Person:Matilda Driver (1)

Her headstone says "Matilda (Driver) Crawford". By 1880 Matilda had reverted to the last name Pickett for the census.

There is no actual town named Joppa. There is a Joppa Road, which runs from Florence up to what is now known as Beulah Beach. This beach is not far from the Cranberry Creek Cemetery. According to one knowledgeable local, there is a Venice Road which has been treated like a town. My assumption then is that the inhabitants of Joppa Road tended to use Joppa as we would use a town name.

From A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio

One of Vermilion Township's highly respected citizens is William T. Pickett, the owner of a farm which has considerable distinction in that township for the fine quality and variety of peaches that come from it and go to the markets each year. Mr. Pickett has lived a quiet, honorable and upright life, has worked hard, and has ample provisions for declining years.

He was born in Carroll County, Maryland, April 26, 1846, and is a son of Thomas and Matilda (Driver) Pickett, who were also natives of Carroll County, Maryland, and of old Southern stock. While the connection has not been accurately traced, it is believed that this branch of the Pickett family is not distantly related with that which gave the Southern Confederacy one of its greatest generals, the leader of the famous Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. Mr. Pickett's maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister and also a shoemaker by trade, and came to Ohio as a pioneer preacher and died in Erie County in old age. Thomas Pickett, the father, was a blacksmith, and died in Carroll County, Maryland when in middle life. His widow with her four children then came out to Ohio and located on the shores of Lake Erie in Vermilion Township. Here she married a Mr. Slocum, and they spent the rest of their lives on their farm in Vermilion Township. She was eighty-four years of age when she died and Mr. Slocum was also an old man. She was for many years a Methodist, but later became a member of the Latter Day Saints. By her marriage to Mr. Slocum she had a son, Morris D. Slocum, who lives on a farm at Ogontz in Berlin Township, and is the father of three daughters, two of whom are now married. William T. Pickett was the oldest of four children. His sister Lucy died after her marriage to Andrew Date, leaving two children, Ethel, now deceased, and Clayton, who is married. Mary R. is the wife of Giles L. Jump, a farmer in Vermilion Township, and their children are Ora G., Bertha, Myrtle, and Ellis. James W. is a mechanic in Elyria and has four sons named William, Guy, Harry and Carl.

Owing to family circumstance, William T. Pickett has [sic.] to spend much of his youth and childhood among strangers and what he has accomplished has been the direct result of his own well directed labors. When he was less than eight years of age he went to live with Mordecai Lee, on a farm near Lake Erie, and in that home he spent the rest of his youth...

1. ↑ Katharyn Huss Wunderley & Patty Dahm Pascoe, Co-Chairmen. Erie County, Ohio Cemetery Census before 1909. (Published by Erie County Cemetery Project Volunteers, Friends and Benefactors August 1989).