| + | 101 | i. | Marcus (Mark)4 Simonton, born October 08, 1837 in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio; died June 08, 1914 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. | |
| 102 | ii. | Martha (Mattie) H. Simonton, born June 23, 1838 in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio; died June 21, 1932 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. |
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Notes for Martha (Mattie) H. Simonton: Mattie Simonton remained single, devoting her life to her career as a school teacher and public school principal in an age when women rarely attained such high professional status. The following information was provided by Dave Ross ( Email: Newtross@aol.com) Representative Citizens of Ohio; Memorial-Genealogical, by Frederick G. Wright: Publ. by Memorial Publg. Co., Inc., Cleveland, OH, 1913 , pp. 279-282: Mattie H. Simonton has long been a successful teacher in the Columbus schools, having for some time performed the duties of principal of the school at Third and Rich streets, and was principal of the Ohio Avenue school, having charge of eight hundred pupils. Miss Simonton resigned in June, 1911. The following excerpt was taken from a copy of the Columbus Citizen, dated October 21, 1924, as found in the Family Heritage composed by Hugo Simonton, 1973. (This clipping bore a large photo of Miss Mattie Simonton.) There is no name plate on the door, nor any other mark of particular distinction or identification to set it apart from other residences on East Main Street, but hundreds of Columbus citizens know the gray brick house at 808, with its little walk divided from lawn and bordering iron fence, to be the home of Mattie Simonton, believed to be the oldest former teacher in the Columbus schools. For forty-six years, Miss Simonton served Columbus boys and girls from the fount of knowledge. Hundreds of them founded the structure of their successes upon the kindly advice of this little soft-voiced lady. Because she has refused to grow old, Miss Mattie, long ago, stopped telling how old she was. " I have tried to keep my heart and mind young," she says. "If I kept telling people my age, many of my friends and the young folks would soon be saying 'Mattie is getting too old for this or that. She can't be counted in our doings.' And this isn't true. I refuse to take a back seat and be counted as a has-been. I am not one to think that the old days were the best." Miss Simonton came to Columbus with her father at the time he became proprietor of the Buckeye House, which stood as one of the city's early hotels. The state house was just being completed then and Miss Simonton recalls how she would watch the penitentiary convicts, employed on the building, marching, lockstep, to and from the prison. After Miss Simonton was graduated from high school in 1859, Supt. E.D. Kinsley asked her to fill a vacancy at the Mound Street School. For twenty years she taught in the grade schools and was one of the five women selected when school board members decided to try an experiment with women principals. "I continued to serve as principal for twenty-four years," she says. Then I resigned at the wishes of my nephew Mark Simonton, Jr., who did the electrical work in connection with illuminating the Capitol Dome." Since the death of her nephew, a year ago, Miss Simonton has been the homemaker for his family, and her interest now centers in her little grand niece. Her eyes are clear, her hearing good and her health unimpaired. Many of her former pupils may become grouches, but Miss Simonton will keep young in the house her father built fifty-four years ago." |
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More About Martha (Mattie) H. Simonton: 1880 Federal Census: 1880, Columbus Ward 6, Franklin County, OH Burial: Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio Occupation: 1880, Principal Rich Street Public School |
| + | 103 | iii. | Alva W. Simonton, born January 14, 1845 in Ohio; died February 27, 1913 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. | |
| + | 104 | iv. | William Hiram Simonton, born April 27, 1847 in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio; died December 11, 1909 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. | |
| 105 | v. | Sarah (Sallie) E. Simonton, born Abt. 1849; died February 12, 1878 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. She married Harvey Cashett December 26, 1870 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio; born October 21, 1843 in Union Township, Highland County, Ohio. |
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Notes for Sarah (Sallie) E. Simonton: Harvey Cashett was married December 26, 1870, to Miss Sallie E. Simonton, a teacher in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and a daughter of Colonel Hiram Simonton, of this county. She died suddenly, with congestion of the lungs, February 12, 1878, the morning after her husband took the oath of office. It is to her, more than all others, he husband acknowledges, in a manly spirit, couched in language expressed in the kindest, tenderest, and heartfelt feeling, that he owes the success attained thus far i life, she occupying the position of one of the gentlest, kindest, most loving and devoted little wives, and a teacher at the same time. |
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More About Sarah (Sallie) E. Simonton: 1870 Federal Census: School Teacher Columbus City Public Schools Cause of Death: Congestion of the Lungs |
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Notes for Harvey Cashett: HARVEY CASHATT, was born October 21, 1843, in Union township, Highland County, Ohio. He is of French origin, and the fourth child of a family of eleven children, ten of whom are living, being a son of Daniel F. and Amy C. Cashatt. His father was born in Ohio, and his mother in New York State. His father is still living, at the age of sixty-five years. His mother died December 4, 1874, at the age of fifty-eight years. His grandparents, upon the fathers side, migrated from North Carolina to Ohio, in 1805, and upon the mothers side, from New York State, at an early day. He (Harvey) resided upon a farm up to 1861, only attending school during the winter, most of the time at a distance of three or four miles. He enlisted in the late civil war as a private in company C, Forty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, on the seventh day of November, 1861, and continued in the same company and regiment until April 4, 1866, long after the close of the war. He veteranized February 26, 1864, at Berwick City, Louisiana. He was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, sieges of Corinth, Vicksburg and Jackson, Yazzoo Bottoms, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and numerous skirmishes, forced marches of great distances, etc. March 4, 1864, he was elected one of the sergeants of Company C, by the company vote, and March 6, 1864, was detailed, with three other enlisted men and one commissioned officer, to proceed to Ohio to receive recruits and drafted men for the ranks of his regiment, but instead, were organized into a company called the "Permanent Party," with enlisted men from the old Ohio regiments, who reported at Todd barracks under the same order. Their duties were to act as guards to detachments of recruits, substitutes, and drafted men ordered by the war department to be forwarded to Ohio regiments in the field. Soon after his arrival here he was detailed as clerk in the forwarding office of Todd barracks, under Lieut. James H. Orr. He soon became chief clerk, and remained as such until the barracks were discontinued, when he was transferred to the office of James A. Wilcox, provost-marshal general and commandment of the district of Ohio. He soon succeeded to the position of confidential clerk to General Wilcox, and soon thereafter, General Wilcox remarked to Cashatt that he thought he was doing too much work for the salary of a soldier, and he (Wilcox) immediately wrote to the war department, requesting his discharge from the service, which was granted; when he again wrote to General Fry, provost-marshal general of the United States, asking that he be appointed in the office of the provost-marshal general of Ohio (Wilcox's office) which was again granted, at a salary of ninety dollars per month, proving a very agreeable surprise, making a difference of seventy dollars per month in his salary, in his favor, for the same services. Words cannot express his feelings of gratefulness to Gen. James A. Wilcox, for his kindness, in thus aiding him so materially in his first start in life, after leaving the army. His early education being very limited, laboring under many disadvantages too numerous to detail, leaving school at the age of eighteen to enter the army, he was compelled, after leaving the service in 1866, to occupy all his leisure hours in study, and for months attended commercial college of evenings, in order to sustain himself in the position of trust he occupied at that time. He resigned his position on the tenth day of October, 1866, to accept the chief clerkship at the Zettler house, Columbus, Ohio, under Capt. L.A. Bowers, and remained there until August 10, 1870, when he accepted chief-clerkship of the American hotel, Columbus, Ohio, under Colonel E. J. Blount, proprietor, and occupied that position until the summer of 1877, when he was nominated by the Democratic party, for clerk of the court of common pleas of Franklin County, Ohio, and was elected October 10, 1877, which position he is now occupying. He was married December 26, 1870, to Miss Sallie E. Simonton, a teacher in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and a daughter of Colonel Hiram Simonton, of this county. She died suddenly, with congestion of the lungs, February 12, 1878, the morning after her husband took the oath of office. It is to her, more than all others, he husband acknowledges, in a manly spirit, couched in language expressed in the kindest, tenderest, and heartfelt feeling, that he owes the success attained thus far i life, she occupying the position of one of the gentlest, kindest, most loving and devoted little wives, and a teacher at the same time. He was married on July 12, 1879, to Miss Jennie Seltzer Van Dine, a niece of Dr. Van S. Seltzer, of Columbus, Ohio. He is now a democrat, from the fact as he believes, that democracy means the greatest good to the greatest number, and their legislation tends that way. He looks upon his war record as the brightest page of his life's history. He is a great reader, possesses a fine library and takes great pleasure in his books, and can be found almost every evening buried within their folds. Mr. Cashatt holds to no particular church; gives to all; is quite liberal in his views; has great faith in the golden rule, and is man of strong convictions. -- |
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More About Harvey Cashett: Military service: Bet. November 07, 1861 - April 04, 1866, Private, Company C, 48th Ohio Volunteer Infantry |
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More About Harvey Cashett and Sarah Simonton: Marriage: December 26, 1870, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio |
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