Memorial stone reads "aged 48 yrs 7 mnths 12 days, husband of Rebecca W".
Married Rebecca Watson 5/12/1805 - She was born 1788, died 1850.
Wiliam H. Tong founded the town of Carroll, Ohio at junction of Hocking Valley and Ohio canals.
One of the early subscribers to the stock of the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company was William Tong, who was a contractor on the Ohio Canal. He constructed the state dam west of Lockville and shortly after it's completion, when the success of the Lancaster Lateral seemed assured, he laid out the town of Carroll.
Little is known about Mr. Tong's early life, but in May, 1805, a marriage license was issued at the Fairfield County Court House in Lancaster to William Tong and Rebecca Watson. William Tong had a brother Oliver who assisted him in laying out the town site, in 1829.
The Tong brothers named the new village in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Tong also served in the War of 1812.
He ran saw and grist mills.
Married Rebecca Watson 5/12/1805 - She was born 1788, died 1850.
Wiliam H. Tong founded the town of Carroll, Ohio at junction of Hocking Valley and Ohio canals.
One of the early subscribers to the stock of the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company was William Tong, who was a contractor on the Ohio Canal. He constructed the state dam west of Lockville and shortly after it's completion, when the success of the Lancaster Lateral seemed assured, he laid out the town of Carroll.
Little is known about Mr. Tong's early life, but in May, 1805, a marriage license was issued at the Fairfield County Court House in Lancaster to William Tong and Rebecca Watson. William Tong had a brother Oliver who assisted him in laying out the town site, in 1829.
The Tong brothers named the new village in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Tong also served in the War of 1812.
He ran saw and grist mills.
Memorial stone reads "aged 48 yrs 7 mnths 12 days, husband of Rebecca W".
Married Rebecca Watson 5/12/1805 - She was born 1788, died 1850.
Wiliam H. Tong founded the town of Carroll, Ohio at junction of Hocking Valley and Ohio canals.
One of the early subscribers to the stock of the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company was William Tong, who was a contractor on the Ohio Canal. He constructed the state dam west of Lockville and shortly after it's completion, when the success of the Lancaster Lateral seemed assured, he laid out the town of Carroll.
Little is known about Mr. Tong's early life, but in May, 1805, a marriage license was issued at the Fairfield County Court House in Lancaster to William Tong and Rebecca Watson. William Tong had a brother Oliver who assisted him in laying out the town site, in 1829.
The Tong brothers named the new village in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Tong also served in the War of 1812.
He ran saw and grist mills.
Married Rebecca Watson 5/12/1805 - She was born 1788, died 1850.
Wiliam H. Tong founded the town of Carroll, Ohio at junction of Hocking Valley and Ohio canals.
One of the early subscribers to the stock of the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company was William Tong, who was a contractor on the Ohio Canal. He constructed the state dam west of Lockville and shortly after it's completion, when the success of the Lancaster Lateral seemed assured, he laid out the town of Carroll.
Little is known about Mr. Tong's early life, but in May, 1805, a marriage license was issued at the Fairfield County Court House in Lancaster to William Tong and Rebecca Watson. William Tong had a brother Oliver who assisted him in laying out the town site, in 1829.
The Tong brothers named the new village in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Tong also served in the War of 1812.
He ran saw and grist mills.
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