Eldest of four children born to Jacob Blougher and second wife Vashti Caroline Morton Moomaw. Married Sarah Elizabeth Reihle on November 23, 1881; parents of six.
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Tuesday, March 22, 1927:
Funeral of Mr. Moomaw
A number of Fruitdale residents attended th funeral of Mr. John A. Moomaw, which was held at South Salem Presbyterian church on Saturday afternoon, March 19.
Mr. Moomaw was one of the best known citizens of our township and community. He held a place in the neighborhood that was unique, being a life-long student, a lover of nature, a loyal neighbor and friend.
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Thursday, March 17, 1927:
John A. Moomaw, one of Paint township's well known and highly esteemed farmers, died in the Greenfield hospital at 9:30 this morning following a sudden illness with which he was seized about ten days ago. He was 74 (sic) years of age and is survived by three sons Willis, postmaster at Lyndon; Forrest, a farmer of Buckskin township, and Ray, superintendent of the Waynesville, Ohio, school, and two daughters, a Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Siegel Mossbarger of Paint township.
The funeral arrangement have not been announced as yet.
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JOHN A. MOOMAW. That men of broad and general experience are particularly fitted for the vocation of farming is denied by no one familiar with the intellectual and general demands placed upon present day exponents of scientific agriculture. The knowledge gained by the educator, for instance, especially if he has been a worker in the country districts, is an important item in the equipment of those who conduct the basic industry of the world, and it is this advantage which has contributed largely to the success of John A. Moomaw, of Paint Township.
Mr. Moomaw was formerly an educator, but since 1900 has been engaged in farming and is now the proprietor of Maple Lawn Farm, situated one mile north of Fruitdale, in the Buckskin Valley, a tract of 114 acres, and of a farm of seventy-three acres located on Price's Ridge. Mr. Moomaw was born in Paint Township, Ross County, Ohio, May 21, 1854, and is a son of Jacob B. and Vashti Carolina (Morton) Moomaw. His paternal grandparents were Henry and Anna (Gray) Moomaw, the former of near Roanoke, Virginia, and the latter of Ohio, of Pennsylvania parents. Vashti Carolina Morton was born in Ross County, Ohio, near South Salem, her father being a South Carolinian and her mother an Ohioan. The Morton family history extends back to Scotland, from whence, because of religious persecution, an early member of the family fled to Ireland. About 1768, because of continued religious trouble, several of the name crossed the ocean to refuge in America, and took up their residence in Pennsylvania, but in order to find a more desirable climate, went later to South Carolina. They were active during the Revolutionary war, and after the close of that struggle, because of the prevalence of slavery in the South, of which they did not approve, made their way overland by wagon, with oxen and cows. John and Margaret (Alexander) Morton, the grandparents of Mrs. Vashti C. Moomaw, made this journey in 1806, settling first in Highland County, and later removing to near South Salem, Ross County, in 1807. The father of Margaret (Alexander) Morton was captured by the British while fighting as a soldier of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. To Jacob B. and Vashti C. Moomaw there were born four children: John A., of this record; Anna, who is the wife of Albert C. Ellenberger and lives at South Salem; Frank Morton, a farmer in Paint Township; and William, who died at the age of fourteen years.
John A. Moomaw was reared on the home farm and received his education in the public school and South Salem (Ohio) Academy, from which he was duly graduated in 1875. At that time he began teaching and continued as an educator until the year 1900, when he turned his attention to farming, as already noted. In addition to being a practical and successful farmer, Mr. Moomaw is a broad-minded and progressive man, well posted on current events and entertaining sensible opinions on questions of public interest. He is president of the Buckskin Valley Farmers Institute, and a member of the executive committee of the Buckskin-Lyndon Picnic Association, and in other ways has shown himself alert and alive in affairs of his community. He is a republican in his political views and in the primary of August 8, 1916, was a candidate for the nomination to the office of county commissioner of Ross County on the republican ticket, believing that Paint Township should have a candidate on that ticket, something it has not had in twenty years. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum, in both of which he has numerous friends. He has likewise been active in religious work, being a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church and a commissioner to represent the Chillicothe Presbytery at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912.
On November 23, 1881, Mr. Moomaw was married to Miss Sarah Reihle, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, November 28, 1851, and they have had six children: F. Ray, a graduate of South Salem Academy, who spent two years at Miami University, Oxford, was a teacher in the schools of Porto Rico for six years, and present county surveyor of Carroll County, Tennessee, married Anna Hamm, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Forest E., a graduate of Salem Academy, teacher in the high school at Bainbridge, and a farmer in Paint Township, married Mary Grove, and they have two daughters, Eleanor Elizabeth and Margaret Victoria; Willis R., a graduate of the same institution and a teacher in this and other counties, married Mildred Hoffman, and they reside in Paint Township and have one son, John Hoffman; Lina, born April 12, 1889, who died July 23, 1903, when fourteen years of age; Mary E., a graduate of Greenfield High School and now the wife of Seigel Mossburger, of Buckskin Township; and Venna R., a graduate of Buckskin High School, now residing with her parents.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio - Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York 1917 - Page 710
Contributor: Tammie Morgan FAG ID# 47268660
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Tuesday, March 22, 1927:
Funeral of Mr. Moomaw
A number of Fruitdale residents attended th funeral of Mr. John A. Moomaw, which was held at South Salem Presbyterian church on Saturday afternoon, March 19.
Mr. Moomaw was one of the best known citizens of our township and community. He held a place in the neighborhood that was unique, being a life-long student, a lover of nature, a loyal neighbor and friend.
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Thursday, March 17, 1927:
John A. Moomaw, one of Paint township's well known and highly esteemed farmers, died in the Greenfield hospital at 9:30 this morning following a sudden illness with which he was seized about ten days ago. He was 74 (sic) years of age and is survived by three sons Willis, postmaster at Lyndon; Forrest, a farmer of Buckskin township, and Ray, superintendent of the Waynesville, Ohio, school, and two daughters, a Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Siegel Mossbarger of Paint township.
The funeral arrangement have not been announced as yet.
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JOHN A. MOOMAW. That men of broad and general experience are particularly fitted for the vocation of farming is denied by no one familiar with the intellectual and general demands placed upon present day exponents of scientific agriculture. The knowledge gained by the educator, for instance, especially if he has been a worker in the country districts, is an important item in the equipment of those who conduct the basic industry of the world, and it is this advantage which has contributed largely to the success of John A. Moomaw, of Paint Township.
Mr. Moomaw was formerly an educator, but since 1900 has been engaged in farming and is now the proprietor of Maple Lawn Farm, situated one mile north of Fruitdale, in the Buckskin Valley, a tract of 114 acres, and of a farm of seventy-three acres located on Price's Ridge. Mr. Moomaw was born in Paint Township, Ross County, Ohio, May 21, 1854, and is a son of Jacob B. and Vashti Carolina (Morton) Moomaw. His paternal grandparents were Henry and Anna (Gray) Moomaw, the former of near Roanoke, Virginia, and the latter of Ohio, of Pennsylvania parents. Vashti Carolina Morton was born in Ross County, Ohio, near South Salem, her father being a South Carolinian and her mother an Ohioan. The Morton family history extends back to Scotland, from whence, because of religious persecution, an early member of the family fled to Ireland. About 1768, because of continued religious trouble, several of the name crossed the ocean to refuge in America, and took up their residence in Pennsylvania, but in order to find a more desirable climate, went later to South Carolina. They were active during the Revolutionary war, and after the close of that struggle, because of the prevalence of slavery in the South, of which they did not approve, made their way overland by wagon, with oxen and cows. John and Margaret (Alexander) Morton, the grandparents of Mrs. Vashti C. Moomaw, made this journey in 1806, settling first in Highland County, and later removing to near South Salem, Ross County, in 1807. The father of Margaret (Alexander) Morton was captured by the British while fighting as a soldier of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. To Jacob B. and Vashti C. Moomaw there were born four children: John A., of this record; Anna, who is the wife of Albert C. Ellenberger and lives at South Salem; Frank Morton, a farmer in Paint Township; and William, who died at the age of fourteen years.
John A. Moomaw was reared on the home farm and received his education in the public school and South Salem (Ohio) Academy, from which he was duly graduated in 1875. At that time he began teaching and continued as an educator until the year 1900, when he turned his attention to farming, as already noted. In addition to being a practical and successful farmer, Mr. Moomaw is a broad-minded and progressive man, well posted on current events and entertaining sensible opinions on questions of public interest. He is president of the Buckskin Valley Farmers Institute, and a member of the executive committee of the Buckskin-Lyndon Picnic Association, and in other ways has shown himself alert and alive in affairs of his community. He is a republican in his political views and in the primary of August 8, 1916, was a candidate for the nomination to the office of county commissioner of Ross County on the republican ticket, believing that Paint Township should have a candidate on that ticket, something it has not had in twenty years. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum, in both of which he has numerous friends. He has likewise been active in religious work, being a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church and a commissioner to represent the Chillicothe Presbytery at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912.
On November 23, 1881, Mr. Moomaw was married to Miss Sarah Reihle, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, November 28, 1851, and they have had six children: F. Ray, a graduate of South Salem Academy, who spent two years at Miami University, Oxford, was a teacher in the schools of Porto Rico for six years, and present county surveyor of Carroll County, Tennessee, married Anna Hamm, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Forest E., a graduate of Salem Academy, teacher in the high school at Bainbridge, and a farmer in Paint Township, married Mary Grove, and they have two daughters, Eleanor Elizabeth and Margaret Victoria; Willis R., a graduate of the same institution and a teacher in this and other counties, married Mildred Hoffman, and they reside in Paint Township and have one son, John Hoffman; Lina, born April 12, 1889, who died July 23, 1903, when fourteen years of age; Mary E., a graduate of Greenfield High School and now the wife of Seigel Mossburger, of Buckskin Township; and Venna R., a graduate of Buckskin High School, now residing with her parents.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio - Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York 1917 - Page 710
Contributor: Tammie Morgan FAG ID# 47268660
Eldest of four children born to Jacob Blougher and second wife Vashti Caroline Morton Moomaw. Married Sarah Elizabeth Reihle on November 23, 1881; parents of six.
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Tuesday, March 22, 1927:
Funeral of Mr. Moomaw
A number of Fruitdale residents attended th funeral of Mr. John A. Moomaw, which was held at South Salem Presbyterian church on Saturday afternoon, March 19.
Mr. Moomaw was one of the best known citizens of our township and community. He held a place in the neighborhood that was unique, being a life-long student, a lover of nature, a loyal neighbor and friend.
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Thursday, March 17, 1927:
John A. Moomaw, one of Paint township's well known and highly esteemed farmers, died in the Greenfield hospital at 9:30 this morning following a sudden illness with which he was seized about ten days ago. He was 74 (sic) years of age and is survived by three sons Willis, postmaster at Lyndon; Forrest, a farmer of Buckskin township, and Ray, superintendent of the Waynesville, Ohio, school, and two daughters, a Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Siegel Mossbarger of Paint township.
The funeral arrangement have not been announced as yet.
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JOHN A. MOOMAW. That men of broad and general experience are particularly fitted for the vocation of farming is denied by no one familiar with the intellectual and general demands placed upon present day exponents of scientific agriculture. The knowledge gained by the educator, for instance, especially if he has been a worker in the country districts, is an important item in the equipment of those who conduct the basic industry of the world, and it is this advantage which has contributed largely to the success of John A. Moomaw, of Paint Township.
Mr. Moomaw was formerly an educator, but since 1900 has been engaged in farming and is now the proprietor of Maple Lawn Farm, situated one mile north of Fruitdale, in the Buckskin Valley, a tract of 114 acres, and of a farm of seventy-three acres located on Price's Ridge. Mr. Moomaw was born in Paint Township, Ross County, Ohio, May 21, 1854, and is a son of Jacob B. and Vashti Carolina (Morton) Moomaw. His paternal grandparents were Henry and Anna (Gray) Moomaw, the former of near Roanoke, Virginia, and the latter of Ohio, of Pennsylvania parents. Vashti Carolina Morton was born in Ross County, Ohio, near South Salem, her father being a South Carolinian and her mother an Ohioan. The Morton family history extends back to Scotland, from whence, because of religious persecution, an early member of the family fled to Ireland. About 1768, because of continued religious trouble, several of the name crossed the ocean to refuge in America, and took up their residence in Pennsylvania, but in order to find a more desirable climate, went later to South Carolina. They were active during the Revolutionary war, and after the close of that struggle, because of the prevalence of slavery in the South, of which they did not approve, made their way overland by wagon, with oxen and cows. John and Margaret (Alexander) Morton, the grandparents of Mrs. Vashti C. Moomaw, made this journey in 1806, settling first in Highland County, and later removing to near South Salem, Ross County, in 1807. The father of Margaret (Alexander) Morton was captured by the British while fighting as a soldier of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. To Jacob B. and Vashti C. Moomaw there were born four children: John A., of this record; Anna, who is the wife of Albert C. Ellenberger and lives at South Salem; Frank Morton, a farmer in Paint Township; and William, who died at the age of fourteen years.
John A. Moomaw was reared on the home farm and received his education in the public school and South Salem (Ohio) Academy, from which he was duly graduated in 1875. At that time he began teaching and continued as an educator until the year 1900, when he turned his attention to farming, as already noted. In addition to being a practical and successful farmer, Mr. Moomaw is a broad-minded and progressive man, well posted on current events and entertaining sensible opinions on questions of public interest. He is president of the Buckskin Valley Farmers Institute, and a member of the executive committee of the Buckskin-Lyndon Picnic Association, and in other ways has shown himself alert and alive in affairs of his community. He is a republican in his political views and in the primary of August 8, 1916, was a candidate for the nomination to the office of county commissioner of Ross County on the republican ticket, believing that Paint Township should have a candidate on that ticket, something it has not had in twenty years. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum, in both of which he has numerous friends. He has likewise been active in religious work, being a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church and a commissioner to represent the Chillicothe Presbytery at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912.
On November 23, 1881, Mr. Moomaw was married to Miss Sarah Reihle, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, November 28, 1851, and they have had six children: F. Ray, a graduate of South Salem Academy, who spent two years at Miami University, Oxford, was a teacher in the schools of Porto Rico for six years, and present county surveyor of Carroll County, Tennessee, married Anna Hamm, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Forest E., a graduate of Salem Academy, teacher in the high school at Bainbridge, and a farmer in Paint Township, married Mary Grove, and they have two daughters, Eleanor Elizabeth and Margaret Victoria; Willis R., a graduate of the same institution and a teacher in this and other counties, married Mildred Hoffman, and they reside in Paint Township and have one son, John Hoffman; Lina, born April 12, 1889, who died July 23, 1903, when fourteen years of age; Mary E., a graduate of Greenfield High School and now the wife of Seigel Mossburger, of Buckskin Township; and Venna R., a graduate of Buckskin High School, now residing with her parents.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio - Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York 1917 - Page 710
Contributor: Tammie Morgan FAG ID# 47268660
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Tuesday, March 22, 1927:
Funeral of Mr. Moomaw
A number of Fruitdale residents attended th funeral of Mr. John A. Moomaw, which was held at South Salem Presbyterian church on Saturday afternoon, March 19.
Mr. Moomaw was one of the best known citizens of our township and community. He held a place in the neighborhood that was unique, being a life-long student, a lover of nature, a loyal neighbor and friend.
Chillicothe OH Gazette, Thursday, March 17, 1927:
John A. Moomaw, one of Paint township's well known and highly esteemed farmers, died in the Greenfield hospital at 9:30 this morning following a sudden illness with which he was seized about ten days ago. He was 74 (sic) years of age and is survived by three sons Willis, postmaster at Lyndon; Forrest, a farmer of Buckskin township, and Ray, superintendent of the Waynesville, Ohio, school, and two daughters, a Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Siegel Mossbarger of Paint township.
The funeral arrangement have not been announced as yet.
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JOHN A. MOOMAW. That men of broad and general experience are particularly fitted for the vocation of farming is denied by no one familiar with the intellectual and general demands placed upon present day exponents of scientific agriculture. The knowledge gained by the educator, for instance, especially if he has been a worker in the country districts, is an important item in the equipment of those who conduct the basic industry of the world, and it is this advantage which has contributed largely to the success of John A. Moomaw, of Paint Township.
Mr. Moomaw was formerly an educator, but since 1900 has been engaged in farming and is now the proprietor of Maple Lawn Farm, situated one mile north of Fruitdale, in the Buckskin Valley, a tract of 114 acres, and of a farm of seventy-three acres located on Price's Ridge. Mr. Moomaw was born in Paint Township, Ross County, Ohio, May 21, 1854, and is a son of Jacob B. and Vashti Carolina (Morton) Moomaw. His paternal grandparents were Henry and Anna (Gray) Moomaw, the former of near Roanoke, Virginia, and the latter of Ohio, of Pennsylvania parents. Vashti Carolina Morton was born in Ross County, Ohio, near South Salem, her father being a South Carolinian and her mother an Ohioan. The Morton family history extends back to Scotland, from whence, because of religious persecution, an early member of the family fled to Ireland. About 1768, because of continued religious trouble, several of the name crossed the ocean to refuge in America, and took up their residence in Pennsylvania, but in order to find a more desirable climate, went later to South Carolina. They were active during the Revolutionary war, and after the close of that struggle, because of the prevalence of slavery in the South, of which they did not approve, made their way overland by wagon, with oxen and cows. John and Margaret (Alexander) Morton, the grandparents of Mrs. Vashti C. Moomaw, made this journey in 1806, settling first in Highland County, and later removing to near South Salem, Ross County, in 1807. The father of Margaret (Alexander) Morton was captured by the British while fighting as a soldier of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. To Jacob B. and Vashti C. Moomaw there were born four children: John A., of this record; Anna, who is the wife of Albert C. Ellenberger and lives at South Salem; Frank Morton, a farmer in Paint Township; and William, who died at the age of fourteen years.
John A. Moomaw was reared on the home farm and received his education in the public school and South Salem (Ohio) Academy, from which he was duly graduated in 1875. At that time he began teaching and continued as an educator until the year 1900, when he turned his attention to farming, as already noted. In addition to being a practical and successful farmer, Mr. Moomaw is a broad-minded and progressive man, well posted on current events and entertaining sensible opinions on questions of public interest. He is president of the Buckskin Valley Farmers Institute, and a member of the executive committee of the Buckskin-Lyndon Picnic Association, and in other ways has shown himself alert and alive in affairs of his community. He is a republican in his political views and in the primary of August 8, 1916, was a candidate for the nomination to the office of county commissioner of Ross County on the republican ticket, believing that Paint Township should have a candidate on that ticket, something it has not had in twenty years. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum, in both of which he has numerous friends. He has likewise been active in religious work, being a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church and a commissioner to represent the Chillicothe Presbytery at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912.
On November 23, 1881, Mr. Moomaw was married to Miss Sarah Reihle, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, November 28, 1851, and they have had six children: F. Ray, a graduate of South Salem Academy, who spent two years at Miami University, Oxford, was a teacher in the schools of Porto Rico for six years, and present county surveyor of Carroll County, Tennessee, married Anna Hamm, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Forest E., a graduate of Salem Academy, teacher in the high school at Bainbridge, and a farmer in Paint Township, married Mary Grove, and they have two daughters, Eleanor Elizabeth and Margaret Victoria; Willis R., a graduate of the same institution and a teacher in this and other counties, married Mildred Hoffman, and they reside in Paint Township and have one son, John Hoffman; Lina, born April 12, 1889, who died July 23, 1903, when fourteen years of age; Mary E., a graduate of Greenfield High School and now the wife of Seigel Mossburger, of Buckskin Township; and Venna R., a graduate of Buckskin High School, now residing with her parents.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio - Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York 1917 - Page 710
Contributor: Tammie Morgan FAG ID# 47268660
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