William Deacon Hoblit

Note: "Deacon", in this case, is a middle name assigned at birth, and not an occupational title.

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William Deacon Hoblit - b.19 MAY 1783 in Westmoreland Co., PA/ d.13 DEC 1870 in Clinton Co., OH. He is buried in the Baptist Cem., in Port William, OH. Wm. was another child christened in Zion Luth. Church in Greensburgh, PA. He married Margaret Shields in Highland Co., OH, 30 MAR 1809 - they had 12 children

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Biography

Recorded as written:

Jesse H. is a son of William Hoblit, who was born in Pennsylvania May 19, 1783, where he grew to manhood and nobly assisted his widowed mother. He depended largely upon his own resources, and at an early age went to Lexington, Ky., where he learned the tanner and currier trade. Thence came to Ohio in 1808, and settled in what is now Clinton County, where he was drafted in the war of 1812, but furnished a substitute. Soon after coming to Ohio, he erected a tannery on the farm now owned by George Hayworth, Jr., and opened business. While there engaged, he married Margaret Shields, and continued to conduct his tannery in that building until about 1815, when he located on the farm now owned by our subject in Liberty Township, where he erected a tannery and resumed his business for many years. Success was his fortune and he became a large land-owner, endured many privations and hardships in clearing it up, but was nobly assisted by his industrious and obedient children. To his life is placed the credit of taking up a corner of the first log house erected in the present limits of Wilmington, and serving on the first jury that sat in Clinton County. The case was horse theft, tried in Jesse Hugh's barn in Union Township, and to the prisoner was given a number of lashes. These are notable events in the annals of this history. As a public man he filled many offices of trust, which were honorably filled. As a Christian and father he was firm and dutiful. He united with the Baptist Church in the year 1800, and was one of the few members that organized the church at Port William, then called Anderson's Fork. In 1809, he was elected Deacon, and in 1820 was one of the first subscribers to the Journal and Messenger. His death occurred December 13, 1870, after a long and useful life. Of him it could well be said, "A good man has fallen." His wife Margaret, who was a Christian companion and mother, died March 18, 1867. Their house was often the home of the pioneer ministers. They were the parents of twelve children, whom they raised in industry and virtue, and one a minister of the Gospel. This noble family was blessed with health, as death never entered until it claimed Margaret for its own. 

• Source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, (Name: W. H. Beers & Co. 1882;), F 497 C55 H5., 1051.

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Added by D. Glenn 4/30/2015