Record Of The Hester Family


Generation 3

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No. 2

John Hester, Sr.


 John Hester (Senior) was born in Germany, February 9, 1763. He came to America with his parents when he was eight years old. The family settled in Greene county, Pennsylvania.

He was married to Elizabeth Mason about 1786. She was born March 25, 1766, and was the daughter of Martin Mason and his wife, whose maiden name was Christina Waite. (Martin Mason was born in 1740. He had a remarkable experience as a French prisoner of war, an account of which is given elsewhere.)

He [John Hester, Sr.] was a weaver by trade. He wove coverlets, blankets, tablecloths, linen, and all the domestic fabrics in use among the pioneers at that time.

He and his family moved to Ohio about 1807. They located in Center township, Columbiana county, where they were among the earliest pioneers.

In 1808 he bought of Bazaleel Wells, of Steubenville, O., 163 acres of land in section five, adjoining the land of John J. Bowman on the north, for which he paid $489. The land was all a forest. Wolves were common. Looking out of their cabin door in the evening the shining eyes of these animals were seen peering about in the darkness. The wild screams of the panther sometimes made the night hideous. The forest was soon cleared away and the wild animals disappeared.

He was a man of great activity, reliability and thrift; an earnest Christian, a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

John Hester (senior) died March 19, 1834, aged seventy-one years. He was buried at St. Jacobs Church, east of his home. His wife Elizabeth died August 8, 1847, at the age of eighty-one.

The children of John Hester, Sr., and Elizabeth (Mason) his wife, being the third gen., were eight in number.

9. Martin, b. September 6, 1787; m. Mary Stough, November 30, 1809. She was born February 15, 1789; d. June 25, 1863, a. 74. He d. January 31, 1870, a. 83.
10. John Jr., b. May 23, 1791; m. to Hannah Miller, August 13, 1818. She d. April 7, 1827; had five children. Second m. to Elizabeth Miller, November 25, 1827, she d. November 8, 1867; had eight children. He d. 1879, a. 88.
11. Matthias, b. October 17, 1793; m. Susana W. Gaskill about 1818. She d. 1864. He d. February 11, 1890, at Alliance, O., a. 97; had ten children.
12. Elizabeth, b. December 2, 1796; m. Phillip Biddinger, 1820. He b. December 13, 1789; d. September 6, 1851, in Troy, Ashland county, O. She d. September 6, 1882, a. 86, at Knoxville, Ia.; had two daughters.
13. Sarah, b. 1797; d. February 4, 1868, in Williams county, O.; a. 70; unm.
14. Mary, b. May 4, 1800; m. Geo. Leinard, August 24, 1820. He d. March 20, 1881. She d. May 7, 1886, a. 86. Both d. in Williams county, Ohio; had nine children.
15. Margaret, b. 1802; m. John Mason, 1820, she d. May 1822, in Richland (now Ashland) county, O., a 20.
16. Hannah, b. in Greene county, Pa., May 10, 1807; m. John Hinds, 1829. He b. 1800; d. January 6, 1875, a. 75. She d. June 28, 1885, a. 78.
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No. 3

John Van Deman was the son of a minister who emigrated from Holland to America about 1790, and settled in Fayette county, Pa.

Children of John and Mary Magdalene (Hester) Van Deman, being the third gen., are:


17. Henry, b. 1798; m. Sarah Darlington, 1824. She was b. 1802; d. January 24, 1886, a. 84. He d. 1872, a. 74. Had ten children.
18. Coonrad, unm., was a soldier of the war of 1812; d. on the march and was buried near Stratford, O.
19. Elias, was a Presbyterian minister; m. Susan Barr, of Columbus O.; had one child; now all dead.
20. Matthias, lived and died in Washington Court House, O. Had three children.
21. Charles, lived and died on the home farm in Ross county, O.; had three children.
22. Joseph, lived on the home farm till his children were grown, when he moved to Kansas, had five children.
23. John, lived on a farm near Indianapolis, Ind.; has a family, of which one son is a Baptist minister.
24. Nancy, m. a farmer named McClain, in Ross county, O.
25. Mary, d. young, unm.
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