... In 1806 grandfather moved to Adams Jefferson Co, where with the help of his two boys Charles L. and Chauncy, he cleared up a farm from the dense forest that then covered the country. For several years almost their only resource for obtaining money was from potash which they made from the ashes of the wood they burned in clearing the land. Forest game furnished them with meat, as deer and bear were plenteous in the woods.
In the war of 1812 father did service in the militia, was at the battle of Sackets Harbor, and was in the field three or four months that year. 1813, serving as Regimental Adjutant. Father and Uncle Chauncy, continued to occupy, and improve the farm in grandfather’s old age, he making his home with uncle Chauncy. ...
... In the Spring of 1838 father and uncle sold the old homestead and dividing their interests removed to Ohio and settled at what is now North Monroeville but was then, and for more than half a century, known as Cooke’s Corners. It was here in a most beautiful and desirable country, that Asaph Cooke and his family made their homes soon after the war of 1812.
I was twelve years old when we went to Ohio; we make the journey of nearly five hundred miles in wagons starting in April and arriving at the place of our destination in five or six weeks. Father here bought land for a farm which he improved, and on which in 1841 he built a comfortable residence where he and mother made their home for the remainder of their lives. ...
