"330. Jared Hickox, son of Capt. Abraham (118); born 15 January 1756; died 1810; … He came to Middlebury, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1809.
Jared Hickox' grave, and those of his wife and two sons, is located on what is known as the Hepburn farm on the Bagley Road near Lake Abram in Middlebury Township, east by north of Berea, Ohio. These graves are situated on a hill back some distance from said road and marked by a tombstone and surrounded by four stone posts, with iron rods connecting. He came from Waterbury to Ohio in 1808/9. Purchased a farm in what was then woods and erected a house, the remains of which now stand (1898). Notes from record of Dr. deForest Baker, Cleveland, Ohio: The family lived in a wagon before the house was built. Notes from Jemima Hoadley Hickox (Mrs. Samuel Hickox), in 1896: The journey from Waterbury was made with a team. The site (Lake Abram) was chosen because of the excellent wild grapes, abundant honey and fish. The grapes being of much better variety than the ordinary variety of frost grapes. They brought seeds of every kind with them. The first apples Jemima Hoadley ate were apples from some of these seeds. The year after the arrival in Middlebury, Jared Hickox went to Newburg, which was larger than Cleveland, to purchase a yoke of oxen to aid in clearing the land. The only path was a blazed trail of trees. As he did not return some of the family started out to ascertain the cause, found his lifeless body; a light snow having fallen, his footsteps could be seen growing shorter and shorter with waning strength till with a premonition of approaching death, he freed his oxen from the yoke and gathering a few brush, sat down upon them and leaned against a tree. (Dr. Baker's account says the oxen found their way home alone.) The next year Nathaniel, the married son, succumbed to the deadly typhus fever which prevailed so much in the new country and left five children for whom homes were found in Euclid."
