Person:Abraham Eyestone (1)

birth parents: Hans Augenstein and Caterin Burgher

Owner operator of sawmill and a carding and cloth fulling machine. Abraham's business was located on the west (east?) bank of Scioto River at the mouth of the Kinnikinnick Creek.

The History of Kingston, Ohio, pg. 17: Cotton Mills - Green Twp. - Abraham Eyestone, sawmill and carding and cloth filling machine, School lands near the river.

A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio, pg. 412 & 413: ABRAHAM EYESTONE Abraham Eyestone and family emigrated in the fall of 1799 from Pennsylvania, and on their arrival in Ross County settled on the west side of the Scioto River, where they remained some two or three years, but it proved to be an unhealthful location and he moved across the river, settling on section 16 (school land) in Green Township. Soon after the opening of the land office in Chillicothe, with Peter Frederick he entered section 14, on which he lived until about 1837, when he bought fifty acres in section 10, and 140 in section 9. He died on this land about 1839. He had seven children, two of whom were born after the coming of the parents to Ross County, and one died in infancy.

The following is quoted from the Genealogy of the Eyestone family, compiled by J. Bruce Eyestone in 1948 (to my knowledge, this was never published, although various family members have mimeographed copies -- it is available at the Library of Congress):

"Abraham Augenstien-Eyestone: Son of Hans George and Caterin Augenstien, born November 10, 1760, in Pennsylvania. Married June 12, 1784 to Roena (Rosanna) Pferching, born in Pennsylvania October 15, 1760, died October 13, 1833. In the fall of 1799, soon after the death of his father, Abraham came with his mother, sisters and other relatives to Ross County, Ohio. He settled on the west bank of the Scioto River at the mouth of Kinnikinnick Creek. there he built a sawmill and a carding and fulling machine previous to 1812. this was one of the first sawmills built in that part of Ohio; it was destroyed by fire in 1812. When rebuilt, the fulling and carding machines were continued until 1837, but the sawmill was continued for several years afterward. Abraham also entered several other parcels of land on of Kinniekinnick and Bull creeks in Colerain Twp. In 1802 he moved to a large tract of land on Kinnikinnick Creek where he lived until 1883 [a mistakenly written date], he then sold it to Maxwells who own it still [ca. 1948]. He also bought land from his sister, Catherine Meiers, after her husband's death, where he made his home until his death. In 1837 he divided his estate with his children, giving his daughter, Anna Susan, (Susanna) 207 acres because she had no husband to support her and her son, William. Abraham died in 1840 and is buried with others of the Eyestone family in the Salem German Reformed Churchyard near Kingston, Ross Co. Ohio. There were eight children, as follows:-

John Eyestone, b. 1786
Katherine Eyestone, b. 1789
Maria Elizabeth, b. 1791
George Eyestone, 1793
Anna Christina, 1795
Anna Susan [Susanna], 1798
Hannah Eyestone, 1800
Infant son, 1802-1802"