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M. Millikin, Thomas Millikin, Josiah Scott, Thomas Moore, James Clark, Isaac Robertson, and David Heaton.

During the pendency of the motion to adopt the resolutions, remarks were made by John M. Millikin, Thomas Millikin, Valentine Chase, John R. Lewis, James Clark, and L. W. Ross, illustrative of the life and character of the deceased, and tending to show that he was a man of strict integrity, great power, and unbending purpose; and, at the same time, combining therewith a forgiving disposition, more than ordinary kindness, and eminent practical benevolence; and that in his last sickness he was sustained by the christian's hope. The resolutions were then adopted.

It was moved and carried that the papers of Butler county be requested to publish these proceedings; and thereupon the meeting adjourned.

W. H. SMITH, Chairman.

N. C. MCFARLAND, Secretary.

The funeral took place at five o'clock P. M. on Tuesday, the 31st. The services on the occasion were by the Rev. William Davidson, of the Associate Reformed church, of which Mr. Woods was a member; after which, the corpse was conveyed to Greenwood Cemetery, followed by one of the largest concourses of citizens ever assembled in Hamilton on a similar occasion. His remains were consigned to the tomb amid the regrets of numerous friends, and with the respect due to a life of integrity and useful public services.

Mr. Woods left his widow, Sarah Ann, and several

children surviving him. They had born to them six daughters and two sons.

I. Mary Woods, born June 3, 1821. She married Dr. Cyrus Falconer, the son of an early and respectable citizen of Rossville. He was a graduate of the Ohio medical college at Cincinnati, and resides in Hamilton, pursuing successfully the practice of his profession.

II. Sarah Woods, born January 18, 1823. She died on Friday the 21st of February, 1823.

III. Martha Woods, born February 14, 1824; married William Beckett, the son of a wealthy farmer of Butler county. He graduated at Miami university in 1844; studied law and was admitted to the Bar; but turned his attention to manufacturing operations. He owns and operates a very extensive paper-making establishment on the hydraulic in Hamilton.

IV. Sarah Woods (second), born October 10, 1827, died July 23, 1840.

V. Rebecca Woods, born February 17, 1831. She married William H. Miller, a lawyer of Hamilton.* VI. Rachel Woods, born April 6, 1835. Was married September 13, 1855, to Samuel K. Worthington,

* Mr. Miller was commissioned as lieutenant in the Twelfth Ohio Regiment of infantry, and fell in the Western Virginia campaign under General Rosecrans, in August, 1861. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Hamilton.

commission merchant of Buffalo, New York, where she resides with her husband.

VII. Cyrus Falconer Woods, was born December 8, 1840, and died on the 24th day of November, 1844.

VIII. John Woods, the youngest, and only son living, was born on the 19th of June, 1838.*

*He graduated at Miami university in 1860, subsequently studied theology at Alleghany and at Princeton seminaries, and was ordained to the ministry in the O. S. Presbyterian church, by the Presbytery of Oxford. He is now pastor of the congregation at Bloomingburg, Ohio. In a note, recently received from him, he says: "Since Mr. McBride wrote his sketch, my uncle, Alexander Woods, Mrs. Bonner, and Mrs. Kennedy have died. Mrs. Gray is the only one of my grandfather's family now living. Mrs. Kennedy's children have also followed her excepting one son, the youngest of the family. My father's constitution was remarkably vigorous; he scarcely knew what it was to be sick, and could go through a greater amount of labor than any man I ever knew; yet all his brothers and sisters, now gone, died of consumption.”

INDEX.

Adair, Captain John, expedition into Ohio,

217, 221, 225.

Adams, George, 139; sketch of, 173.
Allen, Colonel John, 240.
American Pioneer, 30, 89.
ANDERSON, ISAAC. Birth, 265; lands at
Philadelphia, 265; joins the Revolu-
tionary army, 266; at battle of Bemis
Heights, 266; at Burgoyne's surrender,
270; wounded and taken prisoner, 271,
rejoins his regiment, 272; lieutenant
in Col. Laughery's command, 273; de-
scends the Ohio, 274; Laughery's party
attacked and Anderson taken prisoner,
276; journal during captivity, 278-287;
the killed and prisoners at Laughery's
defeat, 286; appointed commissary,
288; married to Euphemia Moorehead,
288; removes to Cincinnati, 291; to
Butler county, 292; death, 292; fam-
ily-Robert, 260, 293; Jane, 295,
307; Margaret, 296; Fergus, 297,
309; Susan, 298; Isaac, Jr., 298;
Euphemia, 299; Joseph, 299; Wil-
liam, 299; James, 300; Euphemia, the
second, 300.

Archbold, Edward, 65.

Armstrong, Captain John, 125, 132;
Diary of Harmar's Campaign, 118-122;
commands at Fort Hamilton, 153.
Atwater's History of Ohio, 153.
Avery, Charles, 42, 105.

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Beckett, William, 343.
Bedinger, Major, 162.

Beeler, Elizabeth, 234: Samuel, 234.
Bemis Heights, battle of, 266–270.
Benham, Joseph S., 48.

Ben ham, Captain Robert, 48, 113, 115.
Bigham, Judith, 308: William, 308:
James, 310.

Bishop's History of the Church in Ken-
tucky, 92.

Blackburn, James, sheriff of Butler coun-
ty, 5.

Blair, Joseph, 309: Thomas, 309, 315.
Blount, Governor, of Tennessee, treaty
with Indians, 226.
Boal, James, 298.

Bonner, Mr., 328.

Boone, Colonel Daniel, 210, 227.
Boone's Station, 181.
Bowling, Robert, 224.

Bowman, Jonas, 11; house attacked by
Indians, 25.

Bowman, Colonel, 187.
Bowman's Station, 181, 187.
Boyd, Surgeon, 222.
Boyle, Hugh, 51.

Bradford, Captain, killed, 142.

Bridges, Ensign, killed, 142.
Brooky, John, 203.

Brough, John, 334.

Brown, Hon. John, 218.

Bruce, Charles, 173.

Bryant, Lieutenant, 189; killed, 197.

Bryant's Station, 181; attack on, 209.

Buchanan, Ensign, 224.

Bunnel, Rachel, 293.
Buntin, Mr., 161.

Burgoyne's surrender, 270.

Burnet, Jacob, first recorder of Cincinnati,
42, 53; letter concerning John Reily,
73; account of Rev. John Smith, 97,
105; Notes on the North-western Ter-

ritory, 97.

Burr, Aaron, 29, 97.

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geant in General Scott's command in
1793, 225; appointed lieutenant in the
regular army, and establishes posts on
Wilderness road, 226; spends three
years in guarding the Wilderness road,
226-234; appointed judge of Lincoln
county, Ky., 234; marriage to Eliza-
beth Beeler, 234; removes to Ohio,
234; elected justice of the peace, 235;
appointed captain, and serves in the
war of 1812, 235-261; elected repre-
sentative of Butler county, 261; ap-
pointed associate judge, 261; trustee
of Miami University, 262; marriage
to Mrs. Nancy Woodruff, 263; death,
263; roll of his company in the war of
1812, 264.

Columbia, settlement of, 10; first set-
tlers, 11; Indian troubles at, 22; Bap-
tist church at, 28, 94; intended attack

on, 220.

Chillicothe, 41; the name of various Conner, James, interpreter, 252.

Church, armed attendance, 27; first or-
ganized in the Miami country, 28; of
Moravian missionaries in Ohio, 29.
Cincinnati, territorial capital, 41; char-
tered, 42; first officers, 42; first library,
43, 104; original proprietors of, 204;
in 1789, 110; in 1790, 304; in
1795-96, 291.

Cist's Cincinnati Advertiser, ii, 88, 95.
Clark, Elder Daniel, 29; sketch of, 99.
Clark, General George Rogers, 117, 218;

expedition into Ohio, 195-200; expe-
dition down the Ohio, 273.

Clark, Lieutenant, killed, 142: Major,
159, 162, 164, 169: Robert, 315.
Clayton, Mr., killed at the capture of
Spencer, 37.

Clinton, Joseph, 224.

Cochran, John M., 309.

Coleman, Mrs. Mary, at the capture of

Spencer, floats down the Ohio, 38.

Coleman, W., 13: Jesse, 13, 38.
Colerain, 14, 86.

Collett, Joshua, 54.

Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky,

99, 221.

COLLINS, JOEL, birth, 179; removal of
his father's family to Kentucky, 181-
187; Bowman's Station; 187; re-
moval to Lexington Station, 201; with
General Scott's expedition, 215; with
Captain Adair's expedition, 217; ser-

Cornstalk, Indian chief, 2.
Cornwallis, surrender of, 206.

Corry, William, first lawyer at Hamilton,

53.

Corwin, Captain Matthias, 238, 242.
Courts, first in Butler county, 50, 51.
Court room, first in Hamilton, 52.
Cox, Mr., brought tidings of the attack
on Dunlap's Station to Fort Washing-
ton, 146.

Cox, Peter, 148.

Crab Orchard, Ky., 181.

Craig, Captain, defends Bryant's Station,

209.

Crawford's (Colonel) defeat, 100.

Creacroft, Major, 274, 278.

Creaton, Mr., 166.

Crow's Station, 181.

Crum, William, 86.

Cunningham, Mr., 16, 108.

Cushing, Major, 225.
Cutter, Seth, 113.

Darke, Colonel William, 151, 164, 168.
Darke, Captain, killed, 174.

Davidson's History of the Presbyterian
Church in Kentucky, 92.
Davidson, Rev. William, 61, 342.
Daviess, Colonel Joe, 246.

Davis. Benjamin, 11, 28, 49, 94: Da-
vid, 11: Mary, 28, 94: Samuel, 11,
15.
Delorac, Lieutenant Alexander, 259, 260.

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