Joseph Bartholomew

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 7 2020, 19:48:01 UTC

changes to be made by a curator

• Place of Birth/Country: (blank)
• Place of Death/County: Ashtabula County

family

Children:

1. Daniel, b. in 1771; d. in 1814 in Geneva, O.
2. A son, b. 7 May 1777; d. the same day. 24
3. Abraham, b. 3 Aug. 1779; d. in 1849 in Geneva, O.
4. Elizabeth, b. 10 Apr. 1781; m. 1st Elisha Wiard, who d. in Feb 1812, leaving five children; m. 2nd, in 1815, John Macklewain, who was killed by falling from a load of hay, leaving three ch. She moved with her three youngest children to Pike Co., Ind. Ch: 1. Wealthy, 2. Joseph, 3. Polly, 4. Hiram, and 5. Chloe Wiard; and 6. Sally, 7. Ella, and 8. Thomas Macklewain.
5. Mary, b. 24 Dec., 1783; m. Eleazer Lewis, brother of Sally Lewis.
6. Samuel, b. 16 May 1785, bapt in Schoharie Church, 26 Oct., 1785; m. Susannah Atkins, an excellent woman, who, becoming insane, killed her husband in H., 24 Jan., 1822, and died at the Ashtabula Infirmary. Ch. 1. Diantha, 2. Aaron (m. dau. of Wm. Fuller of G.) and 3. Diana.
7. Joseph, b. 24 Aug., 1787; res. White Pigeon Prairie, Mich. His three sons all enlisted in Capt. John Richmond's company and were attached to Col. Morgan's 15th Infantry Regiment and fell at the storming of Chapultepec, or from the effects of injuries recieved at the same time. Ch. 1. Horace, m. 23 Mar., 1842, Salome ?; enlisted 7 Apr., 1847 and d. at Chapultepec Castle, Mexico, 25 Sept, 1847, of diarrhea brough on by the heat in storming that place. She, in June, 1849, aet. 23, was living at Burr Oak, St. Joseph Co., Mich. Ch. (1) Emily, b. 18 Aug 1843, and (2) Oscar, b. 13 May 1845. 2. Anson and 3. Isaiah - both fell at the storming of Chapultepec, Mexico.
8. Lanissa L., b. 25 Nov., 1789; d. 21 Aug., 1792.
9. Elany, b. 3 Feb, 1793; m. Jos. Atkins. A daughter m. Philo Healy.
10. Rachel, b. 28 Feb. 1795; m. Lieut. Sam'l Johnson of Gen. Harrison's army. Ch. Celestia Johnson, b. 5 Nov. 1815; m. 11 June 1835, Sylvester Bartholomew. 25
11. John Jay, b. 3 Jan, 1797; d. 7 Apr., 1871, aet. 74.
12. Phoebe, b. 6 Oct, 1801; m. and moved, taking her mother, to Pike Co., Ind.

comments

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1744 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

content to clean up

Joseph born in Penn." about 1744; married in Bethlehem, N.J., 24 Apr. 1769, Elizabeth Barber. He married, second, in the Lutheran Church in Schoharie, "2 July, 1775, Lena, Daughter of Abraham Desey" (Church Records); "24 June 1776, Elanah Daby" (Family Bible). She was born 4 Feb., 1756, and died in Pike Co., Ind. He died in Harpersfield, O., "13 Apr., 1811, aged 66 years." (Family Bible). Lieut. Joseph Bartholomew removed with his father from Bethlehem, N.J., to the Charlotte Valley where he subsequently owned a portion of the thousand acre tract purchased by his father, which portion he sold or traded about 1800, and obtained several hundred acres in the present townships of Geneva and Harpersfield, O., empbracing the farms of Frank Knapp, John C. Brakeman and others. He was a farmer and removed in 1805 to Harpersfield, O., where he spent the remaining six years of his life. He and his wife were early members of the Presbyterian Church of Harpersfield, N.Y.