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About Reverend John D Alkire
From Atlas of Madison County by J.A. Caldwell, Condit, Ohio (1875) This is the south-east township of the county, and bounded on the south by Fayette County, east by Pickaway County, north by Fairfield and Oak Run, west by Range Townships. The village of Mt. Sterling is in the south east, is a place of considerable business, and in a good farming and stock growing country. This township is well watered by Deer Creek, Bradford's Fork, Sugar Creek, Mud run and Opossum Run, and it has a great many fine springs. A few of the Pioneers of this township [sic]. The first settlement of this section was commenced as early as 1808 by Wm. Woods, James Hughey, the Martin family, Courtney Tanner, John Pheves, John Matle, a tanner by trade, and John Oxford, the latter who settled at the mouth of Oppossum Run, and in 1809, John Robison who came from Tennessee with his brothers Wm. and Thomas Robison, who first settled about three miles north of where Mt. Sterling now stands, Mr. John Robison was born February 1793, and is still living at the age of 83, enjoying reasonably good health. The same year Messrs. Isaac and John Alkire, John J. Smith, Esq., Joseph and Samuel Powell, John and Abner Riddle and others. The first mill was built by John Alkire, a small log one, John J. Smith, Esq., rebuilt the same with a good substantial frame building. This township like the rest of the county, was oak openings and prairies, and was covered with sedge grass, which made it a good place for herding cattle in the early settlement of this part of the county. This township is well improved by good substantial farm residences, and a fair prospect of a railway from the mineral regions of southern Ohio towards the northwest. Surveying commenced here as early as 1796.
Pleasant Township History From History of Madison County, W. H. Beers & Co, Chicago, 1883 John J. Smith, a native of Kentucky, married Rachel Alkire, and, with his father-in-law, Mr. John Alkire, about 1805-06, came to Ohio, and Mr. Smith settled where A. R. Alkire now lives. Mr. Alkire settled on the east bank of Deer Creek, just in the edge of Pickaway County, and a few years afterward, probably about 1810-12, erected a grist-mill on the west bank of Deer Creek, in Pleasant Township, just opposite to his tract of land. The mill was built of logs, with "Raccoon buhrs," and run by water-power, with a bolting attachment operated by hand. This mill he ran several years, when it came into the ownership of Mr. Smith. Subsequently Mr. Alkire removed to Sangamon County, Ill., became wealthy, and there resided till his death. Some of his children still reside in that county. Mr. Smith subsequently rebuilt the grist-mill and attached a saw-mill; finally he sold the mill to Otho Williams and William Leach; they were succeeded by William D. Wood, and he by Elijah Atkins, who died, and the mill is now owned by his heirs. This was one of the first and, doubtless, the first grist-mill erected in Pleasant Township. Mr. Smith resided where he first settled till about 1831, when he removed to Iowa, where he died about 1879, at the advanced age of nearly one hundred years. He was a very active, robust man, shrews and quick in business, taking an active interest in all the secular affairs of his community and filled some of the township offices prior to moving West.
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Rev John Alkire BIRTH 1759 Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 1 Oct 1836 (aged 76–77) Greenview, Menard County, Illinois, USA BURIAL Blane Cemetery Greenview, Menard County, Illinois
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Children Photo Leonard Alkire 1785–1877
Sarah Alkire Powell 1786–1845
Photo Silas Alkire 1788–1859
Photo John Nave Alkire 1796–1877
Dorothy Alkire Alkire 1800–1867
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Reverend John D Alkire's Timeline
| 1759 |
February 12, 1759
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Romney, Hampshire County, WV, United States
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| 1783 |
December 13, 1783
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Moorfield, Hampshire, Virginia, USA
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| 1785 |
December 24, 1785
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Potomac, King George, Virginia, USA, King George County, VA, United States
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| 1786 |
December 24, 1786
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Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia, United States
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September 20, 1788
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now, Hardy, West Virginia, USA
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June 16, 1791
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Moorfield, Hampshire, Virginia, USA
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| 1793 |
October 28, 1793
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Clark, Montgomery, Kentucky, USA
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April 19, 1796
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Bourbon, Kentucky, USA
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January 11, 1802
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Bath, Kentucky, USA
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