Abner Eddy, the son of a Revolutionary War soldier, Asa Eddy and his wife Elizabeth Gore, married Martha Chapman on February 19, 1798 in Litchfield Co., Connecticut.
They had twelve children; Augustus, Milton Gore, Myron R., Minerva, Emmett William, Curran, Orran C., Julia, Maria Louisa, George Washington, Asa and Abner Kneeland Eddy.

HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO
FROM THE DAYS OF THE PIONEERS AND FIRST SETTLERS TO THE PRESENT TIME
BY BEN DOUGLASS WOOSTER, OHIO INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
ROBERT DOUGLASS, PUBLISHER 1878
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Abner Eddy, Sr., was born in Salisbury, Conn., April 4, 1772. His father was a native of Rhode Island, and his grandfather was an Englishman. He remained with his father, who was a tanner and leather dealer, until he was twenty-five years of age, when he was married to Martha Chapman, of Litchfield, Conn., in 1798, when he removed to Birmingham, thence to Luzerne County, Pa., thence to Madison County, New York, and thence to Erie County, same state, having been in the neighborhood of Buffalo when it was sacked and burned.
From Erie County he removed to what is now Clinton township, in 1815, settling on the place now occupied by Asa Eddy. Mr. Eddy entered the county at a period when there were but few white settlers, and when the surrounding country was a wilderness. On his arrival he built a log-cabin, in which he lived for thirteen years, when he erected a brick house upon the foundation of the original one, and upon its completion, in January, 1830, he opened a place of public entertainment, called "Eddy's Inn," in which he continued until the opening up of the railroad, in 1852.

Judge Eddy's house was headquarters for stage-men, public officials and speculators, who traversed the old coach-line for nearly a quarter of a century. The Eddy Inn was noted for serving their guests well. Dining on fresh wild game of deer and turkey, local fresh fruits and vegetables and of course fresh cranberries.
The coach-line was owned by Neil, Moore & Co., of Columbus, and superintended by K. R. Porter, of Wooster, who also had stock in the route. This route extended from Cleveland to Cincinnati, and the travel upon it was simply immense. (The road is known as the 3 C highway)

Mr. Eddy was appointed Postmaster in 1822, the first appointment, probably, in the township, and retained the office for many years. He was elected Justice of the Peace about 1822, and the first case he issued upon was that of Albert White against Abner Lake, in a civil transaction. From the appearance of Judge Eddy's docket, and his old files of papers, he must have done a thriving business, for he had them nearly all brought before him, "dead or alive," from John Driskel up to the Baptist minstrel or the Methodist class-leader. He slammed even justice into the face of the professional Christians the same as into the professional thief. The Driskels, the Jewells, the Rowans, the Conner and Lytles, the notorious Nathan Nichols and Jones, all were at times brought under his jurisdiction. One party he sent to the Wooster jail for thirty days for stealing a hog.
When Judge Eddy settled on his place 63 years ago he encountered many obstacles, before which men of less determination would have succumbed. In going to Wooster, for the first five years he had to go by the way of Newkirk's, for the reason that he could not cross the prairies east of him. Near his house were distinct remains of beaver dams, and rattlesnakes and blacksnakes. Deer roamed the county in abundance, and a fact notably observable was that they remained in that section ten years longer than anywhere else in the county. Cranberries grew north of him in abundance, and so plenty were they that his son, Asa Eddy, remarked to us that "he could pick a bushel in an hour". They were finally destroyed by drainage and general pasturage. He had eleven children, eight boys and three girls. His death occurred June 22, 1861, in his 89th year.

Judge Eddy was a useful, valuable and intelligent citizen, and performed a heroic part in the early settlement of the county. Emmett Eddy, his son, was born in Madison County, N.Y., February 25, 1807, and removed to Wayne County with his father in 1815, and Asa Eddy, another son, lives on the homestead farm entered by his father on his arrival in the county. They are men of business and intelligence, and scrupulously honest in the relations to the world. They are men of independent minds, energetic workers, devoted to agriculture, stock raising, and are honorable, hard working, prosperous and wealthy farmers.