Orville Walls

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• Name: Frank Walls
• Census: 1880, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Francis M. Walls, son, in the household of Margaret Walls
• Census: 1900, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Francis M. Walls, farmer, head of household

Francis married Amanda Ellen McBee on 26 Nov 1893 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. Amanda (daughter of James Alva McBee and Mary Catherine Leeth) was born on 18 Mar 1876 in Pike County, Ohio, United States; died on 15 Nov 1945 in Benton Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 18 Nov 1945 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Amanda E. Walls, wife, 2 children/2 living, in the household of Amanda E. Walls

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• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Joshua Walls, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Joshua Walls, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Joshua Walls, laborer, head of household

Joshua married Margaret Haynes on 31 Jan 1870 in Ross County, Ohio, United States. Margaret was born about 1840 in Ohio, United States; died after 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Margaret Walls, in the household of Joshua Walls
• Census: 1880, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Margaret Walls, widow, head of household

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• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as James A. McBee, farm laborer in the household of Frederick McBee
• Census: 1900, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as James A. McBee, farmer, head of household

James married Mary Catherine Leeth on 17 May 1872 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. Mary (daughter of Jesse Leeth and Rachel J. Fisher) was born on 18 Mar 1854 in Ohio, United States; died on 10 Jul 1921 in Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 11 Jul 1921 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Mary C. Leeth, in the household of Jessie Leeth
• Census: 1900, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Mary C. McBee, wife, 6 children/6 living, in the household of James A. McBee

Other Events:

• Census: 1820, Sunfish Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, head of household
• Census: 1830, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, head of household
• Census: 1840, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, head of household
• Property: 25 Apr 1849, Pike County, Ohio, United States; purchased 50 acres for $100 from John C. Rainey; Address:
  (part of entry #14633)
• Property: 11 May 1849, Pike County, Ohio, United States; purchased 40 acres for $75 from John C. Rainey; Address:
  (part of entry #14633)
• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, farmer, head of household
• Property: 30 Jul 1858, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; sold 80 acres for $500 to James Walls; Address:
  part of Entry and Survey No 4271 being Entered by Andrew Ellison
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, farmer, head of household

Notes:

Property:

Signed: John C. Rainey
Witness: Elza Walls and James Wallace Walls
v11, p282

Property:

Signed: Levi (his mark) Walls and Susan (her mark) Walls
Witness: Saml Shattuck and Elias (his mark) Walls
v17, p323

Levi married Susannah Harmanson about 1805 in Monongalia County, Virginia, United States. Susannah (daughter of Levin Harmanson and Mary Woodard) was born on 16 Jul 1788 in Delaware, United States; died in 1874 in Pike County, Ohio, United States; was buried in 1874 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Susan Harmanson
• Name: Susannah Harnarson
• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Susannah Walls, in the household of Levi Walls
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Susan Walls, in the household of Levi Walls
• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Susan Walls, in the household of her son James Walls
• Newspaper: 26 Feb 1874; Pike County Republican (Waverly, Ohio), 26 February 1874
• Property: 27 May 1875, Pike County, Ohio, United States; sold 83 acres for $900.00 to James W. Thompson; Address:
  (part of A. Ellisons Survey #4271)

Notes:

Newspaper:

OLD FOLKS INTERVIEWED NO. XXVIII
Susan Wall,
"I was born in Delaware. The exact year I do not know, but suppose I will be 86 years of age on the 16th of July next. My father's name was Levin Harnarson, he died when I was three years old. My mother's name was Mary Woodard. They had only two children, myself and Sabra. She married Elias Walls, brother to my husband. About 4 years after my father's death, my mother married Levi Wall and they moved to West Virginia, near Morgantown in Monongalia County There we lived till I was about 18 years of age when they came to Pike County, Ohio, and settled in the wilderness of Leeth Creek, in Pebble Township, and I have lived on Leeth Creek ever since. My mother had six children by Levi Wall, and when we came to Ohio besides Sabra and myself there were Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah and Thomas and they had born to them in Pike County, Fanny and Lemuel. When my mother married Levi Wall, he was a widower with six children. But none of them came to Ohio with us, except my husband.
When we arrived on Leeth Creek there were but two inhabited cabins on it, and they belonged to Elias Wall, brother to my husband who came here several years before our family did, and the other was occupied by Elizabeth Lane on the place known as the Levi Russel farm, which adjoins the farm owned by my husband, and which I have lived nearly all the time since I came from Virginia.
I married Levi Wall, in Virginia and had been married upwards of a year when we moved to Ohio. My husband bought land on Leeth Creek which now adjoins the infirmary farm near Idaho. He went to work and erected a cabin. Besides the two cabins spoken of above, there was one old uninhabited one in Idaho, near where the old saw mill was. My stepfather chinked and repaired that old cabin and moved into it where he lived several years, when he bought and moved farther up on Leeth Creek, where he built and lived some years, when he moved to Bear creek in Scioto County, where he died 46 or 47 years ago.
I have had eleven children viz. Bashiba, Levin, Elias, Levi, Joshua, Samuel, Mary, Matilda, Elizabeth, Nancy and James. I raised all of them all to manhood and womanhood, and all married except Levin, Elizabeth and Samuel. They are dead and so is Mary. Bashiba married James Leeth, by whom she had ten children; Elias married Malinda Wall and had eight children, when she died, and he married Margaret Shattuck by whom he had six children. Levi married Mary Ann Wallace who have had nine children. Joshua married Amy Wall and had seven children, when she died, and Joshua married for his second wife Margaret Haines, by whom he had three children. Mary married James Leeth and had by him 10 children. Matilda married Cornelius Leeth by whom she had had seven children. Nancy married John Leeth by whom she had had eleven children. James the youngest married Mary Shattuck by whom they have had ten children, of whom nine are living.
I have had eleven children, eighty-one grandchildren, ninty six great grandchildren, and five great great grandchildren, a total of one hundred and ninety-three, much the greater part of whom are living.
My husband answered to the famous general call in 1814 left home, but when examined by the surgeon was pronounced unable to bear the fatigues of soldier life, so he returned home. He lived to be 85 years of age and died 10 years ago last June. His remains were deposited in Leeth Creek burying ground only a short distance from where he lived since we came together to Ohio, and where a number of his children, grand children, and other kinfolks lie buried. I am living with James, my youngest son.
My experience in life has been that of people generally in agricultural districts, who have lived from young womanhood in one locality. But while I have lived on in the even tenor of life, great changes have been wrought in the world's history, which I leave others to chronicle, the knowledge of which is to be perpetuated by future generations through the instrumentality of the art of printing."

Property:

Signed: Susan (her mark) Walls, James (his mark) Walls and Mary Walls
Witness: H. W. Overman and Saml. Shattuck
v24, p174

Notes:

Married:
now West Virginia

Other Events:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Jesse Leith farmer, in the household of James Leith
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Jessie Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Military: 1 Aug 1863, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; registered for the Civil War Draft
• Beneficiary: 10 Jun 1874; heirs mentioned as beneficiaries in the will of their Grandfather, James Leeth

Notes:

Mentioned in the will of James Leeth as heirs of son Jesse Leeth, deceased.

Jesse married Rachel J. Fisher on 21 Oct 1852 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. Rachel was born about 1837; died after 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Rachel J. Leeth, in the household of Jessie Leeth