Person:Matthew Mitchell (8)

RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 697 MATTHEW MITCHELL, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. Matthew Mitchell, Sr., was a native of Eastern Pennsylvania; a Revolutionary soldier under Gen. George Washington, and after the war moved to the forks of Youghiogheny River, from there to Beaver Co., Pa., and from thence to Muskingum Co., O., where he died at the age of 82 years, and was buried in the cemetery at the village of Concord, in that county. Matthew Mitchell, Jr., was his son, who came to Youghiogheny with his father, and where he married Miss Elizabeth Wylie, daughter of Samuel Wylie. During his residence at this place, five of his children were born. Samuel was born in November, 1799; Mary was born in 1800; Flora was born in 1802, and died when young; Matthew was born June 20, 1804, and John was born 1806. He then removed to Muskingum Co:, O., settling on the farm adjoining, the village of Concord, or the farm on which it now stands. The balance of the family were William, born 1808, and who died when 6 years of age; James, born in 1810, and who died in Logan Co.; David, born in 1812, who removed to Logan Co., and died; Ann, born in 1814, who married Joseph Patterson, now deceased, his widow being a resident of Bellefontaine; Rebecca, born in 1816, married James French, both she and her husband are dead; Jane, born in 1818, died when 20 years of age. June 18, 1829, Matthew Mitchell married Margaret M. Spear, a daughter of Stuart Spear and Jane Scott, his wife, whose grandfather was Stuart Spear, who came from Ireland in an early day; on her mother's side, Margaret's grandfather was Abraham Scott, of Scotch descent. Now, the family of Matthew Mitchell, son of Matthew, Jr., are-Stuart Spear, born June 26, 1830, in Muskingum Co., O., died May, 1833; Elizabeth Wylie, born Nov. 3, 1831. in Muskingum Co., married Thomas Martin Hutcheson, whose family consists of eleven children - Margaret, Jane, James, Matthew, Robert, Ellen, Elizabeth, Anna (two sons dead) and Rutherford. Elizabeth resides in Kansas, William Stuart (named for a deceased brother) born Nov. 22, 1833, married Mary Jane McCullough. Their family are-Ellen, John, Matthew and Margaret McCullough. Matthew Ritchie, born Nov. 10, 1835, and married Melinda Fulton, daughter of Dr. Fulton, once a physician of Rushsylvania, but who died in Bellefontaine. Matthew Ritchie Mitchell is a physician at Topeka, Kan., and has but one child living-Porter McClain, Then John, born Oct. 27, 1837, married Mary Ellen Day, daughter of John Day, of Rushsylvania. The it son Walter is 6 years old. Alexander, born Nov. 30, 1839, died June 26, 1841; Rutherford, born Sept. 11, 1841, died Aug. 27, 1842; Nancy Jane, born July 20, 1843, died Feb. 9, 1855. Mary Ellen, born Oct. 15, 1845, is a mantua-maker, proficient in her business, and practical in manner. Maggie Spear, born Sept. 29, 1847, is a teacher in the city schools of Topeka, Kan. James Finley, born June 16, 1850, married Sarah Ellen Stephenson; she died in January, 1879, leaving little Ernest Chalmers and Laura Genevra motherless. It was in October, 1832, that Matthew Mitchell removed from Muskingum to Logan Co., O., settling in Rush Creek Tp., on the waters of Miami. Born on a farm, reared and educated on a farm, it was quite natural that he should be a farmer and delighted therein. Besides the improvement of his farm, he has paid strict attention to the improvement of his family, by liberally educating them, some of whom have attained honorable positions in the professions one being a physician, one a teacher of distinction, and one a professional mantua-maker, His household regulations are of a high Christian order, and after a long life of toil he rests upon a competency. All the farm stocks are raised and sold, but sheep and hogs receive especial attention. He is one amongst the oldest citizens of Rush Creek Tp. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Logan/LoganRushCreek.htm

Possibly born 19 Jun 1777.