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Nicholas Stemen

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Birth	:	11 May 1802 Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	22 Dec 1878
Burial	:	Madison Township Mennonite Cemetery, Canal Winchester, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.8681145, -82.8271561
Inscription	:	BORN in the State of Pa. in the Year 1802. Came to Fairfield Co., O. in the Year 1803.
Description	:	From Find A Grave contributor D. Smith: From: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio Hervey Scott Siebert & Lilley, printers, 1877 - Fairfield County (Ohio) - 304 pages STATEMENT OF NICHOLAS STEMEN found on pages 168-170 Henry Stemen came from Virginia and settled on Raccoon in 1803. His wife was Mary Beery sister of the late George Beery. Nicholas Stemen was one year old at the time his father came to Fairfield County. He continued to reside in Fairfield until he was about thirty years old and then moved across the line into Perry County where he still resides. Mr Stemen stated that... Read More	From Find A Grave contributor D. Smith: From: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio Hervey Scott Siebert & Lilley, printers, 1877 - Fairfield County (Ohio) - 304 pages STATEMENT OF NICHOLAS STEMEN found on pages 168-170 Henry Stemen came from Virginia and settled on Raccoon in 1803. His wife was Mary Beery sister of the late George Beery. Nicholas Stemen was one year old at the time his father came to Fairfield County. He continued to reside in Fairfield until he was about thirty years old and then moved across the line into Perry County where he still resides. Mr Stemen stated that his father helped to clear off some of the first ground where Lancaster now stands. Below is his statement of the BEERY FAMILY Who came into the Raccoon neighborhood a little before the Siemens. Nicholas Beery was the father of eight sons and seven daughters, viz.: John, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Henry, George, Joseph, and Christian, Barbara, Magdalene, Elizabeth, Mary, Susanna, Fanny, and Rebecca. Most of his large family settled in the east part of Fairfield County, and became thrifty and useful farmers and citizens. Most of them are buried in the county. THE HUFFORDS Caspar Hufford settled on the Raccoon at a very early day. He built the nrst mill on the site where Lobenthall's and since Mike Moyer's mill stands. It was a small Raccoon Burr Mill of the capacity of eight or ten bushels of corn a day. Mr Hufford's sons were Solomon, Abraham, Daniel, Jacob, and John .These all settled on the Raccoon. Catharine Hufford, daughter of Caspar, married John Friezner and Susan married David Beery son of John Beery and grandson of Nicholas Beery. David Beery built the brick house in which Solomon Beery son of George now lives on the Bremen road. Mr Nelson built a mill on Raccoon in 1805, on the land now owned by James Driver. Mr Stemen remembers that when a mill boy about 1812 he saw the miller carrying the ground wheat in a half bushel up the steps and turning it into the hopper of the bolting chest while the owner of the grist stood turning the bolting cloth by means of a crank. The writer has witnessed the same operation many times about the same era. William Johnson built a mill on Rush Creek a little below Rushville during the year 1812, or about that time. Johnson's mill is well remembered. Jacob Rhodes built a still house on Rush Creek at a very early day. Mr Harmon, father of Fred Harmon, erected a distillery in Pleasant Township. RELIGIOUS The first religious societies formed in the Raccoon settlements were Dunkers, Mennonites, Presbyterians, Seceders, German Reforms, and Methodists. SCHOOLS Were kept in small log school houses about three months in the year. Reading, writing and cyphering as far as the Rule of Three was the course of instruction. Webster's and Dillworth's spelling books, and Pike's Arithmetic were used. For readers: The Testament, English Readers, Columbian Orator, and the American Preceptor. This was the English course. Some of the first schools were exclusively German, and others were German and English. MANNER OF LIVING Corn bread, vegetables, milk, and butter, and wild meats constituted the principal subsistence, but even these were sometimes scanty. When the mills were stopped for lack of water breadstuffs became very scarce, and the neighbors would borrow from one another as long as there was any in the community. Venison was quite plenty and also wild turkey. Coffee and tea were dear and hard to come at. As substitutes, the people used spice wood and sassafras teas, and for coffee burned rye and wheat. Pounded and lye hominy were universal. The forms of corn bread were johnny cake, hoe cake, dodger, ash cake, and pone. WEARING APPAREL The wearing apparel of the settlers was nearly entirely home made, consisting of flax and tow linens, linsey, and flannels. Every farmer raised a patch of flax from which the linens were made. The flax and tow were spun on hand wheels. Wool was carded at first on hand cards, and afterwards by carding machines run by water or horse power. The weaving was done on hand looms. Every neighborhood had its weavers, and sometimes nearly every house. The girls often spun, wove. and made up their own wedding dresses in the most primitive times of frontier life. Buckskin pants, and sometimes vests, were very common as men's wear. Shoes were almost wholely home made, and boots were nearly unknown. PLAYS In common with all the frontier settlers, the inhabitants of Raccoon and Rush Creek Valleys practiced the plays common to the times. Mr Stemen's parents did not approve them. In those times the family discipline was very rigid. The same ruling would be tyranny now. Nevertheless that kind of discipline gave the world a more noble class of men and women than we shall ever see again. WILD ANIMALS Wolves were very numerous, making it difficult to keep sheep. The State paid premiums for their scalp. s Panthers, bears, and wild cats, were plenty, deer abundant. Bear's meat was common. Catamounts were also often seen in the woods. The catamount is of the feline species, and in size is intermediate between the domestic cat and the American panther. They were greyish and sometimes spotted. When wounded or enraged, they were dangerous enemies. INDIANS There were bands of various tribes of Indians wandering about the country during several years after the white settlements commenced. They were peaceable for the most part, but had to be kept in a good humor. Mr Stemen spoke of an instance where several Indians came to his father's house, and asked for something to eat. His mother had a corn pone baked for her family, and little besides to give them. She gave them half of the pone, and they went away, but soon returned and demanded more, and to pacify them she gave them all she had.

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Nicholas Stemen's memorial is located at: Madison Township Mennonite Cemetery, Canal Winchester, Franklin County, USA.
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Nicholas Stemen death on 22 Dec 1878 in
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Latitude: 39.8681145
Longitude: -82.8271561

Family Members:

Parent

Rev Henry Stemen

(1775 - 1855)

Mary Beery Stemen

(1775 - 1844)

Spouse

Catharine Beery Stemen

(1802 - 1877)

Siblings

(1796 - 1861)

(1798 - 1884)

(1806 - 1883)

(1808 - 1891)

Magdalena Stemen Sherrick

(1810 - 1834)

Susana Stemen Miller

(1812 - 1892)

Barbara Stemen Sherrick

(1814 - 1903)

Margaret Stemen Sherrick

(1818 - 1901)

Samuel Stemen

(1821 - 1898)

Children

Henry Stemen

(1823 - 1914)

Daniel Stemen

(1824 - 1912)

Nicholas Stemen

(1829 - 1896)

Leah Stemen Brenneman

(1831 - 1907)

Benoni Stemen

(1833 - 1909)

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