Nelson POE

1822 - 1904  (81 years)

• Name	Nelson POE  [1]
  Born	4 Sep 1822	, Ross, Ohio, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Census	5 Sep 1850	, Hancock, Ohio, USA
  pg 782 (391B), d/f #41/41
  Liberty Township Nelson Poe M 30 Ohio Mary Poe F 23 Ohio Melancthon Poe M 2 Ohio They live next to John Lytle.
  Census	2 Jun 1860	, Hancock, Ohio, USA
  pg 4 (2B), d/f #24/23
  Liberty Township, Alba PO Nelson Poe M 37 Ohio Mary Poe M 32 Ohio [blank] Poe F 13 Ohio Martin L Poe F 9 Ohio
  Census	24 Jun 1870	, Hancock, Ohio, USA
  pg 7 (180A), d/f #52/52
  Liberty Township Nelson Poe M 47 Ohio Mary Poe F 41 Ohio Martin L Poe M 20 Ohio Annetta Poe F 4 Ohio
  Census	22 Jun 1880	, Hancock, Ohio, USA
  ED 178, pg 22 (418B)
  Liberty Township Nelson Poe Self M 57 Ohio Mary Poe Wife F 52 Ohio Annetta Poe Dau F 14 Ohio
  Book Article	1881
  	History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches
  	History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches Daniel Barna Beardsley Republic Printing Company, 1881 - Hancock County (Ohio) - 472 pages pg 391-2 McKinnis-Poe NELSON POE Came to this township when he was but three months old, having been born in Ross Co, O., September 4th, 1822. He was the third son of Jacob Poe. His mother was a daughter of Judge McKinnis. His paternal ancestors were of German extraction, whilst his mother's people were Scoth Irish. The father of Mr Poe settled on the farm now owned and occupied by the subject of this sketch. At the time of his coming here there were bnt [sic] a very few families in the county, but the Poe family was possessed of that kind of pluck which never gave way before difficulties, or became discouraged at privations. On his father's side, Mr. Poe is distantly related to the celebrated historical fighting brothers, Adam and Andrew Poe, and also to the eminent divine, Rev. Adam Poe. Farming has always been the leading occupation of Mr. Poe, although during the winter seasons of thirty years, he taught a country school. He is a man of fair education, and has always been regarded as a successful educator. He may well be termed a self-educated man, for his school privileges were very limited. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church at present, and has been a church member for the past sixteen years. In 1846 he was married to Mary Lytle, who still lives to add to his enjoyment. They are the parents of three children. The eldest son was killed during the late war. The second son - Luther - resides in Fostoria, and the youngest, a daughter, is at home with her parents. Mr. P.'s school days were passed in the old log school house, under the instruction of such primitive teachers as Richard Wade, Benj. Cummins and others. Mr. Poe has resided in this county longer than any other person, with the single exception of Job Chamberlain, of Findley [sic]. He has witnessed the steady but great transformation of a wilderness into fruitful fields; he has seen the dense forests disappear, and in their places spring to life, beautiful fertile fields; has lived to see an uninhabited country settled by an industrious, thrifty, wealthy, happy people, with school houses and churches in every neighborhood; to see railroads built, traversed by the iron horse drawing the trains well laden with the products of this rich county; to see telegraph wires stretched all over the land. And in this great work he has been no idle spectator.
  Census	4 Jun 1900	Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, USA
  ED 61, pg 6B
  Ward 4, First Street Nelson Poe Head M 77 Sep 1822 Ohio m. 52 yrs. Mary Poe Wife F 71 Aug 1828 Ohio 3/1 children Amanda Smith Servant F 27 Oct 1872 Pennsylvania
  Book Article	1903	, Hancock, Ohio, USA
  	A Centennial Biographical History of Hancock County, Ohio
  	NELSON POE Nelson Poe, a retired farmer residing in findlay, Ohio, is a representative of one of the oldest families of which Ohio can boast; far from the time when the country had only a few scattered settlements, and most of these without government authority, when the vast stretches of fertile praire and woodland lay untouched except by the futile and improvident scratichings of the Indian in his shiftless effort to produce his winter's grain, from that early period has the Peo [sic] family been represented among the hardy Ohio pioneers. Grandfather John Poe was a native of old Virginia and came, along with the thousands making for the great west, to Ohio about the year 1798, and there he lived to the advanced age of 98 years. He had taken part in the Revolutionary war, serving in the cavalry forces and had his horse shot which fell upon him and he was taken prisoner by the British. The horse, in falling, caught him on one of the legs and bound him. After being shot, the animal ran one hundred yards before falling. His son, Jacob Poe, was also born in Virginia, in 1782, and when about sixteen years of age came with his father to Ross county, Ohio, and in 1822 removed to Hancock county, where his long life spent as a tiller of the soil came to an end in 1856. Eighty years ago, on September 4, 1822, on Paint Creek, Ross county, near Chillicothe, Ohio, was born Nelson Poe; and in December of the same year he came with his parents to Hancock county, where the latter located on the farm in Liberty township, which now belongs to our subject. Here he lived until 1857, when he rented a farm in Findlay township, three miles north of Findlay, where he lived until 1860; then he purchased and moved to a farm in Liberty township; in 1864 the old home passed into his hands and he made that his home until November 15, 1888, when he retired and has since resided in Findlay. Mr. Poe was married in August, 1846, in Hancock county, to Mary, the step-daughter of John Lytle, and three children have been born to them. Philip Melancthon Poe was born March 5, 1847, and died February 13, 1865; on October 16, 1864, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea, and died at Savannah of disease contracted in the service. Martin Luter Poe was born July 29, 1850, and died July 23, 1889. The third child, Annetta, is the wife of P W Ewing, of Findlay. Mr Poe is a member of the Methodist church, and his political tendencies are toward the Porhibition party.
  Died	1904	, , Ohio, USA   [5]
  Buried	1904	, Hancock, Ohio, USA   [6]
  	Address: Maple Grove Cemetery Hancock County Hancock County, Ohio
  Person ID	I16030	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Jacob POE,   b. Cal 16 Feb 1793, , , Virginia, USA ,   d. 28 May 1856, , Hancock, Ohio, USA  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Nancy MCKINNIS,   b. Cal 5 Aug 1799, , , Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 27 Nov 1862, , Hancock, Ohio, USA  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Married	21 Dec 1815	, Ross, Ohio, USA   [7]
  Family ID	F5637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Nelson's sons were named after Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon, German Lutheran reformers who collaborated to bring changes to the Lutheran church circa 1520.

  
  

• Sources

  [S700] History of Hancock County (Ohio), (Chicago: Warner Beers & Co, 1886), Chapter XXVII, pg 517-518. "In December, 1822, Jacob Poe and his wife, Nancy, and four children, Elizabeth, John, Robert and Nelson, came from Ross County, Ohio, and settled on the west part of the southwest quarter of Section 8, on the north bank of the Blanchard ..." [S2426] Cemetery, Maple Grove, Hancock, OH, Nelson Poe. 1822 [S816] 1850 Hancock, OH, pg 782 (391B), d/f #41/41. age 30, Ohio [S2428] Centennial Biographical History of Hancock County, Ohio, A, (Lewis publishing Company, 1903, New York), ppg 365-366. "Eighty years ago, on September 4, 1822, on Paint Creek, Ross county, near Chillicothe, Ohio, was born Nelson Poe; ..." [S2426] Cemetery, Maple Grove, Hancock, OH, Nelson Poe. 1904 [S2426] Cemetery, Maple Grove, Hancock, OH, Nelson Poe. [S1426] Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, (FamilySearch.org), Poe, Jacob. to Nancy McKinnis, 21 Dec 1815, Ross County