Martha Pedrick

Other Events:

• Name: Martha Craig
• Beneficiary: 23 Aug 1842; in the will of her husband, Aaron Nutt
• Census: 1850, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Martha Nutt, head of household

Martha married Samuel Craig on 2 Apr 1800 in Upper Penns Neck Township, Salem County, New Jersey, United States. Samuel was born on 21 Aug 1780 in Upper Alloways, Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died before Jan 1818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Aaron Nutt on 13 Jan 1818 in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. Aaron (son of Levi Nutt and Ann Ivins) was born on 17 Jul 1758 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died on 2 Jun 1842 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 5 Jun 1842 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Beneficiary: 9 Oct 1841; in the will of his father, Aaron Nutt
• Executor: 9 Oct 1841; Joseph and John Nutt were named as executors in the will of their father, Aaron Nutt
• Census: 1850, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Joseph Nutt, carpenter, in the household of Martha Nutt
• Census: 1860, New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Joseph Nutt, clerk, head of household
• Census: 1870, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Joseph Nutt, farmer, head of household
• Occupation: 1870, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Farmer
• History / Bio: 1882; The History of Montgomery County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882), p270
• Census: 1900, Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Joseph Nutt, landlord, head of household

Notes:

...As a very young boy Joseph Nutt commenced driving a cart and doing small jobs about the town and working on the small farm. When in his twelth year, he hauled in the cart all the stone for making a complete pavement from the schoolhouse, one-fourth mile north of town, to the Baptist Church on the west side of town. His father and Joseph Beck laid the walk, which did good for many years. For its protection, the Town Council made it a finable offence to ride or drive on it. So carefully was it guarded that the school teacher had been known to leave school on seeing a traveler on the walk and hurry up to town and have a warrant in the hands of the Marshal by the time the offending party would reach the village.
...On the 28th of April, 1824 he went, as an apprentice, into the chair-making business. He served three years faithfully and made the trade his principal business up to the spring of 1844 when he went to New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio and sold goods for Israel Harris, Jr., and Samuel Lemar, for nearly six years. In January 1850 he joined the employ of John Grant, Esq., the principal merchant in New Burlington and remained with him until April, 1857. On 29 January, 1856 Joseph married Miss Elizabeth Amanda Weaver of New Burlington, New Jersey. In May of 1857 they went to Chicago, Illinois where they remained until August of 1858 when they returned to New Burlington.
...In the spring of 1861 they went to Centerville, Ohio and settled on the old homestead, becoming the owner thereof half by purchase and half by legacy. He was one of the few men in town to own land originally purchased by his father from John Cleves Symmes (father-in-law of President William Henry Harrison) The deed was made by James Madison, President of the United States.
...Joseph was the oldest native-born citizen on the town plat. He never loaded a gun, pistol or firearm of any description, he did pull the trigger a few times making one shot that would be creditable to any sportsman. (Source: Compiled by Irene L. Shrope, Nutt Family of Ohio and New Jersey, Revised and Up-Dated 1993 (Vandalia, Ohio: Authorized Distributor Donald A. Nutt, 1992), pg. 197.)

...Joseph Nutt was living in Centerville, Ohio in 1900. From the newspaper "Bellbrook Moon" dated 01 july, 1903:
Joseph Nutt, one of Centerville's wealthiest and most respected citizens died last Sunday morning. Buried Tuesday afternoon Mr. Nutt was not only loved in the community in which he lived but made warm friends with all he met. The community loses one of it's best citizens. (Source: Compiled by Irene L. Shrope, Nutt Family of Ohio and New Jersey, Revised and Up-Dated 1993 (Vandalia, Ohio: Authorized Distributor Donald A. Nutt, 1992), pg. 195)

Birth:

Mentioned in the will of Aaron Nutt as son Joseph Nutt.

History / Bio:

p270
—Joseph Nutt, farmer, P. O. Centerville. The eldest of the two children (Joseph and John) of Aaron and Martha Nutt, was born in Centerville, Ohio, December 11, 1818. Parents both natives of New Jersey; his father was the son of Levi Nutt, and he the son of Adam Nutt, a native of Wales, who landed in New Jersey early in the last century. Aaron, on his mother's side, was the grandson of Barzilla Ivens, a noted merchant of his day; he was also a noted man for the size of his family; he was married three times and was the father of twenty-one children who were all able at one and the same time to set at the table and help themselves to a square meal. Joseph's mother was the daughter of Isaac and Hannah Pedrick, of Pedricktown, N. J.; she emigrated with them to Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, in 1806, remaining there a brief period; her father purchased a farm near the present village of Clio, Greene County, Ohio, and removed to it. The family were all worthy members of the Society of Orthodox Friends. The subject of this sketch can't quite claim to be anything more than the son of pioneers (for date of father's arrival see brother's biography); never had any land to clear or brush to pick; never assisted in building the pioneer cabin with its cat and clay chimney, clapboard-roof held on with weight poles, or in laying down the solid puncheon floor; or in erecting the sweep at the well for the "old oaken bucket;" but have worn buckskin pantaloons, leather-crown hat and thread shirt-buttons. His father (Aaron) was a tailor by trade, and was an experienced hand in manufacturing buckskin into wearing apparel. The last pair of buckskin pants he made was in the summer he was eighty-one years of age. Mr. N. V. Maxwell, one of our present worthy citizens, was then carrying on tailoring, and took in the job conditionally, viz., if he could get "Uncle Aaron" Nutt (by which familiar title he was well known) to make them he would do so, as for himself he frankly admitted he could not make them; they were made and all parties satisfied with the job. Mr. Maxwell, to this day, takes delight in referring to that job, and saying "Uncle Aaron" was the oldest journeyman he ever employed. He was also a good hand with a sickle in a harvest field; the summer he was eighty years old, he lead the reapers once through in his son Aaron's wheat field. He was also an excellent auctioneer, if not the first, he certainly was among the first; had quite a patronage in Montgomery, Warren and Greene Counties. Before the subject of this sketch was large enough to put a collar on the horse, he commenced driving the cart and doing small jobs about town and working on the small farm. When in his twelfth year, he hauled in the cart all the stone making a complete pavement from the schoolhouse, one-fourth mile north of town, to the Baptist Church on the west side of town. His father and Joseph Beck laid the walk, which did good service many years. For its protection, the Town Council made it a finable offence to ride or drive on it. So carefully was it guarded that the school teacher has been known to leave his school on seeing a traveler on the walk, and hurry up to town and have a warrant in the hands of the Marshal by the time the offending party would reach the village. The 28th of April, 1834, he went as an apprentice to the chair-making; served three years faithfully; made the trade his principal business up to the spring of 1844; then went to New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, and sold goods for Israel Harris, Jr., and Samuel Lemar, nearly six years. In January, 1850, went into the employ of John Grant, Esq., the principal merchant then in New Burlington; remained with them until April, 1857. Mr. Nutt was married, January 29, 1856, to Miss E. A. Weaver, of New Burlington. May, 1857, moved to Chicago; remained there until August, 1858, returning to New Burlington, and remained there until the spring of 1861; then removed to Centerville on the old homestead, where he now lives, becoming the owner thereof by half purchase and half legacy, and one of the few men in the township owning the land originally purchase by the father from John C. Symmes, but the deed was made by James Madison, President of the United States. There are other tracts in the township deeded by the President to the heads of some of the families now living thereon, but they are mostly second-hand purchases.
—When Aaron Nutt with other men were in consultation with Judge Symmes, organizing a pioneer company, one of them said to the Judge, "You will not take that man, will you?" pointing to Aaron Nutt. "Why not?" said the Judge. "Why," said the man, "he is a Quaker, and will not fight the Indians." "Just the man I want," said the Judge; "I want a peaceable colony." Aaron Nutt was never a member of any religious society, but his religious sentiments were in full accord with the Orthodox Friends, wore the garb and used the plain language of that society. The following incident shows the respect the Indians have for the name of William Penn. Sometime after Aaron Nutt had settled here and Dayton something of a place, he was going up there one morning, when he met a company of Indians. After passing them, he found a sack of roots and herbs in the road and readily concluded it belonged to the Indians just passed. So he would carry the sack into town and leave it at the store of H. G. Phillips, who told him he knew the Indians, they had been in the store that morning, and on their next visit he would hand over the sack, and did so, saying to the Indian that—"It was a William Penn man that had found it." "Ugh," said the Indian, "he good man; he good man." The subject of this sketch (Joseph) is now the oldest native born citizen on the town plat; never loaded a gun, pistol or firearm of any description, have pulled the trigger a few times making one shot that would be creditable to any sportsman. Mr. Nutt is the father of five children, as follows: Anna, Laura, Samuel, Weaver, William Pedrick, Clarence Emory Nutt, of whom only two are living, viz., Samuel W. and Clarence E.

Joseph married Elizabeth Amanda Weaver on 29 Jan 1856. Elizabeth was born in Oct 1838 in New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; died on 12 Jun 1927 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jun 1927 in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Assistant physician, Hospital for the Insane, Indianapolis
• Occupation: Farmer and teacher until 1845
• Beneficiary: 9 Oct 1841; in the will of his father, Aaron Nutt
• Executor: 9 Oct 1841; Joseph and John Nutt were named as executors in the will of their father, Aaron Nutt
• Education: 1848, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; Address:
  Rush Medical College
• Census: 1850, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as John Nutt, carpenter, in the household of Martha Nutt
• History / Bio: 1882; The History of Montgomery County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882), p272

Notes:

...After the death of his father in 1842, John remained at home with his bereaved mother, working the little farm, attending and teaching school, and so continued until the end of August, 1845, when, on solicitation of Dr. John Evans, then of Indianapolis, Indiana, he accepted a kind invitation to study medicine with him. So, bidding adieu to his old home and all of its surroundings, he embarked on board the Voress line of stage coaches for what seemed to be the far-distant west. Here he commenced his medical studies, spending the winters, however, in Chicago, attending Rush Medical College, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1848. Returning to Indianapolis, he made application to the commissioners of the hospital for the insane for the position of assistant physician, and being successful in due time received the desired appointment, and early thereafter entered upon the duties of the office in this new State institution and soon had the satisfaction of assisting in the reception of the first patients ever admitted for treatment in that place. In October, 1851, he severed his connection with the hospital and marrying Annie, the youngest daughter of David and Rachael Evans, of Waynesville, Ohio, moved within a few days thereafter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where with a devoted wife and family he remained comfortably living in Glencoe, one of the city's most beautiful suburbs, overlooing both far and wide the cooling waters of Lake Michigan.
...Annie and John were the parents of eleven childdren but only four sons lived to adulthood. John, the youngest of these also became a doctor specializing in orthopedic surgery. (Source: Compiled by Irene L. Shrope, Nutt Family of Ohio and New Jersey, Revised and Up-Dated 1993 (Vandalia, Ohio: Authorized Distributor Donald A. Nutt, 1992), pg. 204.)

...John Nutt, M.D., Chicago, Illinois. John Nutt was the younger of two sons, Joseph and John, and only children of Aaron and Martha (Craig, formerly Pedrick) Nutt, and was born on the old homestead in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, March 3, 1823. His parents were natives of New Jersey, and were respectively widower and widow; at the time of their marriage, January 11, 1818, by James Russell Esq., of Centerville. Aaron Nutt was left fatherless at an early age. His mother marrying again, the boy, Aaron, was apprenticed to John Lippencott, a tailor of 1776, for a term of seven years, serving his employer nearly that time on the tailor-board. At about this period, the armies of the Revolution, under the command of Gen. Washington, were very active in the State of New Jersey, and as these were indeed trying times for our country, and soldiers were much needed, both old and young were earnestly solicited to join the American forces. It was at this juncture that Lippincott was drafted into the military service, and Aaron Nutt's apprenticeship about to expire, that Lippencott made this proposition to him, that if he would enter the army and serve his, Lippencott's time out, he would in turn set him free. The proposition was accepted, and Nutt Joined a military company commanded by his cousin, Capt. Israel Shreve. The evening before the battle of Monmouth, the company had a little skirmish with a company of English light horse, and came off victorious. Nutt was quite near the English Captain, and saw the American soldier shoot him in the breast. He fell from his horse and jumped a fence and fell dead by the side of it. Nutt, in looking at him after death, pronounced him the handsomest man he ever saw. Next day, the main battle was fought, the day, an excessively hot one, the Americans threw off their coats and knapsacks, as they marched into the field, forty-eight abreast. After the battle, twelve wagons loaded with bread and drawn by oxen were brought on the ground for the Americans. After this, Nutt's military service was in riding as a scout and driving team; of the latter, he did a large amount. He never asked for or received any pension, but assisted many others in procuring theirs. On Tuesday, the 4th day of May, 1779, he was married to Mary Archer, daughter of Jospeh and Sarah Archer, of New Jersey. From this union there were nine children, of whom none are now living. Three died in early life, the remaining six lived to be heads of families. The father used to take great pleasure in standing on his own premises and look at the smoke curling out of the chimneys of five of his children--the sixth one lived some four miles distant. In 1786, he removed with his family from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, where he remained only a few years, and then moved to Kentucky, living at different points, among which the following places are remembered: On the Dry Ridge he lived a long time, keeping a tavern there; did the same in the town of Versailles; from Kentucky he removed to what is now Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, in the spring of 1798, having previously been there with the surveyors in February, 1796, and selected his land. Here he settled in a wilderness of woods, and where in his new abode he remained with only a slight change of habitation during the balance of his life. Surrounded with a large circle of truly worthy friends and relatives who were always interested in his presence, as he so often gladdened the hours with earnest recitals of events of which he had not infrequently been an active participant.
...He was man of eminently correct habits of life, possessing a very superior constitution, temperate, industrious and of a cheerful disposition, even marked to the end, and when warned of approaching dissolution seemed ready and willing to meet the change. The disease of which he died was, though not of frequent occurrence, incident to old age, and in this case, as was pronounced by his skillful and ever attentive physician, Dr. A. B. Price, one of the most extraordinary cases of the kind ever known to the profession. The pain, which was very severe, was first manifested in the left eye, which after awhile completely destroyed that organ. The pain then passed to the heel and great toe of the right foot, then successively until all the toes were in a like manner involved, then the foot mortified, was drawn up and dried until all seemed as hard and lifeless as stone, and blackened with the deadly progress of the disease, which continued for a period of many months, at the closing of which time a distinct point or line of demarkation appeared within four inches of the knee. Death of the foot and leg below having already occurred and here separation of not only the living from the dead flesh, but also the larger bone was already manifest, so that earnest hopes were strongly entertained that an arrest was probable, and that an improved condition might be looked for; but at the close of about the ninth month the powers of the constitution could stand the pressure no longer, and gradually yielding, death kindly terminated this protracted struggle June 2, 1842, and thus passed the life of a man aged eighty-three years ten months and sixteen days, who had never known what real sickness was, and even used his tobacco up to within a few days of the last. his remains are buried in the old cemetery one-half mile north of Centerville, between the graves of his two wives. "Peace to their remains."
...John, after the death of his father, remained at home with his bereaved mother, working the little farm and attending and teaching school, and so continued until the last of August, 1845, when, on solicitation of Dr. John Evans, then of Indianapolis, Ind., he accepted a kind invitation to study medicine with him. So, bidding adieu to his old home and all of its surroundings, he embarked on board the Voress line of stage coaches for what then seemed to be the far-distant West. Here he commenced his medical studies, spending the winters, however, at Chicago, attending Rush Medical College, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1848. Returning to Indianapolis, he made application to the commissioners of the hospital for the insane for the place of assistant physician, and being successful in due time received the desired appointment, and early thereafter entered upon the duties of the office in this then new State institution, and soon had the satisfaction for assisting in the reception of the first patients ever admitted to treatment in that place. In October, 1851, he severed his connection with the hospital and, marrying Annie, the youngest daughter of David and Rachael Evans, of Waynesville, Ohio, moved within a few days thereafter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where, with a devoted wife and four comely boys, he now remains comfortably living Glencoe, one of the city's most beautiful suburbs, overlooking both far and wide the cooling waters of Lake Michigan. (Source: W. H. Beers, History of Montgomery County, Ohio (1882; Reproduction, Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc., 1973, Part II, Biographical Sketches, pg. 272, 273)

Birth:

Mentioned in the will of Aaron Nutt as son John Nutt.

History / Bio:

p272
—John Nutt, M.D., Chicago, Illinois. John Nutt was the younger of two sons, Joseph and John, and only children of Aaron and Martha (Craig, formerly Pedrick) Nutt, and was born on the old homestead in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, March 3, 1823. His parents were natives of New Jersey, and were respectively widower and widow; at the time of their marriage, January 11, 1818, by James Russell Esq., of Centerville. Aaron Nutt was left fatherless at an early age. His mother marrying again, the boy, Aaron, was apprenticed to John Lippencott, a tailor of 1776, for a term of seven years, serving his employer nearly that time on the tailor-board. At about this period, the armies of the Revolution, under the command of Gen. Washington, were very active in the State of New Jersey, and as these were indeed trying times for our country, and soldiers were much needed, both old and young were earnestly solicited to join the American forces. It was at this juncture that Lippincott was drafted into the military service, and Aaron Nutt's apprenticeship about to expire, that Lippencott made this proposition to him, that if he would enter the army and serve his, Lippencott's time out, he would in turn set him free. The proposition was accepted, and Nutt Joined a military company commanded by his cousin, Capt. Israel Shreve. The evening before the battle of Monmouth, the company had a little skirmish with a company of English light horse, and came off victorious. Nutt was quite near the English Captain, and saw the American soldier shoot him in the breast. He fell from his horse and jumped a fence and fell dead by the side of it. Nutt, in looking at him after death, pronounced him the handsomest man he ever saw. Next day, the main battle was fought, the day, an excessively hot one, the Americans threw off their coats and knapsacks, as they marched into the field, forty-eight abreast. After the battle, twelve wagons loaded with bread and drawn by oxen were brought on the ground for the Americans. After this, Nutt's military service was in riding as a scout and driving team; of the latter, he did a large amount. He never asked for or received any pension, but assisted many others in procuring theirs. On Tuesday, the 4th day of May, 1779, he was married to Mary Archer, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Archer, of New Jersey. From this union there were nine children, of whom none are now living. Three died in early life, the remaining six lived to be heads of families. The father used to take great pleasure in standing on his own premises and look at the smoke curling out of the chimneys of five of his children—the sixth one lived some four miles distant. In 1786, he removed with his family from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, where he remained only a few years, and then moved to Kentucky, living at different points, among which the following places are remembered: On the Dry Ridge he lived a long time, keeping a tavern there; did the same in the town of Versailles; from Kentucky he removed to what is now Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, in the spring of 1798, having previously been there with the surveyors in February, 1796, and selected his land. Here he settled in a wilderness of woods, and where in his new abode he remained with only a slight change of habitation during the balance of his life. Surrounded with a large circle of truly worthy friends and relatives who were always interested in his presence, as he so often gladdened the hours with earnest recitals of events of which he had not infrequently been an active participant.
—He was man of eminently correct habits of life, possessing a very superior constitution, temperate, industrious and of a cheerful disposition, even marked to the end, and when warned of approaching dissolution seemed ready and willing to meet the change. The disease of which he died was, though not of frequent occurrence, incident to old age, and in this case, as was pronounced by his skillful and ever attentive physician, Dr. A. B. Price, one of the most extraordinary cases of the kind ever known to the profession. The pain, which was very severe, was first manifested in the left eye, which after awhile completely destroyed that organ. The pain then passed to the heel and great toe of the right foot, then successively until all the toes were in a like manner involved, then the foot mortified, was drawn up and dried until all seemed as hard and lifeless as stone, and blackened with the deadly progress of the disease, which continued for a period of many months, at the closing of which time a distinct point or line of demarkation appeared within four inches of the knee. Death of the foot and leg below having already occurred and here separation of not only the living from the dead flesh, but also the larger bone was already manifest, so that earnest hopes were strongly entertained that an arrest was probable, and that an improved condition might be looked for; but at the close of about the ninth month the powers of the constitution could stand the pressure no longer, and gradually yielding, death kindly terminated this protracted struggle June 2, 1842, and thus passed the life of a man aged eighty-three years ten months and sixteen days, who had never known what real sickness was, and even used his tobacco up to within a few days of the last. his remains are buried in the old cemetery one-half mile north of Centerville, between the graves of his two wives. "Peace to their remains."
—John, after the death of his father, remained at home with his bereaved mother, working the little farm and attending and teaching school, and so continued until the last of August, 1845, when, on solicitation of Dr. John Evans, then of Indianapolis, Ind., he accepted a kind invitation to study medicine with him. So, bidding adieu to his old home and all of its surroundings, he embarked on board the Voress line of stage coaches for what then seemed to be the far-distant West. Here he commenced his medical studies, spending the winters, however, at Chicago, attending Rush Medical College, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1848. Returning to Indianapolis, he made application to the commissioners of the hospital for the insane for the place of assistant physician, and being successful in due time received the desired appointment, and early thereafter entered upon the duties of the office in this then new State institution, and soon had the satisfaction for assisting in the reception of the first patients ever admitted to treatment in that place. In October, 1851, he severed his connection with the hospital and, marrying Annie, the youngest daughter of David and Rachael Evans, of Waynesville, Ohio, moved within a few days thereafter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where, with a devoted wife and four comely boys, he now remains comfortably living in Glencoe, one of the city's most beautiful suburbs, overlooking both far and wide the cooling waters of Lake Michigan.

John married Annie Evans in Oct 1851 in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. Annie was born in 1828; died in 1902 in Glencoe, Cook County, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1860, New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Nutt, in the household of Joseph Nutt
• Census: 1870, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Nutt, in the household of Joseph Nutt

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Samuel Nutt, in the household of Joseph Nutt
• Census: 1900, Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Samuel W. Nutt, son, shoe salesman, in the household of Joseph Nutt

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as William Nutt, in the household of Joseph Nutt

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Clarence E. Nutt, farmer, head of household

Clarence married Minnie Esther Weller on 23 Jun 1897 in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. Minnie was born on 1 Mar 1874 in Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; died on 13 Sep 1959 in Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried in 1959 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Lawrence W. Nutt, in the household of Clarence E. Nutt