Person:John Clemens (13)

Biography

From "History of Greene County, Ohio:

John G. Clemens, retired farmer, Jamestown, is a son of John and Susanna (Slagal) Clemens, who were natives of Augusta County, Virginia, where they were reared and married. There were ten children of this family-Catharine, George, John G., Nancy, Gasper, Christopher, Mary, Rachel, Susan, and Emily-six of whom survive; Nancy, Gasper, Christopher, and Mary, deceased. The surviving ones, save Catharine, live in this county, where the parents died; the father, January 21, 1866, aged eighty-one years, and the mother, March 7, 1871, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. The father served four years and eleven months in the war of 1812. He came to Ohio about 1815, and located in or near Springfield, Clarke County, where he remained two years, and then went to Xenia, remaining there a short time, removing from there to Shawanoes Creek, and remained four years. From there he went to what is now Jasper Township, and located about four miles west of Jamestown, near where he died. Our subject was born near Xenia, January 21, 1820, and was married, February 1, 1844, to Miss Margaret Long, a daughter of William and Mary A. (Hagler) Long. Three children are the result of this marriage Mary L., Margaret L., and Gertrude M., two of whom are deceased-Mary, October 10, 1865, aged twenty years and six months ; Margaret, June 1, 1869, aged twenty-one years and nine mouths. Gertrude, who is living, was born September 12, 1865, and is a bright, intelligent girl. Mr. Clemens has a farm of one hundred and ninety-one acres in Jasper Township, about four miles west of Jamestown; a farm of two hundred and twenty-four acres in Madison County, Indiana; about twenty-five acres of the Jamestown fair-ground, and a fine, large brick residence, well furnished, in Jamestown, where he lives, retired from active business. The wealth he has is the result of good management and industry. He was elected justice of the peace in 1854, and served twenty-seven years, and was elected county commissioner in 1862, and served one term. Himself and family are exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He joined this church in 1842, and his deceased daughters died. triumphantly in the same faith. Mr. Clemens has been steward of the church about forty years