Excerpts from the notes http://www.estes-eastes.org/heritage4/pafn17.htm#239
"William Harvey was the youngest child of James Harvey and his second wife, Betty Francis Holcombe Harvey. Great Uncle S. D. Harvey could remember hearing his grandfather tell about the family and S. D. Harvey had spent much time in research in regard to William and James. Miss Viola Harvey had spent time in research also. According to them James Harvey was small of Stature, a cabinet maker and cooper by trade and very precise. He moved about a great deal plying his trade where business was best. Society before the revolution was under the feudalistic system. After the Revolution James did cabinet work and made furniture for the original White House or The President's Mansion which was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812. He acquired bounty land in South Carolina for service in the Revolution. This was managed by slave labor.
The family had been "up north" and just returned to Abbeville, South Carolina and been there less than two weeks when William was born in August 1790. James thought that blacksmithing, ironsmithing and gunsmithing were better trades than cabinet making and cooperage so when William finished his schooling at 12 years of age he was apprenticed to James's half-brother and younger brother Zephaniah to learn the crafts. Zephaniah lived at Edgefield, South Carolina. Betty Frances (Holcombe) Harvey died in South Carolina between 1801 and 1807 and is buried at Edgefield, South Carolina, and with William came to Butler County Ohio when William was about seventeen years old. They located near what's now Harrison, Ohio. There William worked at his trade of blacksmithing and ironsmithing until he was twenty one years old under a blacksmith by the name of Frank Smith, his half-uncle, Zephaniah Harvey married Nancy Smith.
Jane (Eastes) Harvey who lived to be almost ninety-five was a very wise person in her advanced age. My mother remembered her and attended her funeral and burial in the Eastes Cemetery at Old Mt. Comfort, Indiana. The story is handed down that after William's death in 1862 Jane argued with the family about his place of burial. The family wished to bury him in the Harvey Graveyard on the Harvey farm in Blooming Grove Township, Franklin County, Indiana but Jane was determined to have him buried in the Sims Cemetery north of the village of Fairfield because the Harvey family was bad in caring for the "Harvey graveyard." The Sims Cemetery was being well kept as it is today and she had her way. She also selected a very fancy tombstone for those times and it is still standing. Jane thought she would soon pass on also so she deeded her interest in the Harvey farm to their children and planned to live around among them. However she lived and lived beyond all expectations and the children themselves were getting up in years and had grown rather weary caring for her. All at once she applied for her pension and promptly received it before all the children knew about it. To put it in the words of Missouri Dunn Deel, "She had lit at Milt's when she got her pension so she stayed there." As soon as all of the other children learned about her pension they wanted to care for her but she remained with Milton until her final illness and death. I remember hearing my grandmother, Sarah Jane (Harvey) Eastes say that she would have taken her if she had known about the pension and that when Jane died they buried her here in the Eastes Cemetary for by that time all of them were up here. She also said that when William passed on they drove to Franklin County with their horses and buggies and that they drove and drove and began to think they never would get there, but they did after one-half day and that their horses were worn out from the ordeal over the rough roads of the time."
William married his niece, Jane Eastes, the daughter of his sister Francis Harvey and Obadiah Eastes on May 21, 1815 in Franklin County, Indiana. They had 10 Children:
Frances Ann Harvey
William Lawrence Harvey
Tabitha Harvey
Obadiah Oliver Harvey
John Harvey
Jane Caroline Harvey
Franklin M. Harvey
Sarah Clementine Harvey
Milton B. Harvey
Emeline Harvey.
"William Harvey was the youngest child of James Harvey and his second wife, Betty Francis Holcombe Harvey. Great Uncle S. D. Harvey could remember hearing his grandfather tell about the family and S. D. Harvey had spent much time in research in regard to William and James. Miss Viola Harvey had spent time in research also. According to them James Harvey was small of Stature, a cabinet maker and cooper by trade and very precise. He moved about a great deal plying his trade where business was best. Society before the revolution was under the feudalistic system. After the Revolution James did cabinet work and made furniture for the original White House or The President's Mansion which was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812. He acquired bounty land in South Carolina for service in the Revolution. This was managed by slave labor.
The family had been "up north" and just returned to Abbeville, South Carolina and been there less than two weeks when William was born in August 1790. James thought that blacksmithing, ironsmithing and gunsmithing were better trades than cabinet making and cooperage so when William finished his schooling at 12 years of age he was apprenticed to James's half-brother and younger brother Zephaniah to learn the crafts. Zephaniah lived at Edgefield, South Carolina. Betty Frances (Holcombe) Harvey died in South Carolina between 1801 and 1807 and is buried at Edgefield, South Carolina, and with William came to Butler County Ohio when William was about seventeen years old. They located near what's now Harrison, Ohio. There William worked at his trade of blacksmithing and ironsmithing until he was twenty one years old under a blacksmith by the name of Frank Smith, his half-uncle, Zephaniah Harvey married Nancy Smith.
Jane (Eastes) Harvey who lived to be almost ninety-five was a very wise person in her advanced age. My mother remembered her and attended her funeral and burial in the Eastes Cemetery at Old Mt. Comfort, Indiana. The story is handed down that after William's death in 1862 Jane argued with the family about his place of burial. The family wished to bury him in the Harvey Graveyard on the Harvey farm in Blooming Grove Township, Franklin County, Indiana but Jane was determined to have him buried in the Sims Cemetery north of the village of Fairfield because the Harvey family was bad in caring for the "Harvey graveyard." The Sims Cemetery was being well kept as it is today and she had her way. She also selected a very fancy tombstone for those times and it is still standing. Jane thought she would soon pass on also so she deeded her interest in the Harvey farm to their children and planned to live around among them. However she lived and lived beyond all expectations and the children themselves were getting up in years and had grown rather weary caring for her. All at once she applied for her pension and promptly received it before all the children knew about it. To put it in the words of Missouri Dunn Deel, "She had lit at Milt's when she got her pension so she stayed there." As soon as all of the other children learned about her pension they wanted to care for her but she remained with Milton until her final illness and death. I remember hearing my grandmother, Sarah Jane (Harvey) Eastes say that she would have taken her if she had known about the pension and that when Jane died they buried her here in the Eastes Cemetary for by that time all of them were up here. She also said that when William passed on they drove to Franklin County with their horses and buggies and that they drove and drove and began to think they never would get there, but they did after one-half day and that their horses were worn out from the ordeal over the rough roads of the time."
William married his niece, Jane Eastes, the daughter of his sister Francis Harvey and Obadiah Eastes on May 21, 1815 in Franklin County, Indiana. They had 10 Children:
Frances Ann Harvey
William Lawrence Harvey
Tabitha Harvey
Obadiah Oliver Harvey
John Harvey
Jane Caroline Harvey
Franklin M. Harvey
Sarah Clementine Harvey
Milton B. Harvey
Emeline Harvey.
Excerpts from the notes http://www.estes-eastes.org/heritage4/pafn17.htm#239
"William Harvey was the youngest child of James Harvey and his second wife, Betty Francis Holcombe Harvey. Great Uncle S. D. Harvey could remember hearing his grandfather tell about the family and S. D. Harvey had spent much time in research in regard to William and James. Miss Viola Harvey had spent time in research also. According to them James Harvey was small of Stature, a cabinet maker and cooper by trade and very precise. He moved about a great deal plying his trade where business was best. Society before the revolution was under the feudalistic system. After the Revolution James did cabinet work and made furniture for the original White House or The President's Mansion which was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812. He acquired bounty land in South Carolina for service in the Revolution. This was managed by slave labor.
The family had been "up north" and just returned to Abbeville, South Carolina and been there less than two weeks when William was born in August 1790. James thought that blacksmithing, ironsmithing and gunsmithing were better trades than cabinet making and cooperage so when William finished his schooling at 12 years of age he was apprenticed to James's half-brother and younger brother Zephaniah to learn the crafts. Zephaniah lived at Edgefield, South Carolina. Betty Frances (Holcombe) Harvey died in South Carolina between 1801 and 1807 and is buried at Edgefield, South Carolina, and with William came to Butler County Ohio when William was about seventeen years old. They located near what's now Harrison, Ohio. There William worked at his trade of blacksmithing and ironsmithing until he was twenty one years old under a blacksmith by the name of Frank Smith, his half-uncle, Zephaniah Harvey married Nancy Smith.
Jane (Eastes) Harvey who lived to be almost ninety-five was a very wise person in her advanced age. My mother remembered her and attended her funeral and burial in the Eastes Cemetery at Old Mt. Comfort, Indiana. The story is handed down that after William's death in 1862 Jane argued with the family about his place of burial. The family wished to bury him in the Harvey Graveyard on the Harvey farm in Blooming Grove Township, Franklin County, Indiana but Jane was determined to have him buried in the Sims Cemetery north of the village of Fairfield because the Harvey family was bad in caring for the "Harvey graveyard." The Sims Cemetery was being well kept as it is today and she had her way. She also selected a very fancy tombstone for those times and it is still standing. Jane thought she would soon pass on also so she deeded her interest in the Harvey farm to their children and planned to live around among them. However she lived and lived beyond all expectations and the children themselves were getting up in years and had grown rather weary caring for her. All at once she applied for her pension and promptly received it before all the children knew about it. To put it in the words of Missouri Dunn Deel, "She had lit at Milt's when she got her pension so she stayed there." As soon as all of the other children learned about her pension they wanted to care for her but she remained with Milton until her final illness and death. I remember hearing my grandmother, Sarah Jane (Harvey) Eastes say that she would have taken her if she had known about the pension and that when Jane died they buried her here in the Eastes Cemetary for by that time all of them were up here. She also said that when William passed on they drove to Franklin County with their horses and buggies and that they drove and drove and began to think they never would get there, but they did after one-half day and that their horses were worn out from the ordeal over the rough roads of the time."
William married his niece, Jane Eastes, the daughter of his sister Francis Harvey and Obadiah Eastes on May 21, 1815 in Franklin County, Indiana. They had 10 Children:
Frances Ann Harvey
William Lawrence Harvey
Tabitha Harvey
Obadiah Oliver Harvey
John Harvey
Jane Caroline Harvey
Franklin M. Harvey
Sarah Clementine Harvey
Milton B. Harvey
Emeline Harvey.
"William Harvey was the youngest child of James Harvey and his second wife, Betty Francis Holcombe Harvey. Great Uncle S. D. Harvey could remember hearing his grandfather tell about the family and S. D. Harvey had spent much time in research in regard to William and James. Miss Viola Harvey had spent time in research also. According to them James Harvey was small of Stature, a cabinet maker and cooper by trade and very precise. He moved about a great deal plying his trade where business was best. Society before the revolution was under the feudalistic system. After the Revolution James did cabinet work and made furniture for the original White House or The President's Mansion which was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812. He acquired bounty land in South Carolina for service in the Revolution. This was managed by slave labor.
The family had been "up north" and just returned to Abbeville, South Carolina and been there less than two weeks when William was born in August 1790. James thought that blacksmithing, ironsmithing and gunsmithing were better trades than cabinet making and cooperage so when William finished his schooling at 12 years of age he was apprenticed to James's half-brother and younger brother Zephaniah to learn the crafts. Zephaniah lived at Edgefield, South Carolina. Betty Frances (Holcombe) Harvey died in South Carolina between 1801 and 1807 and is buried at Edgefield, South Carolina, and with William came to Butler County Ohio when William was about seventeen years old. They located near what's now Harrison, Ohio. There William worked at his trade of blacksmithing and ironsmithing until he was twenty one years old under a blacksmith by the name of Frank Smith, his half-uncle, Zephaniah Harvey married Nancy Smith.
Jane (Eastes) Harvey who lived to be almost ninety-five was a very wise person in her advanced age. My mother remembered her and attended her funeral and burial in the Eastes Cemetery at Old Mt. Comfort, Indiana. The story is handed down that after William's death in 1862 Jane argued with the family about his place of burial. The family wished to bury him in the Harvey Graveyard on the Harvey farm in Blooming Grove Township, Franklin County, Indiana but Jane was determined to have him buried in the Sims Cemetery north of the village of Fairfield because the Harvey family was bad in caring for the "Harvey graveyard." The Sims Cemetery was being well kept as it is today and she had her way. She also selected a very fancy tombstone for those times and it is still standing. Jane thought she would soon pass on also so she deeded her interest in the Harvey farm to their children and planned to live around among them. However she lived and lived beyond all expectations and the children themselves were getting up in years and had grown rather weary caring for her. All at once she applied for her pension and promptly received it before all the children knew about it. To put it in the words of Missouri Dunn Deel, "She had lit at Milt's when she got her pension so she stayed there." As soon as all of the other children learned about her pension they wanted to care for her but she remained with Milton until her final illness and death. I remember hearing my grandmother, Sarah Jane (Harvey) Eastes say that she would have taken her if she had known about the pension and that when Jane died they buried her here in the Eastes Cemetary for by that time all of them were up here. She also said that when William passed on they drove to Franklin County with their horses and buggies and that they drove and drove and began to think they never would get there, but they did after one-half day and that their horses were worn out from the ordeal over the rough roads of the time."
William married his niece, Jane Eastes, the daughter of his sister Francis Harvey and Obadiah Eastes on May 21, 1815 in Franklin County, Indiana. They had 10 Children:
Frances Ann Harvey
William Lawrence Harvey
Tabitha Harvey
Obadiah Oliver Harvey
John Harvey
Jane Caroline Harvey
Franklin M. Harvey
Sarah Clementine Harvey
Milton B. Harvey
Emeline Harvey.
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