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Ill health, apparently ma-laria, caused the family to move back east in 1818 to Jackson County, Ohio where the family purchased another farm. Here, George’s wife Catherine Piper died in 1832 and George in 1833. The family then began dispersing: George, Jr. returned to Indiana; David moved to Allen Co., Ohio; Nicholas went to Illinois with James Dempsey; Jacob stayed in Jackson Co.; George, Sr. sort of confused the picture when Catherine died; he remarried and his new wife is named in his will. Whether Henry stayed in Union Co., Pa. or moved to southeast Indiana, I do not know. I did not search after 1820. The Anthony family Bible furnishes dates of birth of George, Sr., Catherine and all their children. The National Archives and Records have George’s Revolutionary War records and his pension application. Deed records in Union Co., Pa., and Jackson Co., Ohio establish facts for those places. I did not find the parents of George Anthony. I assume he was born in Northampton Co., Pa. He enlisted at age 16 at Trenton. Henry Anthony was born in 1786, in New Jersey, (I think). His wife was Catherine b. 1785 in Pa. (from census records). George Anthony —not in 1790 census, in 1796 is in West Buffalo Twp., North’d Co., in 1810 North’d Co., now Union Co., Henry listed in 1810, same area, right age, to be a son of above. Henry Piper was the father of Catherine Piper who married George Anthony. Henry Piper’s name first appears on the tax list of 1787 in North’d Co., Pa. in Buffalo Twp. In 1800, he is in Buffalo Twp. That is the last he is recorded there. Henry Piper sold a portion of his holdings to George Anthony. Henry Iddings bought out the Cornelius Dempsey holdings from his daughter Ann, these were immediately adjacent to the east of the Piper holdings, as the maps in the courthouse at Lewisburg show. I believe the McGrady holdings were either immediately south of Buffalo Creek and south of the Iddings holdings, or they were up the creek further than the map available shows. I do believe they were more than a few miles apart. George Anthony apparently became somewhat of a leader among the Piper, Iddings, McGrady families with the death of the older generation. At least he and Catherine (Piper) and family; Elizabeth (Iddings) McGrady; Ann (Iddings) Dimpsey, mother-in-law of Jacob Anthony; George’s son, James; Jonathan Dimpsey; Mary (Dreisbach) McGrady, the wife of Thomas McGrady and Elizabeth’s oldest son, left North’d. Co., Pa. between 1815 and 1818 for Jackson and Ross Counties, Ohio and all of them lived within a comparatively few miles from each other for a number of years. There were nine Anthony children, eight sons and one daughter; nine McGrady children, four sons and five daughters. I only know of the Dimpsey children— two sons and one daughter. Elizabeth Iddings, b. Aug. 20, 1769, md. Alexander McGrady, Jr. about 1785 in Buffalo Valley. He was born about 1765 to Alexander McGrady, Sr. who had been a resident of the valley for about 15 years. Both thus were born somewhere else other than present Union Co. Alexander, Sr. died in 1793 in White Deer Twp., then North’d Co. and Alexander, Jr. died in 1812. Elizabeth Iddings McGrady, upon the death of her husband, went to Ross Co., Ohio in 1819 (with her nine children). In 1826, her daughter Nancy married David Anthony of nearby Jackson Co., Ohio. David Anthony was a son of George and Catherine Piper Anthony who emigrated from Buffalo Valley about 1810 or so with their children to southeast Indiana. William McGrady, son of Alexander and Elizabeth Iddings McGrady, purchased land in Section 14 of the Shawnee Indian Reservation in 1836 in Allen Co., Ohio. David and Nancy McGrady Anthony also took up land about this time on the reservation. Some records indicate they arrived there in 1835 and lived there the first year in an old Shawnee council house then situated on the site of the present Shawnee Chapel. Elizabeth and her son, Isaac, and perhaps others of her children, followed William to Shawnee Twp. about 1838. In Shawnee Twp., the McGrady and Anthony families became neighbors and friends with the Jacob R. Hall family. Jacob Hall’s wife was Elizabeth Truesdale and their children had arrived in the Township about 1835 from Trumbull Co., Ohio. Jacob and Elizabeth had been born in Newton, N.J. and had come to Ohio about 1800 with their parents. During the illness of either Jacob or Elizabeth, probably the latter, who died about this time, Margaret Anthony, daughter of David and Nancy McGrady Anthony, came into the Hall household to help nurse the sick individual and here she and Jesse Hall fell in love and September 19, 1847 were married. The land described belonging to the Iddings, Dempsey’s was located along Spruce Run at Mazeppa, Pa. © Copyright 2008 by Mifflinburg Telegraph Weekly Newspaper Top of Page |
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