note: double marker with Nancy
-m-04 Dec 1851 - Nancy Foster

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GEORGE H. HAMPSHIRE
George Hampshire, for many years one of the leading well-to-do farmers and extensive landowners of Portage township, Wood county, is now living retired from active work, enjoying the prosperity which he acquired by hard work during his early years. He is a native of Ohio, born February 1, 1831 in Morgan County, near Eagleport, son of Jonas and Mary (Swope) Hampshire.
George Hampshire passed all he early life in a pioneer region and he was initiated into the mysteries of agriculture in a new country at a tender age. They lived two miles from a school and, work at home being plenty, he as the eldest son could not be spared from the farm, so that the greater part of his education has been acquired by his own efforts.
On December 4, 1851, he was married, in Jackson township, Seneca county, to Miss Nancy Foster, who was born in that township February 8, 1833, daughter of Christian Foster, who came to Seneca county from Perry county, this State in an early day.
After his marriage our subject farmed on his father's land, in Seneca county, until January 31, 1865, when he removed to Wood county, taking up his home on an eight-acre tract in Section 33, Portage township, of which at that time but two acres were cleared, and seven acres chopped and the dwelling and farm buildings were but rude structures. Mr. Hampshire was obliged to go in debt $500 for this tract, and he at once set to work to make it productive, succeeding so well that he was later enabled to buy eight acres adjoining his original purchase. He also has 110 acres in Bloom township, being the owner, altogether of 270 acres of excellent farm land.
Mr. Hampshire does not now engage in active farm work, having acquired a snug competence for his declining years. He is, indeed, a self-made man, and throughout his business career he has retained his honorable standing among his fellowmen, who esteem him for his many sterling qualities.
He has been a trustee in his township two terms, and has also served as school director, but he is no politician, and, though he is a Democrat in sentiment, he supports the best man, regardless of party ties.
Mr. and Mrs. Hampshire have had children as follows; Amanda (now Mrs. Daniel Smith), of Liberty township; Mary E. (Mrs. A.W. Lefler), of Toledo; Jonas H., who was deputy sheriff of Wood county and a registered pharmacist, and now living on a farm of ninety acres of his own, one and one-half miles from Bowling Green; Magdalena R. (Mrs. J.D. Simons), of Findlay, Ohio; Lucinda, living at home; Alice M. (Mrs. Charles Harnard), of Portage township; Christ C. a farmer of Bloom township; Charles W., at home; and Cora E., who died when four years old.
In religious connections, Mr. and Mrs. Hampshire are active member of the Radical United Brethren Church, and he is at present serving as trustee.

(Copied from the "Biographical History of Wood County, OH, 1897").