In 1867, William A. Walden posted an Executor’s notice in the Jackson Standard that he had been appointed as the executor of John Walden’s last will and testament. His will was recorded in the Probate Office of Jackson County, where his mother and most of his siblings were residing. He bequeathed “all the interest IContinue reading “John Walden | Morgan’s Raid”
Tag Archives: Family Name | Crookham
O. C. Crookham | Migration West
Oliver Cromwell Crookham was born to George and Sarah Crookham, old settlers of Jackson County, Ohio, in 1824. He was their tenth child. Pickaway County, Ohio In 1850, he married Mary Jane Walden in Jackson County. They moved from Jackson County, where both their parents lived, to Pickaway County, northwest of Jackson County, along theContinue reading “O. C. Crookham | Migration West”
George L Crookham | Methodist
George L Crookham’s son, O. C. Crookham married M. J. Walden, the daughter of Jonathan Walden, a founding member of Jackson’s Baptist Church. Jonathan and Sarah Walden, with her mother, Jane, were buried in the Pierce-Mather Cemetery, on land owned by W. W. Mather, also a founding member of the Baptist Church. Crookham, however, wasContinue reading “George L Crookham | Methodist”
George L. Crookham | Abolitionist
George Lennox Crookham moved to the Ohio frontier in 1799 where he settled and worked the salt works. He was a self-educated man who “used to read and study by the light of the furnace at night” by the salt boiler. (Jackson Standard, 14 Jul 1855, p 2 | newspapers.com) “Jack Oak College” Burned InContinue reading “George L. Crookham | Abolitionist”
Sarah Millikin | Ohio Bride
Sarah Millikin married Jonathan Walden in the winter of 1832 in Jackson County, Ohio. Their daughter, Mary Jane Walden, born the next fall, would marry Oliver C. Crookham (I) and migrate to Greenwood County, Kansas after the Civil War. Sarah was born in 1810 in Pennsylvania according to the census records of 1850-1880. She diedContinue reading “Sarah Millikin | Ohio Bride”
James Crookham | Artificer
In the biography of James Crookham’s grandson, he recounts that his grandfather made arms for George Washington during the war. War records indicate that he served in the Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery and Artificers near Carlisle, PA at Washingtonburg. He enlisted in November of 1778. Capt. Thos. Wylie certified his attendance on the muster rollContinue reading “James Crookham | Artificer”
Crookham | Scots-Irish?
William Crookham married Mary Philips in 1752 in the Old Swede’s Church (Swedish Lutheran) in Philadelphia, a multi-cultural colonial city. Mary Philips was likely a Welsh Quaker who married outside of her religion. Mary Crookham can be found in the Quaker Meeting Records for the Chester and Goshen Monthly Meetings, both in Chester County westContinue reading “Crookham | Scots-Irish?”
James Crookham | Huntingdon, PA
The Continental Army recorded the desertion of James Crookham in April 1780. He had been listed as a bombardier, matross, and artificer stationed at Carlisle, PA during the war. He appears shortly after the war in the tax records of Bedford and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Huntingdon County was formed from Bedford County in 1787. BothContinue reading “James Crookham | Huntingdon, PA”
William Crookham | South Ward
William Crookham is included in the 1774 Tax List for the South Ward of Philadelphia. It is unclear how he is included, in that he seems to appear as a sub-item for the taxes of Charles Marshall who owed approximately 79 pounds. South Ward, Philadelphia The South Ward was bordered by Water and Chestnut Streets,Continue reading “William Crookham | South Ward”
Asa Lake | Prisoner of War
In his grandson’s biography, a few sentences describe the role of Asa Lake in the Revolutionary War. In a previous post, I recount the land purchases Asa Lake made after the war in northwest Ohio on the Lanape land; the Lanape, or Delaware Indians, had been removed by the US Government to Kansas and Oklahoma.Continue reading “Asa Lake | Prisoner of War”
Finding the Yellow Bricks 