Athens Co. Troy Township
Cities of Coolville, Hockingport and Torch
Most transcriptions on this webpage made From the History of the Hocking Valley 1883:
transcribed by Sandra Mitchell Quinn
Some of the first settlers from the "Harris History" are listed as: Asahel Cooley, Levi Stedman, Daniel Stewart, Kingman Dutton, Samuel Dutton, Abram Brookhart, Jonas Smith, Silas Blizzard, Martin Griffin, Benajah Hoyt, Xerxes Paulk, Joseph Guthrir, Barrows, Wm Pilcher, Asahel Cooley, John Torrence
Among those who constituted some of the members of the 40 person party, who left their New England homes and found their way until they reached Belpre in 1798 and found their way to Troy in 1799, were Eleazier Washburn, the Noahs, Cyrus and Xerxes Paulk, Horace Parsons and Ephraim Frost. Xerxes Paulk and Horace Parson were Baptist preachers and the latter was pastor of the First Baptist church in the township for thirty years. The first election of township officers were held in the home of Ebenezer Buckinghham, Stephen Buckingham was township lister for that year. Kingman Dutton, father of Samuel Dutton, settled at the mouth of the Hocking River with his family in 1806. At that time there were only two roads in the township, one passed through the center, running from Belpre to Chillicothe, the ferry of which was kept about two and a half miles above the present site of Coolville by Xerxes Paulk; and another from Belpre down to the Ohio to the mought of the Hocking up the eastern bank of the river to Federal Creek where it intersected the Federal Creek road from the Ames settlement. At the early period the great majority of emigrants to Athens county used to come down the Ohio River to the mouth of the Hocking River, and then ascend that river in pirogues or canoes. Kingman Dutton kept a number of these crafts, and he and his son carried on the business of conveying emigrants and their goods up the Hocking. Abram Brookhard settled in Troy in 1811, and was township trustee for several years. Jonas Smith, who came in 1810 was township trustee for several terms, Silas Blizzard and Martin Griffin came in 1810. The township records prior to 1837 are lost.
From: Susan Bedson
Subject: Troy Sunday School
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:56:15 -0700
I have just received my grandfather's autograph book. It was given to him by the Troy Sunday School, December 25, 1887, he was 11 years old. Autographs are from: Edwin Warren, Coolville, Ohio Ethel Smith C. G. Russell, Coolville, Ohio Mollie Stella Ford H. Lyon, Antioch, Ohio ? Russell, Frost, Ohio Henry Lewis Ada McGee, Frost, Ohio Tina Buff, Frost, Ohio copyright 1997-2002 transcribed by Sue Bedson