Researched and Submitted by Martha J. (Kounse) Martin
(2449) Peter Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born on 24 Sept 1794.
(2398) Elhanen Winchester Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born 1 Aug 1799 in Sullivan Co., NH, and married 30 Sep 1827 in Rome Twp., Lawrence CO., OH, (2399) Candance Gillett who was born 23 May 1807 in Ulysses Co, NY. Elhanen Winchester died on 3 Sep 1883 in Lawrence Co, OH, and was buried in Rome Cem., Rome Twp, Lawrence Co, OH. Candance died 25 Jan 1888 in Lawrence Co, OH and was buried in Rome Cem., Rome Twp, Lawrence Co, OH.
Marriage recorded Lawrence Co., OH Book 1-2-3 Page 98
LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORY by R. C. Hall Ph.D.
Source: The Herald-Dispatch 19 June 1938
There have been perhaps few pioneers whose descendants became so widely known as E. W. WAKEFIELD. By widely known we mean that they scattered far and wide and became leading citizens in many and various places. Some years ago when this writer, as a teacher, went to a community new to him in Ohio, a community of entire strangers to him, he soon made the acquaintance of a member of this fine family.
And now, in our research into the history, we find that some of its members migrated to the far west, some to the far north, and some to the south and east. E. W. WAKEFIELD was born at Claimant, NH, Aug. 1, 1799, and when only about eight years of age, found himself a member of that group of New England emigrants going out from their homes to seek their fortune in the ‘west’, which then included Ohio. In 1807, he reached the southern part of this state and became one of the first settlers of what, some ten years later, was to become Lawrence County, Ohio.
It is interesting to note that Mr. WAKEFIELD was one of the New England emigrants to Lawrence county, Ohio which perhaps accounts in part got the fact that his family early became identified with the anti-slavery movement. However, he found enthusiastic support from his neighbors who had come from Virginia and were, for the most part, also opposed to slavery.
During his youth, Mr. WAKEFIELD found conditions in Union Township about as primitive, perhaps, as we today can imagine. But like the Booths and the Brammers, the WAKEFIELDS set about carving a home out of the wilderness and the establishment of those institutions so needful to a civilized community. On Sept. 3, 1827, Mr. WAKEFIELD married Candice GILLETT of Rome Twp. Mrs. WAKEFIELD herself was a member of a typical pioneer family.
Her people were the GILLETT’S of Rome Beauty apple fame. She was born in Ulysses County, NY on May 23, 1807, the very year in which her future husband came ‘west’. Mr. and Mrs. WAKEFIELD settled on a farm in Union Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, and became the parents of a large family of children. Of course, there was nothing so remarkable for intellectual and religious qualities.
In spite of the handicaps of a frontier community with almost no schools, practically every member of the family secured a fine education for their time, and in the matter of general reading and study, their attainments would probably put to shame a majority of the people of today. Particularly was this true in religious reading and study.
No less than three of this family became ministers of the gospel, one, in particular, being for years a leading preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In fact, it is hardly too much to say that the WAKEFIELDS formed a family of preachers and teachers. The children of Mr. and Mrs. WAKEFIELD were named Albert, Dianna, Marinia, John, E. W. Jr, Keziah, Peter, Chloe, and Columbus.
Of these, Diana, who married a Mr. Holroyd, passed away in 1865 and was followed in the great beyond in 1871 by her sister, Chloe, who had migrated to what was then the Territory of Montana. Reference to this emigration brings up another interesting fact in reference to the WAKEFIELDS, for it is but one illustration of the continued pioneer spirit of the family.
Just as the parents came from New England and New York to the ‘west’ to participate in the development of the advancing frontier. Albert moved to Lake Washington, Minnesota; Peter to Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri; while Chloe as we have seen removed to Minnesota. Marinda became a school teacher and taught at various places in Quaker Bottom and vaccinate. This writer’s father was one of her pupils.
This writer remembers her in her latter years as Mrs. Marinda Reed, a very religious lady and punctual in her attendance at church and various Christian gatherings, societies, etc. She lived, for many years, on Elizabeth Street in Proctorville on the site now occupied by the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Atkinson. E. W. WAKEFIELD, Jr., better known as the Rev. Elhanan WAKEFIELD, early in his career, espoused the anti-slavery cause.
When the call came for volunteers to help John Brown and others bring Kansas into the Union as a free state, Elhanan WAKEFIELD was one of those who grasped his musket and hastened to the defense of freedom, according to the date we have on his subsequent career, he settled at Annadale, Fairfax County, Virginia, after the Civil War. Later he returned to Proctorville, Ohio, when his sister, Mrs. Reed, became ill.
He will be remembered by many people in the tri-state region. To his last days on earth, he carried one arm in a sling as a result of the sacrifices he made in his youth for the cause of liberty on the plains of Kansas. Rev. Columbus WAKEFIELD, afterward, sometime in the ministry, passed away, in 1876, and Rev. John WAKEFIELD remained an active minister in Ohio, for many years.
Children:
2456 Albert Joel Wakefield b. 31 May 1828 d. 14 Jun 1896
2457 Diana W. Wakefield b. 18 Oct 1829 d. 20 Dec 1865
2458 Marinda “Minnie” Wakefield b. 8 Jan 1831
2459*John Wesley Wakefield, Rev. b. 27 Nov 1832
2460 E. W. Jr. Wakefield, Rev. b. 7 Feb 1834
2461*Keziah Wakefield b. 25 Jun 1836 d. 19 Feb 1865
2396 Peter Wakefield b. 1 Mar 1838 d. 26 May 1923
2462*Chloe Wakefield b. 24 Dec 1839 d. 1871
2463*Columbus Gillett Wakefield, Rev.
b. 24 Dec 1839 d. 31 Oct 1876
(2450) Mary Ann Beard Wakefield, daughter of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born 25 Sep 1801 and married 1 May 1834 in Lawrence Co, OH, (2493) John T. Judd.
Marriage Recorded Book 1-2-3 Page 170 Lawrence Co., OH
(2451) Albert G. Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born 16 Oct 1804 in Clairmont, NH, and married 29 May 1851 in Lawrence Co, OH, spouse unknown.
(2452) Harriett Amanda Wakefield, daughter of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born 15 Oct 1806 in Marietta, Washington Co., OH, and married 2 Mar 1843 in Lawrence Co, OH, (2494) George W. Beams. George W. was also married to Marinda Thomas.
Resided in Rutland Co., VT in 1833
SOURCE: Vol 6 Pages 288-296 Lawrence Co., OH Recorder’s Office Deed Book
She also married (2581) Joel Jones.
(2454) George Washington Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born 15 Mar 1812 and married 22 Oct 1839, (2469) Emily Gillett who was born 28 Sept 1817. George Washington died 30 Jan 1897. Emily died on 3 Jul 1852 in Cameron, LA.
From the Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Register of the name and family of WAKEFIELD
by: Homer WAKEFIELD, M. D. 1897
Page 64
GEORGE WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD-son of Peter and Keziah BURNS, born 15 March 1812 in Lawrence Co., OH, married first 22 Oct 1839 to Emily GILLETT daughter of Joel and Chloe (GRISWOLD) GILLETT, who was born 28 Sept 1817 and died 3 July 1852 at Cameron, LA. He married second to Ellen WELCH daughter of John and Mary WELCH.
They were married on 22 Oct 1856. Mary was b. 1 Aug 1833 in Washington Parish, LA. George died on 30 Jan 1897. He sustained a physical injury in childhood, which left him partially paralyzed on one side. This misfortune he has had to contend with throughout life.
He moved south in 1844 and settled in Cameron Parish, LA. He established a homestead on which he has lived for over fifty years, engaged in farming and stock raising. He lost considerable property during the Civil War and came very near to losing his life, for being a Unionist. His being a cripple prevented his being forced into the Confederate Army. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since boyhood.
Marriage recorded Lawrence Co., Oh Book 1-2-3 Page 310
CHILDREN:
1) Peter b. 24 Sept. 1794 died in infancy
2). Elhanen Winchester b. 1 Aug 1799 married on 30 Sept 1827 to Candice GILLETT, he died 5 Sept 1883.
3). Mary Ann Beard b. 25 Sept 1801 married —- to John JUDD.
4). Albert GALITAN b. 16 Oct 1804 in Clairmont, N. H.
5). Harriett Amanda b. 15 Oct 1809 at Marietta, OH; married to J. C. TERRY
6). George Washington b. 15 Mar 1812, he married first Emily GILLETT on 22 Oct 1839; married second Ellen WELCH 22 Oct 1856. He died on 30 Jan 1897.
7) Benjamin Austin b. 15 Aug 1809, married Parthua JUDD. He died on 4 Jan 1889.
8). Mahala Singer b. 7 July 1817, married first to Elias BRAGG, second to James WALL.
IN OLDER TIMES AS THEY WERE IN WINDSOR, UNION, AND ROME
From Ironton Register 12 Sept 1895
…….H. W. does not speak of Peter WAKEFIELD, who settled there (twps) in 1808, one mile north of Mr. Singer on the creek, and what afterward became the Guyandotte and Jackson Road. He was a soldier of the Revolution; for 40 years a Justice of the Peace; and the Father of E. W. (Winchester), Benjamin, George, and Albert G. who died about 1824. Ned Murnahan lived above the WAKEFIELD’S, John L. Griffith where Scottown is, and Boaz Mannon, father of Moses, James, and Wilson, just above, and old Squire Burcham, a soldier of 1812, father of Squire Nathaniel and Jack and great grandfather of Dr. Burcham of Scottown. ………..
Children:
2471*Thomas Gardner Wakefield, Rev.
b. 5 Sep 1840
2472*George Washington Wakefield, Jr.
b. 20 Jul 1842
2473*Mary Ann Wakefield b. 1845
2474*Candace Emily Wakefield b. 1847
2475*Albert Peter Wakefield b. 1850
He also married 22 Oct 1856, (2470) Ellen Welch who was born on 1 Aug 1833 in Washington Parish, LA.
Children:
2483*Alwilda Hortense Wakefield b. 1 Aug 1857
2484*John Wesley Wakefield b. 4 Jul 1869 d. 9 Sep 1876
2485 James Austin Wakefield b. 14 Jan 1861
2486*Mahala K. Wakefield b. 4 Jan 1863
2487*Martha Augusta Wakefield b. 26 Nov 1864
2488*Nellie Dorcas Wakefield b. 29 Oct 1866
(2453) Benjamin Austin Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born 15 Aug 1809 and married 11 May 1834 in Lawrence Co, OH, (2496) Parthenia Judd. Benjamin Austin died on 4 Jan 1890 and was buried in Windsor Twp, Wakefield Cem, Lawrence Co, OH.
Children:
2499*Nancy Wakefield b. 1835
2501*Austen Wakefield b. 1841
2502*Catherine Wakefield b. 1844
2503*Rhoda Wakefield b. 1849
8462*M. D. Wakefield b. 1842
8460*Mahala Wakefield b. 1849
He also married on 19 May 1853 in Lawrence Co, OH, (2497) Providence J. James who was born 28 Mar 1823. Providence J. died on 27 July 1914 and was buried in Windsor Twp, Wakefield Cem, Lawrence Co, OH.
Children:
2506*Benjamin Wakefield, Jr b. 1855
2507*Tolbat Wakefield b. 1856
2508*Cora B Wakefield b. 1859
2509*George Wakefield b. 1861
2510*John Wakefield b. 1869
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