE Abt. 1829. She was born 1809 in Ohio.

Notes for SIMEON HIETT:
Simeon and his wife had 10 children. In 1852, the family moved from Brown County, Ohio to Logan County, Ohio where Hohn Hiett helped build a church on his farm, but after 4 years, he moved to Auglaize County, Ohio.

Children of SIMEON HIETT and ROSELLA VANE are:

93.	i.	JOHN L⁵ HIETT, b. Abt. 1830, Brown County, Ohio.
	ii.	MARGARET E HIETT, b. Abt. 1833, Brown County, Ohio; m. WILLIAM WALLIS; b. Abt. 1830.
	iii.	JAMES M HIETT, b. Abt. 1834, Brown County, Ohio.

Notes for JAMES M HIETT:
James died from the effects of prison life in Libby prison during the Civil War. He was unmarried.

94.	iv.	WILLIAM VANE HIETT, b. Abt. 1836, Brown County, Ohio.
95.	v.	GEORGE WESLEY HIETT, b. Abt. 1838, Brown County, Ohio; d. 1907.
96.	vi.	SARAH N HIETT, b. Abt. 1841, Brown County, Ohio.
	vii.	LEAH T HIETT, b. Abt. 1842, Brown County, Ohio; m. PETER ATKINSON; b. Abt. 1840.
	viii.	ISABELL HIETT, b. Abt. 1845, Brown County, Ohio; m. THOMAS MCGRIMES; b. Abt. 1845.
	ix.	JOSIAH L HIETT, b. Abt. 1848, Brown County, Ohio.
	x.	SIMEON HUTSON HIETT, b. Abt. 1850, Brown County, Ohio; d. Abt. 1869.

38. MARTHA JANE⁴ LOCKE (ELIZABETH³, GEORGE W², JOHN¹) was born January 02, 1803 in Frederick County, Virginia⁴⁷, and died August 12, 1897 in New Vienna, Clinton Co, Ohio⁴⁷. She married JONAH SR BRITTON December 30, 1820 in Frederick, VA, son of WILSON BRITTON and MARTHA WADE. He was born November 01, 1797 in Winchester, Virginia⁴⁷, and died May 22, 1865 in New Vienna, Clinton Co, Ohio⁴⁷.

Notes for MARTHA JANE LOCKE:
NOTE: Marriage Bonds of Frederick County shows Jonah Britton marrying a Patsy Lauck, on 12-3-1820 with William Lock as the bondsman (also verified by the Viginia Marriage Index 1740-1850).

Martha Janes's obit tells of her being born in the valley of the Shenandoah, Frederick County, VA and her father James dying when she was a child. In 1882 she and her husband, Jonah Britton moved to Ohio. The obit tells that she raised 13 children, 8 sons and 5 daughters. She was described as a very strong member of the Christian Church. While her grandfather and some of her relatives were slave owners, Martha often cried when she would tell of the "slave-drivers with their droves of human victims, chained by the wrists and trudging on the muddy roads on their weary way to the cotton fields or rice swamps of the Sunny South".

Her obit written by one of her son's reads:

One by one the landmarks of a former generation are passing away. Mother is gone. Among the last of the pensioners of the war of 1812, she sank to rest on the 10th of August, 1897, in her ninety-fifth year. Born in the valley of the Shenandoah, Frederick County, Virginia, in 1802. Her father James Locke died when she was a child and she was left to the care of a widowed mother and friends. She grew up in that day when personal exertion, self-denial and hardships formed the character that stamped their impress upon the generation that succeeded them. In 1882, she emigrated with her husband Jonah Britton to the State of Ohio. She raised thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. For forty-five years the circle remained unbroken. The pale stranger came and summoned the husband and three daughters over the river. Mother was always the life and center of the home; however wayward a child might be, her love ever followed in its wanderings, and her hand was ever ready to succor and to lead back.

For fifty years she had been a member of the Christian Church. Beneath her roof the ministers of Christ always found welcome, and when the infirmities of age had disabled her from active participation in the services of the church, a call from its minsters, regardless of their denomination, was always enjoyed by her. Born and raised in the midst of slavery, her grandfather and some of her relatives were slave holders, yet neither her interest nor her surroundings could blind her to its enormities, not stifle her pity for its hopeless victims. The tears would start in her eyes as she would tell of the slave-drivers with their droves of human victims, chained by the wrists and trudging on the muddy waters on their weary way to cotton fields or rice swamps of the Sunny South. Her eyes would brighten when telling of that old grandmother (although a slave-holder) when aroused by some of its enormities would exclaim, "The poor things will all be free some day" (prophetic words).

Probably the last one she recognized on earth was a poor little boy who came to see how she was. When told she was sinking,he lingered around the door and finally, with his eyes filled with tears, he asked, "Can't I go in to see grandma? She has always been so good to us." When he approached her bedside with his timid "Good morning, grandma!" she opened her almost sightless eyes and whispered his name. We thought how those eyes of sorrow, wrung by acts of kindness from the hearts of the poor ,would weigh against the gold of a Vanderbilt in the great day of eternity. A SON.

More About MARTHA JANE LOCKE:
Burial: Mount Olive Cemetery in Union Township, Highlands Co., Ohio⁴⁷

Notes for JONAH SR BRITTON:
From the book "The History of Highland County".

John and Joseph Cashatts, brothers from North Carolina, settled on Turtle Creek about 1820. Joseph was a surveyor and the two joined a partnership and traded and sold land. They lived in Union Township and in Dodson. Many early deeds were signed by the Cashatts. They both died about the time of the Civil War. Jonas Britton, 1798 - May 22, 1865 and his wife Martha J., 1803 - Aug 12, 1897, were from Frederick Co, Virginia. They came to Highland Co in 1832 with six children. In 1836, they purchased the farm settled in 1805 by Amos Ratcliff. Elizabeth Anne, 1820-1830 and Eliza, 1831-1906, daughters of Jonas Britton, never married. The sons of the Britton family, Jonas Jr, Jonah and William W., remained in Union Township. William W, born in 1840, survived until 1935. His wife Martha, passed away in 1923. Jonah Jr, 1827-1914, served in the Civil War. Their farm was north of the site of Willettsville, where they reared six children: Ida (Smith), Laura, Stanley, Everett, Jennie, and Leslie Britton. The Britton family acquired several thousand acres of land and were leaders in the civic and religious life in souther Ohio.

More About JONAH SR BRITTON:
Burial: Mount Olive Cemetery in Union Township, Highlands Co., Ohio⁴⁸

Children of MARTHA LOCKE and JONAH BRITTON are:

97.	i.	ANDREW JACKSON⁵ BRITTON, b. June 29, 1829, VA.
98.	ii.	WILLIAM WALLACE BRITTON, b. December 09, 1840, OH; d. 1935.
	iii.	ALEXANDER HAMILTON BRITTON, b. Abt. 1838, OH; d. 1935; m. CLARRISA H AYRES, October 31, 1860, Highland, OH ⁴⁹.
99.	iv.	JONAH JR BRITTON, b. December 15, 1827, Frederick , VA; d. July 22, 1914, Highland Co, Hillsboro, OH.
	v.	BURWELL BRITTON, b. December 01, 1823, Frederick County, VA; d. February 19, 1906; m. (1) HESTER A CONNELL; b. October 17, 1822; d. November 22, 1847; m. (2) SARAH E GOODE, Aft. 1847, Highland Co, OH; b. November 1830; d. May 06, 1851.

More About BURWELL BRITTON:
Burial: Mason Cemetery, Lynchburg

Notes for SARAH E GOODE:
Sarah was aged 20 yrs and 7 months at the time of her death.

100.	vi.		DRUSILLA JANE BRITTON, b. December 13, 1825, Virginia; d. June 10, 1918, Vancouver, WA.
	vii.		ELIZABETH L BRITTON, b. May 19, 1831, VA; d. January 10, 1906, Hillsboro, Highland Co, OH.

Notes for ELIZABETH L BRITTON:
Elizabeth never married.

More About ELIZABETH L BRITTON:
Burial: Mt Olive Church of Christ, Union Township, Highland, OH

	viii.	EVELINE BRITTON, b. 1832, OH.
	ix.	THOMAS HART BRITTON, b. September 25, 1838, OH; m. LOVELY ERIGENIA LE MASTER.
	x.	MARTHA HELEN BRITTON, b. January 17, 1834, OH; m. THOMAS J COUNCIL, October 16, 1862, Highland Co, OH ⁵⁰.
101.	xi.	MARION DECATH BRITTON, b. March 03, 1845, VA; d. March 06, 1935, Union Township, Highland County, OH.
	xii.	JOHN LOCKE BRITTON, b. Abt. 1847, OH.
	xiii.	ELIZABETH ANN BRITTON, b. January 20, 1822, VA; d. January 08, 1880.

Notes for ELIZABETH ANN BRITTON:
Elizabeth never married.

More About ELIZABETH ANN BRITTON:
Burial: Mount Olive Cemetery in Union Township, Highlands Co., Ohio

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