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Facts and Events
Biography
- From "History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio, with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of the Prominent Men & Pioneers, 1880:
- WILLIAM RENICK came from Virginia in 1803, and settled on the land entered by his brother George. He was married, in Virginia, to Margaret O'BANION, by whom he had nine children: Seymour G., Joseph, Martha, Margaret, Felix, Hiram, William, Eliza, and Ellen. Joseph lives in Columbus; Hiram, in Bainbridge, Ross county; Eliza (Mrs. ADAMS), in Circleville; Ellen (Mrs. PATTERSON), in Hillsboro; Martha married Wesley HURST, by whom she had several children, all of whom died. Her husband also died, and she married Governor Whitcomb, of Indiana, by whom she had one child. Margaret married Renick SEYMOUR, of Bainbridge, and is childless; SEYMOUR married Nancy CROUSE, of Ross county, and has several children; Felix, also, married and raised a family. William RENICK cleared ten acres of land, in 1804, on the river bottom, and planted it with corn, in 1805. Late in the season, of 1805, the great flood occurred, and every hill of his corn, and the soil in which it grew, was washed out. He was much discouraged and offered to sell the land at the government price, and take his pay in horses, but no one would buy. In the fall he plowed twenty acres of plain land and sowed wheat, fencing it during the winter. In the spring he bought a drove of hogs and drove them to Virginia, where he sold them at a large profit. He then returned to look at his wheat, which turned out well, and he became convinced that the plains were good land. It had all the time been the ambition of the Virginians to buy river bottoms, but for about twenty-five years he neglected them and cultivated the plains. His death took place in 1844. His wife died about 1869. The farm he owned is now occupied by W. B. Renick, his grandson.
Citations
- http://www.reocities.com/Heartland/Estates/6147/Renick1.html
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