Captain Pennsylvania and Virginia militias∼The County of Noble, Ohio
A History of Noble County Ohio
From the Earliest Days,
Special Chapter on Military Affairs,
Published 1904. Reprinted, 2000
Page 25
A settlement was established on the east fork of Duck Creek, in what is now Stock township, by the Enochs, Morris, Crow and Grandon families at an early date. Watkins fixes the date of this settlement as the year 1806. He also says that among the first settlers were Elisha, Henry, Enoch, and Jesse Enochs, and that their father, Enoch Enochs, did not join the colony until some years afterward. Another story, which appears to be equally as well authenticated, places Enoch Enochs, Sr., among the first settlers. According to this story Enoch Enochs, Lewis Wetzel, Martin Crow and Simon Girty were residents of the same neighborhood on Wheeling Creek, in Western Pennsylvania, near the Virginia boundary. For the protection of the settlements on Wheeling Creek, a company of three hundred men was organized. Under the militia laws of that period each company was given the privilege of electing its own commissioned officers. Enochs, Crow, Wetzel, and Girty were candidates for the captaincy of the company. Enochs was elected captain, Crow and Wetzel were chosen lieutenants, and later were appointed scouts. After the Ohio Company had succeeded in establishing settlements on their purchase northwest of the Ohio, detachments of this company were employed in piloting and protecting emigrants to the new territory. On these excursions they learned the value of the fertile valleys of Southeastern Ohio and some of them determined to try their fortunes in the new country. Among these were Captain Enochs and Martin Crow. The story goes on to say that their exodus from Wheeling Creek was somewhat hastened by the massacre of Martin Crow's parents and three of his sisters in the spring of 1791, but it is not definite as to whether they came directly to the east fork of Duck Creek or whether they spent some time in the other settlements before attempting to found one of their own. Some of the descendants of the Enochs and Archer families believe the Duck Creek settlement, in the present township of Stock, was made in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and that it is, therefore, the oldest settlement in the county. Martin Crow lived in the county until 1832, when his death occurred, and his remains rest in the Carlisle cemetery near the settlement he helped to plant on the margin of civilization.
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GRAVES REGISTRATION CARD (NOBLE)
Name: Enochs, Enoch
Address: ------
Date of Death: 1835
Place: Harriettsville, Guernsey County (pre-1851), Ohio
Name of Cemetery: Berne, M.E.
Location: Stock Twp.
Lot #: Row 3
Section No. ----
Block #: Old
Grave #: 21
Marker: Flat____ Upright ____ None __X__
Next of Kin: Roster 1929 Ed
SERVICE RECORD:
War Served In: Revolutionary
Date Enlisted: June 1, 1874
Date Discharged: Apr. 1, 1875
Branch of Service: Ensign Captain
Rank: Captain
Company, Outfit or Ship: Henry Enocks Co.
A History of Noble County Ohio
From the Earliest Days,
Special Chapter on Military Affairs,
Published 1904. Reprinted, 2000
Page 25
A settlement was established on the east fork of Duck Creek, in what is now Stock township, by the Enochs, Morris, Crow and Grandon families at an early date. Watkins fixes the date of this settlement as the year 1806. He also says that among the first settlers were Elisha, Henry, Enoch, and Jesse Enochs, and that their father, Enoch Enochs, did not join the colony until some years afterward. Another story, which appears to be equally as well authenticated, places Enoch Enochs, Sr., among the first settlers. According to this story Enoch Enochs, Lewis Wetzel, Martin Crow and Simon Girty were residents of the same neighborhood on Wheeling Creek, in Western Pennsylvania, near the Virginia boundary. For the protection of the settlements on Wheeling Creek, a company of three hundred men was organized. Under the militia laws of that period each company was given the privilege of electing its own commissioned officers. Enochs, Crow, Wetzel, and Girty were candidates for the captaincy of the company. Enochs was elected captain, Crow and Wetzel were chosen lieutenants, and later were appointed scouts. After the Ohio Company had succeeded in establishing settlements on their purchase northwest of the Ohio, detachments of this company were employed in piloting and protecting emigrants to the new territory. On these excursions they learned the value of the fertile valleys of Southeastern Ohio and some of them determined to try their fortunes in the new country. Among these were Captain Enochs and Martin Crow. The story goes on to say that their exodus from Wheeling Creek was somewhat hastened by the massacre of Martin Crow's parents and three of his sisters in the spring of 1791, but it is not definite as to whether they came directly to the east fork of Duck Creek or whether they spent some time in the other settlements before attempting to found one of their own. Some of the descendants of the Enochs and Archer families believe the Duck Creek settlement, in the present township of Stock, was made in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and that it is, therefore, the oldest settlement in the county. Martin Crow lived in the county until 1832, when his death occurred, and his remains rest in the Carlisle cemetery near the settlement he helped to plant on the margin of civilization.
***
GRAVES REGISTRATION CARD (NOBLE)
Name: Enochs, Enoch
Address: ------
Date of Death: 1835
Place: Harriettsville, Guernsey County (pre-1851), Ohio
Name of Cemetery: Berne, M.E.
Location: Stock Twp.
Lot #: Row 3
Section No. ----
Block #: Old
Grave #: 21
Marker: Flat____ Upright ____ None __X__
Next of Kin: Roster 1929 Ed
SERVICE RECORD:
War Served In: Revolutionary
Date Enlisted: June 1, 1874
Date Discharged: Apr. 1, 1875
Branch of Service: Ensign Captain
Rank: Captain
Company, Outfit or Ship: Henry Enocks Co.
Captain Pennsylvania and Virginia militias∼The County of Noble, Ohio
A History of Noble County Ohio
From the Earliest Days,
Special Chapter on Military Affairs,
Published 1904. Reprinted, 2000
Page 25
A settlement was established on the east fork of Duck Creek, in what is now Stock township, by the Enochs, Morris, Crow and Grandon families at an early date. Watkins fixes the date of this settlement as the year 1806. He also says that among the first settlers were Elisha, Henry, Enoch, and Jesse Enochs, and that their father, Enoch Enochs, did not join the colony until some years afterward. Another story, which appears to be equally as well authenticated, places Enoch Enochs, Sr., among the first settlers. According to this story Enoch Enochs, Lewis Wetzel, Martin Crow and Simon Girty were residents of the same neighborhood on Wheeling Creek, in Western Pennsylvania, near the Virginia boundary. For the protection of the settlements on Wheeling Creek, a company of three hundred men was organized. Under the militia laws of that period each company was given the privilege of electing its own commissioned officers. Enochs, Crow, Wetzel, and Girty were candidates for the captaincy of the company. Enochs was elected captain, Crow and Wetzel were chosen lieutenants, and later were appointed scouts. After the Ohio Company had succeeded in establishing settlements on their purchase northwest of the Ohio, detachments of this company were employed in piloting and protecting emigrants to the new territory. On these excursions they learned the value of the fertile valleys of Southeastern Ohio and some of them determined to try their fortunes in the new country. Among these were Captain Enochs and Martin Crow. The story goes on to say that their exodus from Wheeling Creek was somewhat hastened by the massacre of Martin Crow's parents and three of his sisters in the spring of 1791, but it is not definite as to whether they came directly to the east fork of Duck Creek or whether they spent some time in the other settlements before attempting to found one of their own. Some of the descendants of the Enochs and Archer families believe the Duck Creek settlement, in the present township of Stock, was made in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and that it is, therefore, the oldest settlement in the county. Martin Crow lived in the county until 1832, when his death occurred, and his remains rest in the Carlisle cemetery near the settlement he helped to plant on the margin of civilization.
***
GRAVES REGISTRATION CARD (NOBLE)
Name: Enochs, Enoch
Address: ------
Date of Death: 1835
Place: Harriettsville, Guernsey County (pre-1851), Ohio
Name of Cemetery: Berne, M.E.
Location: Stock Twp.
Lot #: Row 3
Section No. ----
Block #: Old
Grave #: 21
Marker: Flat____ Upright ____ None __X__
Next of Kin: Roster 1929 Ed
SERVICE RECORD:
War Served In: Revolutionary
Date Enlisted: June 1, 1874
Date Discharged: Apr. 1, 1875
Branch of Service: Ensign Captain
Rank: Captain
Company, Outfit or Ship: Henry Enocks Co.
A History of Noble County Ohio
From the Earliest Days,
Special Chapter on Military Affairs,
Published 1904. Reprinted, 2000
Page 25
A settlement was established on the east fork of Duck Creek, in what is now Stock township, by the Enochs, Morris, Crow and Grandon families at an early date. Watkins fixes the date of this settlement as the year 1806. He also says that among the first settlers were Elisha, Henry, Enoch, and Jesse Enochs, and that their father, Enoch Enochs, did not join the colony until some years afterward. Another story, which appears to be equally as well authenticated, places Enoch Enochs, Sr., among the first settlers. According to this story Enoch Enochs, Lewis Wetzel, Martin Crow and Simon Girty were residents of the same neighborhood on Wheeling Creek, in Western Pennsylvania, near the Virginia boundary. For the protection of the settlements on Wheeling Creek, a company of three hundred men was organized. Under the militia laws of that period each company was given the privilege of electing its own commissioned officers. Enochs, Crow, Wetzel, and Girty were candidates for the captaincy of the company. Enochs was elected captain, Crow and Wetzel were chosen lieutenants, and later were appointed scouts. After the Ohio Company had succeeded in establishing settlements on their purchase northwest of the Ohio, detachments of this company were employed in piloting and protecting emigrants to the new territory. On these excursions they learned the value of the fertile valleys of Southeastern Ohio and some of them determined to try their fortunes in the new country. Among these were Captain Enochs and Martin Crow. The story goes on to say that their exodus from Wheeling Creek was somewhat hastened by the massacre of Martin Crow's parents and three of his sisters in the spring of 1791, but it is not definite as to whether they came directly to the east fork of Duck Creek or whether they spent some time in the other settlements before attempting to found one of their own. Some of the descendants of the Enochs and Archer families believe the Duck Creek settlement, in the present township of Stock, was made in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and that it is, therefore, the oldest settlement in the county. Martin Crow lived in the county until 1832, when his death occurred, and his remains rest in the Carlisle cemetery near the settlement he helped to plant on the margin of civilization.
***
GRAVES REGISTRATION CARD (NOBLE)
Name: Enochs, Enoch
Address: ------
Date of Death: 1835
Place: Harriettsville, Guernsey County (pre-1851), Ohio
Name of Cemetery: Berne, M.E.
Location: Stock Twp.
Lot #: Row 3
Section No. ----
Block #: Old
Grave #: 21
Marker: Flat____ Upright ____ None __X__
Next of Kin: Roster 1929 Ed
SERVICE RECORD:
War Served In: Revolutionary
Date Enlisted: June 1, 1874
Date Discharged: Apr. 1, 1875
Branch of Service: Ensign Captain
Rank: Captain
Company, Outfit or Ship: Henry Enocks Co.
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Gravesite Details
Interment record indicates no marker; nor has a marker been found or recorded.
