This was recorded in the History of Ashland County, Ohio, Hill, 1880.
MICHAEL CULLER of Mifflin, purchased the Zimmer farm in 1815. Having come from Frederick county, Maryland, by way of Charleston (now Wellsburgh), Virginia, through Cadiz, Ohio, to Wooster, he proceeded thence, by way of Mr. Gardner's (now Windsor), to Mansfield, where he met Philip Zimmer, whose father, mother, and sister, had been killed at the Zimmer cabin on the Black fork, in the fall of 1812, and purchased the farm. To have the deed properly executed, he accompanied Philip to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, to the residence of George Zimmer, a brother. Here the deed was signed by Philip Zimmer, May 6, 1815, the original patent being made to him, and signed by James Madison, President, and Edward Tiffin, commissioner of the land office, October 2, 1812. Zimmer was the German name of the family. While Mr. Culler was there Philip married a Miss Ballentine, and removed west. In 1826 he returned to visit the grave of his father, mother, and sister, on the old farm, since which time he has resided in the west. Mr. Culler cultivated his land for two or three years, stopping most of the time with John Lambright, who was a relative. Returning to Maryland, he married, about the year 1818, and moved to the Zimmer farm, where he has resided ever since. He lived two or three years in the old Zimmer cabin, which still showed marks of the tragedy of 1812. He was in Circleville in 1812, when the Zimmer murder took place, and is conversant with the whole affair, having heard all its details repeatedly from John Lambright and Philip Zimmer. He says:"Martin Ruffner was a stout, frolicsome sort of man, and went to Zimmer's more to capture the Indians and have a little fun, than to bring on a fight, and believes that if Philip had remained at home, instead of going for James Copus, the whole disaster would have been averted, for Philip was a very rugged and active young man, and the two would have deterred the Indians from the attack." Mrs. Culler died in the summer of 1873. Mr. Culler died at his residence in Mifflin Township, July 28, 1874, aged eighty-four years, four months, and three days. Two or three of his sons reside in this county. Mr. Culler was benevolent and king to the poor, and his donations to religious and benevolent institutions very liberal. He was regarded as quite wealthy, but was always humble, and seldom referred to his worldly possessions, believing it better to lay up his treasures in Heaven, where moth and rust doth not corrupt. He was followed to his last resting place by a large number of people, who said in their hearts, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
This was recorded in the Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, August 26, 1951.
Lucas--The family name of Culler has long been associated with the Lucas community but in no branch of that family is today's generation more closely linked with pioneer history than that of Jimmy Culler and his forebears. His grandfather, Michael Culler, bought the tract of land in 1815 where three years earlier Indiana had massacred the Frederick Zimmer family and Martin Ruffner.
Michael Culler purchased the farm from Philip Zimmer, son of the slain man. The deed recording this transaction is one of man prized possessions in the Culler home that was built in 1833 on what is now state route 603 near the Richland-Ashland County line. Only a few yards from the house stands the monument erected in 1881 by the Historical Society to mark the single grave of the four massacre victims.
"Don't you wish you could write like that?" queried Jimmy Culler as he displayed the entirely handwritten deed that has decorative flourishes on the capital letters. He opined that it may have been written by either Thomas Mace or I. C. Wittenmayer, who signed it as witnesses. Philip Zimmer's name was in unsteady yet quite legible writing while his wife, Elizabeth, evidently unable to write, had affixed a cross, called "her mark" beside her name that had been entered in the same handwriting as the body of the deed. "WE did have the original deed that the government had issued to the Zimmer family," Culler related, "but it got away from us over the years."
Culler, a 65 year-old bachelor, inherited the farm and the stately home, where he and his widowed sister, Blanche Jones, reside, from his father, Sebastian Culler, who in turn had inherited it from Michael Culler. An old fashioned carpet bag bulging with daguerreotypes was exhibited by Mrs. Jones to show the ancestral connections. She also has her grandmother's white kid wedding slippers, much like modern ballet shoes. Culler prizes his grandfather's English made flintlock pistol that is in almost perfect condition. On a table in a prominent spot in the parlor is a German Bible of bigger-than -dictionary proportions that bears the Culler family record from 1759. Shingles and before that weather boarding, have been added to change the exterior appearance of the nine room structure, but little has been altered inside the home to detract from the early American atmosphere.
Original hand forged hardware is on all of the heavy walnut doors. A two part Dutch door, with antique locks on both parts, stands between the kitchen and back porch. Mrs. Jones said all of the interior finish, including the huge exposed beams in the hall ceiling, wainscoting and even the outside logs of the structure, are walnut but she, as a young girl, helped to 'grain' it in imitation oak that was in high fashion then. The rambling structure is unique in its architecture in that a central hall, where an open stairway ascends, runs from the front to rear, connecting the two porches. Many of the windows and transoms over the doors are in original glass.
MICHAEL CULLER of Mifflin, purchased the Zimmer farm in 1815. Having come from Frederick county, Maryland, by way of Charleston (now Wellsburgh), Virginia, through Cadiz, Ohio, to Wooster, he proceeded thence, by way of Mr. Gardner's (now Windsor), to Mansfield, where he met Philip Zimmer, whose father, mother, and sister, had been killed at the Zimmer cabin on the Black fork, in the fall of 1812, and purchased the farm. To have the deed properly executed, he accompanied Philip to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, to the residence of George Zimmer, a brother. Here the deed was signed by Philip Zimmer, May 6, 1815, the original patent being made to him, and signed by James Madison, President, and Edward Tiffin, commissioner of the land office, October 2, 1812. Zimmer was the German name of the family. While Mr. Culler was there Philip married a Miss Ballentine, and removed west. In 1826 he returned to visit the grave of his father, mother, and sister, on the old farm, since which time he has resided in the west. Mr. Culler cultivated his land for two or three years, stopping most of the time with John Lambright, who was a relative. Returning to Maryland, he married, about the year 1818, and moved to the Zimmer farm, where he has resided ever since. He lived two or three years in the old Zimmer cabin, which still showed marks of the tragedy of 1812. He was in Circleville in 1812, when the Zimmer murder took place, and is conversant with the whole affair, having heard all its details repeatedly from John Lambright and Philip Zimmer. He says:"Martin Ruffner was a stout, frolicsome sort of man, and went to Zimmer's more to capture the Indians and have a little fun, than to bring on a fight, and believes that if Philip had remained at home, instead of going for James Copus, the whole disaster would have been averted, for Philip was a very rugged and active young man, and the two would have deterred the Indians from the attack." Mrs. Culler died in the summer of 1873. Mr. Culler died at his residence in Mifflin Township, July 28, 1874, aged eighty-four years, four months, and three days. Two or three of his sons reside in this county. Mr. Culler was benevolent and king to the poor, and his donations to religious and benevolent institutions very liberal. He was regarded as quite wealthy, but was always humble, and seldom referred to his worldly possessions, believing it better to lay up his treasures in Heaven, where moth and rust doth not corrupt. He was followed to his last resting place by a large number of people, who said in their hearts, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
This was recorded in the Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, August 26, 1951.
Lucas--The family name of Culler has long been associated with the Lucas community but in no branch of that family is today's generation more closely linked with pioneer history than that of Jimmy Culler and his forebears. His grandfather, Michael Culler, bought the tract of land in 1815 where three years earlier Indiana had massacred the Frederick Zimmer family and Martin Ruffner.
Michael Culler purchased the farm from Philip Zimmer, son of the slain man. The deed recording this transaction is one of man prized possessions in the Culler home that was built in 1833 on what is now state route 603 near the Richland-Ashland County line. Only a few yards from the house stands the monument erected in 1881 by the Historical Society to mark the single grave of the four massacre victims.
"Don't you wish you could write like that?" queried Jimmy Culler as he displayed the entirely handwritten deed that has decorative flourishes on the capital letters. He opined that it may have been written by either Thomas Mace or I. C. Wittenmayer, who signed it as witnesses. Philip Zimmer's name was in unsteady yet quite legible writing while his wife, Elizabeth, evidently unable to write, had affixed a cross, called "her mark" beside her name that had been entered in the same handwriting as the body of the deed. "WE did have the original deed that the government had issued to the Zimmer family," Culler related, "but it got away from us over the years."
Culler, a 65 year-old bachelor, inherited the farm and the stately home, where he and his widowed sister, Blanche Jones, reside, from his father, Sebastian Culler, who in turn had inherited it from Michael Culler. An old fashioned carpet bag bulging with daguerreotypes was exhibited by Mrs. Jones to show the ancestral connections. She also has her grandmother's white kid wedding slippers, much like modern ballet shoes. Culler prizes his grandfather's English made flintlock pistol that is in almost perfect condition. On a table in a prominent spot in the parlor is a German Bible of bigger-than -dictionary proportions that bears the Culler family record from 1759. Shingles and before that weather boarding, have been added to change the exterior appearance of the nine room structure, but little has been altered inside the home to detract from the early American atmosphere.
Original hand forged hardware is on all of the heavy walnut doors. A two part Dutch door, with antique locks on both parts, stands between the kitchen and back porch. Mrs. Jones said all of the interior finish, including the huge exposed beams in the hall ceiling, wainscoting and even the outside logs of the structure, are walnut but she, as a young girl, helped to 'grain' it in imitation oak that was in high fashion then. The rambling structure is unique in its architecture in that a central hall, where an open stairway ascends, runs from the front to rear, connecting the two porches. Many of the windows and transoms over the doors are in original glass.
This was recorded in the History of Ashland County, Ohio, Hill, 1880.
MICHAEL CULLER of Mifflin, purchased the Zimmer farm in 1815. Having come from Frederick county, Maryland, by way of Charleston (now Wellsburgh), Virginia, through Cadiz, Ohio, to Wooster, he proceeded thence, by way of Mr. Gardner's (now Windsor), to Mansfield, where he met Philip Zimmer, whose father, mother, and sister, had been killed at the Zimmer cabin on the Black fork, in the fall of 1812, and purchased the farm. To have the deed properly executed, he accompanied Philip to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, to the residence of George Zimmer, a brother. Here the deed was signed by Philip Zimmer, May 6, 1815, the original patent being made to him, and signed by James Madison, President, and Edward Tiffin, commissioner of the land office, October 2, 1812. Zimmer was the German name of the family. While Mr. Culler was there Philip married a Miss Ballentine, and removed west. In 1826 he returned to visit the grave of his father, mother, and sister, on the old farm, since which time he has resided in the west. Mr. Culler cultivated his land for two or three years, stopping most of the time with John Lambright, who was a relative. Returning to Maryland, he married, about the year 1818, and moved to the Zimmer farm, where he has resided ever since. He lived two or three years in the old Zimmer cabin, which still showed marks of the tragedy of 1812. He was in Circleville in 1812, when the Zimmer murder took place, and is conversant with the whole affair, having heard all its details repeatedly from John Lambright and Philip Zimmer. He says:"Martin Ruffner was a stout, frolicsome sort of man, and went to Zimmer's more to capture the Indians and have a little fun, than to bring on a fight, and believes that if Philip had remained at home, instead of going for James Copus, the whole disaster would have been averted, for Philip was a very rugged and active young man, and the two would have deterred the Indians from the attack." Mrs. Culler died in the summer of 1873. Mr. Culler died at his residence in Mifflin Township, July 28, 1874, aged eighty-four years, four months, and three days. Two or three of his sons reside in this county. Mr. Culler was benevolent and king to the poor, and his donations to religious and benevolent institutions very liberal. He was regarded as quite wealthy, but was always humble, and seldom referred to his worldly possessions, believing it better to lay up his treasures in Heaven, where moth and rust doth not corrupt. He was followed to his last resting place by a large number of people, who said in their hearts, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
This was recorded in the Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, August 26, 1951.
Lucas--The family name of Culler has long been associated with the Lucas community but in no branch of that family is today's generation more closely linked with pioneer history than that of Jimmy Culler and his forebears. His grandfather, Michael Culler, bought the tract of land in 1815 where three years earlier Indiana had massacred the Frederick Zimmer family and Martin Ruffner.
Michael Culler purchased the farm from Philip Zimmer, son of the slain man. The deed recording this transaction is one of man prized possessions in the Culler home that was built in 1833 on what is now state route 603 near the Richland-Ashland County line. Only a few yards from the house stands the monument erected in 1881 by the Historical Society to mark the single grave of the four massacre victims.
"Don't you wish you could write like that?" queried Jimmy Culler as he displayed the entirely handwritten deed that has decorative flourishes on the capital letters. He opined that it may have been written by either Thomas Mace or I. C. Wittenmayer, who signed it as witnesses. Philip Zimmer's name was in unsteady yet quite legible writing while his wife, Elizabeth, evidently unable to write, had affixed a cross, called "her mark" beside her name that had been entered in the same handwriting as the body of the deed. "WE did have the original deed that the government had issued to the Zimmer family," Culler related, "but it got away from us over the years."
Culler, a 65 year-old bachelor, inherited the farm and the stately home, where he and his widowed sister, Blanche Jones, reside, from his father, Sebastian Culler, who in turn had inherited it from Michael Culler. An old fashioned carpet bag bulging with daguerreotypes was exhibited by Mrs. Jones to show the ancestral connections. She also has her grandmother's white kid wedding slippers, much like modern ballet shoes. Culler prizes his grandfather's English made flintlock pistol that is in almost perfect condition. On a table in a prominent spot in the parlor is a German Bible of bigger-than -dictionary proportions that bears the Culler family record from 1759. Shingles and before that weather boarding, have been added to change the exterior appearance of the nine room structure, but little has been altered inside the home to detract from the early American atmosphere.
Original hand forged hardware is on all of the heavy walnut doors. A two part Dutch door, with antique locks on both parts, stands between the kitchen and back porch. Mrs. Jones said all of the interior finish, including the huge exposed beams in the hall ceiling, wainscoting and even the outside logs of the structure, are walnut but she, as a young girl, helped to 'grain' it in imitation oak that was in high fashion then. The rambling structure is unique in its architecture in that a central hall, where an open stairway ascends, runs from the front to rear, connecting the two porches. Many of the windows and transoms over the doors are in original glass.
MICHAEL CULLER of Mifflin, purchased the Zimmer farm in 1815. Having come from Frederick county, Maryland, by way of Charleston (now Wellsburgh), Virginia, through Cadiz, Ohio, to Wooster, he proceeded thence, by way of Mr. Gardner's (now Windsor), to Mansfield, where he met Philip Zimmer, whose father, mother, and sister, had been killed at the Zimmer cabin on the Black fork, in the fall of 1812, and purchased the farm. To have the deed properly executed, he accompanied Philip to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, to the residence of George Zimmer, a brother. Here the deed was signed by Philip Zimmer, May 6, 1815, the original patent being made to him, and signed by James Madison, President, and Edward Tiffin, commissioner of the land office, October 2, 1812. Zimmer was the German name of the family. While Mr. Culler was there Philip married a Miss Ballentine, and removed west. In 1826 he returned to visit the grave of his father, mother, and sister, on the old farm, since which time he has resided in the west. Mr. Culler cultivated his land for two or three years, stopping most of the time with John Lambright, who was a relative. Returning to Maryland, he married, about the year 1818, and moved to the Zimmer farm, where he has resided ever since. He lived two or three years in the old Zimmer cabin, which still showed marks of the tragedy of 1812. He was in Circleville in 1812, when the Zimmer murder took place, and is conversant with the whole affair, having heard all its details repeatedly from John Lambright and Philip Zimmer. He says:"Martin Ruffner was a stout, frolicsome sort of man, and went to Zimmer's more to capture the Indians and have a little fun, than to bring on a fight, and believes that if Philip had remained at home, instead of going for James Copus, the whole disaster would have been averted, for Philip was a very rugged and active young man, and the two would have deterred the Indians from the attack." Mrs. Culler died in the summer of 1873. Mr. Culler died at his residence in Mifflin Township, July 28, 1874, aged eighty-four years, four months, and three days. Two or three of his sons reside in this county. Mr. Culler was benevolent and king to the poor, and his donations to religious and benevolent institutions very liberal. He was regarded as quite wealthy, but was always humble, and seldom referred to his worldly possessions, believing it better to lay up his treasures in Heaven, where moth and rust doth not corrupt. He was followed to his last resting place by a large number of people, who said in their hearts, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
This was recorded in the Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, August 26, 1951.
Lucas--The family name of Culler has long been associated with the Lucas community but in no branch of that family is today's generation more closely linked with pioneer history than that of Jimmy Culler and his forebears. His grandfather, Michael Culler, bought the tract of land in 1815 where three years earlier Indiana had massacred the Frederick Zimmer family and Martin Ruffner.
Michael Culler purchased the farm from Philip Zimmer, son of the slain man. The deed recording this transaction is one of man prized possessions in the Culler home that was built in 1833 on what is now state route 603 near the Richland-Ashland County line. Only a few yards from the house stands the monument erected in 1881 by the Historical Society to mark the single grave of the four massacre victims.
"Don't you wish you could write like that?" queried Jimmy Culler as he displayed the entirely handwritten deed that has decorative flourishes on the capital letters. He opined that it may have been written by either Thomas Mace or I. C. Wittenmayer, who signed it as witnesses. Philip Zimmer's name was in unsteady yet quite legible writing while his wife, Elizabeth, evidently unable to write, had affixed a cross, called "her mark" beside her name that had been entered in the same handwriting as the body of the deed. "WE did have the original deed that the government had issued to the Zimmer family," Culler related, "but it got away from us over the years."
Culler, a 65 year-old bachelor, inherited the farm and the stately home, where he and his widowed sister, Blanche Jones, reside, from his father, Sebastian Culler, who in turn had inherited it from Michael Culler. An old fashioned carpet bag bulging with daguerreotypes was exhibited by Mrs. Jones to show the ancestral connections. She also has her grandmother's white kid wedding slippers, much like modern ballet shoes. Culler prizes his grandfather's English made flintlock pistol that is in almost perfect condition. On a table in a prominent spot in the parlor is a German Bible of bigger-than -dictionary proportions that bears the Culler family record from 1759. Shingles and before that weather boarding, have been added to change the exterior appearance of the nine room structure, but little has been altered inside the home to detract from the early American atmosphere.
Original hand forged hardware is on all of the heavy walnut doors. A two part Dutch door, with antique locks on both parts, stands between the kitchen and back porch. Mrs. Jones said all of the interior finish, including the huge exposed beams in the hall ceiling, wainscoting and even the outside logs of the structure, are walnut but she, as a young girl, helped to 'grain' it in imitation oak that was in high fashion then. The rambling structure is unique in its architecture in that a central hall, where an open stairway ascends, runs from the front to rear, connecting the two porches. Many of the windows and transoms over the doors are in original glass.
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